Gwardia Koszalin is a Polish multisports club, founded in 1946 in the northern city of

Koszalin Koszalin (pronounced ; csb, Kòszalëno; formerly german: Köslin, ) is a city in northwestern Poland, in Western Pomerania. It is located south of the Baltic Sea coast, and intersected by the river Dzierżęcinka. Koszalin is also a county-sta ...

. Besides football, Gwardia supports other departments - handball, boxing, and judo. The departments are autonomous, and have their own, separate budgets. Gwardia, like all Polish sports organizations bearing that name (''Guards'' in English), was originally supported by the

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. It was founded as ''Milicyjny Klub Sportowy'' (''Militia's Sports Club''), and in 1948 the name was changed to Gwardia. The Club's colours are red, white and blue.

Football Club

Gwardia's stadium and clubhouse are located on 34 Falata Street, and stadium's capacity is 25.000. Even though Gwardia's football team has never won promotion to the

Ekstraklasa Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams. Contested by 18 ...

, the club raised several notable players, such as

Piotr Rzepka Piotr Adam Rzepka (born 13 September 1961) is a Polish football midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case kno ...

Mirosław Okoński Mirosław Okoński (born 8 December 1958 in Koszalin Koszalin (pronounced ; csb, Kòszalëno; formerly german: Köslin, ) is a city in northwestern Poland, in Western Pomerania. It is located south of the Baltic Sea coast, and intersected by ...

, Miroslaw Trzeciak, Robert Dymkowski, also Sebastian Mila, who was transferred there in his early teens, from a local side Baltyk Koszalin. Gwardia spent some years in Polish Second Division, and the biggest success of its football team was reaching quarter-finals of the

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, in 1975/1976, when, after beating Gornik Zabrze, they lost to

Śląsk Wrocław Wrocławski Klub Sportowy Śląsk Wrocław Spółka Akcyjna, commonly known as WKS Śląsk Wrocław, Śląsk Wrocław () or simply Śląsk, is a Polish football club based in Wrocław that plays in Ekstraklasa, the highest level of the Polish f ...

. Up to the 2016/2017 season, the team participated in

III liga III liga (Trzecia liga) is a Polish football league that sits in the fourth tier of the Polish football league system. Until the end of the 2007–08 season, III liga referred to a league at the third tier (now called II liga) but this was c ...

. In June 2017, the football team was promoted to

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 ...

External links

Official webpage of the club

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