Warta Poznań

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Warta Poznań
Warta Poznan logo.svg.png
Basic data
Surname Sportowy Warta Poznań Club
Seat Poses
founding June 15, 1912
Colours green white
president PolandPoland Marek Łbik
Website wartapoznansa.pl
First soccer team
Head coach Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petr Němec
Venue Przy Drodze Dębińskiej Stadium
Places 2,500
league Ekstraklasa
2019/20 3rd place  
home
Away
Warta Poznań 2011

Warta Poznań (officially Klub Sportowy Warta Poznań ) is a sports club from the Polish city of Poznan ( Polish Poznań ), whose football Department twice national champion was.

history

The club was founded in 1912, when Posen was still part of Prussia , under its current name and is therefore ten years older than its local rival Lech Posen, which has been more successful in the past decades . The club name has several meanings: on the one hand it refers to the Warta (Polish: Warta ), on which Posen is located, on the other hand it means "guard" in German. According to the self-image of the association's founders, this meant concern for Poles. The club regularly played against other Polish clubs, including Wisła in Krakow , which was part of Austria-Hungary until the end of the First World War .

In 1927 the club was one of the founding members of the Football League , the highest Polish division. In 1929 he won the championship title for the first time . However, this title was extremely controversial, because the decision about it was not made on the sports field, but only after the end of the season at the green table: In retrospect, a lost game against Union Touring Łódź was considered a victory for Warta because the Łódź team had one player had used without a license. So Warta moved up to first place in the league, the new champions were only one point ahead of Garbarnia Kraków , against whom he had recently lost 1: 5.

Behind the club stood national patriotic groups, but members of the German minority also played in it , including the goal scorer Friedrich Scherfke and the midfielder Alexander Schreier , who was repeatedly invited to courses for the national team but was ultimately not used. In 1937, the Warta board demanded the exclusion of Jewish clubs from the championship.

After the German invasion of Poland and the reconnection of Poznan to the German Reich in October 1939, the association was dissolved. Scherfke and Schreier now competed for the newly founded 1. FC Posen , to which only Germans were allowed to belong. The Poles, on the other hand, were banned from all organized sport. Several Warta players were supposed to be deported to forced labor in the " Altreich ", but Scherfke, who in 1940 temporarily headed the "Fachamt für Fußball" in the new German sports administration, managed to have them struck off the deportation lists, including the former national player Marian Fontowicz and Bolesław Gendera . He also warned former clubmates who belonged to the Polish resistance against actions by the SS .

Some of the top players from Warta took part in the unofficial city championship during the German occupation, which was held conspiratorially on sports fields on the outskirts and in the surrounding area. Several Warta players were sent to German concentration camps . In Auschwitz I , the former national team found Marian Einbacher and Adam Knioła death.

After the Wehrmacht withdrew , the club was re-established in February 1945. In 1947, Warta won the championship title for the second and, for the time being, last time. The runner-up championships in 1922, 1925, 1928, 1938 and 1946 are also part of the track record.

In 1950 she was relegated from the highest Polish league. In the same year Warta , which in the eyes of the new communist leadership was the club of the political opponent of the pre-war period, was forcibly merged with the operating club of the mechanical engineering combine HCP , the new club was called Stal Poznań . After the brief political thaw in 1956, the old name was reintroduced, but the club continued to rely on funding from HCP . The regional political leadership, however, favored the local rival Lech .

Warta only experienced a temporary upturn in the early 1990s. In 1993 he was promoted to the Ekstraklasa . In 1995, however, they were relegated again and then only played in the second and third division. 2007 succeeded the rise from the third division.

In January 2011, the club hit the headlines when the model and former Polish "Playmate of the Year" Izabella Łukomska-Pyżalska was elected club president.

In the 2012/13 season Warta rose again to the 2nd division and received no license there in the following season and thus had to relegate to the 3rd division. In the 2014/15 season, the club was first in the 3rd division, but failed in the promotion games to Polonia Bytom . In the next season they managed to get promoted against Garbarnia Kraków and in the 2017/18 season they were promoted to the second-rate first division.

In 2020 they made it to the Ekstraklasa .

successes

Trainer

player

hockey

The men's team plays in the highest Polish league and reached third place in the 2010/11 season.

  • Polish men's field hockey champion: 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980
  • Polish men's indoor hockey champion: 1964, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982
European Cup balance men's field
year competition level space place
1969 Club Champions Cup 1 5 Brussels
1971 Club Champions Cup 1 12 Rome
1973 Club Champions Cup 1 6th Frankfurt am Main
1974 Club Champions Cup 1 7th Utrecht
1976 Club Champions Cup 1 11 Amsterdam
1977 Club Champions Cup 1 8th London
1981 Club Champions Trophy 2 4th Rome

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 75 lat Poznańskiego Okręgowego Związku Piłki Nożnej 1921-1996. Poznań 1996, p. 21.
  2. ↑ Posener Tageblatt , December 21, 1929, p. 7.
  3. ↑ Przegląd Sportowy, August 31, 1939, p. 1. http://buwcd.buw.uw.edu.pl/e_zbiory/ckcp/p_sportowy/1939/numer070/imagepages/image1.htm
  4. ↑ R. Gawkowski / J. Rokicki, Stosunki polsko-żydowskie w sporcie II RP, in: Parlamentaryzm, konserwatyzm, nacjonalizm. Warszawa 2010, p. 236.
  5. ↑ a b Der Kicker, June 18, 1940, p. 23.
  6. ↑ Stanisław Chemicz: Piłka nożna w Krakowie okupowanym. Kraków 1982, p. 200.
  7. ↑ Gazeta Wyborcza (Wielkopolska), August 23, 2011, p. 20. http://poznan.wyborcza.pl/poznan/1,36001,10155716,Niemiecki_pilkarz__gwiazda__Warty___Po_1939_r__gral.html?as=2
  8. ↑ 60-lecie piłkarstwa wielkopolskiego. Poznań 1969, p. 46.
  9. ↑ 60-lecie piłkarstwa wielkopolskiego. Poznań 1969, p. 50.
  10. ↑ 75 lat Poznańskiego Okręgowego Związku Piłki Nożnej 1921-1996. Poznań 1996, pp. 95-97.
  11. ↑ Table of the 1st division 2012/13 (Polish)
  12. ↑ Table of the 2nd division 2013/14 (Polish)
  13. ↑ Promotion games to the 2nd division in the 2014/15 season (Polish)
  14. ↑ EHF Handbook 2016 ( Memento of 14 March 2016 in the Internet Archive )