GKS Tychy (soccer)

GKS Tychy
Basic data
Surname	Górniczy Klub Sportowy Tychy
Seat	Tychy
founding	April 20, 1971
Colours	green, black, red
president	Grzegorz Bednarski
Website	gkstychy.info
First soccer team
Head coach	Ryszard Tarasiewicz
Venue	Miejski Stadium
Places	15,150
league	1st League
2018/19	7th place
home Away

Interior view of the home ground of GKS Tychy .

Former GKS Tychy player and national goalkeeper , Jerzy Dudek .

GKS Tychy is a Polish soccer team from Tychy . The football department belonging to the sports club of the same name has been playing in the second-rate first division since the 2016/17 season .

history

In addition to the extremely successful ice hockey department , the soccer department of GKS Tychy is one of the two oldest and largest of the sports club from the city in the south of the Silesian Voivodeship . The biggest success of the football department, founded in 1971, has been the Polish runner-up in 1976.

In the 1976/77 season, GKS Tychy also qualified as Polish runner-up for the first round of the UEFA Cup . In it, the soccer team met 1. FC Köln , against whom they lost 2-0 away and drew 1-1 at home. The home game, which attracted 15,000 spectators, took place in the Silesian Stadium in neighboring Chorzów due to UEFA regulations .

In the seasons 1983/84, 2004/05 and 2006/07 the GKS Tychy succeeded in winning the regional Silesian association cup.

After numerous financially-related relegations and restructuring, the GKS Tychy football team played again in the second highest Polish division, the 1st division, from the 2012/13 season . In the 2014/15 season she was briefly relegated to the third-class 2nd division , but managed to get promoted again immediately. The home football matches are played in the Miejski stadium with a capacity of 12,000 . Successful former players include the two former Polish national players Jerzy Dudek and Bartosz Karwan . The futsal department of GKS Tychy , founded in 1995, rose to the top division of Polish futsal in 2006 .

successes

• Polish runner-up: 1976
• Quarter-finalist of the Polish Cup tournament: 1977
• Participation in the UEFA Cup: 1977
• Silesian Cup Winner: 1984, 2005, 2007

Well-known former players

• Jerzy Dudek

Web links

• Official website of the football department
• Table of the 1st division

Individual evidence

1. ↑ table of the 2nd division www.90minut.pl (Polish)
2. ↑ What will happen to the stadium? ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.sportslaski.pl (Polish)