KS Cracovia
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| Surname | Club Sportowy Cracovia Sportowa Spółka Akcyjna |
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| Seat | Krakow ; Poland | ||
| founding | June 13, 1906 | ||
| Colours | White-red | ||
| president |
 Janusz Filipiak
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| Website | cracovia.pl | ||
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| Head coach |
Michał Tryz
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| Venue | Cracovia Stadium | ||
| Places | 15.114 | ||
| league | Ekstraklasa | ||
| 2019/20 | 7th place | ||
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KS Cracovia (officially Klub Sportowy Cracovia ) [ krakɔvʲa ], usually only briefly Cracovia , in the German language occasionally falsely Cracovia Krakow called, is a Polish sports club from Krakow . The club, founded on June 13, 1906, was one of the first Polish football clubs alongside the clubs Lechia Lwów and Czarni Lwów from what is now the Ukrainian Lemberg ( Polish: Lwów ) and CWKS Resovia from Rzeszówand, along with Resovia, is considered to be the oldest still existing football club founded on present-day Polish territory, ahead of the city competitor Wisła, founded a year later . In 1921 Cracovia became the first Polish football champion and won four other championships by 1948. Since the 2013/14 season , the club has played continuously in the Ekstraklasa , the highest Polish league.
history
KS Cracovia was founded as Akademicki Klub Footballowy on June 13, 1906 , after teams from Lwów, where the first football teams in Poland came from, visited Krakow. In September the name was changed to Akademicki Klub Footballowy "Cracovia" . In 1913 Cracovia won the championship title in the Austrian Football Championship for Poland in front of Wisła Kraków and Pogoń Lwów. After the First World War , the team was one of the best in Poland and, in addition to the first Polish championship in 1921, won three other championship titles in 1930, 1932 and 1937. In the first game of the Polish national football team on December 18, 1921 in Budapest against Hungary , which was lost 1-0, seven out of thirteen players in the Polish squad were players from Cracovia.
Because of the Second World War , football came to a standstill again for several years, but with another championship title in 1948 one was able to build on earlier successes. Due to the political upheaval and the consolidation of the communist regime after the war, Cracovia was also affected, the club was forced to abandon its original name and the red and white club colors, but acquired its traditional name during the thaw in 1955 , Klub Sportowy Cracovia , again. In 1954 the club rose for the first time from the Ekstraklasa . After that they managed to rise again a few times, but could no longer establish themselves permanently. In 1971 the fall into the third division followed for the first time and Cracovia became an elevator team between the second and third division. From 1982 to 1984 you entered the Ekstraklasa again. Due to financial problems, however, they could not stay there and in the 1990s they mostly played in the 3rd division again. In 1997 the association was converted into a stock corporation and saved from bankruptcy.
In 2004 Cracovia returned to Poland's premier football league. Qualified as third in the second division for relegation , Krakow prevailed in this with two smooth 4-0 victories against Górnik Polkowice and thus took part in Poland's top division for the first time since 1984. In the four previous seasons (1966, 1969, 1982, 1983), Cracovia exceeded all expectations in the 2004/05 season . On the first day of the match, Cracovia Zagłębie Lubin beat Lubin 5: 2 after a 5-0 lead, reached 0-0 at local rivals and eventual champions Wisła Krakau in front of 11,000 spectators and established themselves early on in the top half of the table. Up to the 23rd match day, when they fought their way up to three points on third-place Legia Warsaw , even qualifying for the UEFA Cup seemed possible. In the end, Cracovia came in fifth.
In the 2008/09 season Cracovia only reached 15th place in the Ekstraklasa, which would have meant relegation. However, since ŁKS Łódź 's license was withdrawn and placed in last place and at the same time the second division champion and local rival Widzew Łódź was denied the license and the associated promotion to the Ekstraklasa, Cracovia slipped in the final table to 14th place, which means participation in the Relegation games would have meant. Due to the refusal of the license for Widzew Łódź this was canceled and Cracovia also played in the Ekstraklasa in 2009/10.
