Grzegorz Motyka (born 31 January 1972) is a former footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. In a career which was mostly played in the top two divisions in Poland, he had spells with
Hutnik Nowa Huta Hutnik means metallurgist in Polish and Czech languages, and may refer to:
* Hutnik Nowa Huta, a Polish football club
* Hutnik Warszawa, a Polish football club
*Ondřej Hutník
Ondřej Hutník (born February 19, 1983) is a retired Czech Muay Tha ...
,
Amica Wronki
Amica Wronki was a Polish football club based in Wronki, Poland.
The club was invariably linked to Amica, a manufacturer of white goods, predominantly stoves, which gave the club its nickname. The company's increasing profits gave the new te ...
, and
Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski (), previously Groclin Grodzisk Wielkopolski, was a Polish football club based in Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Greater Poland Voivodeship.
History
Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski was founded on 30 April 1922. Its lo ...
. His longest spell at a club was with
Lechia Gdańsk, where also played in both of the Lechia Gdańsk merger teams
Olimpia-Lechia Gdańsk and
Lechia-Polonia Gdańsk
Lechia-Polonia Gdańsk is a now defunct team which played in the Polish second division from 1998 to 2001. The team was created by a merger of Lechia Gdańsk and Polonia Gdańsk.
History
Pre-merger
Polonia Gdańsk
Polonia Gdańsk were fo ...
.
Football
Lechia Gdańsk
Born in Gdańsk, Motyka started playing football for local team
Lechia Gdańsk alongside his brother
Tomasz Motyka
Tomasz Marek Motyka (born 8 May 1981 in Wrocław) is a Polish épée fencer.
European champion in 2005, he won a silver medal in Men's Team Épée at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with Adam Wiercioch, Radosław Zawrotniak
...
. He made his first team debut against
Widzew Łódź
RTS Widzew Łódź () is a Polish football club based in Łódź. The club was founded in 1910. Its official colours are red and white, hence their nicknames ''Czerwona Armia'' (Red Army) and ''Czerwono-biało-czerwoni'' (Red-white-reds).
Histor ...
towards the end of the 1990–91 season. At the start of his career Motyka played mainly as a defender for Lechia, before advancing slightly higher up the pitch to play as a defensive midfielder. During his time with Lechia the team played in the
II liga
II liga (Druga Liga, ), currently named eWinner II liga due to sponsorship reasons by eWinner, is a Polish football league that sits at the third tier of the Polish football league system. Until the end of the 2007–08 season ''II Liga'' refer ...
, the second division in Poland. At the end of the 1994–95 season Lechia were relegated to the third tier. In total for Lechia Gdańsk, Motyka played 80 games and scored 3 goals.
Olimpia-Lechia Gdańsk
With Lechia Gdańsk being relegated to the third division, a merger was formed with
Olimpia Poznań
Olimpia Poznań is a Polish multi-sport club from Poznań. It has athletics, archery, basketball, boxing, kendo, judo, swimming, tennis, and triathlon sections. The sections are formally independent of each other, sharing the history and name o ...
to create the
Olimpia-Lechia Gdańsk team taking Olimpia's position in the top division. Motyka moved from the relegated Lechia team to the newly formed Olimpia-Lechia team. In total Motyka played twenty times in his first top division season, scoring one goal as the Olimpia-Lechia suffered with relegation. At the end of the season the team was dissolved, with Motyka finding himself without a club.
Hutnik Nowa Huta
Motyka moved to Kraków joining
Hutnik Nowa Huta Hutnik means metallurgist in Polish and Czech languages, and may refer to:
* Hutnik Nowa Huta, a Polish football club
* Hutnik Warszawa, a Polish football club
*Ondřej Hutník
Ondřej Hutník (born February 19, 1983) is a retired Czech Muay Tha ...
to stay in the top division. For Hutnik he played 29 times during the 1996–97 season. Motyka suffered the same fate as 12 months prior, as Hutnik found themselves being relegated from the
I liga
I liga ( pl, Pierwsza liga, ), currently named Fortuna I liga due to its sponsorship by Fortuna, is the men's second professional association football division of the Polish football league system, below the Ekstraklasa and above the II liga v ...
.
Amica Wronki
The next club Motyka joined was
Amica Wronki
Amica Wronki was a Polish football club based in Wronki, Poland.
The club was invariably linked to Amica, a manufacturer of white goods, predominantly stoves, which gave the club its nickname. The company's increasing profits gave the new te ...
. The two years he spent at Amica ended up being the most successful of his career. In his first season at the club, Amica won the
Polish Cup
The Polish Cup in football ( pl, Puchar Polski w piłce nożnej ) is an elimination tournament for Polish football clubs, held continuously from 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title. ...
. His second season was more successful with Amica winning both the
Polish SuperCup
The Polish Super Cup (, ) is an annually held match between the champions of the Ekstraklasa and the Polish Cup winners or, if the Ekstraklasa champions also win the Polish Cup, the Cup's runners-up. As of 2021, the Polish Super Cup has been ...
and the Polish Cup for the second time. In total he played 43 league games for Amica over the two seasons.
Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Motyka joined
Dyskobolia in the summer of 1999 and had a short spell with the club leaving in the next transfer window despite playing in most of Dyskobolia's games up to that point in the season.
Lechia-Polonia Gdańsk
In January 2000 he moved back to Gdańsk having dropped down a division to play with Lechia-Polonia Gdańsk. He played most of the remaining games of the season for Lechia, helping the club to avoid relegation.
Later years
Motyka joined fellow II liga team
KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski () is a Polish football club based in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland. It was founded on August 11, 1929.
History
Initially, a club called ''Ostrovia'' existed in the city. It was established between 1922 and 1 ...
in 2000, but managed to only play in 4 games in all competitions as the team won promotion to the I liga.
He spent two seasons with
Aluminium Konin, helping the team to win promotion from the third tier to the second. In 2002 he moved back to the
Pomeranian region of Poland, playing with KP Sopot, Unia Tczew, Przylesie Sopot and GKS Kowale, retiring from football in 2009.
Honours
Amica Wronki
*Polish Cup: 1997–98, 1998–99
*Polish SuperCup: 1998
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Motyka, Grzegorz
1972 births
Living people
Footballers from Gdańsk
Footballers from Pomeranian Voivodeship
Lechia Gdańsk players
Hutnik Kraków players
Amica Wronki players
Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski players
KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski players
Górnik Konin players
Unia Tczew players
Polish men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders