Śląsk Wrocław

History

The club has had many names since its foundation in 1947. They are listed below;

• 1947 – Pionier Wrocław
• 1949 – Legia Wrocław
• 1950 – Centralny Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Wrocław
• 1951 – Okręgowy Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Wrocław
• 1957 – Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Śląsk Wrocław
• 1997 – Wrocławski Klub Sportowy Śląsk Wrocław Sportowa Spółka Akcyjna
• Wrocławski Klub Sportowy Śląsk Wrocław Spółka Akcyjna

Śląsk is the Polish name of Silesia, the historical region in which Wrocław is located.

Honours

League

• Ekstraklasa
  • Champions: 1976–77, 2011–12
  • Runners-up: 1977–78, 1981–82, 2010–11, 2023–24

Cup

• Polish Cup
  • Winners: 1975–76, 1986–87
  • Runners-up: 2012–13
• Ekstraklasa Cup
  • Winners: 2008–09
• Polish Super Cup
  • Winners: 1987, 2012

Youth teams

• Polish U-19 Championship

  • Champions: 1978–79
  • Runners-up: 1976–77

• Polish U-17 Championship

  • Champions: 2023–24

The fans

Śląsk fans are one of the largest supporter movements in Poland. In the early 1970s, they were one of the pioneers of football supporters groups. The Śląsk supporters call themselves Nobles from Wrocław (). Notable Śląsk fans include: Waldemar Kasta, a rapper and ring announcer KSW, that also created fan songs for Śląsk, Hubert Hurkacz, a Polish tennis player.

Friendships

They have a friendship with Lechia Gdańsk with which the two clubs fans have had a friendship since 1977, and have had friendly relations since 1967. This is the oldest fan friendship in Polish football. During the 2017–18 season, the two sets of fans celebrated their 40th Friendship Anniversary. Games between the two are often called "the friendship match".

The fans have also had a friendship with Motor Lublin dating back to the 1990s. Due to the clubs' long friendship, Śląsk were invited to play a friendly in 2015 in Lublin to celebrate Motor's 65th anniversary.

Despite the clubs' close proximity, Śląsk also hold friendly relations with Miedź Legnica. The fans also have friendships with fans from both SFC Opava, from the Czech Republic, and Ferencvárosi TC, from Hungary.

Rivals

Their biggest rivals are Zagłębie Lubin, with the games between the two known as the "Lower Silesian Derby" (Polish: Derby Dolnego Śląska). The two teams are the largest in the Lower Silesia region, with Śląsk representing Wrocław (the capital of Lower Silesia) and Zagłębie representing Lubin, a traditionally industrial and copper mining city. Both teams have won the Ekstraklasa twice, Śląsk in 1977 & 2012, and Zagłębie in 1991 & 2007. They also hold a big rivalry with Legia Warsaw, due to both clubs having military roots. There also is a rivalry with Widzew Łódź, traditionally only due to competitive reasons, however, after the murder of a 17 year old Śląsk fan by a group of Widzew hooligans in Walichnowy, the rivalry became more heated than ever, and it still holds this status.

The fans of Lechia and Śląsk formally had a friendship with the Wisła Kraków fans, creating the "Three Kings of Great Cities" () coalition. Wisła fans left the coalition in 2016. Since 2016 Wisła Kraków itself has since turned into a rivalry.

Arka Gdynia, Lech Poznań and Cracovia are rivals dating back to the time with their alliance with Wisła. This was due to the two largest fan coalitions in Poland, "Three Kings of Great Cities" (Śląsk, Lechia, Wisła) and "The Great Triad" (Lech, Arka, Cracovia) with any of the opposite coalition teams playing each other resulting in a big and hotly contested match.

Stadium

Main article: Wrocław Stadium

The Wrocław Stadium is the highest fourth category football (soccer) stadium built for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. The Stadium is located on aleja Śląska in the western part of the city (Pilczyce district). It is the home stadium of the Śląsk Wrocław football team playing in the Polish PKO Ekstraklasa. The stadium has a capacity of 42,771 spectators, all seated and all covered. The Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw is the largest arena in Ekstraklasa and the third largest in the country (after National Stadium and Silesia Stadium). Stadium construction began in April 2009 and was completed in September 2011. Stadium opening took place at 10 September 2011 with boxing fight between Tomasz Adamek and Vitali Klitschko for WBC heavyweight title. The inaugural football match was held on 10 October 2011, between Śląsk Wrocław and Lechia Gdańsk. Śląsk won 1–0, with Johan Voskamp becoming the first goalscorer in the new stadium.

|File:Stadion Miejski we Wroclawiu - testy iluminacji 6.jpg|Municipal Stadium by night. |File:Stadion Wroclaw 2011-11-18.jpg|interior of the stadium. |File:WKS Śląsk-Wisła Kraków 20111125 b.JPG|Śląsk Wrocław – Wisła Kraków (25 November 2011) |File:Wrocław Municipal Stadium - Euro 2012 (7).jpg|The Municipal Stadium in Wrocław during the UEFA Euro 2012.

