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{{short description|Polish footballer and manager}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2010}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Dariusz Kubicki
| image = Dariusz Kubicki.jpg
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| fullname = Dariusz Jan Kubicki
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1963|6|6}}
| birth_place = [[Kożuchów]], Poland
| currentclub = 
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| height = 1.77 m
| position = [[Right-back]]
| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Meblarz Nowe Miasteczko
| youthyears2 = | youthclubs2 = [[Lechia Zielona Góra]]
| years1 = 1981–1983 | clubs1 = [[Stal Mielec]]                                          | caps1 =  51 | goals1 = 3
| years2 = 1983–1991 | clubs2 = [[Legia Warsaw]]                                         | caps2 = 190 | goals2 = 4
| years3 = 1991–1994 | clubs3 = [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]                         | caps3 =  25 | goals3 = 0
| years4 = 1994      | clubs4 = → [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] (loan)                | caps4 =  15 | goals4 = 0
| years5 = 1994–1997 | clubs5 = [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]]                         | caps5 = 121 | goals5 = 0
| years6 = 1997–1998 | clubs6 = [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]] | caps6 =  13 | goals6 = 0
| years7 = 1998      | clubs7 = → [[Tranmere Rovers F.C.|Tranmere Rovers]] (loan)        | caps7 =  12 | goals7 = 0
| years8 = 1998      | clubs8 = [[Carlisle United F.C.|Carlisle United]]                 | caps8 =   7 | goals8 = 0
| years9 = 1998–1999 | clubs9 = [[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]]                           | caps9 =   3 | goals9 = 0
| totalcaps = 437 | totalgoals = 7
| nationalyears1 = | nationalteam1 = [[Poland national under-18 football team|Poland U18]] | nationalcaps1 =   | nationalgoals1 =  
| nationalyears2 = 1982–1991 | nationalteam2 = [[Poland national football team|Poland]] | nationalcaps2 = 46 | nationalgoals2 = 1 
| manageryears1 = 1999       | managerclubs1 = [[Legia Warsaw]]
| manageryears2 = 2003–2004  | managerclubs2 = [[Legia Warsaw]]
| manageryears3 = 2005       | managerclubs3 = [[Polonia Warsaw]]
| manageryears4 = 2007–2008  | managerclubs4 = [[Lechia Gdańsk]]
| manageryears5 = 2008–2009  | managerclubs5 = [[Znicz Pruszków]]
| manageryears6 = 2009–2010  | managerclubs6 = [[Wisła Płock]]
| manageryears7 = 2010–2012  | managerclubs7 = [[Dolcan Ząbki]]
| manageryears8 = 2012       | managerclubs8 = [[FC Sibir Novosibirsk|Sibir Novosibirsk]] (caretaker)
| manageryears9 = 2013       | managerclubs9 = [[Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała]]
| manageryears10 = 2013      | managerclubs10 = [[FC Sibir Novosibirsk|Sibir Novosibirsk]]
| manageryears11 = 2014–2015 | managerclubs11 = [[Olimpia Grudziądz]]
| manageryears12 = 2015      | managerclubs12 = [[Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała]]
| manageryears13 = 2016–2017 | managerclubs13 = [[Znicz Pruszków]]
| manageryears14 = 2018      | managerclubs14 = [[Olimpia Grudziądz]]
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Association football|football]]}}
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{{MedalCompetition|[[UEFA European Under-19 Championship|UEFA European Under-18 Championship]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[1981 UEFA European Under-18 Championship|1981 West Germany]]|}}
}}
'''Dariusz Jan Kubicki''' (born 6 June 1963) is a Polish professional [[Manager (association football)|football manager]] and former [[Football player|player]].

==Playing career==
He played for a few clubs, including [[Stal Mielec]], [[Legia Warsaw]], he then went to England and played for [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]], [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]], [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]], [[Tranmere Rovers F.C.|Tranmere Rovers]], [[Carlisle United F.C.|Carlisle United]] and [[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]].

He played little part in the Aston Villa teams which came second in their [[1992–93 Aston Villa F.C. season|1992-93 Premier League season]] and won the 1994 [[Football League Cup]], but played a more active part in [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]]'s promotion to the [[Premier League]] in 1996. Kubicki was controversially dropped from the team by manager [[Peter Reid]] for a game against Derby County when selecting Kubicki would have meant him overtaking the club record for consecutive appearances in the post-war period, still held by [[George Mulhall]].

He played 46 times for the [[Poland national football team|Poland national team]], scoring once, and was a participant at the [[1986 FIFA World Cup]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080228062706/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=52552/index.html Dariusz Kubicki Statistics] ''[[FIFA]]''. Retrieved 25 January 2010.</ref>

==Managerial career==
Kubicki later began a coaching career and coached Legia Warsaw and [[Polonia Warsaw]].

Kubicki became a coach of Polish second division team [[Lechia Gdańsk]] in 2007. In October 2007, Kubicki was arrested by the police due to a bribery scandal involving the sale of one of the Warsaw sport centers. Due to this scandal, Kubicki was suspended as coach of Lechia Gdańsk.

==Personal life==
Dariusz Kubicki is the father of [[Patryk Kubicki]].

==Career statistics==
===International===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year
|-
!National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="10"|[[Poland national football team|Poland]]
|1982||1||0
|-
|1983||0||0
|-
|1984||6||0
|-
|1985||3||0
|-
|1986||3||0
|-
|1987||1||0
|-
|1988||7||1
|-
|1989||3||0
|-
|1990||14||0
|-
|1991||8||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total!!46!!1
|}

==Honours==
===Player===
'''Legia Warsaw'''<ref name=90m>{{cite web |title=Dariusz Kubicki |url=http://www.90minut.pl/kariera.php?id=1045 |website=90minut.pl |access-date=6 June 2024 |language=pl}}</ref>
* [[Polish Cup]]: 1988–89, 1989–90
* [[Polish Super Cup]]: 1989

'''Sunderland'''
* [[Football League First Division]]: [[1995–96 Football League|1995–96]]

'''Poland U18'''
* [[UEFA European Under-19 Championship|UEFA European Under-18 Championship]] runner-up: [[1981 UEFA European Under-18 Championship|1981]]<ref name=90m/>

'''Individual'''
* [[PFA Team of the Year]]: [[1995–96 Football League#First Division|1995–96 First Division]]<ref>{{cite book |editor-first=Barry J. |editor-last=Hugman |title=The 1996–97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile |year=1996 |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=Harpenden |isbn=978-1-85291-571-1 |page=285}}</ref>

===Manager===
'''Lechia Gdańsk'''
* [[I liga|II liga]]: [[2007–08 I liga|2007–08]]<ref>{{cite web |title=II liga 2007/2008 |url=http://www.90minut.pl/liga/0/liga3156.html |website=90minut.pl |access-date=6 June 2024 |language=pl}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{90minut|1045}}

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