Lechia Gdańsk
| Lechia Gdańsk | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Club Sportowy Lechia Gdańsk Spółka Akcyjna |
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| Seat | Danzig | ||
| founding | 1945 | ||
| Colours | white-green | ||
| president |
 Adam Mandziara
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| Website | lechia.pl | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Piotr Stokowiec
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| Venue | Energa Gdańsk Stadium | ||
| Places | 43,608 | ||
| league | Ekstraklasa | ||
| 2019/20 | 4th Place | ||
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BKS Lechia Gdańsk (completely Budowlany Klub Sportowy Lechia Gdańsk ) is a Polish football club from the city of Gdansk on the Baltic Sea . The club, founded in 1945 , celebrated its greatest success in 1983 when it won the Polish Football Cup . Lechia has been playing in the Polish Ekstraklasa since the 2008/09 season, and the Energa Gdańsk stadium has been its home ground since the 2011/12 season .
history
The association was founded in 1945 as KS BOP Baltia Gdańsk , but changed its name to KS Lechia Gdańsk a year later . In 1948 they were promoted to the first division, from which they were relegated as bottom of the table. In 1951 the ascent succeeded, which was followed by direct descent in 1952. 1954 succeeded in returning to the House of Lords.
In 1955 the club moved into the final of the Polish Football Cup, but lost to Legia Warsaw . The following season was finished third in the table.
In 1963 Lechia Gdańsk was relegated from the first division and commuted between the second and third Polish division in the following years. As a third division team, the greatest success in the club's history was achieved in 1983 when Piast Gliwice was defeated 2-1 in the cup final. In the same year, he was promoted to the second division. Qualified as cup winners for the European Cup Winners' Cup, they met Juventus Turin and lost both games 2: 3 and 0: 7 respectively. At the end of the season, however, was a success, because after 21 years of absence, the club rose again to the top division.
In 1988 they got down again and only returned after the merger with Olimpia Posen in 1995. However, there was no success and they were relegated twice in a row and from 1997 played again in third class. Through the merger with the second division team Polonia Gdańsk in 1998 they were second class again.
In 2001 they separated from the community with Polonia and started independently in the sixth division. A year later, the OSP Lechia Gdańsk sports association was re-established as an independent sports club in order to continue the tradition of the football section of KS Lechia.
In the following years, the march into the top division ( Ekstraklasa ), in which one has been playing since the 2008/09 season.
statistics
- 1st league debut - against KS Cracovia 1: 5 (1949)
- highest victories - 6: 1 against Polonia Bydgoszcz (1961), 5: 0 against KS Cracovia (1952), Zagłębie Sosnowiec (1957) and Arkonia Szczecin (1962)
- biggest defeats - 8-0 against Polonia Bytom (1949) and Odra Opole (1961)
Fans
There is a great rivalry between Lechia Gdańsk fans and Arka Gdynia fans . It is less about sporting backgrounds than geographic ones, as both camps claim to be the “rulers of the north”. Furthermore, the Gdansk fans are very unpopular with the fans of the clubs KS Cracovia , Lech Posen , Polonia Warsaw , Pogon Szczecin , Zawisza Bydgoszcz and many more, which is due to the past.
Fan friendship has been with the supporters of Śląsk Wrocław since 1977 . The clash between the two clubs is often referred to as the Mecz Przyjaźni (friendly match). A long-standing friendship between the two clubs and Wisła Kraków , known as Trzej Królowie Wielkich Miast (Three Kings of the Big Cities), ended in the summer of 2016 after Wisła became friends with Ruch Chorzów and Widzew Łódź .
On March 19, 2013, two members of one of the club's fan clubs died when the bus broke through a guardrail near Włocławek and fell on its side. 34 other fans were injured, including ten seriously, the remaining 24 fans suffered minor bruises and wounds.
successes
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Polish Cup Winner : 1983, 2019
- Cup finalist : 1955, 2020
- Polish Super Cup winner : 1983, 2019
- U19 youth champions: 1957
- U17 youth champions: 1993, 1995, 2004
Name changes
- (1945) Baltia Gdańsk
- (1946) KS (Klub Sportowy) Lechia Gdańsk
- (1950) Budowlani Gdańsk
- (1955) BKS (Budowlany Klub Sportowy) Lechia Gdańsk
- (1992) FC Lechia Gdańsk
- (1995) Lechia / Olimpia Gdańsk (the merger)
- (1996) Lechia Gdańsk
- (1998) Lechia / Polonia Gdańsk (the merger)
- (2001) OSP (Ośrodek Szkolenia Piłkarskiego) Lechia Gdańsk
Known players
- Danijel Aleksic
- Ariel Borysiuk
- Tomasz Dawidowski
- Zygmunt Gadecki
- Gerson
- Martin Kobylański
- Roman Korynt
- Marek Ługowski
- Daniel Łukasik
- Neven Marković
- Daisuke Matsui
- Bartłomiej Pawłowski
- Denis Perger
- Roman Rogocz
- Łukasz Trałka
- Sławomir Wojciechowski
Well-known trainers
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Thomas von Heesen (2015)
All seasons
Years 1949-1969
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Years 1970–1989
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Years 1990-2009
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Years 2010 – today
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Rugby department
The club's rugby team has won the Polish championship ten times, most recently in 2002.
Web links
- Club website
- Unofficial website
- Lechia fans website
- “Lwy Północy” - Official Lechia Fan Community
- Rugby Department website
Individual evidence
- ↑ 40-lecie zgody Lechii ze Śląskiem on lechiahistoria.pl. July 28, 2017, accessed February 4, 2020 (Polish).
- ↑ Piotr Waśniewski: O meczach przyjaźni i kibicowskich emocjach. In: Gazeta Wrocławska . March 23, 2011, accessed February 4, 2020 (Polish).
- ↑ Stowarzyszenie kibiców Lechii Gdańsk: Koniec Zgody z Wisłą Kraków! on dziennikbaltycki.pl. June 21, 2016, accessed February 4, 2020 (Polish).
- ↑ Wypadek kibiców Lechii Gdańsk ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2013 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. (Polish) from March 19, 2013
- ↑ TVN24 : Dwóch kibiców Lechii Gdańsk zginęło pod autokarem. Kilkudziesięciu rannych (Polish) from March 19, 2013
