Polonia Bytom
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Towarzystwo Sportowe Polonia Bytom | ||
| Seat | Bytom | ||
| founding | 1920 | ||
| Colours | blue red | ||
| president | Kazimierz Heil | ||
| Website | poloniabytom.com.pl | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Artur Skowronek | ||
| Venue | Edward Szymkowiak Stadium | ||
| Places | 6000 | ||
| league | 4th league | ||
| 2017/18 | 1st place | ||
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Polonia Bytom is a Polish sports club from the Upper Silesian town of Bytom (German Beuthen ).
It was officially founded in 1920. After the third uprising in Upper Silesia , it was dissolved by the Germans in 1922. On May 21, 1945 it was re-established as Towarzystwo Sportowe Polonia Bytom by Poles expelled from Lviv . The traditional team colors are made up of striped blue and red, the colors of the former Polish club Pogoń Lwów . The association has a close connection to the fan groups of Arka Gdynia , Zagłębie Lubin and Odra Opole .
Football department
history
After the club disbanded during the war, it was re-established in 1945 and played its very first game against Warta Posen . The greatest successes in the club's history were the two-time championship titles ( 1954 and 1962 ), as well as winning the International Football Cup , which corresponds to today's Intertoto Cup , against SC Leipzig 5: 4. The club was even in the final the year before, but unfortunately lost 1-0 to Slovakia's Slovnaft Bratislava . Bytom reached the final of the Polish Cup three times but never won the trophy. In addition, they were the first Polish club that made it into the second round of the national champions' cup (today's Champions League ). On July 7, 1997, the club was merged with city rivals Szombierki Bytom , but due to constant unrest, the merger was ended on November 30, 1998.
In the 2004/05 season, the club played in the third highest Polish league , before it rose to the second highest Polish league on June 22, 2005 by a relegation game against Szczakowianka Jaworzno . After there was only one goalless draw in the first leg, Polonia made everything clear in the second leg at home with a 1-0 win. In the following season, the club again had to relegate against Unia Janikowo and again achieved relegation.
Before the 2006/07 season, Dariusz Fornalak was introduced as the new coach and at the end of the season reached third place in the table and thus direct promotion to the Ekstraklasa . Only after the 3-2 win against Piast Gliwice on the penultimate match day, the Polonia could achieve the first class again after 21 years of abstinence.
Ekstraklasa era 2007-2011
Since the Polonia stadium did not comply with the Ekstraklasa security measures, the club had to play the home games in the Ruch Chorzów stadium in the first half of the 2007/08 season . After a catastrophic start to the season, the club only mobilized towards the middle of the first half of the season and began to collect important points in relegation. On December 12, 2007, the contract with promotion coach Dariusz Fornalak was dissolved and the season ended in 13th place in the table.
Before the 2008/09 season , the club did not get the license again for the time being, because on the one hand debts burdened the club and on the other hand the stadium did not meet the new guidelines of the Polish Football Association (PZPN). After the club did everything possible to be allowed to compete in the Ekstraklasa, it finally got the license on July 7, 2008 in the third attempt. Marek Motyka was introduced as the new trainer on July 9, 2008. After a satisfactory first half of the season, which ended in 8th place in the table, and a good winter preparation Marek Motyka had to vacate his coaching post on March 15, 2009 after the 3-0 home game defeat against Ruch Chorzów after only three games. On the same day, the management introduced the Ukrainian Jurij Szatałow as the new head coach. Before that, it had become noisy around the club during the winter break when players Jakub Zabłocki and Tomasz Owczarek had withdrawn from training and were subsequently suspended. The season ended the club from Upper Silesia on rank 7 in the table. From the 2009/10 season, Polonia Bytom will be equipped by the Danish sporting goods manufacturer Hummel .
The preparation for the 2009/10 season for the club from Upper Silesia was difficult because on the one hand it was not possible to tie many regular players to the club and on the other hand there was not much money available, the club's budget was around 8 million zloty to hire new players. Coach Jurij Szatałow had tested over 40 probationers during the entire summer break and was only able to present the full squad just before the start of the league on July 31, 2009.
