Wieczysta Kraków

During the German occupation, it was forbidden to organize football matches under the threat of severe repression.[1] Due to these restrictions on the meadows of Rakowice, then a village on the borders of Krakow, numerous football competitions were held secretly. Eventually, the local community, on the initiative of Edward Ignaszewski, decided to establish a sports club in such difficult times, thus forming Wieczysta Kraków in 1942.[2]

In the '50s and '60s, Wieczysta Kraków was playing in the class A and B leagues (then the fourth and fifth tiers of the Polish football league). In 1966, with the reorganization of the Polish league system, the III Liga, the new third tier was introduced dividing into regions. Wieczysta Kraków was included in the district league (fourth tier) of Polish league. Performances at such a high level did not last long. In 1968, the team dropped to class A (fifth tier), and a year later it is relegated another class lower, to the sixth tier of Polish league. The following years of the last century brought sports stabilization in the form of regular performances at the regional level.[3]

The club played the 1997/98 season in the IV liga, after winning promotion to the fourth tier. After six years at this level, the club was relegated finishing the 2002/03 season as 18th, the bottom of the table. For the coming twelve seasons, Wieczysta Kraków played in the Liga okręgowa, that was the fifth and after another reorganization in 2008 the sixth tier of the Polish football league. In the 2014/15 season, the club finished 13th (second from bottom) in the Liga okręgowa, thus getting relegated to the seventh tier. In the first season in Klasa A, the club finished second, thus missing out on immediate promotion back to the sixth tier. The next season, 2016/17, they finished first in the league, thus winning promotion back to Liga okręgowa.[4]

Notes: P - Promoted, R - Relegated

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