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| Full name | Gliwicki Klub Sportowy Piast Gliwice | |||
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| Nicknames | Piastunki(the Custodians, the Keepers) | |||
| Founded | 18 June 1945; 80 years ago (1945-06-18) | |||
| Ground | Piotr Wieczorek Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 9,913 | |||
| Chairman | Łukasz Lewiński | |||
| Manager | Daniel Myśliwiec | |||
| League | Ekstraklasa | |||
| 2024–25 | Ekstraklasa, 10th of 18 | |||
| Website | www | |||
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Gliwicki Klub Sportowy Piast Gliwice (pronounced[ɡliˈvit͡skʲiklupspɔrˈtɔvɨpjazdɡliˈvit͡sɛ][A]) is a Polish professionalfootball club based inGliwice,Silesian Voivodeship. Founded in 1945, the club competes in theEkstraklasa, the top tier of thePolish football league system.
Piast won their first national championship in the2018–19 Ekstraklasa season and have regularly qualified for European competitions since. Prior to their rise in the 2010s, the club had spent most of its history in the lower divisions.
Piast Gliwice play their home matches at thePiotr Wieczorek Stadium, a 10,000-seat venue opened in 2011, and traditionally wear blue and red.
The club was founded in June 1945 by thePoles who had been forced to leave their homes informer eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine). The club's name comes from thePiast dynasty, which ruled Poland from its beginnings as an independent state in the 10th century, until 1370, and in the city itself until 1532.
In 1949, five local teams were merged with Piast, and the team was renamed to Metal Piast Gliwice, and then to Stal Gliwice, before its original name Piast Gliwice was restored in 1955. Piast continued to play their matches on ul. Robotniczej. In 1964, Piast merged with GKS Gliwice, a team formed in 1956 from a fusion of the three other local clubs, and the name was changed to GKS Piast Gliwice. Since the 1950s, Piast mostly played in theSecond Division. During that period, Piast have twice (1978, 1983) managed to reach the final of thePolish Cup, losing on both occasions.
In the 1990s, due to financial difficulties, the team was rebuilt from the Klasa B (7th tier), achieving four consecutive promotions from the seventh to the third tier in 1997–2001, and afterwards it won promotion to the II liga (second tier) in 2003. Piast played as many as 33 seasons in the Polish Second Division, before finally being promoted to theEkstraklasa in 2008. Having played two seasons in the top division, the club was relegated in 2010 to come back in 2012. It is the first football team in Poland to gain promotion from the 7th tier to theEkstraklasa (Polish top tier of football) and later to the European club competition.[1]
In the 2010s, Piast enjoyed its greatest success, being runners-up in the2015–16 Ekstraklasa and winning its first Polish championship in the2018–19 season.
There is also afutsal department of Piast Gliwice, which competes in theFutsal Ekstraklasa (top division). Its home venue is theGliwice Arena. It won its first Polish Championship in the 2021–22 season.[2]
The club'screst is derived from the coat of arms of the city of Gliwice, and thus contains the Piast Eagle of the Upper Silesian line of the medieval PolishPiast dynasty, which ruled the city until 1532.
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate | ||
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| 2013–14 | UEFA Europa League | 2Q |  | Qarabağ FK | 2–2 | 1–2 | 3–4 (a.e.t.) |  |
| 2016–17 | UEFA Europa League | 2Q |  | IFK Göteborg | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–3 | |
| 2019–20 | UEFA Champions League | 1Q |  | BATE Borisov | 1−2 | 1−1 | 2−3 | |
| UEFA Europa League | 2Q |  | Riga FC | 3−2 | 1−2 | 4−4 | | |
| 2020–21 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q | | Dinamo Minsk | — | 2−0 | — |  |
| 2Q |  | Hartberg | 3–2 | — | — | | ||
| 3Q |  | Copenhagen | — | 0−3 | — | |
As of 4 May 2025.[3]
| Rank | Team | Points |
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| 225 | Randers | 7.000 |
| 226 |  Anorthosis Famagusta | 7.000 |
| 227 |  Piast Gliwice | 7.000 |
| 228 | Cracovia | 7.000 |
| 229 | Silkeborg | 7.000 |
Piast plays their home games at the 10,000 capacityPiotr Wieczorek Stadium in Gliwice.
Piast have a friendship with fans of Belarusian clubBATE Borisov since 2011. The friendship started when BATE fans on their way to aChampions League match inCopenhagen stopped for a Piast game against local rivalsGKS Katowice. The Piast fans then went toAlkmaar to support BATE versusAZ. After another visit for a Champions League game againstSturm Graz, the friendship became official and both sets of fans regularly visit each other.[4]
Piast's major rivals areGórnik Zabrze, with whom they contest the localderby.[5][6] The stadiums are located just a few kilometres from each other. Other rivals are local teamsGKS Katowice and the two Bytom clubs,Szombierki andPolonia.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Had international caps for their respective countries at any time. Players with names listed inbold represented their countries while playing for Piast.
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Krzysztof Zagórski (16 December 2001 – 23 October 2002)Józef Dankowski (21 April 2003 – 19 October 2004)Wojciech Borecki (19 October 2004 – 31 December 2004)Jacek Zielinski (31 December 2004 – 14 September 2006)[8]Jan Furlepa(interim) (14–20 September 2006)Boguslaw Pietrzak (20 September 2006 – 30 June 2007)Piotr Mandrysz (3 July 2007 – 30 June 2008)Marek Wlecialowski (1 July 2008 – 5 January 2009)Dariusz Fornalak (5 January 2009 – 15 March 2010)Ryszard Wieczorek (15 March 2010 – 31 May 2010)Marcin Brosz (15 June 2010 – 6 May 2014)
Ángel García (7 May 2014 – 18 March 2015)
Radoslav Látal (20 March 2015 – 15 July 2016)Jiří Neček (15 July 2016 – 30 August 2016)Radoslav Látal (1 September 2016 – 2 March 2017)Dariusz Wdowczyk (3 March 2017 – 19 September 2017)Waldemar Fornalik (19 September 2017 – 25 October 2022)[9]
Aleksandar Vuković (27 October 2022 – 30 June 2025)Max Mölder (1 July 2025 – 23 October 2025)[10]Daniel Myśliwiec (23 October 2025 – present)[11]50°18′23.69″N18°41′45.42″E / 50.3065806°N 18.6959500°E /50.3065806; 18.6959500
