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| Full name | Górniczy Klub Sportowy Górnik Łęczna | |||
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| Nicknames | Zielono-Czarni (The Green and Blacks) | |||
| Founded | 20 September 1979; 46 years ago (1979-09-20) | |||
| Ground | Stadion Górnika Łęczna | |||
| Capacity | 7,200 | |||
| Chairman | Maciej Grzywa | |||
| Manager | Daniel Rusek (interim) | |||
| League | I liga | |||
| 2024–25 | I liga, 9th of 18 | |||
| Website | www | |||
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Górniczy Klub Sportowy Górnik Łęczna (pronounced[ɡurˈɲit͡ʂɨˈklupspɔrˈtɔvɨˈɡurɲikˈwɛnt͡ʂna]), commonly referred to asGórnik Łęczna, is asports club based inŁęczna,Poland. It is best known for its men'sprofessional football team, which competes inI liga, the second division in the Polish football league system. The club also fields teams in women's football and wrestling.
The club was founded in 1979, as a club for the local coal miners. As the years went, the localBogdanka 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 theEkstraklasa in 2003.
Górnik Łęczna played in the top division from 2003 until 2007, when they were relegated to the3rd 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 theI Liga for six years before winning promotion to the2014–15 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 teamGKS Górnik 1979 Łęczna.[2] On 23 July 2013, GKS Bogdanka's board of directors announced the return to the former name.[3]
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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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 toMedyk Konin.[6] In the 2009–10 season with the expansion of theEkstraliga 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]
