Piast Gliwice
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| Surname | Gliwicki Klub Sportowy Piast Gliwice |
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| Seat | Gliwice | |||
| founding | 1945 | |||
| Colours | Red Blue | |||
| president |
 Paweł Żelem
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| Website | piast-gliwice.eu | |||
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| Head coach |
Waldemar Fornalik
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| Venue |
Miejski Stadium , Gliwice |
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| Places | 10,037 | |||
| league | Ekstraklasa | |||
| 2019/20 | 3rd place | |||
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Piast Gliwice (officially Gliwicki Klub Sportowy Piast Gliwice ) is an Upper Silesian sports club from the city of Gliwice (German: Gleiwitz ). The club has been part of the highest Polish league in professional football, the Ekstraklasa , since 2012 . In 2019 Piast became Polish football champion for the first time .
history
Piast Gliwice was founded on June 18, 1945. The traditional club colors are made up of red and blue. The name of the association refers to the Piast dynasty , who in the Middle Ages provided numerous dukes and kings of the early Polish state and part of Silesian duchies. The team reached the Polish Cup final in 1978 and 1983. In 1957 the club made its debut in the 2nd division , where he stayed for 32 years. The best time in its second division membership, the club had between 1975 and 1983, when they were among the top four teams in the league. In the 2007/08 season, Piast Gliwice was one of the favorites for promotion to the Ekstraklasa and was rewarded on May 24, 2008 after a 1-0 away win at Polonia Warszawa with promotion. On August 9, 2008, Piast Gliwice won the historic first game of the Ekstraklasa era against Cracovia Kraków 2-0. After a season with ups and downs, Piast was able to secure relegation early on matchday 29 and ended the first season in the Ekstraklasa in 11th place in the table. In the following season, relegation to the second division had to start again after 16th place. In May 2012, the club was able to celebrate the renewed promotion to the Ekstraklasa and ultimately even rose as first place together with Pogoń Szczecin in the first class. Unlike in previous years, the club was able to place itself well after the promotion season and even reached 4th place at the end of the 2012/2013 season, which gave the club from Upper Silesia the qualifying round for the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League . Piast Gliwice caused a sensation in the 2015/16 season when they won the autumn championship for the first time and played attractive offensive football under Radoslav Látal as a surprise of the season. At the end of the season they became runner-up and qualified for the second round of the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League , in which they failed at IFK Göteborg .
In the 2018/19 season , Piast Gliwice surprisingly secured the Polish championship for the first time, after the team supervised by former Polish national coach Waldemar Fornalik had only finished third after the main round, seven points behind Legia Warsaw and Lechia Gdańsk . In the subsequent championship round, the Oberschlesier then took 19 out of a possible 21 points from seven games and were four points ahead of Warsaw and five points ahead of Gdańsk at the end of the season. Winning the title entitles Piast to participate in the UEFA Champions League for the first time , although due to the poor performance of the Polish teams in previous years, they have to enter the competition in the first qualifying round.
Stadion
His football home games wearing Piast Gliwice in the stadium GKS Piast out. This had 6,000 seats, including 5,000 seats. However, since the stadium did not meet the safety measures and criteria of the Ekstraklasa, the club had to temporarily move to Odra Wodzisław's stadium with its home games . On September 28, 2010, the club management signed a contract with the Polish construction company Polimexem Mostostal SA for the construction of a new stadium. The Miejski stadium was built in the same place as the old one. It is identical to the Benteler Arena in Paderborn. The stadium initially has a capacity of 10,037 spectators, if necessary this can be increased to around 15,000. This is also the first stadium in Upper Silesia to meet the requirements of UEFA. There are places for 192 VIPs, 30 commentators, 50 press, 30 disabled people and 20 supervisors. The cost of the new arena was 54 million zloty, which corresponds to around 13.7 million euros. The whole amount was paid from the city treasury. With the construction of the stadium, the club played seven of its eight first season games in 2011/12 away from home. The completion was at the end of 2011. The opening game took place on November 5, 2011 in front of 10,000 spectators against Wisła Płock and ended with a 2-1 win for Piast.
successes
- Polish champion (1): 2019
- Polish Cup finalist : 1978, 1983
- Promotion to Ekstraklasa : 2008, 2012
- Polish runner-up: 2016
- Quarter-finals Puchar Ekstraklasy : 2009
- UEFA Europa League qualification: 2013, 2016
Name changes
- June 18, 1945 - KS Piast Gliwice
- May 23, 1946 - KSM Piast Gliwice
- March 5, 1949 - ZS Metal Piast Gliwice
- November 1, 1949 - ZKS Stal Gliwice
- Mar. 11, 1951 - ZKS Stal GZUT Gliwice
- Mar. 15, 1955 - ZKS Piast Gliwice
- Jan. 20, 1957 - KS Piast Gliwice
- Jan. 01, 1961 - SKS Piast Gliwice
- Mar. 15, 1964 - GKS Piast Gliwice
- Oct. 17, 1983 - MC-W GKS Piast Gliwice
- September 12, 1989 - CWKS Piast-Bumar Gliwice
- Apr. 04, 1990 - KS Bumar Gliwice
- May 11, 1990 - KS Bumar Łabędy
- Jul. 1, 1990 - KS Bumar Gliwice
- ??. ??. 1991 - KS Piast-Bumar Gliwice
- July 1, 1992 - MC-W GKS Piast Gliwice
- August 1, 1995 - KS Bojków Gliwice
- September 15, 1995 - KS Piast Bojków Gliwice
- September 2, 1996 - GKS Piast Gliwice
The first team
The seniors team Piast Gliwice plays in the season 2018/19 in the Ekstraklasa of the top division Polish Football Association .
Current squad 2018/19
(As of October 31, 2018)
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European Cup balance sheet
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | To | Back |
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| 2013/14 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round |
 FK Qarabağ Agdam
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3: 4 | 1: 2 (A) | 2: 2 a.d. (A) |
| 2016/17 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round |
 IFK Gothenburg
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0: 3 | 0: 3 (H) | 0: 0 (A) |
| 2019/20 | UEFA Champions League | 1st qualifying round |
 BATE Baryssau
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2: 3 | 1: 1 (A) | 1: 2 (H) |
| 2019/20 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round |
 Riga FC
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4: 4 ( a ) | 3: 2 (H) | 1: 2 (A) |
Overall record: 8 games, 1 win, 3 draws, 4 defeats, 9:14 goals (goal difference −5)
Trainer
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Radoslav Látal (2015-2016)
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Web links
- Official website of Piast Gliwice (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Master Gleiwitz, article on spiegel.de , accessed on May 20, 2019
- ↑ kicker.de: A touch of Leicester: Gleiwitz Poland's champions for the first time. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