Śląsk Wrocław in European football

| cup winners' cup = | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup =

Śląsk Wrocław's score is shown first in each case

;Notes

• 1Q: First qualifying round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round
• 3Q: Third qualifying round
• PO: Play-off round
• 1R: First round
• 2R: Second round
• 3R: Third round
• QF: Quarter-finals

Best results in European competitions

Players

Current squad

Other players under contract

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. ; Poland

• POL Henryk Apostel (1971–72)
• POL Łukasz Broź (2018–20)
• POL Adrian Budka (2005–06)
• POL Eugeniusz Cebrat (1978–79)
• POL Piotr Celeban (2008–12, 2014–21)
• POL Mateusz Cetnarski (2011–14)
• POL Piotr Ćwielong (2010–13)
• POL Jan Erlich (1973–78)
• POL Roman Faber (1973–84)
• POL Janusz Gancarczyk (2007–10)
• POL Zygmunt Garłowski (1973–81)
• POL Wojciech Golla (2018–20)
• POL Janusz Góra (1985–92)
• POL Jarosław Góra (1993–97)
• POL Roman Jakóbczak (1966–69)
• POL Tomasz Jodłowiec (2012)
• POL Paweł Kaczorowski (2007)
• POL Zygmunt Kalinowski (1971–79)
• POL Przemysław Kaźmierczak (2010–14)
• POL Jacek Kiełb (2015–16)
• POL Adam Kokoszka (2013–14, 2015–18)
• POL Jakub Kosecki (2017–18)
• POL Zdzisław Kostrzewa (1979–84)
• POL Marcin Kowalczyk (2012–13)
• POL Rafał Lasocki (2007)
• POL Rafał Leszczyński (2022–25)
• POL Antoni Łukasiewicz (2008–11)
• POL Daniel Łukasik (2023–24)
• POL Krzysztof Mączyński (2019–22)
• POL Łukasz Madej (2009–12, 2016–17)
• POL Adam Marciniak (2008)
• POL Adam Matysek (1989–93)
• POL Sebastian Mila (2008–14)
• POL Mariusz Pawelec (2008–23)
• POL Mariusz Pawełek (2014–17)
• POL Tadeusz Pawłowski (1974–82)
• POL Mirosław Pękala (1977–84)
• POL Arkadiusz Piech (2017–19)
• POL Dariusz Pietrasiak (2011–12)
• POL Leszek Pisz (2001)
• POL Przemysław Płacheta (2019–20)
• POL Waldemar Prusik (1981–89)
• POL Kazimierz Przybyś (1983–84)
• POL Andrzej Rudy (1983–88)
• POL Dariusz Rzeźniczek (1990)
• POL Hubert Skowronek (1962–67)
• POL Jakub Słowik (2017–19)
• POL Waldemar Sobota (2010–13, 2020–22)
• POL Joachim Stachuła (1963–66)
• POL Janusz Sybis (1969–83)
• POL Grzegorz Szamotulski (2001)
• POL USA Stefan Szefer (1963–65)
• POL Roman Szewczyk (1989)
• POL Tadeusz Świcarz (1951)
• POL Jakub Świerczok (2024–25)
• POL Ryszard Tarasiewicz (1979–89)
• POL Jan Tomaszewski (1967–70)
• POL Marcin Wasilewski (2000–02)
• POL Maciej Wilusz (2021)
• POL Piotr Włodarczyk (2000–01)
• POL Roman Wójcicki (1980–82)
• POL Władysław Żmuda (1974–80)

; Bosnia and Herzegovina

• BIH Amir Spahić (2009–13) ; Bulgaria
• BUL Aleks Petkov (2023–)
• BUL Simeon Petrov (2024–25)

