Pogoń Szczecin

Pogoń Szczecin

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Full name	Morski Klub Sportowy Pogoń Szczecin
Nickname(s)	Portowcy (The Dockers) Duma Pomorza (Pride of Pomerania)
Founded	21 April 1948 (1948-04-21)
Ground	Stadion Florian Kryger Szczecin, Poland
Ground Capacity	18,027
Chairman	Jarosław Mroczek
Manager	Czesław Michniewicz
2014–15	8th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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.

Honours

Domestic

• Polish championship runner-up: 2

1987, 2001

• Polish Championship bronze medal: 1

1984

• Polish Cup finalist: 3

1981, 1982, 2010

International

• First Round of the 1984–85 UEFA Cup and the 1987–88 UEFA Cup
• Qualifying Round of the 2001–02 UEFA Cup
• Second Round of the 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup

Youth Team

• Polish U-19 Champion:

1986,

• Polish U-19 Runner Up:

1965

• Polish U-19 Bronze Medal:

1960, 2008, 2012, 2014

• Polish U-17 Bronze Medal:

2002

Current squad

As of 5 January 2016.

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Jakub Słowik 3 DF Jarosław Fojut 4 DF Jakub Czerwiński 6 MF Rafał Murawski (Captain) 7 MF Ádám Gyurcsó 9 DF Adam Frączczak (Vice captain) 10 MF Patryk Małecki 11 FW Vladimir Dvalishvili 13 MF Takuya Murayama 14 MF Miłosz Przybecki 15 DF Hubert Matynia 16 MF Michał Walski 19 MF Jakub Piotrowski 20 MF Karol Danielak

No. Position Player 21 DF Sebastian Rudol 23 MF Mateusz Matras 24 DF Błażej Chouwer 26 DF Sebastian Murawski 27 MF Takafumi Akahoshi 29 FW Marcin Listkowski 32 MF Robert Obst 33 DF Mateusz Lewandowski 34 GK Bartosz Piotrowski 66 GK Dawid Kudła 77 DF Ricardo Nunes 93 FW Łukasz Zwoliński MF Kamil Drygas

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 22 FW Jakub Okuszko (on loan at Błękitni Stargard Szczeciński) MF Dawid Kort (on loan at Bytovia Bytów)

Managers

• Jan Dixa (1950)
• Kazimierz Chrostek (1951–52)
• Zygmunt Czyżewski (1953)
• Henryk Wielga (1954)
• Michał Matyas (1955–56)
• Florian Krygier (1956–58)
• Edward Brzozowski (1959)
• Florian Krygier (1960)
• Edward Brzozowski (1960–61)
• Zygmunt Czyżewski (1962–63)
• Marian Suchogórski (1963–65)
• Stefan Żywotko (1965–70)
• Eugeniusz Ksol (1970)
• Karel Kosarz (1970–72)
• Edmund Zientara (1972–75)
• Bogusław Hajdas (1975–77)
• Aleksander Mandziara (1977–78)
• Hubert Fiałkowski (1978)
• Konstanty Pawlikaniec (1979)
• Jerzy Kopa (Oct 20, 1979 – June 30, 1982)
• Eugeniusz Ksol (1982–85)
• Maciej Hejn (1985)

• Leszek Jezierski (1985–87)
• Jan Jucha (1987–88)
• Jerzy Jatczak (1988)
• Lesław Ćmikiewicz (July 1, 1988 – April 10, 1989)
• Eugeniusz Ksol (1989)
• Włodzimierz Obst (1989–90)
• Aleksander Brożyniak (1990)
• Jerzy Jatczak (1990)
• Eugeniusz Różański (1991–92)
• Leszek Jezierski (1992)
• Roman Szukiełowicz (1992–93)
• Jerzy Kasalik (Dec 22, 1993 – Dec 31, 1994)
• Orest Lenczyk (Jan 1, 1995 – July 1, 1995)
• Janusz Pekowski (1995–96)
• Roman Szukiełowicz (1996–97)
• Boguslaw Baniak (July 1, 1997 – April 7, 1999)
• Albin Mikulski (July 1, 1999 – April 16, 2000)
• Mariusz Kuras (April 17, 2000 – June 30, 2000)
• Edward Lorens (July 20, 2000 – April 29, 2001)
• Mariusz Kuras (April 29, 2001 – June 14, 2002)
• Albin Mikulski (June 14, 2002 – Sept 3, 2002)
• Jerzy Wyrobek (Sept 4, 2002 – July 1, 2003)

• Boguslaw Baniak (July 1, 2003 – July 1, 2004)
• Pavel Malura (July 1, 2004 – Aug 9, 2004)
• Bohumil Panik (Oct 8, 2004 – April 18, 2005)
• Boguslaw Pietrzak (May 11, 2005 – Aug 23, 2005)
• Bohumil Panik (Aug 2005 – Feb 06)
• José Carlos Serrão (Dec 15, 2005 – March 1, 2006)
• Bohumil Panik (March 2006 – April 06)
• Mariusz Kuras (April 18, 2006 – Dec 11, 2006)
• Libor Pala (Dec 21, 2006 – March 21, 2007)
• Boguslaw Baniak (March 21, 2007 – June 30, 2007)
• Marcin Kaczmarek (July 2007 – Dec 07)
• Mariusz Kuras (Dec 30, 2007 – Sept 15, 2008)
• Piotr Mandrysz (Sept 15, 2008 – Aug 17, 2010)
• Maciej Stolarczyk (Aug 17, 2010 – Nov 9, 2010)
• Artur Platek (Nov 10, 2010 – June 30, 2011)
• Marcin Sasal (May 30, 2011 – April 10, 2012)
• Ryszard Tarasiewicz (April 10, 2012 – June 30, 2012)
• Artur Skowronek (July 1, 2012 – March 19, 2013)
• Dariusz Wdowczyk (March 20, 2013 – Oct 21, 2014)
• Ján Kocian (Oct 22, 2014 – April 8, 2015)
• Czesław Michniewicz (April 9, 2015 –)

See also

• Football in Poland

External links

• Pogoń Szczecin official website (Polish)
• Unofficial Pogoń Szczecin website