Alfred Kobylański (10 September 1925 – 1 November 2009) was a Polish

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who played as a

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Biography

Kobylański's first club was Flota Gdynia, who he is known to have played for in the youth sides. He played for Polonia Warsaw from 1951 until 1953 and was part of the team who won the Polish Cup in 1952 by beating main rivals

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in the final. In total for Polonia he made 26 appearances and scored 8 goals in the Ekstraklasa. In 1954 he spent a season at

Polonia Bydgoszcz Polonia Bydgoszcz is a Polish sports club based in Bydgoszcz most known for its speedway team ŻKS Polonia Bydgoszcz which currently races in the 1. Liga. The club has won the Polish Speedway League Championship seven times, the latest in 2002, ...

, making 11 appearances, before moving to

Lechia Gdańsk Lechia Gdańsk () is a Polish football club based in Gdańsk. The club was founded in 1945 by people expelled from Lwów, who were supporters of Poland's oldest football team Lechia Lwów, founded in 1903. The club's name comes from Lechia, a ...

the following season. He made his Lechia debut on 25 March 1955 in the 1-0 defeat against Polonia Bytom. In his first season with Lechia he was again in a Polish Cup final against Legia Warsaw, this time being on the wrong end of a 5-0 defeat. In the 1956 season he played 12 times and scored 4 goals as Lechia achieved their greatest achievement in their early history by finishing 3rd in the I liga. He left the club midway through the following season having scored a total of 11 goals in 44 games for the club.

Personal life

Kobylański's son is former Polish international and Olympic silver medalist Andrzej Kobylański, and his grandson is the footballer

Martin Kobylański Martin Kobylański (, ; born 8 March 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a attacking midfielder for 3. Liga club Waldhof Mannheim. Born in Germany, he has represented both his country of birth and Poland at youth level. Early year ...

Honours

Polonia Warsaw *Polish Cup: 1952

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kobylański, Alfred 1925 births 2009 deaths Polonia Warsaw players Polonia Bydgoszcz players Lechia Gdańsk players Polish men's footballers Men's association football forwards People from Łazy Footballers from Silesian Voivodeship