Górnik Łęczna

GKS Górnik Łęczna is a sports club based in Łęczna, Poland. It is best known for its men's professional football team, which competes in II Liga, the third division in the Polish football league system. The club also fields teams in women's football and wrestling.

Górnik Łęczna
Full nameGórniczy Klub Sportowy Górnik Łęczna
Nickname(s)Zielono-Czarni
Founded1979
GroundStadion Górnika Łęczna,
Łęczna, Poland
Capacity7,200
ChairmanPiotr Sadczuk
ManagerKamil Kiereś
LeagueI liga
2019–20II liga, 1st (Promoted)
WebsiteClub website

History

The club was founded in 1979, as a club for the local coal miners. As the years went, the local Bogdanka Coal Mine decided to invest more and more money and as a result the club quickly rose through the leagues. The club shed its relative obscurity when it gained promotion to the Ekstraklasa in 2003.

Górnik Łęczna played in the top division from 2003 until 2007, when they were relegated to the 3rd division, as a consequence of their involvement in a match fixing scandal. However they were promoted straight back up as league winners after the 2007–08 season and competed in the I Liga for six years before winning promotion to the 2014–15 Ekstraklasa.

Since January 1, 2007, the men's football department has been operating as a business entity separate from the rest of the club.

In February 2011 the team was renamed GKS Bogdanka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈboɢɖɐ͡kɑ]) for sponsorship reasons, a decision from the local Bogdanka coal mine.[1] As a result, a group of supporters opposing the name change formed an amateur team GKS Górnik 1979 Łęczna.[2] On 23 July 2013 GKS Bogdanka's board of directors announced the return to the former name.[3]

Honours

Current squad
As of 16 September, 2020.[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  POL Patryk Rojek
2 DF  POL Tomasz Midzierski
3 DF  BRA Leândro
4 DF  POL Maciej Orłowski
5 DF  POL Kamil Pajnowski
6 MF  POL Paweł Sasin
7 MF  POL Tomasz Tymosiak
8 MF  POL Marcin Stromecki
9 FW  POL Aron Stasiak (on loan from Pogoń Szczecin)
16 FW  POL Jakub Cielebąk
17 MF  POL Karol Struski (on loan from Jagiellonia Białystok)
18 FW  POL Bartosz Śpiączka
19 FW  POL Przemysław Banaszak
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 DF  POL Bartłomiej Kukułowicz
21 DF  POL Jakub Zagórski
22 MF  UKR Serhiy Krykun
23 MF  POL Bartłomiej Kalinkowski
24 MF  POL Michał Goliński
25 DF  POL Paweł Baranowski
26 MF  POL Adrian Cierpka
28 FW  POL Paweł Wojciechowski
33 GK  POL Maciej Gostomski
40 MF  POL Igor Korczakowski
44 GK  POL Adrian Kostrzewski
93 DF  POL Karol Turek
94 DF  POL Kamil Rozmus

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  POL Jakub Jaroszyński (at Hetman Zamość)

GKS Górnik 1979 Łęczna
Main article: GKS Górnik 1979 Łęczna

Górnik 1979 Łęczna was a club founded in 2011 by Górnik Łęczna fans who were unhappy with the name change to GKS Bogdanka. The club eventually changed its name back in 2013 but the fan owned counterpart has continued to operate in amateur football leagues. On 22 August 2014 the club withdrew from all competitions and ceased to operate, the reason cited were the lack of funds and the fact that the original Górnik Łęczna team went back to its original name scrapping the GKS Bogdanka name.[5]

Women's section
Main article: Górnik Łęczna (women)

The women's section of Górnik Łęczna played for years in the second and third tier leagues of Poland. In 2006–07 the team reached the semi-finals of the Polish Cup but lost to Medyk Konin.[6] In the 2009–10 season with the expansion of the Ekstraliga Kobiet the team finally gained promotion to it by finishing second in its 2nd tier division.[7] In its Ekstraliga debut Górnik was 5th.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Górnik Łęczna zmienił nazwę" (in Polish). 90minut.pl. 18 February 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  2. Olkiewicz, Jakub (26 March 2012). "Wyzwanie przyjęte – piłka w Łęcznej bez Bogdanki" (in Polish). Weszło!. Archived from the original on 12 June 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  3. "Wracamy do historycznej nazwy – Górnik Łęczna" (in Polish). GKS Bogdanka. Archived from the original on 23 July 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  4. "Pierwsza drużyna" (in Polish). Górnik Łęczna. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  5. "Górnik 1979 Łęczna Archives". gornik-leczna.com. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  6. "Puchar Polski kobiet 2006/2007". www.90minut.pl. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  7. "I liga kobiet 2009/2010, grupa: południowa". www.90minut.pl. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  8. 2010–11 table in Soccerway.com
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