KS Cracovia (ice hockey)

Comarch Cracovia
Comarch Cracovia
City	Kraków, Poland
League	Polska Hokej Liga
Founded	1906 (club); 1923 (ice hockey section)
Home arena	Lodowisko im. Adama "Rocha" Kowalskiego/Tauron Arena Kraków
Colours	Red, White ;
General manager
Head coach
Website	cracovia-hokej.pl
Franchise history
1923–1997	KS Cracovia
1997-present	MKS Cracovia SSA

MKS Cracovia SSA, commonly referred to as Cracovia Kraków and currently playing as Comarch Cracovia for sponsorship reasons, is an ice hockey team in Kraków, Poland. They play in the Polska Hokej Liga.

History[]

Cracovia players during the 2011–12 Polska Liga Hokejowa season.

Founded in 1906, Cracovia is the oldest existing sports club in Poland. Ice hockey in the form of bandy had been first played around 1909, and the first North American style ice hockey game was played in 1912. The ice hockey section of the sports club was created in 1923. Currently, the men's ice hockey section functions independently, and is legally called MKS Cracovia SSA. The women's section continues to function under the sports society of KS Cracovia.

The men's professional team won five league titles in the 1930s and 1940s. It took them 57 years to win another league title after winning in 1949. They finally won the PLH again in 2006, and have since added six more titles, in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2017.

They are also the first Polish team to compete in the Champions Hockey League. They made their debut in the 2016–17 edition, where they were put into a group with Färjestad BK from the Swedish Hockey League and HC Sparta Praha from the Czech Extraliga. They would lose all four group stage matches.^[1]

Achievements[]

Polish champion : 1937, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017
Polish 1. Liga champion : 1965, 1967, 1977, 2004.
Polish Cup champion : 2013, 2015.
Superpuchar Polski: 2014.

Players[]

Current roster[]

Source: cracovia-hokej.pl^[2]Source: eliteprospects.com^[3]As of November 8, 2021.

#	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
–		G	L	28		Perm, Russia
90	Aleš Ježek	D	L	31		Tábor, Czechoslovakia
15		LW	L	25	2021	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
–		G	L	21		Krynica-Zdrój, Poland
16	Saku Kinnunen	D	L	27	2021	Kuhmo, Finland
95		RW	L	29	2015	Nowy Targ, Poland
89	Jiří Gula	D	R	32		Most, Czechoslovakia
94		RW	R	27		Czech Republic
3		D	L	22		Krynica-Zdrój, Poland
–		D	L	26	2021	Turku, Finland
88		RW	L	33	2021	Suoyarvi, Russia
11		F	L	21		Krakow, Poland
2	Martin Dudáš	D	L	34		Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
72		G	L	27	2021	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
49		D	R	22	2021	Slaný, Czech Republic
32		LW	R	30	2021	Kanibadam, Tajikistan
33		D	L	29		Brno, Czechoslovakia
10	Yevgeni Bodrov	C	L	34	2021	Tolyatti, Russia
81		D	L	20		Krakow, Poland
14	Erik Němec	LW	L	28		Metylovice, Czech Republic
12		D	L	19		Skawina, Poland
43	Maxim Ignatovich	D	R	30		Novosibirsk, Russia
71		F	L	20		Nowy Targ, Poland
24		F	L	28	2021	Chelyabinsk, Russia
13		F	L	27	2021	Perm, Russia
8		F	L	22		Nowy Targ, Poland
50		C	L	29	2021	Yekaterinburg, Russia
7		F	R	20		Tychy, Poland

References[]

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-09-09. Retrieved 2016-09-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Team Roster / KS Cracovia". www.cracovia-hokej.pl. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
^ "Team Roster / KS Cracovia". www.eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 2021-11-08.

External links[]

Official site

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[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-09-09. Retrieved 2016-09-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Team Roster / KS Cracovia". www.cracovia-hokej.pl. Retrieved 2021-11-08.

[3] "Team Roster / KS Cracovia". www.eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 2021-11-08.

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