Górnik Łęczna

Górnik Łęczna
Full name Górniczy Klub Sportowy Górnik Łęczna
Nickname(s) Zielono-Czarni
Founded 1979
Ground Arena Lublin[1]
Lublin, Poland
Ground Capacity 15,500
Chairman Poland Artur Kapelko
Manager vacant
League Ekstraklasa
2015–16 14th
Website Club home page

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

History

The club was founded in 1979, as a club for the local coal miners. As the years went, the local Bogdanka Coal Mine decided to invest more and more money and as a result the club quickly rose through the leagues. The club shed its relative obscurity when it gained promotion to the Ekstraklasa in 2003.

Górnik Łęczna played in the top division 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 competed in the I Liga for six years before winning promotion to the 2014–15 Ekstraklasa.

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, a decision from the local Bogdanka coal mine.[2] As a result a group of supporters opposing the name change formed an amateur team GKS Górnik 1979 Łęczna.[3] On 23 July 2013 GKS Bogdanka's board of directors announced the return to the former name.[4]

Honours

Current squad

As of 30 October 2016.[5]

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

No. Position Player
1 Poland GK Wojciech Małecki
2 Brazil DF Leândro
3 Poland DF Aleksander Komor
4 Brazil DF Gerson
5 Poland MF Łukasz Tymiński
6 Poland DF Paweł Sasin
7 Serbia MF Dragomir Vukobratović
8 Poland MF Grzegorz Piesio
9 Poland FW Piotr Grzelczak
10 Spain MF Javi Hernández
11 Croatia MF Slaven Juriša
15 Poland MF Grzegorz Bonin
16 Poland DF Adam Dźwigała
17 Poland MF Radosław Pruchnik
18 Poland FW Bartosz Śpiączka
19 Serbia FW Vojo Ubiparip
No. Position Player
21 Poland DF Dariusz Jarecki
22 Poland DF Łukasz Mierzejewski
23 Poland DF Maciej Szmatiuk
25 Poland MF Szymon Drewniak (on loan from Lech Poznań)
30 Poland GK Dawid Smug
31 Poland DF Przemysław Ponurek
32 Poland MF Bartłomiej Greniuk
33 Poland MF Aleks Aftyka
34 Poland MF Piotr Pacek
35 Poland MF Miłosz Turewicz
36 Poland FW Patryk Błaziak
45 Poland FW Przemysław Pitry
77 Poland MF Krzysztof Danielewicz
79 Poland GK Sergiusz Prusak (Captain)
93 Poland DF Łukasz Bogusławski

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 MF Wojciech Kalinowski (at Legionovia Legionowo)
Poland MF Marcin Świech (at Motor Lublin)
No. Position Player
Poland FW Michał Paluch (at Motor Lublin)
Poland MF Damian Szpak (at Motor Lublin)

GKS Górnik 1979 Łęczna

Górnik 1979 Łęczna was a club founded in 2011 by Górnik Łęczna fans who were unhappy with the name change to GKS Bogdanka. The club eventually changed its name back in 2013 but the fan owned counterpart has continued to operate in amateur football leagues. On 22 August 2014 the club withdrew from all competitions and ceased to operate, the reason cited were the lack of funds and the fact that the original Górnik Łęczna team went back to its original name scrapping the GKS Bogdanka name.[6]

Women's section

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.[7] 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.[8] In its Ekstraliga debut Górnik was 5th.[9]

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