Pogoń Lwów
The Lwowski Klub Sportowy Pogoń Lwów , ( LKS Pogoń Lwów for short ) is a Polish sports and football club from the city of Lwiw ( Polish: Lwów ), which is now part of the Ukraine, and multiple Polish football champions. It existed from 1907 until its dissolution after the invasion of Soviet troops in September 1939 . In January 2009 the association was re-established.
history
The sports club Pogon Lwów was founded in 1907 in the East Galician capital Lemberg ( Lwów in Polish ), which was then part of Austria-Hungary , through the merger of the two clubs KS Lechia Lwów and Klub Gimnastyczno-Sportowy IV-go Gimnazjum . The predecessor club, Klub Gimnastyczno-Sportowy IV-go Gimnazjum , was founded in 1904 as a pure sports and gymnastics club at Gymnasium IV in Lemberg to train the students there. This makes Pogon Lwów one of the oldest Polish football clubs and the then West Galician clubs KS Cracovia , Wisła Krakau (both 1906) and CWKS Resovia (1905), alongside city rivals Czarni (1903), Lechia (1904) and Hasmonea (1908) first professional Polish sports clubs. The club colors of Pogoń were blue and red . The game was played in the Kiliński Park Stadium, which opened in 1913 and was renamed the Marschall-Rydz-Śmigły Sports Park in 1938 and at that time had space for 10,000 spectators.
The club experienced its most successful sporting period in the 1920s when it won the Polish championship four times in a row from 1922 to 1926. 1922 came Pogoń Lwów as one of the two regional champions under his English coach Sid Kimpton in the two finals for the championship against Warta Poznań and remained successful with 1: 1 and 4: 3. A year later the Lwówer defeated TS Wisła Krakow after a 1: 2 and 2: 1 in a required third encounter with 3: 0. After the association did not announce any championships in 1924 due to the preparation for the Olympic Games , Pogoń was only able to successfully defend his title in 1925. In the decision-making round between the now three regional champions, Pogoń prevailed against Warta Poznań (4: 1; 2: 2) and Wisła Krakau (1: 0; 1: 0). The team celebrated their last major success with the fourth championship title in 1926, which they won against Warta Poznań (7: 1; 2: 2) and Polonia Warsaw (2: 2; 2: 0).
In the following years, the club repeatedly reached top positions in the championship, but could not prevail against the strong clubs from Kraków (Cracovia and Wisła). After the German troops marched into Poland, the championship - Pogoń was third in the table at the time - had to be canceled four game days before the end of 1939. As a result of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty , Lemberg fell to the Soviet Union in 1939 , whereupon the Lwowski KS Pogoń as well as all other Polish clubs in the now Soviet city of Lwów were forcibly dissolved.
In January 2009 the association was re-established by the Polish consul in Lviv . The club is currently playing its games on a side square of the Dynamo Lviv club . Since 2011 Pogoń has played in the 4th Ukrainian league.
successes
- 4 × Polish champions : 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926
- 3 × Polish runner-up : 1932, 1933, 1935
- 1 × Polish junior runner-up: 1937
- 19 first division seasons: 1921–1939
Well-known former players
- Spirydion Albański
- Mieczysław Batsch
- Jozef Garbien
- Emil Goerlitz
- Karol Hanke
- Karol Kossok
- Waclaw Kuchar
- Michał Matyas
- Marian Steifer
- Jan Wasiewicz
- Adolf Zimmer
Ice hockey department
Pogoń Lwów celebrated the greatest success in ice hockey club history in 1933, when they won the Polish championship title together with Legia Warsaw .