Unlike the previous seasons, the club was able to secure the license early and only had to renovate the sanitary facilities and spectator toilets. After many test matches and a training camp in Germany, the Ekstraklasa 2009/10 league opener was celebrated in Bytom at home against GKS Bełchatów , where they won 1-0 thanks to a goal from Szymon Sawala . While the team had a great start to the season with 16 points after 8 games and they unexpectedly came third in the league, they unexpectedly lost 2-1 in the second round of the Polish Cup against fifth division club Bytovia II Bytów . With 6 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats and a total of 24 points, the club finished the first half of the season in 7th place in the table. The club was able to hold onto this place in the table until the end of the season and ended the season with 37 points and was able to keep the league in the third year realize.
Even before the 2010/11 season , there was another radical change in the squad, which, however, did not meet with as much media interest as the previous seasons. For example, top performers such as Adrian Klepczyński and Wojciech Skaba were given up and the long-time captain Jacek Trzeciak announced the end of his career after the 2009/10 season. A total of 15 new players were signed, mostly consisting of Ekstraklasa players and Eastern European legionnaires. The season opener was also moderate and so the team from Upper Silesia was only able to record its first triple point win with a 2-0 home win over Zagłębie Lubin on matchday 5 . The club was able to recover in the next match days, but was shaken by a corruption incident on the board at the end of September. On September 30, 2010, manager Damian Bartyla was arrested by the anti-corruption association CBA . On October 29, 2010, head coach Jurij Szatałow surprisingly left the club and moved to league rivals Cracovia Kraków . He was replaced by the former Polish international Jan Urban , who won his debut game against Cracovia 1-0 with a goal from Dariusz Jarecki . The Urban contract was valid until the end of the season. But even Urban did not stay with the traditional Upper Silesian club for long and so they resorted to the former promotion coach Dariusz Fornalak at the end of the season . After a weak second half of the season, the club lost many league games, including important relegation duels against table neighbors and even rose from bottom of the table on the last match day. Thus, after 3 years of membership in the Ekstraklasa, the club found itself in the first division in the 2011/12 season .
Since 2011 - the case in amateur football
After the sobering relegation from Ekstraklasa in 2011, a large part of the squad left the club, including long- standing leading players such as Marek Bažík , Peter Hricko and Grzegorz Podstawek . There was a radical change with many new and especially young players. But the start of the season was catastrophic for Polonia. They lost to both Pogoń Stettin , Warta Posen and Piast Gliwice and were after three matchdays, not a single point and not a single goal in the bottom of the table. After the first half of the season , Polonia was in penultimate place with sixteen points from seventeen games. The twelve-time goalscorer and therefore the best club scorer in the first half of the season, junior international Jakub Świerczok , left the club during the winter break and announced his move to the German Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern . A transfer fee of € 420,000 was reported in the media. After the 1: 3 home defeat on May 20, 2012 against Arka Gdynia, the Polonia was determined as a repeated relegation and thus rose within two seasons from the first division to the third division. With a 2-0 away win on the last day of the match, they could say goodbye to the league with a victory and ended the season with 36 points in 15th place. Thus, the club would be back in the third Polish team in 2012 for the first time since the 2004/05 season League , but benefited from the withdrawal of Ruch Radzionków from the second division and was therefore not relegated. In the next 2012/13 season , however, the club was already 15 points behind the first non-relegation place, which was occupied by OKS Stomil Olsztyn, five game days before the end . But since they had also lost the direct duel against Stomil Olsztyn, Polonia Bytom was certain early on as a relegated team. Another stroke of fate in recent Polonia history occurred on October 9, 2013. After a relatively positive start to the season with 17 points from 11 games, the club announced that ex-player and fan favorite Jacek Trzeciak (coach since October 2, 2012) of his Office as head coach is released. Artur Skowronek was his successor. After two years in the 3rd division, Polonia Bytom has been back in the 2nd division since the 2015/16 season, relegated in the 2016/17 season and has since played in the fifth-class 4th division.
