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Ruch Chorzów (handball)
Ruch Chorzów () is a Polish professional association football, football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. It is one of the most successful football teams in Poland, having won fourteen List of Polish football champions, Polish Championships, and the Polish Cup thrice. As of the 2025–26 I liga, 2025–26 season, they compete in the I liga. Ruch's home venue is the Ruch Chorzów Stadium, with a capacity of 9,300 seats. As it is currently under renovation, Ruch temporarily hosts their games at the Silesian Stadium with a capacity of 55,211 seats. The club is known for its Silesian identity. Ruch Chorzów has also had a very successful female handball team (9 times national champions). Names History The club was founded on 20 April 1920 in Chorzów Batory, Bismarkhuta (German ''Bismarckhütte'', historically ''Hajduki''), one of the many heavily industrialised municipalities in the eastern part of Upper Silesia, a disputed province between Poland and Germany. The main i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruch Chorzów Stadium
The Ruch Chorzów Stadium (Stadion Ruchu Chorzów), also known as the Cicha Street Stadium (Stadion przy ulicy Cichej), is a multi-purpose stadium in the Chorzów Batory, Batory district of the town Chorzów, Poland. Built in the years 1934-1935 for the successful Ruch Chorzów, Ruch Wielkie Hajduki team and currently is also used mostly for football matches and serves as the home of that club, now known as Ruch Chorzów. The stadium has a capacity of 9,300 people. References Buildings and structures in Chorzów Football venues in Poland, Chorzów Multi-purpose stadiums in Poland Sports venues in Silesian Voivodeship {{Poland-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Silesia Plebiscite
The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty and carried out on 20 March 1921 to determine ownership of the province of Upper Silesia between Weimar Germany and the Second Polish Republic. The region was ethnically mixed with both Germans and Polish people, Poles. According to prewar statistics, ethnic Poles formed 60 percent of the population. Under the previous rule by the German Empire, Poles claimed they had faced discrimination and had been effectively second-class citizens. The period of the plebiscite campaign and the Allies of World War I, Allied occupation was marked by violence. Silesian Uprisings, Three Polish uprisings occurred, and German volunteer paramilitary units came to the region. The area was policed by French, British and Italian troops and overseen by an Interallied Commission. The Allies planned a partition of the region, but a Polish insurgency took control of over half the area. The Germans responded with the Freikorps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodor Peterek
Teodor Peterek (nicknames: ''Mietlorz'' and ''Teo''; 7 November 1910 – 12 January 1969), was a Polish footballer who played as a forward. Life and career Peterek's career started in Śląsk Świętochłowice in 1925. Two years later, he moved to Ruch Chorzów for whom he debuted at a very early age. "Teo" was not even 18 years old, when he played in a 1928 game against ŁKS Łódź. The young forward's first game for Chorzów's side was very successful - he scored a goal. He stayed in Ruch for 11 years, and won five league titles with the Silesian club. In the 1937–38 season, he scored in 16 consecutive league matches, which remained as a world record until broken by Messi in 2013. Regarded as a very ambitious, success-oriented player, who would never give up. According to an urban legend, on one occasion Peterek threw some mud in the face of a goalkeeper who had saved his penalty kick. Together with Gerard Wodarz and Ernest Willimowski, Peterek was part of Ruch's att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Giemsa
Edmund Giemza (Giemsa) (16 October 1912 – 30 September 1994) was a Polish footballer. Initially a forward, he played as a defender in the latter stage of his career. He was born on 16 October 1912 in Upper Silesian city of Ruda Śląska and died on 30 September 1994 in Chinnor, England. Giemsa played for Ruch Chorzów as well as the Poland national team. With Ruch, he was a multiple champion of Poland (1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938). On 4 June 1933 in Warsaw, he made his international debut in a 0–1 loss to Belgium. He was part of Poland's squad for the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France. His last game in the white-red jersey came on 27 August 1939 in Warsaw, a 4–2 win over Hungary. In total, he earned nine caps for the Poland national team. During World War II, he was forced to join the Wehrmacht, but deserted and joined the French Resistance from where he joined the Polish Army. After the war, Giemsa decided to stay in the United Kingdom and did not return to Poland. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Ekstraklasa
Statistics of Ekstraklasa for the 1933 season. Overview It was contested by 12 teams, and Ruch Chorzów Ruch Chorzów () is a Polish professional association football, football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. It is one of the most successful football teams in Poland, having won fourteen List of Polish football champions, Polish Championship ... won the championship. First phase Eastern Group Results Western Group Results Final phase Championship group Results Relegation group Results Promotion/relegation playoffs ReferencesPoland - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{1933–34 in European football (UEFA) Ekstraklasa seasons 1 Pol Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Ekstraklasa