; Czech Republic

• CZE Vladimír Čáp (2007–09)
• CZE Lukáš Droppa (2014–15)
• CZE Marcel Gecov (2015–16)
• CZE Petr Schwarz (2021–) ; Gabon
• GAB Éric Mouloungui (2013) ; Georgia
• GEO Lasha Dvali (2016–17) ; Hungary
• HUN Márk Tamás (2020–22) ; Iceland
• ISL Daníel Leó Grétarsson (2022–23) ; Japan
• JPN Ryota Morioka (2016–17) ; Kosovo
• KOS Besar Halimi (2025–) ; Latvia
• LVA Igors Tarasovs (2017–19) ; Montenegro
• Montenegro Filip Raičević (2020) ; North Macedonia
• Macedonia Ostoja Stjepanović (2016–17) ; Palestine
• Palestine Assad Al Hamlawi (2025) ; Romania
• ROU Tudor Băluță (2024–25) ; Slovakia
• SVK Peter Grajciar (2015–17)
• SVK Ľuboš Kamenár (2016–17) ; Slovenia
• SLO Boban Jović (2017–18)
• SLO Dalibor Stevanović (2012–14) ; Zambia
• Zambia Lubambo Musonda (2019–21) ; Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwe Ronald Sibanda (1997–98) ; Venezuela
• Venezuela Jorge Yriarte (2025–)

Managers

• Czechoslovakia Karel Finek (1958)
• Czechoslovakia Vilém Lugr (1959)
• Poland Artur Woźniak (1969–70)
• Poland Władysław Żmuda (1971–77)
• Poland Orest Lenczyk (1979–81)
• Poland Henryk Apostel (10 October 1984 – 30 June 1988)
• Poland Alojzy Łysko (1988)
• Poland Tadeusz Pawłowski (6 October 1992 – 10 May 1993)
• Poland Stanisław Świerk (1993–95)
• Poland Wiesław Wojno (1 July 1996 – 11 March 1997)
• Poland Jerzy Kasalik (11 March 1997 – 21 September 1997)
• Poland Grzegorz Kowalski (1 July 1998 – 20 December 1998)
• Poland Wojciech Łazarek (21 December 1998 – 3 November 1999)
• Poland Władysław Łach (3 July 2000 – 10 April 2001)
• Poland Janusz Wójcik (10 April 2001 – 7 June 2001)
• Poland Marian Putyra (7 June 2001 – 24 August 2001)
• Czech Republic Petr Nemec (24 August 2001 – 25 March 2002)
• Poland Marian Putyra (25 March 2002 – 30 June 2003)
• Poland Grzegorz Kowalski (1 July 2003 – 30 September 2004)
• Poland Ryszard Tarasiewicz (29 September 2004 – 28 June 2006)
• Czech Republic Luboš Kubík (6 July 2006 – 2 October 2006)
• Poland Jan Żurek (2 October 2006 – 18 June 2007)
• Poland Ryszard Tarasiewicz (19 June 2007 – 22 September 2010)
• Poland Paweł Barylski (interim) (22 September 2010 – 27 September 2010)
• Poland Orest Lenczyk (27 September 2010 – 31 August 2012)
• Poland Paweł Barylski (interim) (31 August 2012 – 3 September 2012)
• Czech Republic Stanislav Levy (3 September 2012 – 23 February 2014)
• Poland Tadeusz Pawłowski (24 February 2014 – 6 December 2015)
• Poland Romuald Szukiełowicz (7 December 2015 – 9 March 2016)
• Poland Mariusz Rumak (9 March 2016 – 19 December 2016)
• Poland Jan Urban (5 January 2017 – 19 February 2018)
• Poland Tadeusz Pawłowski (19 February 2018 – 11 December 2018)
• Poland Paweł Barylski (interim) (11 December 2018 – 3 January 2019)
• Czech Republic Vítězslav Lavička (3 January 2019 – 21 March 2021)
• Poland Jacek Magiera (22 March 2021 – 8 March 2022)
• Poland Piotr Tworek (9 March 2022 – 1 June 2022)
• Serbia Ivan Đurđević (2 June 2022 – 21 April 2023)
• Poland Jacek Magiera (21 April 2023 – 12 November 2024)
• Poland Michał Hetel and Poland Marcin Dymkowski (interim) (12 November 2024 – 24 December 2024)
• Slovenia Ante Šimundža (24 December 2024 – present)

Śląsk Wrocław (women)

Main article: Śląsk Wrocław (women)

The Śląsk Wrocław's women's team was formed in 2020, taking the place of KŚ AZS Wrocław in the Ekstraliga.

Footnotes

References

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