Piast Gliwice

The club was founded in June 1945 by the Poles who had been forced to leave their homeland in present-day Western Ukraine. After the 1956 fusion of the three clubs, GKS Gliwice was formed. Piast continued to play their matches on ul. Robotniczej. In 1964, the 2 clubs merged. The new club name was 'GKS Piast Gliwice'. Piast's football team played as many as 32 seasons in the Polish Second Division, before finally being promoted to the Ekstraklasa in 2008. Having played two seasons in the top division, the club was relegated in 2010. Piast have twice (1978, 1983) managed to reach the final of the Cup of Poland, losing on both occasions. The club's name comes from the Piast dynasty, which ruled Poland from its beginnings as an independent state in the 10th century, until 1370. Piast is the first soccer team in Poland to gain promotion from the 7th tier to the Ekstraklasa (Polish top tier of football) and later to the European Cup.[1]

• (18.06.1945) – KS Piast Gliwice
• (23.05.1946) – KSM Piast Gliwice
• (September/November 1947) – ZKSM Piast Gliwice
• (05.03.1949) – ZS Metal Piast Gliwice (merged with ZKSM Huta Łabędy, ZKS Walcownia Łabędy, RKS Jedność Rudziniec, *RKS PZS Gliwice and ZKS Silesia Gliwice)
• (01.11.1949) – ZKS Stal Gliwice
• (11.03.1951) – ZKS Stal GZUT Gliwice
• (15.03.1955) – ZKS Piast Gliwice
• (20.01.1957) – KS Piast Gliwice
• (01.01.1961) – SKS Piast Gliwice
• (15.03.1964) – GKS Piast Gliwice (merged with GKS Gliwice and KS Metal Gliwice)
• (17.10.1983) – MC-W GKS Piast Gliwice
• (12.09.1989) – CWKS Piast-Bumar Gliwice
• (1989) – [merged with ZTS Łabędy (Gliwice)]
• (1990) – CWKS Bumar-Piast Gliwice
• (04.04.1990) – KS Bumar Gliwice
• (11.05.1990) – KS Bumar Łabędy (Gliwice)
• (01.07.1990) – KS Bumar Gliwice
• (1991) – KS Piast-Bumar Gliwice
• (01.07.1992) – MC-W GKS Piast Gliwice
• (01.08.1995) – KS Bojków Gliwice (merged with KS Bojków Gliwice)
• (15.09.1995) – KS Piast Bojków Gliwice
• (02.09.1996) – GKS Piast Gliwice

• Ekstraklasa
  • Champions: 2018–19
  • Runners-up: 2015–16
  • 3rd place: 2019–20
• I Liga (Second Division)
  • Champions: 2011–12
• Polish Cup
  • Runners-up: 1978, 1983

Season	Competition	Round		Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	2Q		Qarabağ FK	2–2	1–2	3–4 (a.e.t.)
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	2Q		IFK Göteborg	0–3	0–0	0–3
2019–20	UEFA Champions League	1Q		BATE Borisov	1−2	1−1	2−3
	UEFA Europa League	2Q		Riga FC	3−2	1−2	4−4
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	1Q		Dinamo Minsk	N/A	2−0	N/A
		2Q		Hartberg	3–2	N/A	N/A
		3Q		Copenhagen	N/A	0−3	N/A

Notes

• 1Q: First qualifying round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round
• 3Q: Third qualifying round

Stadion Miejski

Piast plays their home games at the 10,000 capacity Stadion Miejski in Gliwice.

Piast have a friendship with fans of Belarusian club BATE Borisov since 2011. The friendship started when BATE fans on their way to a Champions League match in Copenhagen stopped for a Piast game against local rivals GKS Katowice. The Piast fans then went to Alkmaar to support BATE versus AZ. After another visit for a Champions League game against Sturm Graz, the friendship became official and both sets of fans regularly visit each other.[2]

Piast's major rivals are Górnik Zabrze, with whom they contest the local derby.[3][4] The stadiums are located just a few kilometres from each other and Górnik have a sizeable support within Gliwice. Other rivals are local teams Ruch Chorzów, GKS Katowice and the two Bytom clubs, Szombierki and Polonia.

