Tomasz Korynt (born 27 October 1954) was a former Polish international footballer who played as a forward. He spent the start of his career with teams in the Tricity area, starting his career with

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 ...

, before later playing for

Arka Gdynia Morski Związkowy Klub Sportowy Arka Gdynia () is a Polish professional football club, based in Gdynia, Poland, that plays in the Polish I liga. The club was founded as Klub Sportowy Gdynia in 1929. History The history of Arka dates back to ...

and

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. In his later career he spent time in France playing for

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, and in Austria with

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and USC Seitenstetten. He is the son of Polish international

Roman Korynt Roman Korynt (12 October 1929 – 15 July 2018) was a Polish international footballer who played as a defender. Most of his career was spent with Lechia Gdańsk, spending over 15 years at the club. He also had short spells with Gedania Gdańsk, ...

Career

Lechia Gdańsk

Korynt started his career with

, firstly playing with the youth team before advancing to the first team in 1971. His Lechia debut came on 18 June 1972 against

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, playing the full 90 minutes and scored 2 goals. In the first two seasons as part of the first team, Korynt failed to make a claim on a starting position playing only 6 times in that period. The season after Korynt started to make a greater impact on the first team, playing 16 times and scoring 6 goals. The following two seasons after Lechia finished runners up in their league, firstly losing out by two points, and the second time finishing behind arch rivals

. The following season Korynt had his greatest goalscoring season for Lechia, scoring 9 in the league in 23 games. In total for Lechia Korynt played in 109 games scoring 36 goals.

Arka Gdynia

For the 1977–78 season, Korynt moved to Lechia's rivals

to the dismay of Lechia fans. He enjoyed his greatest success while at Arka, playing six seasons with the club, all in the top flight of Polish football. While Arka often finished lower to mid-table, they provided Korynt with his only chance of silverware during his career. In 1979 Arka won the

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by beating

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2-1 in the final. While he did not play for Arka in the cup final he played in both European games for Arka the following season against

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, losing 4-3 over the two legs. In 1982 Arka were relegated from the I liga.

Later years

After Arka's relegation Korynt joined their city rivals

who were playing in the I liga. After spending 18 months with the team and playing 24 games scoring 5 goals, Korynt joined Austrian second division side

before moving to France joining second division team

. After 3 seasons away Korynt returned to Bałtyk Gdynia in 1987, helping Bałtyk who were then in the II liga win promotion to the I liga by finishing runners up. Bałtyk were relegated after one season in the top division and finished the following season in 10th. He once again moved to Austria, firstly playing with

for one season, before playing for FC Seitenstetten over two seasons. After his time with Seitenstetten Korynt retired from professional football. He later returned to playing for Orzeł Choczewo over the course of two spells, scoring 34 goals in the fourth tier for Orzeł during those two spells. After retiring from football after his spell with Seitenstetten, Korynt moved to working in business, while also having spells as a coach for KP Gdynia and the Bałtyk Gdynia youth. In 2012, he was employed by Arka as a consultant alongside

Janusz Kupcewicz Janusz Bogdan Kupcewicz (9 December 1955 – 4 July 2022) was a Polish professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Widely regarded as one of the best Polish players of his era, he most notably won the bronze with the national team at 1 ...

International career

Korynt received one cap for

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playing on April 4 1979 against

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in a friendly. He came on as a substitute in the 74th minute.

Personal life

His father is

, a

legend who played a total of 340 times for Lechia, the second highest amount for the club, and played 207 games for Lechia in the Ekstraklasa, the highest for a Lechia player. Other teams he played for are

Gedania Gdańsk KS Gedania Danzig was an ethnically-Polish association football club that was part of German football competition in the inter-war period. It was formed in 1922 in what was at the time the Free City of Danzig (present day Gdańsk, Poland). B ...

, OWKS Lublin and CWKS Warszawa. He received 32 caps for Poland.

Honours

Arka Gdynia *Polish Cup: 1979

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Korynt, Tomasz 1954 births Living people Lechia Gdańsk players Arka Gdynia players Bałtyk Gdynia players First Vienna FC players Limoges FC players Polish men's footballers Poland men's international footballers Polish people of Greek descent Men's association football forwards Expatriate men's footballers in France Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Footballers from Gdynia Favoritner AC players