Górnik Łęczna

Górnik Łęczna
Full name Górniczy Klub Sportowy Górnik Łęczna
Nickname(s) Zielono-Czarni
Founded 1979
Ground Stadion Górnika Łęczna,
Łęczna, Poland
Capacity 7,200
Chairman Veljko Nikitović
Manager Bogusław Baniak
League I liga
2016–17 Ekstraklasa, 15th (relegated)
Website Club website

GKS Górnik Łęczna is a sports club based in Łęczna, Poland. It is best known for its men's professional football team, which competes in I Liga, the second division in the Polish football league system. The club also fields teams in women's football and wrestling.

History

The club was founded in 1979, as a club for the local coal miners. As the years went, the local Bogdanka Coal Mine decided to invest more and more money and as a result the club quickly rose through the leagues. The club shed its relative obscurity when it gained promotion to the Ekstraklasa in 2003.

Górnik Łęczna played in the top division from 2003 until 2007, when they were relegated to the 3rd division, as a consequence of their involvement in a match fixing scandal. However they were promoted straight back up as league winners after the 2007–08 season and competed in the I Liga for six years before winning promotion to the 2014–15 Ekstraklasa.

Since January 1, 2007, the men's football department has been operating as a business entity separate from the rest of the club.

In February 2011 the team was renamed GKS Bogdanka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈboɢɖɐ͡kɑ]) for sponsorship reasons, a decision from the local Bogdanka coal mine.[1] As a result, a group of supporters opposing the name change formed an amateur team GKS Górnik 1979 Łęczna.[2] On 23 July 2013 GKS Bogdanka's board of directors announced the return to the former name.[3]

Honours

Current squad

As of 20 May 2018.[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
2 Poland DF Jakub Jaroszyński
3 Poland DF Aleksander Komor
6 Poland MF Paweł Sasin
11 Poland FW Patryk Szysz
14 Poland MF Adrian Łuszkiewicz
15 Poland MF Grzegorz Bonin (Captain)
19 Poland MF Filip Szewczyk
22 Poland DF Robert Pisarczuk
24 Poland DF Piotr Pacek
33 Poland FW Aleks Aftyka
45 Poland FW Przemysław Pitry
No. Position Player
64 Poland DF Łukasz Sosnowski
74 Poland MF Przemysław Skałecki
77 Poland GK Damian Podleśny
79 Poland GK Sergiusz Prusak
93 Poland DF Karol Turek
99 Poland MF Adrian Szczerba
Poland MF Krystian Wójcik
21 Poland DF Jakub Zagórski
7 Poland MF Tomasz Tymosiak
8 Poland MF Michał Zuber

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
No. Position Player

GKS Górnik 1979 Łęczna

Górnik 1979 Łęczna was a club founded in 2011 by Górnik Łęczna fans who were unhappy with the name change to GKS Bogdanka. The club eventually changed its name back in 2013 but the fan owned counterpart has continued to operate in amateur football leagues. On 22 August 2014 the club withdrew from all competitions and ceased to operate, the reason cited were the lack of funds and the fact that the original Górnik Łęczna team went back to its original name scrapping the GKS Bogdanka name.[5]

Women's section

The women's section of Górnik Łęczna played for years in the second and third tier leagues of Poland. In 2006–07 the team reached the semi-finals of the Polish Cup but lost to Medyk Konin.[6] In the 2009–10 season with the expansion of the Ekstraliga Kobiet the team finally gained promotion to it by finishing second in its 2nd tier division.[7] In its Ekstraliga debut Górnik was 5th.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Górnik Łęczna zmienił nazwę" (in Polish). 90minut.pl. 18 February 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  2. ↑ Olkiewicz, Jakub (26 March 2012). "Wyzwanie przyjęte – piłka w Łęcznej bez Bogdanki" (in Polish). Weszło!. Archived from the original on 12 June 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Wracamy do historycznej nazwy – Górnik Łęczna" (in Polish). GKS Bogdanka. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Pierwsza drużyna" (in Polish). Górnik Łęczna. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  5. ↑ http://gornik-leczna.com/gornik-1979-leczna/
  6. ↑ http://www.90minut.pl/liga/0/liga3120.html
  7. ↑ http://www.90minut.pl/liga/0/liga4600.html
  8. ↑ 2010–11 table in Soccerway.com
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