Piast Gliwice
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Gliwicki Klub Sportowy Piast Gliwice (Script error: No such module "IPA".Template:Efn-ua) is a Polish professional football club based in Gliwice, Silesian Voivodeship. Founded in 1945, the club competes in the Ekstraklasa, the top tier of the Polish football league system.
Piast won their first national championship in the 2018–19 Ekstraklasa season and have regularly qualified for European competitions since. Prior to their rise in the 2010s, the club had spent most of its history in the lower divisions.
Piast Gliwice play their home matches at the Piotr Wieczorek Stadium, a 10,000-seat venue opened in 2011, and traditionally wear blue and red.
History
The club was founded in June 1945 by the Poles who had been forced to leave their homes in former eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine). The club's name comes from the Piast dynasty, which ruled Poland from its beginnings as an independent state in the 10th century, until 1370, and in the city itself until 1532.
In 1949, five local teams were merged with Piast, and the team was renamed to Metal Piast Gliwice, and then to Stal Gliwice, before its original name Piast Gliwice was restored in 1955. Piast continued to play their matches on ul. Robotniczej. In 1964, Piast merged with GKS Gliwice, a team formed in 1956 from a fusion of the three other local clubs, and the name was changed to GKS Piast Gliwice. Since the 1950s, Piast mostly played in the Second Division. During that period, Piast have twice (1978, 1983) managed to reach the final of the Polish Cup, losing on both occasions.
In the 1990s, due to financial difficulties, the team was rebuilt from the Klasa B (7th tier), achieving four consecutive promotions from the seventh to the third tier in 1997–2001, and afterwards it won promotion to the II liga (second tier) in 2003. Piast played as many as 33 seasons in the Polish Second Division, before finally being promoted to the Ekstraklasa in 2008. Having played two seasons in the top division, the club was relegated in 2010 to come back in 2012. It is the first football team in Poland to gain promotion from the 7th tier to the Ekstraklasa (Polish top tier of football) and later to the European club competition.[1]
In the 2010s, Piast enjoyed its greatest success, being runners-up in the 2015–16 Ekstraklasa and winning its first Polish championship in the 2018–19 season.
There is also a futsal department of Piast Gliwice, which competes in the Futsal Ekstraklasa (top division). Its home venue is the Gliwice Arena. It won its first Polish Championship in the 2021–22 season.[2]
Naming history
- 18 June 1945 – KS Piast Gliwice
- 23 May 1946 – KSM Piast Gliwice
- September/November 1947 – ZKSM Piast Gliwice
- 5 March 1949 – ZS Metal Piast Gliwice (merged with ZKSM Huta Łabędy, ZKS Walcownia Łabędy, RKS Jedność Rudziniec, RKS PZS Gliwice and ZKS Silesia Gliwice)
- 1 November 1949 – ZKS Stal Gliwice
- 11 March 1951 – ZKS Stal GZUT Gliwice
- 15 March 1955 – ZKS Piast Gliwice
- 20 January 1957 – KS Piast Gliwice
- 1 January 1961 – SKS Piast Gliwice
- 15 March 1964 – GKS Piast Gliwice (merged with GKS Gliwice and KS Metal Gliwice)
- 17 October 1983 – MC-W GKS Piast Gliwice
- 12 September 1989 – CWKS Piast-Bumar Gliwice
- 1989 – merged with ZTS Łabędy (Gliwice)
- 1990 – CWKS Bumar-Piast Gliwice
- 4 April 1990 – KS Bumar Gliwice
- 11 May 1990 – KS Bumar Łabędy (Gliwice)
- 1 July 1990 – KS Bumar Gliwice
- 1991 – KS Piast-Bumar Gliwice
- 1 July 1992 – MC-W GKS Piast Gliwice
- 1 August 1995 – KS Bojków Gliwice (merged with KS Bojków Gliwice)
- 15 September 1995 – KS Piast Bojków Gliwice
- 2 September 1996 – GKS Piast Gliwice
Crest
The club's crest is derived from the coat of arms of the city of Gliwice, and thus contains the Piast Eagle of the Upper Silesian line of the medieval Polish Piast dynasty, which ruled the city until 1532.