The 2009/10 season started as chaotic as the previous one had ended: After only two match days of the 2009/10 season, Artur Płatek was dismissed as coach and replaced by Orest Lenczyk . Nevertheless, the club ultimately held the class confidently and ultimately had seven points ahead of the relegation ranks. It was also very important for the fans that they managed a 1-1 draw with a goal in stoppage time in the derby against their biggest rivals Wisła Kraków on matchday 33, so that Wisła was pushed into second place in the championship fight by Lech Poznan did not leave the team on the last day of the match either.
The 2010/11 season was also marked by the struggle to stay up. For most of the season Cracovia was on one of the two relegation places, from which you could break away on the penultimate game day with a 3-0 win over Jagiellonia Białystok . Despite a 0-1 defeat in Bełchatow on the last day of the game, they stayed one point ahead of Arka Gdynia in 14th place and thus secured themselves to remain in the Ekstraklasa.
In the 2011/12 season , Cracovia was stuck in the table cellar from the start, as in the previous season, and was never able to break away from it in the further course. Two game days before the end of the season, the club was the first to be relegated and ended the season in last place. As a table runner-up in the second-class first division in the 2012/13 season , however, the club managed to immediately return to the Ekstraklasa, in which the club has played continuously since then. The club finished the 2015/16 season in fourth place and was therefore qualified for the first round of the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League , where the Macedonian club KF , since the cup winner Legia Warsaw had already competed as Polish champions in qualifying for the Champions League Shkëndija was defeated.
Stadion
The home ground is the Cracovia Stadium , where Cracovia has played its home games since 1912. This was demolished at the end of 2009 in order to build a new stadium in the same place. Since the completion of the work, it has held 15,114 spectators. An adjoining sports hall with 2,300 seats was also built. The first game in the new stadium was played in September 2010, and the stadium was finally completed a year later.
successes
- Austrian Championship winner for Poland : 1913
- Polish champion : 1921, 1930, 1932, 1937, 1948
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Polish Football Cup :
- Winner (1): 2019/20
Squad 2018/19
(As of September 6, 2018)
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European Cup balance sheet
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | To | Back |
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| 2008 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 1 round |
 FK Shakhtsor Salihorsk
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1: 5 | 1: 2 (H) | 0: 3 (A) |
| 2016/17 | UEFA Europa League | 1st qualifying round |
 KF Shkëndija
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1: 4 | 0: 2 (A) | 1: 2 (H) |
| 2019/20 | UEFA Europa League | 1st qualifying round |
 DAC Dunajská Streda
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3: 3 ( a ) | 1: 1 (A) | 2: 2 a.d. (H) |
Overall record: 6 games, 2 draws, 4 defeats, 5:12 goals (goal difference −7)
Known players
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/ Edgar Bernhardt
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Tomasz Brzyski
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Mateusz Cetnarski
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Marek Citko
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/ Wilhelm Góra
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Ludwik Gintel
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Wilhelm Halpern
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Erik Jendrišek
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Bartosz Kapustka
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Mateusz Klich
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Radoslaw Matusiak
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Marek Motyka
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Andrzej Niedzielan
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Dawid Nowak
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Saïdi Ntibazonkiza
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Giannis Papadopoulos
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Piotr Polczak
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Deniss Rake's
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Tomasz Rząsa
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Łukasz Sosin
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Leon Sperling
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Witold Wawrzyczek
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Hubert Wołąkiewicz
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Kazimierz Węgrzyn
Trainer
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Ferenc Plattkó (1938)
Fan friendships and rivalries
Fan friendships traditionally exist with Arka Gdynia and Lech Posen , which are collectively known as the Wielka Triada (Great Triad). Cracovia's arch-rival is the city rival Wisła Kraków , against whom the Krakowa Derby will be played.
Trivia
The most famous supporter of the association was Pope John Paul II.
Web links
- Official website of KS Cracovia (Polish)
- Online encyclopedia about KS Cracovia (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the association on its website . Retrieved September 6, 2018 (Polish).
- ^ History of Cracovia on historia.org.pl . Retrieved September 6, 2018 (Polish).
- ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/intligen/intwettbewerbe/ekstraklasa/2009-10/30/0/spieltag.html
- ↑ TKWM, Wielka Triada, Polonia z "Pasami". Zgody, których nic never złamie? on tvn24.pl, September 29, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2018 (Polish).
- ↑ God always kicks along. In: Spiegel Online. February 24, 2005, accessed December 5, 2014 .
