GKS Górnik Łęczna

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 1 January 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: [bɔɡˈdaŋka]) for sponsorship reasons, a decision from the local Bogdanka coal mine.^[1] As a result, a group of supporters opposing the name change formed an amateur team GKS Górnik 1979 Łęczna.^[2] On 23 July 2013 GKS Bogdanka's board of directors announced the return to the former name.^[3]

• Ekstraklasa
  • 7th place: 2004–05
• II liga
  • Champions: 1987–88 (gr. VII), 1995–96 (gr. V), 2007–08 (gr. IV), 2019–20
• Polish Cup
  • Semi-finalists: 2022–23
• Youth teams
  • Polish U-19 Championship
    • Third place: 2004, 2005

As of 4 September 2024^[4]

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   SVK Branislav Pindroch 3 DF   POL Marcin Grabowski 5 DF   POL Mateusz Broda 6 DF   ESP Jonathan de Amo 7 FW   ESP Solo Traoré 8 MF   SVN Egzon Kryeziu 9 FW   POL Hubert Turski (on loan from Pogoń Szczecin) 10 MF   POL Adam Deja (captain) 11 MF   POL Fryderyk Janaszek 12 FW   SVK Marcel Masár 14 DF   POL Filip Szabaciuk 15 MF   POL Szymon Krawczyk (on loan from GKS Katowice) 16 MF   POL Paweł Żyra 17 MF   SVK Branislav Spáčil 18 DF   LTU Dominykas Barauskas

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW   POL Przemysław Banaszak 20 MF   POL Patryk Malamis 21 DF   POL Jakub Bednarczyk 22 MF   POL Kamil Orlik 23 DF   NGA David Ogaga 25 DF   POL Damian Zbozień 30 MF   UZB Bekzod Akhmedov (on loan from Janowianka Janów Lubelski) 44 GK   POL Adrian Kostrzewski 47 MF   POL Michał Steszuk 52 FW   POL Damian Warchoł 77 FW   POL Michał Litwa 80 GK   POL Dawid Olszak 91 DF   POL Sebastian Szczytniewski 95 FW   CRO Marko Roginić

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK   POL Tomasz Woźniak

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.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7] In its Ekstraliga debut Górnik was 5th.^[8]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Górnik Łęczna.

• Official website (in Polish)
• Górnik Łęczna at the Fans website (in Polish)
• Górnik Łęczna at 90minut.pl (Polish)