Wieczysta Kraków

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Wieczysta Kraków
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Full nameKlub Sportowy Wieczysta Kraków
Founded1942
GroundKazimierza Chałupnika 16 Street,
Kraków
Capacity2,000
ChairmanArtur Cybulski
ManagerFranciszek Smuda
LeagueIV liga (V)
2020–21Liga okręgowa, 1st of 15 (promoted)[1]
WebsiteClub website

Wieczysta Kraków is a Polish football club based in Kraków. They currently play in the Polish Fourth Division, the fifth tier of the national football league system.

History[]

During the German occupation, it was forbidden to organize football matches under the threat of severe repression.[2] Due to these restrictions on the meadows of Rakowice, then a village on the borders of Krakow, numerous football competitions were held secretly. Eventually, the local community, on the initiative of Edward Ignaszewski, decided to establish a sports club in such difficult times, thus forming Wieczysta Kraków in 1942.[3]

In the '50s and '60s, Wieczysta Kraków was playing in the class A and B leagues (then the fourth and fifth tiers of the Polish football league). In 1966, with the reorganization of the Polish league system, the III Liga, the new third tier was introduced dividing into regions. Wieczysta Kraków was included in the district league (fourth tier) of Polish league. Performances at such a high level did not last long. In 1968, the team dropped to class A (fifth tier), and a year later it is relegated another class lower, to the sixth tier of Polish league. The following years of the last century brought sports stabilization in the form of regular performances at the regional level.[4]

The club played the 1997/98 season in the IV liga, after winning promotion to the fourth tier. After six years at this level, the club was relegated finishing the 2002/03 season as 18th, the bottom of the table. For the coming twelve seasons, Wieczysta Kraków played in the Liga okręgowa, that was the fifth and after another reorganization in 2008 the sixth tier of the Polish football league. In the 2014/15 season, the club finished 13th (second from bottom) in the Liga okręgowa, thus getting relegated to the seventh tier. In the first season in Klasa A, the club finished second, thus missing out on immediate promotion back to the sixth tier. The next season, 2016/17, they finished first in the league, thus winning promotion back to Liga okręgowa.[5]

In 2021, they won promotion to IV liga, finishing first in regional league's Kraków II group.[1] They were the richest amateur club in the country at the time, and won the league with 28 wins out of 28 games, scoring 216 and conceding only 8.[6] On 29 September 2021, they achieved their first victory in the central level of the Polish Cup, winning 2–1 against the I liga club Chrobry Głogów and advancing to the cup's round of 32.[7]

Season to season[]

Season Tier Division Place
1997/98 4 IV liga - group: Kraków, Nowy Sącz, Tarnów 5th
1998/99 4 IV liga - group: Kraków, Nowy Sącz, Tarnów 9th
1999/00 4 IV liga - group: Kraków, Nowy Sącz, Tarnów 12th
2000/01 4 IV liga - group: małopolska (Kraków) 11th
2001/02 4 IV liga - group: małopolska (Kraków) 14th
2002/03 4 IV liga - group: małopolska (Kraków) 18th R
2003/04 5 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków 4th
2004/05 5 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków 7th
2005/06 5 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków 12th
2006/07 6 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków 8th
2007/08 7 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków 6th
2008/09 7 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków 3rd
2009/10 7 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków 9th
2010/11 7 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków 8th
2011/12 6 Liga okręgowa - 11th
2012/13 6 Liga okręgowa - 14th
2013/14 6 Liga okręgowa - 11th
2014/15 6 Liga okręgowa - 13th R
2015/16 7 Klasa A - group: Kraków II 2nd
2016/17 7 Klasa A - group: Kraków II 1st P
2017/18 6 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków II 11th
2018/19 6 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków II 2nd
2019/20 6 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków II 2nd
2020/21 6 Liga okręgowa - group: Kraków II 1st P
2021/22 5 IV liga - group: małopolska (West)

Notes: P - Promoted, R - Relegated

Polish Cup records[]

Season Round Opponent Result
2021–22[8] Round of 64 Chrobry Głogów 2–1
Round of 32 Garbarnia Kraków 0–5

Achievements[]

  • Polish Cup:
    • National
    • Lesser Poland
      • Winners: 2020–21[9]
      • Finalist: 2019–20[10]
    • Kraków District
      • Winner: 2019–20, 2020–21
      • Finalist: 1952, 2016–17
  • District League
    • Kraków Division Group II
      • Winners: 2020–21
      • Runners-up: 2018–19, 2019–20
  • A Division
    • Kraków Division Group II
      • Winner: 2016–17
      • Runners-up: 2015–16

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 22 September 2021[11]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Poland POL Bartosz Plewka
2 DF Poland POL Patryk Kołodziej
4 DF Poland POL Seweryn Michalski
5 MF Poland POL Hubert Urbański
7 MF Poland POL Sławomir Peszko
8 FW Poland POL Jakub Bąk
10 FW Poland POL Mateusz Gamrot
11 DF Poland POL Adrian Frańczak
13 DF Poland POL Damian Korczyk
15 FW Poland POL Wiktor Piejak
17 MF Poland POL Radosław Nowicki
18 MF Poland POL Mateusz Krasuski
19 MF Poland POL Dawid Linca
20 DF Poland POL Adrian Jurkowski
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 MF Poland POL Łukasz Burliga
22 GK Poland POL Damian Drzewiecki
23 DF Poland POL Damian Guzik
24 DF Poland POL Dawid Jampich
25 DF Poland POL Krzysztof Kalemba
28 MF Poland POL Radosław Majewski
32 FW Poland POL Krzysztof Szewczyk
33 GK Poland POL Paweł Krawczyk
37 GK Poland POL Michał Miśkiewicz
70 MF Slovakia SVK Patrik Mišák
77 MF Ghana GHA Emmanuel Kumah
90 MF Poland POL Łukasz Pietras
96 DF Haiti HAI Wilde-Donald Guerrier
98 DF Poland POL Patryk Kura

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Keeza Klasa okręgowa 2020/2021, grupa: Kraków II". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Honor, ojczyzna i okupacyjny futbol". rfbl.pl (in Polish). rfbl.pl. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Historia klubu - Wieczysta Kraków". wieczystakrakow.futbolowo.pl (in Polish). wieczystakrakow.futbolowo.pl. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  4. ^ Historia Międzyzakładowego Klubu Sportowego „Wieczysta” Kraków (lata 1936–1992) Ignaszewski, Edward; Nocek, Edward (1992). Historia Międzyzakładowego Klubu Sportowego "Wieczysta" Kraków (lata 1936–1992). Kraków. p. 112.
  5. ^ "Klasa A 2016/2017, grupa: Kraków II" (in Polish). 90minut.pl. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Sławomir Peszko i Radosław Majewski zagrają w IV lidze. Wieczysta rozbiła okręgówkę". sport.onet.pl.
  7. ^ Bochenek, Tomasz (September 29, 2021). "Wieczysta - Chrobry. W Pucharze Polski krakowski zespół lepszy od pierwszoligowca!". Gazeta Krakowska.
  8. ^ "Fortuna Puchar Polski 2021/2022". www.90minut.pl.
  9. ^ Filipiuk, Jerzy (June 17, 2021). "Wieczysta Kraków. 50 tysięcy złotych dla "Żółto-czarnych" za zwycięstwo w finale Małopolskiego Pucharu Polski [ZDJĘCIA]". Gol24.
  10. ^ "Wpadka Wieczystej Kraków! Przegrali piekielnie ważny mecz w Pucharze Polski". Sport.pl.
  11. ^ "Kadra" (in Polish). kswieczysta.com. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

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