Dariusz Wdowczyk

Dariusz Wdowczyk
Personnel
Surname	Dariusz Janusz Wdowczyk
birthday	September 25, 1962
place of birth	Warsaw ,  Poland
size	179 cm
position	defender
Juniors
Years	station
1973-1981	Gwardia Warszawa
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1981-1983	Gwardia Warsaw	54 0(1)
1983-1990	Legia Warsaw	152 (16)
1990-1994	Celtic Glasgow	116 0(6)
1994-1998	Reading FC	82 0(0)
1998	Polonia Warsaw	5 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1984-1992	Poland	53 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1998-2000	Polonia Warsaw
2000-2001	Orlen Plock
2001-2002	Widzew Łódź
2002-2004	Corona Kielce
2005-2007	Legia Warsaw
2007-2008	Polonia Warsaw
2008-2009	Korona Góra Kalwaria
2013-2014	Pogoń Szczecin
2016	Wisła Krakow
2017–	Piast Gliwice
1 Only league games are given.

Dariusz Wdowczyk (born September 25, 1962 in Warsaw , Poland ) is a former Polish soccer player and current soccer coach .

Club career

Wdowczyk made his debut in the Polish Ekstraklasa in 1981 with his hometown club Gwardia Warszawa in the WKS Gwardia Warszawa stadium . At Gwardia he played for two years in the top Polish division Ekstraklasa before moving to city rivals Legia Warsaw in 1983 . At Legia, he became an absolute top performer and top player. After seven successful seasons at Legia, Dariusz Wdowczyk moved to Celtic Glasgow in Scotland in 1990 . Wdowczyk also quickly became a regular at Celtic and spent a total of five seasons with the Scots. In 1994 he moved to Reading FC in the English second division. At Reading, he made 82 league games in four seasons. In 1998 he returned to Poland and played the first half of the 1998/99 season for Polonia Warsaw before ending his professional career that same year.

National team

For the Polish national football team , he completed 53 games and made his debut on September 12, 1984 in Helsinki against Finland (2-0). He played his last international match on May 9, 1992 in Salzburg against Austria (4-2).

Success as a player

• 2 × Polish cup winners ( 1989 , 1990 )
• 1 × Polish Supercup winner (1990)
• 2 × U-18 runner-up European champions (1980, 1981)

Coaching career

Dariusz Wdowczyk coached the capital city club Polonia Warsaw from 1998 to 2000 . With Polonia he won the Polish championship, the Polish league cup and the Polish Supercup in 2000. After a bad first half of the 2000/2001 season, Wdowczyk was dismissed. From 2000 to 2001 he coached the Polish first division club Orlen Płock . Then from 2001 to 2002 the traditional Polish club Widzew Łódź . After the dismissal at Widzew in July 2002, Wdowczyk took over the then third division Korona Kielce . Here he worked from 2002 to 2004 and made it from the 3rd division to the 2nd division and then to the Ekstraklasa (although he moved to Legia Warsaw shortly after the first half of the 2004/2005 season). From 2005 to 2007 he coached the top Polish club Legia Warsaw. With Legia he won the Polish championship in 2006. Wdowczyk was sacked in April 2007 after Legia Warsaw missed the UEFA Champions League and was eliminated from the UEFA Cup and the Polish Cup. He was then from July 2007 to the end of October 2007 sporting director at the Scottish club Livingston FC , before joining the then second division Polonia Warsaw in late 2007. On March 28, 2008, he was arrested by the CBA (Polish Anti-Corruption Bureau). He was accused of bribing referees and officials several times during his time at Korona Kielce. He was then dismissed without notice from Polonia Warsaw. Since then he has coached the Polish fourth division club Korona Góra Kalwaria . He held this post until March 2009. At the end of March 2013, he took over the coaching position at the Polish first division club Pogoń Szczecin .

Success as a trainer

• 2 × Polish champion (2000, 2006)
• 1 × Polish league cup winner (2000)
• 1 × Polish Supercup winner (2000)

Web links

• Dariusz Wdowczyk in the 90minut.pl database (Polish)