successes
- Polish champion: 1954 , 1962
- Polish runner-up: 1952, 1958, 1959, 1961
- Polish Cup finalist: 1964, 1973, 1977
- International Football Cup Winner : 1965
- ISL winner 1965
European Cup balance sheet
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | To | Back |
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| 1958/59 | European Champions Cup | Preliminary round |
 MTK Budapest
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0: 6 | 0: 3 (H) | 0: 3 (A) |
| 1962/63 | European Champions Cup | Preliminary round |
.svg){kind=small} Panathinaikos Athens
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6: 2 | 2: 1 (H) | 4: 1 (A) |
| 1 round |
 Galatasaray Istanbul
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2: 4 | 1: 4 (A) | 1: 0 (H) |
Overall record: 6 games, 3 wins, 3 defeats, 8:12 goals (goal difference −4)
Well-known former players
Stadion
The club plays its home games in the Edward Szymkowiak Stadium , which was built in 1929. It offers home fans a good 5,000 seats and the total capacity of the stadium is 5,500. The stadium has a floodlight system and underfloor heating is also available. Due to earth damage, the clubhouse and the adjacent stadium slip by a few centimeters every year. After renovations in recent years, the new roof over the main stand was inaugurated in September 2008 during the league game against Górnik Zabrze . The stadium is named after the former Polonia Bytom actor Edward Szymkowiak . In February 2013, the club announced that it would reduce the stadium's audience capacity to 2,304 seats because it could no longer afford enough stewards for the games financially .
On March 31, 2017, the city of Bytom issued a tender for the renovation of the entire sports complex around the Edward Szymkowiak Stadium . The project is to be implemented by 2019 and, in addition to a stadium with three covered grandstands, also includes a multi-purpose sports hall with two ice rinks and a swimming pool. The total cost is estimated at 115 million zlotys .
Fans
The fans of Polonia Bytom have had a close friendship with the " Archows " and the fans of Zagłębie Lubin since the 1980s . Traditionally, the Ultras are also close friends with Odra Opole and Zawisza Bydgoszcz . They are close enemies with the Lower Silesian club Śląsk Wrocław and with the capital association Legia Warsaw .
Ice hockey department
The ice hockey team of Polonia Bytom is one of six league titles into one of the most successful Polish clubs in the past. In the 2011/12 season, the club plays in the second highest Polish ice hockey league .
Web links
- Official website of Polonia Bytom (Polish)
- Unofficial website of the fans of Polonia Bytom (Polish)
- Official website of the ice hockey department of Polonia Bytom (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ olimpijska2.pl: Owczarek and Zabłocki suspended (Polish)
- ↑ ekstraklasa.wp.pl: Manager Damian Bartyla arrested (Polish)
- ↑ ekstraklasa.wp.pl: Urban new trainer for Polonia, Szatałow henceforth at Cracovia (Polish)
- ↑ 90minut.pl: Polonia Bytom w I lidze , August 8, 2012, accessed on August 8, 2012
- ↑ 90minut.pl: Polonia Bytom spadła z I ligi , May 18, 2013, accessed on May 20, 2013
- ↑ 90minut.pl: Polonia Bytom ogranicza pojemność stadionu , February 13, 2013, accessed on February 14, 2013
- ↑ PSZ: Pięć firm chce zbudować stadium Polonii Bytom. Najniższa oferta? 32 mln zł . In: Dziennikzachodni.pl . ( dziennikzachodni.pl [accessed April 23, 2017]).
- ↑ interia.pl: Polonia Bytom. Pięć ofert na modernizację stadionu miejskiego . ( interia.pl [accessed April 23, 2017]).
- ↑ https://www.kibice.net/polonia-bytom/