Pogoń Szczecin

Pogoń Szczecin
Full name Morski Klub Sportowy
Pogoń Szczecin
Nickname(s) Portowcy (The Dockers)
Duma Pomorza (Pride of Pomerania)
Founded 21 April 1948
Ground Stadion Florian Kryger
Szczecin, Poland
Capacity 18,027
Chairman Poland Jarosław Mroczek
Manager Poland Czesław Michniewicz
League Ekstraklasa
2013–14 7th

MKS Pogoń Szczecin (Polish pronunciation: [ˌɛmkaˈɛs ˌpɔɡɔɲ ˈʂt͡ʂɛt͡ɕin]) is a Polish professional football club, based in Szczecin, Poland.

History

The club was founded by Poles from Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), who had been transferred west after the Soviet annexation of Poland's eastern territories in 1945. The founders of Pogoń Szczecin had previously been supporters of Pogoń Lwów and the colors of their new club reflect their old club. Polonia Bytom and Odra Opole were likewise founded or revived by the former inhabitants of Lwów.

Pogoń in 2002 was on the brink of bankruptcy. As a result fans created a new team on the basis of the reserves in the fourth division. However owner of Piotrcovia Piotrków Trybunalski Antoni Ptak decided to move the team and renamed the club MKS Pogoń Szczecin. The initial distrust was lost when the team performed well and used local players, however halfway through the 2005–06 season the team started underperforming and Ptak decided to replace almost the entire squad with only Brazilian nationals, making it the "most Brazilian team outside Brazil". Antoni Ptak also built a small training facility in Gutów Mały, meaning the home games were played almost 500km away from Szczecin. The experiment failed and in 2007 Antoni Ptak moved away from football, leaving the club to be rebuilt on the basis of the 4th division counterpart set up originally by the fans, which acted as the reserve team in the meantime.

The club was promoted to the Zachodnia (Western) group of the new II Liga (formerly the Third League) for the 2007–08 season. The club earned promotion to the Polish First League after finishing 2nd in Western Group of Polish Second League in 2008–09 season. Finally Pogoń returned to top division after finishing First League as runner-up in 2011–12 season.

Current squad

As of 9 January, 2015

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

No. Position Player
4 Poland DF Michał Koj
6 Poland MF Rafał Murawski
7 Poland MF Dominik Kun
8 Poland MF Michał Janota
9 Poland DF Adam Frączczak
11 Poland FW Marcin Robak
13 Japan MF Takuya Murayama
14 Poland DF Wojciech Golla
15 Poland DF Hubert Matynia
16 Poland MF Michał Walski
17 Poland MF Maksymilian Rogalski (Captain)
18 Poland FW Filip Kozłowski
No. Position Player
19 Poland MF Patryk Małecki
20 Poland MF Karol Danielak
21 Poland DF Sebastian Rudol
23 Poland MF Mateusz Matras
27 Japan MF Takafumi Akahoshi (on loan from Ufa)
44 Brazil DF Hernâni
66 Poland GK Dawid Kudła
77 South Africa DF Ricardo Nunes
84 Poland GK Radosław Janukiewicz
93 Poland FW Łukasz Zwoliński
98 Poland MF Kamil Wojtkowski
99 Latvia MF Vladimirs Kamešs

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
- Poland DF Maciej Dąbrowski (At Zagłębie Lubin)
- Poland DF Mateusz Lewandowski (At Virtus Entella)
- Poland DF Julien Tadrowski (At Dolcan Ząbki)
No. Position Player
- Poland MF Dawid Kort (At Flota Świnoujście)
- Poland FW Radosław Wiśniewski (At Ina Goleniów)
- Poland FW Kamil Zieliński (At Flota Świnoujście)

Notable players

Managers

  • Poland Leszek Jezierski (1985–87)
  • Poland Jan Jucha (1987–88)
  • Poland Jerzy Jatczak (1988)
  • Poland Lesław Ćmikiewicz (July 1, 1988–April 10, 1989)
  • Poland Eugeniusz Ksol (1989)
  • Poland Włodzimierz Obst (1989–90)
  • Poland Aleksander Brożyniak (1990)
  • Poland Jerzy Jatczak (1990)
  • Poland Eugeniusz Różański (1991–92)
  • Poland Leszek Jezierski (1992)
  • Poland Roman Szukiełowicz (1992–93)
  • Poland Jerzy Kasalik (Dec 22, 1993–Dec 31, 1994)
  • Poland Orest Lenczyk (Jan 1, 1995–July 1, 1995)
  • Poland Janusz Pekowski (1995–96)
  • Poland Roman Szukiełowicz (1996–97)
  • Poland Boguslaw Baniak (July 1, 1997–April 7, 1999)
  • Poland Albin Mikulski (July 1, 1999–April 16, 2000)
  • Poland Mariusz Kuras (April 17, 2000–June 30, 2000)
  • Poland Edward Lorens (July 20, 2000–April 29, 2001)
  • Poland Mariusz Kuras (April 29, 2001–June 14, 2002)
  • Poland Albin Mikulski (June 14, 2002–Sept 3, 2002)
  • Poland Jerzy Wyrobek (Sept 4, 2002–July 1, 2003)
  • Poland Boguslaw Baniak (July 1, 2003–July 1, 2004)
  • Czech Republic Pavel Malura (July 1, 2004–Aug 9, 2004)
  • Czech Republic Bohumil Panik (Oct 8, 2004–April 18, 2005)
  • Poland Boguslaw Pietrzak (May 11, 2005–Aug 23, 2005)
  • Czech Republic Bohumil Panik (Aug 2005–Feb 06)
  • Brazil José Carlos Serrão (Dec 15, 2005–March 1, 2006)
  • Czech Republic Bohumil Panik (March 2006–April 06)
  • Poland Mariusz Kuras (April 18, 2006–Dec 11, 2006)
  • Czech Republic Libor Pala (Dec 21, 2006–March 21, 2007)
  • Poland Boguslaw Baniak (March 21, 2007–June 30, 2007)
  • Poland Marcin Kaczmarek (July 2007–Dec 07)
  • Poland Mariusz Kuras (Dec 30, 2007–Sept 15, 2008)
  • Poland Piotr Mandrysz (Sept 15, 2008–Aug 17, 2010)
  • Poland Maciej Stolarczyk (Aug 17, 2010–Nov 9, 2010)
  • Poland Artur Platek (Nov 10, 2010–June 30, 2011)
  • Poland Marcin Sasal (May 30, 2011–April 10, 2012)
  • Poland Ryszard Tarasiewicz (April 10, 2012–June 30, 2012)
  • Poland Artur Skowronek (July 1, 2012–March 19, 2013)
  • Poland Dariusz Wdowczyk (March 20, 2013–Oct 14)[1]
  • Slovakia Ján Kocian (Oct 2014–)

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.szczecin.sport.pl/sport-szczecin/1,130883,8268155,Trenerzy_Pogoni.html

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