APIA Leichhardt FC

APIA Leichhardt FC (/ɑːpiə laɪkɑːrt/ AH-pee-ə lye-KART), also known simply as APIA (Italian: Associazione Poli-sportiva Italo Australiana, lit. 'Italian Australian Multisport Association'), is a semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Leichhardt in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW). Its senior men's and women's teams play in the National Premier Leagues NSW (NPL) and NSW Women's, in the second tier of the Australian league system. It plays its home games at both Lambert Park and Leichhardt Oval. With Wests Ashfield, the club also co-owns Wests APIA FC, a foundation club in the Australian Championship.

Founded in 1954 by the Italian Australian community in Sydney's Inner West, APIA was one of the charter members of Football NSW, and competed in its first division, where it won four NSW titles. On the national stage, the club appeared in four straight Australia Cup finals from 1964 to 1967, winning one, and subsequently joined the burgeoning National Soccer League (NSL) in 1979. It played fourteen seasons in the league, during which it won a championship, and two NSL Cups. Facing financial troubles, APIA exited following the 1991–92 season, and returned to NSW's first division, where it has remained since. Its women's team suffered a relegation in 2013, though eventually regained promotion to the first division in 2020.

APIA's honours include seven NSW men's titles, one women's title, six Waratah Cups, and two Sapphire Cups. Its best performances in the modern-day Australia Cup are quarter-final appearances in 2018 and 2021. It also reached the NPL's national semi-finals in 2017.