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BKS Bielsko-Biała, is the women's
Polish Championship: 8
:1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1995–96, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10
* 
Polish Super Cup: 2
:2006, 2010
Official website
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volleyball
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department of Polish
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sports club BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała
BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała is a Polish sports club, with two departments: the men's football team and the women's volleyball team. The club is based in Bielsko-Biała. The football team currently plays in the second group of V liga Silesia, the si ...
based in Bielsko-Biała
Bielsko-Biała (; ; , ; ) is a city in southern Poland, with a population of approximately 166,765 as of December 2022, making it the List of cities and towns in Poland#Largest cities and towns by population, 22nd largest city in Poland, and an a ...
and plays in the Orlen Liga.
Previous names
Due to sponsorship, the club have competed under the following names: * BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała (1951–2006) * BKS Aluprof Bielsko-Biała (2006–2015) * BKS Aluprof Profi Credit Bielsko-Biała (2015–2016) * BKS Profi Credit Bielsko-Biała (2016–2019) * BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała (2019-2020) * BKS BOSTIK Bielsko-Biała (2020-2023) * BKS BOSTIK ZGO Bielsko-Biała (2023-present)History
Thesports club
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was established in 1922 and through the years had many different sports departments (today only the men's football
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and the later founded women's volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
are still active). All activities were suspended during World War II
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and when the club resumed its activities after the war, with sports facility reconstruction efforts, it was under the patronage of several industries, most notably the Bielska Fabryka Maszyn Włókienniczych (Bielsko Sewing Machine factory or in short "Befama"), and as sports associations were under supervision of trade unions, the club was renamed (Bialski Sports Club Steel). It was under this set up that in 1951 the women's volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
department was created. It has various teams (girls, youth, second and first senior team) playing across many divisions in the Polish leagues. The main senior team reached the first division 1st Division or First Division may refer to:
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three years after its foundation and in the 1954–55 season won the Polish Cup for the first time, with a second Cup title arriving in 1978–79. During the late 1980s the club achieved success winning the Polish Championships for four consecutive years (1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91) and three consecutive Polish Cups (1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90). In the period that followed, the club won another four Championships (1995–96, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10), three Cups (2003–04, 2005–06, 2008–09) and two Polish Super Cups (2006, 2010).
In 2011 the club became a corporation
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and changed its name to (BSK S.A.).
Honours
National competitions
* Polish Championship: 8
:1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1995–96, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10
* Polish Cup
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: 8
:1954–55, 1978–79, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2008–09
* Polish Super Cup: 2
:2006, 2010
Team
''2016–2017 squad, as per March 2017.''References
External links
Official website
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