Górnik Łęczna

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Górnik Łęczna
Full name Górniczy Klub Sportowy Górnik Łęczna
Founded 1979
Ground Stadion Górnik
Łęczna, Poland
Ground Capacity 7,200
Chairman Poland Wiesław Sikora
Manager Ukraine Yuriy Shatalov
League I Liga
2012–13 12th
Home colours
Away colours
Current season

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

Górnik Łęczna played in the Ekstraklasa 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 have since competed in the I Liga.

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 (the club's strategic sponsor is the 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]


Current squad

Accurate as of 2 January 2014 Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Poland GK Paweł Socha
2 Slovakia DF Patrik Mráz
4 Serbia MF Veljko Nikitović
5 Poland MF Zawistowski
6 Poland DF Paweł Sasin
7 Poland MF Tomasz Nowak
8 Poland MF Bartłomiej Niedziela
9 Poland FW Sebastian Szalachowski
10 Poland FW Damian Szpak
11 Poland FW Kamil Oziemczuk
12 Poland GK Kamil Kaminski
13 Poland FW Michał Paluch
No. Position Player
14 Poland FW Łukasz Zwoliński
15 Poland MF Grzegorz Bonin
16 Poland MF Łukasz Sołowiej
19 Slovakia DF Lukáš Bielák
21 Poland DF Bartosz Wiązowski
22 Poland GK Sergiusz Prusak
23 Poland DF Maciej Szmatiuk
24 Poland DF Julien Tadrowski
25 Poland DF Marcin Kalkowski
44 Latvia MF Nikolajs Kozačuks
92 Poland MF Michał Zuber
TBC Slovakia MF Miroslav Božok

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
17 Poland MF Tomasz Tymosiak (to Orlęta Radzyń Podlaski)
Poland MF Damian Kwiatkowski (to Avia Świdnik)

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. None of these players represented their countries while playing for Łęczna.

Poland
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Macedonia

Women's section

Górnik Łęczna women's section
Founded 2002
Ground Stadion Górnik
Łęczna, Poland
Ground Capacity 7,226
League Ekstraliga Kobiet
2010-11 5th

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.[4] 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.[5] In its Ekstraliga debut Górnik was 5th.[6]

Current squad

As of February 19, 2012. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Poland GK Katarzyna Kiedrzynek
2 Poland DF Paulina Pakuła
3 Lithuania DF Raimonda Kudytė
4 Poland DF Dorota Mitrus
5 Poland DF Dominika Kwietniewska
6 Poland FW Magdalena Dudek
7 Poland MF Anna Grudzińska
8 Poland DF Agata Siczek
9 Poland DF Mariola Lisowska
10 Poland DF Joanna Rura
11 Ukraine MF Olha Zubchyk
14 Poland MF Katarzyna Podsiadła
No. Position Player
16 Latvia FW Jūlija Sokolova
17 Poland MF Justyna Stępniewska
18 Poland MF Edyta Smolak
22 Poland GK Katarzyna Derbych
23 Belarus DF Marina Guzarevich
77 Azerbaijan FW Ana Alekperova
Poland DF Paulina Kawalec
Poland MF Agata Guściora
Poland MF Anna Rukasz
Poland FW Justyna Naklicka
Poland FW Anna Sznyrowska

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!. Retrieved 23 July 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Wracamy do historycznej nazwy - Górnik Łęczna" (in Polish). GKS Bogdanka. Retrieved 23 July 2013. 
  4. ↑ http://www.90minut.pl/liga/0/liga3120.html
  5. ↑ http://www.90minut.pl/liga/0/liga4600.html
  6. ↑ 2010-11 table in Soccerway.com

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