Gryf Wejherowo

Gryf Wejherowo
Basic data
Surname	Wejherowski Klub Sportowy "Gryf"
Seat	Wejherowo
founding	1921
Colours	yellow black
Website	gryfwejherowo.com.pl
First soccer team
Venue	WKS Gryf Wejherowo Stadium
Places	2,500
league	3rd league
2019/20	▼ 18th place, 2nd division
home Away

Gryf Wejherowo is a Polish sports club in Wejherowo , Pomeranian Voivodeship , in the north of the country. The club was best known for its football department. Bronisław Lorenc, the brothers Jagodziński and Leon Prusinski are considered the founders of the club, which at the time was still a division of the Sokół gymnastics club . After the Second World War, the club was renamed Gryf Wejherowo. In the interwar period, the then Sokół was one of the most important clubs in the region. Famous all over Poland was the annual running in the streets of the city , which took place on the national holiday, May 3rd and started on the market square. The club also became famous in boxing thanks to Emil Kuchanowski, who was the Polish heavyweight champion of the army, and Kazimierz Switek, who became the Polish lightweight champion in 1925. Also Hubert Skrzypczak learned the boxes in this club.

Football department

The football department has been playing in the second division since 2012 with one interruption , with mostly places in the lower midfield. In season 2015/16 the club was able to stay in the league, despite the penultimate place there due to license revocation or withdrawal of Okocimski KS Brzesko , Nadwiślan Góra and both a higher league playing clubs Zawisza Bydgoszcz and Dolcan Ząbki no sporting relegated from the 2 League gave.

successes

• Regional cup winner
• Quarter-finals of the Polish Football Cup 2011/12

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 90minut.pl