GKS Tychy

GKS Tychy
Full name Górniczy Klub Sportowy Tychy
Founded 20 April 1971 (1971-04-20)
Ground Tychy City Stadium,
Edukacji 7 Street, 43-100 Tychy, Poland Poland
Capacity 15,300
Chairman Poland Grzegorz Bednarski
Manager Poland Ryszard Tarasiewicz
League I liga
2017-18 4th
Website Club website

GKS Tychy is a Polish professional football club, based in Tychy, Poland, that plays in the Polish I Liga. The club was founded on 20 April 1971. It played in the Ekstraklasa between 1974–1977. The biggest success of GKS Tychy was the 2nd place in the 1975/76 season of the Ekstraklasa, behind Stal Mielec. As a result, the team played in the UEFA Cup 1976-77, losing to 1. FC Köln.

Tychy City Stadium

History

The history of GKS Tychy dates back to 20 April 1971, when the government of the county of Tychy, together with Communist party activists (PZPR), decided to form a powerful sports organization. As a result of the merger of Polonia Tychy, Gornik Wesola and Gornik Murcki, a strong, multi-department sports club was formed, with football and ice-hockey as its major departments. Before the creation of GKS Tychy, ice-hockey players of Gornik Murcki had twice won the Cup of Poland (1967 and 1971).

The decision to merge the teams from Murcki and Wesola was not welcomed by members of local comminities, who wanted to keep their organizations. The Tychy County government did not care about these concerns, as the plan was to form a strong club, with top class athletes. GKS Tychy was financially supported by local coal mines, from Tychy, Ledziny, Wesola and Bieruń. A new, 20,000 stadium was built, together with a swimming pool and ice-skating rink. By 1973, GKS Tychy had over 600 athletes in seven departments, including football, ice-hockey, wrestling, and track and field.

Two years after its creation, the football team of GKS Tychy won promotion to the second level of Polish football tier, and in early summer of 1974, the team was promoted to Ekstraklasa. With its topscorer Roman Ogaza, Tychy in August 1974 debuted in Ekstraklasa, in a 1-1 game vs. Lech Poznan. In 1975–76 Ekstraklasa, GKS Tychy finished second, after Polish champion Stal Mielec, and in the UEFA Cup, it played against West German side 1. FC Koeln. In the first leg, in Cologne (15 September 1976), Tychy lost 0-2. In the second leg, which took place on 29 September 1976 at Silesian Stadium in Chorzow, Polish team tied 1-1, after a goal by Roman Ogaza. Ogaza himself was a member of Polish football team, which won silver in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, becoming the first athlete in the history of Tychy to win an olympic medal.

In the 1976–77 Ekstraklasa, GKS Tychy, to the surprise of experts, was relegated from Polish top division, despite the fact that its top players remained at Tychy. After several seasons in Polish Second Division, GKS was once again relegated (1983) to the third level of Polish football tier, remaining there until 1993. After a merger with Sokol Pniewy, the new team, called Sokol Tychy-Pniewy, played in 1995–96 Ekstraklasa and 1996–97 Ekstraklasa. Due to financial difficulties, the team was dissolved in 1997. Soon afterwards, new organization, called Tyski Klub Sportowy Tychy was founded.

Previous names

  • 20.04.1971 to 1996 - Górniczy Klub Sportowy Tychy
  • 1996 - Sokół Tychy
  • 1997 - Górniczy Klub Sportowy Tychy
  • 1998 - TKS Tychy
  • 2000 - Górnośląski Klub Sportowy Tychy '71
  • 2008 - Górniczy Klub Sportowy Tychy

GKS Tychy in Europe

Season Competition Round Club Score
1976-77 UEFA Cup 1R Germany 1. FC Köln 0-2, 1-1

Players

As of 17 August, 2018.[1]

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

No. Position Player
3 Poland DF Mateusz Pańkowski
4 Poland DF Marcin Biernat
5 Poland DF Maciej Mańka
6 Poland DF Marcin Kowalczyk
7 Kyrgyzstan MF Edgar Bernhardt
8 Poland MF Łukasz Grzeszczyk
9 Poland FW Piotr Giel
10 Poland MF Piotr Ćwielong
11 Poland MF Nikolas Wróblewski
13 Poland DF Mateusz Grzybek
16 Poland MF Jakub Piątek
17 Poland FW Sebastian Steblecki
No. Position Player
18 Poland MF Damian Nieśmiałowski
19 Poland FW Michal Staniucha
22 Poland GK Adrian Odyjewski
24 Poland MF Dominik Polap
25 Poland FW Kamil Zapolnik
27 Poland DF Daniel Tanżyna
31 Trinidad and Tobago MF Keon Daniel
33 Poland DF Dawid Abramowicz
53 Slovakia GK Marek Igaz
77 Poland MF Kacper Piątek
91 Poland GK Konrad Jalocha
93 Poland DF Łukasz Bogusławski

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position Staff
Head coachPoland Ryszard Tarasiewicz
Assistant coachPoland Andrzej Orszulak
Assistant coachPoland Tomasz Wolak
Goalkeeping coachPoland Tomasz Rogala
Director coachPoland Grzegorz Kiecok
Fitness coachPoland Rafał Malasiewicz
DoctorPoland Marek Owczarek

Other sports

Active sections

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.[2] Players listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Tychy.

Poland
Zimbabwe

References

  1. ↑ "Pierwzy zespół" (in Polish). GKS Tychy. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "GKS 71 Tychy". National Football Teams. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
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