As of 10 October 2020[5]

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 Jakub Szmatuła 3 MF  POL Tomasz Jodłowiec 4 DF  POL Jakub Czerwiński 5 DF  SVK Tomáš Huk 6 DF  POL Michał Chrapek 7 MF  POR Tiago Alves 10 MF  HUN Kristopher Vida 11 FW  POL Michał Żyro 12 GK  POL Patryk Królczyk 14 MF  SVK Jakub Holúbek 16 FW  POL Dominik Steczyk (on loan from Nürnberg) 17 MF  POL Patryk Lipski 18 MF  POL Patryk Sokołowski

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  POL Sebastian Milewski 20 DF  POL Martin Konczkowski 21 MF  ESP Gerard Badía (captain) 22 DF  POL Tomasz Mokwa 23 MF  POL Javier Hyjek 26 GK  SVK František Plach 28 DF  POL Bartosz Rymaniak 29 MF  POL Remigiusz Borkala 33 GK  POL Karol Szymański 34 DF  POL Piotr Malarczyk 67 MF  POL Michał Rakowiecki 70 FW  POL Jakub Świerczok (on loan from Ludogorets Razgrad) 77 FW  POL Arkadiusz Pyrka 99 FW  POL Karol Stanek

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 — GK  POL Michał Bodys (at Foto-Higiena Gać until 30 June 2021) — GK  POL Paweł Rabin (at Stal Kraśnik until 30 June 2021) — MF  POL Wojciech Kamiński (at Sandecja Nowy Sacz until 30 June 2021)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  POL Wiktor Preuss (at Pogoń Siedlce until 30 June 2021) — FW  POL Denis Gojko (at Wigry Suwałki until 30 June 2021) — FW  POL Łukasz Krakowczyk (at KS ROW 1964 Rybnik until 30 June 2021)

Europe

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Stojan Vranješ

Czech Republic

• Michal Papadopulos
• Lumír Sedláček

Denmark

• Mikkel Kirkeskov

Estonia

• Konstantin Vassiljev

Hungary

• Kristopher Vida

Lithuania

• Edvinas Girdvainis

Monaco

• Tom Hateley

Poland

• Daniel Ciechański
• Patryk Lipski
• Piotr Parzyszek
• Sebastian Milewski
• Kamil Glik
• Martin Konczkowski
• Tomasz Mokwa
• Bartosz Rymaniak
• Remigiusz Borkala
• Piotr Malarczyk
• Dominik Steczyk
• Jakub Szmatuła
• Tomasz Jodłowiec
• Jakub Czerwiński
• Michał Żyro
• Tymoteusz Klupś
• Patryk Sokołowski
• Jakub Świerczok
• Patryk Tuszyński

Portugal

• Tiago Alves

Serbia

• Aleksandar Sedlar

Slovenia

• Uroš Korun

Slovakia

• František Plach
• Jakub Holúbek
• Tomáš Huk

Spain

• Jorge Félix
• Gerard Badía

Ukraine

• Denys Arendaruk

South America

Brazil

• Hebert Silva Santos

Ecuador

• Joel Valencia

• Krzysztof Zagórski (16 December 2001 – 23 October 2002)
• Józef Dankowski (21 April 2003 – 19 October 2004)
• Wojciech Borecki (19 October 2004 – 31 December 2004)
• Jacek Zielinski (31 December 2004 – 14 September 2006)[6]
• Jan Furlepa (interim) (14–20 September 2006)
• Boguslaw Pietrzak (20 September 2006 – 30 June 2007)
• Piotr Mandrysz (3 July 2007 – 30 June 2008)
• Marek Wlecialowski (1 July 2008 – 5 January 2009)
• Dariusz Fornalak (5 January 2009 – 15 March 2010)
• Ryszard Wieczorek (15 March 2010 – 31 May 2010)
• Marcin Brosz (15 June 2010 – 6 May 2014)
• Ángel García (7 May 2014 – 18 March 2015)
• Radoslav Látal (20 March 2015 – 15 July 2016)
• Jiří Neček (15 July 2016 – 30 August 2016)
• Radoslav Látal (1 September 2016 – 2 March 2017)
• Dariusz Wdowczyk (3 March 2017 – 19 September 2017)
• Waldemar Fornalik (19 September 2017 – present)[7]

• Football in Poland

• Official website
• Piast Gliwice at 90minut.pl