Śląsk Świętochłowice
| Śląsk Świętochłowice | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Surname | Miejski Klub Sportowy |
| Seat | Świętochłowice |
| founding | February 20, 1920 |
| Colours | blue White |
| Website | slaskswietochlowice.org |
| First soccer team | |
| Venue | Miejski Stadium |
| Places | 999 |
| league | 4th league |
| 2017/18 | 4th Place |
Śląsk Świętochłowice is a Polish football club from Świętochłowice in the Silesian Voivodeship . The club spent three seasons in Poland's highest league, the Ekstraklasa .
history
Śląsk Świętochłowice was founded on February 20, 1920 in Schwientochlowitz, Germany, at that time. The club played its first game against Polonia Bytom , which was won 2-1. The club qualified for the Upper Silesian class A in 1921, but the season was not played to the end because of the Third Silesian Uprising . After all of Eastern Upper Silesia came to Poland as a result of the referendum in Upper Silesia , the players of the German club SV 1913 Schwientochlowitz Śląsk joined. For the 1928 season, the club rose to the Ekstraklasa , which had only been founded a year earlier , after having been promoted and relegated between class A and class B. The rise in Poland's top division was too much for the club financially and athletically, also due to the long journeys to the away games, so that the penultimate, only before TKS Toruń , relegated directly again.
After several years in the upper midfield of the Upper Silesian class A Śląsk took first place in 1934 and qualified for the promotion games in which the club prevailed against Naprzód Lipiny and Śmigły Wilno . In the 1935 season , the club, which this time was much more competitive than 1928, beat many well-known clubs such as Polonia Warsaw , KS Cracovia , Warta Poznań and KS Warszawianka . At the end of the season they were in fifth place, the best result in the club's history.
In the following season, however, you could not build on the performance of the previous season and rose again in class A in ninth place. However, it later emerged that the eighth-placed, Dąb Katowice , had bribed the Śląsk goalkeeper to secure their own relegation. For this, the club was sentenced to relegation and Śląsk got after the 1937 season, which they finished fifth, although they only played half of the games, the chance to take part in the promotion games unscheduled. However, you failed in the first round.
In the 1938 season they finished first, but did not take part in the promotion games for financial reasons. In the following season they took first place, this time the club took part in the games for promotion and prevailed in the qualification. However, with the outbreak of World War II , Polish football came to a standstill. Some players competed for the German club TuS Schwientochlowitz .
After the end of the war, the club was reactivated in Świętochłowice, Poland, and qualified for the second group of class A. In 1949, the club rose from class A and has only played in lower-class regional leagues since then. In this millennium, the top division was the fourth division, the 3rd division . Today the club plays in the fifth class 4th division.
successes
- 5th place in the Ekstraklasa: 1935
- Upper Silesian Master: 1927, 1934, 1938, 1939
Web links
- Club profile on 90minut.pl
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the association on its website ( Memento from June 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Polish)