The 1927 Liga was the 7th edition of the Polish Football Championship (6th completed season ended with the selection of a winner) and the 1st season of the Liga (now ), the top Polish professional league for association football clubs. The league was operated by the ''Polska Liga Piłki Nożnej'' (PLPN). The champions were Wisła Kraków, who won their 1st Polish title. Competition modus The season started on 3 April 1927 and concluded on 13 November 1927 (spring-autumn league). The season was played as a round-robin tournament. The team at the top of the standings won the league title. A total of 14 teams participated. Each team played a total of 26 matches, half at home and half away, two games against each other team. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. League table Results Top goalscorers References Bibliography * * * * External links Poland Final Tables 1927at RSSSF The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia National Football Team
The Estonia men's national football team () represents Estonia in international football matches and is controlled by the Estonian Football Association, the governing body for football in Estonia. Estonia's home ground is Lilleküla Stadium in the capital city Tallinn. The national team's first ever match was held against Finland in 1920 and resulted in 6–0 defeat. Estonian footballers have participated only once in the Olympic Games, when they played a single match in the 1924 Olympic Games' final tournament in Paris, France. They were defeated 1–0 by the United States in first round. During World War II, in 1940, Estonia was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union, and there was no possibility of fielding a national football team again until the country restored full independence in August 1991. After the end of the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation, Estonia's first FIFA-recognised international match was with Slovenia on 3 June 1992, a 1–1 draw at home in Tallinn. Est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland National Football Team
The Poland national football team () represents Poland in men's international Association football, football competitions since their first match in 1921. It is governed by the Polish Football Association (PZPN), the governing body for football in Poland. They are known by the nicknames "The White-Reds" and "The Eagles", symbolized by their coat of arms featuring a white eagle on a red background. The team reached their peak FIFA Men's World Ranking, World Ranking of 5th in 2017. Poland's home ground is the Kazimierz Górski National Stadium in Warsaw. Poland has competed in nine FIFA World Cups, with their first appearance being in 1938 FIFA World Cup, 1938, where they were eliminated by Brazil national football team, Brazil. The country's best result was third place, which Poland achieved in 1974 FIFA World Cup, 1974 and 1982 FIFA World Cup, 1982; this era is regarded as the golden era of Polish international football. Individually, Grzegorz Lato won the FIFA World Cup awards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Sobota
Józef Sobota (14 March 1903 – 2 April 1979) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward. He earned one cap for Poland, scoring 13 minutes into his debut in a 2–0 win over Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ... on 4 July 1926. He was the first Ruch player to feature for the Poland national team. References External links * 1903 births 1979 deaths Footballers from Chorzów Polish men's footballers Poland men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Ruch Chorzów players Ekstraklasa players 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-footy-forward-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AKS Chorzów
AKS Chorzów is a sports club based in Chorzów, Poland. It is one of the earliest sports organizations in Upper Silesia and is still well known nationally for its football and handball teams. The club also made its mark on the international stage: Halina Richter-Górecka was part of the gold medal-winning women's 100m relay team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games; tennis player Danuta Wieczorek appeared at Wimbledon as a junior. History The origins of the club go back to the founding of the German football club VfR Königshütte on 22 August 1910 in what was at the time the coal mining city of Königshütte in Germany. In the early 1920s, the region became part of Poland and the city was renamed, with the football club becoming ''Amatorski Klub Sportowy Chorzów''. In 1927 ''AKS'' was the proud owner of one of the most modern stadium facilities in Poland at Chorzów's Wyzwolenia Hill. The stadium was sometimes shared with another well-known local team — ''Ruch Chorzó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Polish Football Championship
1922 Polish Football Championship was the 3rd edition of the Polish Football Championship (Non-League) and 2nd completed season ended with the selection of a winner. The championship was decided in final tournament played among eight teams ( winners of the regional A-Class championship) participated in the league which was divided into 2 groups: a Northern and a Southern one. The winners of both groups, Warta Poznań and Pogoń Lwów, played a 2 leg final match for the title. The champions were Pogoń Lwów, who won their 1st Polish title. Competition modus The final tournaments started on 29 July 1922 and concluded on 22 October 1922 (spring-autumn system). In each of groups the season was played as a round-robin tournament. A total of 8 teams participated. Each team played a total of 6 matches, half at home and half away, two games against each other team. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. The winners of both groups played a 2 leg final match for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