Honours
- Ekstraklasa
- I liga
- Champions: 2011–12
- Polish Cup
- Runners-up: 1977–78, 1982–83
Seasons
- Seasons in Ekstraklasa: 14 (2008–10, 2012–)
- Seasons in I liga: 35
- Seasons in II liga: 16
- Seasons in III liga: 23
European record
Results
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate | ||
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| 2013–14 | UEFA Europa League | 2Q | Template:Flagicon | Qarabağ FK | 2–2 | 1–2 | 3–4 Template:Aet | File:Symbol delete vote.svg |
| 2016–17 | UEFA Europa League | 2Q | Template:Flagicon | IFK Göteborg | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–3 | File:Symbol delete vote.svg |
| 2019–20 | UEFA Champions League | 1Q | Template:Flagicon | BATE Borisov | 1−2 | 1−1 | 2−3 | File:Symbol delete vote.svg |
| UEFA Europa League | 2Q | Template:Flagicon | Riga FC | 3−2 | 1−2 | 4−4 | File:Symbol delete vote.svg | |
| 2020–21 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q | Template:Flagicon | Dinamo Minsk | — | 2−0 | — | File:Symbol keep vote.svg |
| 2Q | Template:Flagicon | Hartberg | 3–2 | — | — | File:Symbol keep vote.svg | ||
| 3Q | Template:Flagicon | Copenhagen | — | 0−3 | — | File:Symbol delete vote.svg |
- Notes
- 1Q: First qualifying round
- 2Q: Second qualifying round
- 3Q: Third qualifying round
Stadium
Piast plays their home games at the 10,000 capacity Piotr Wieczorek Stadium in Gliwice.
Supporters
Piast have a friendship with fans of Belarusian club BATE Borisov since 2011. The friendship started when BATE fans on their way to a Champions League match in Copenhagen stopped for a Piast game against local rivals GKS Katowice. The Piast fans then went to Alkmaar to support BATE versus AZ. After another visit for a Champions League game against Sturm Graz, the friendship became official and both sets of fans regularly visit each other.[3]
Piast's major rivals are Górnik Zabrze, with whom they contest the local derby.[4][5] The stadiums are located just a few kilometres from each other. Other rivals are local teams GKS Katowice and the two Bytom clubs, Szombierki and Polonia.
Players
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Out on loan
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Retired numbers
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Notable players
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Managers
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- Template:Flagicon Krzysztof Zagórski (16 December 2001 – 23 October 2002)
- Template:Flagicon Józef Dankowski (21 April 2003 – 19 October 2004)
- Template:Flagicon Wojciech Borecki (19 October 2004 – 31 December 2004)
- Template:Flagicon Jacek Zielinski (31 December 2004 – 14 September 2006)[7]
- Template:Flagicon Jan Furlepa (interim) (14–20 September 2006)
- Template:Flagicon Boguslaw Pietrzak (20 September 2006 – 30 June 2007)
- Template:Flagicon Piotr Mandrysz (3 July 2007 – 30 June 2008)
- Template:Flagicon Marek Wlecialowski (1 July 2008 – 5 January 2009)
- Template:Flagicon Dariusz Fornalak (5 January 2009 – 15 March 2010)
- Template:Flagicon Ryszard Wieczorek (15 March 2010 – 31 May 2010)
- Template:Flagicon Marcin Brosz (15 June 2010 – 6 May 2014)
- Template:Flagicon Ángel García (7 May 2014 – 18 March 2015)
- Template:Flagicon Radoslav Látal (20 March 2015 – 15 July 2016)
- Template:Flagicon Jiří Neček (15 July 2016 – 30 August 2016)
- Template:Flagicon Radoslav Látal (1 September 2016 – 2 March 2017)
- Template:Flagicon Dariusz Wdowczyk (3 March 2017 – 19 September 2017)
- Template:Flagicon Waldemar Fornalik (19 September 2017 – 25 October 2022)[8]
- Template:Flagicon Aleksandar Vuković (27 October 2022 – 30 June 2025)
- Template:Flagicon Max Mölder (1 July 2025 – 23 October 2025)[9]
- Template:Flagicon Daniel Myśliwiec (23 October 2025 – present)[10]
Notes
See also
References
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External links
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- Piast Gliwice at 90minut.pl
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