WKS Grunwald Poznań was a Polish
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
team based in
Poznań
Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...
and section of the
wider multi-sports club.
History
It was the first section to be created upon establishment of the club. Having spent the majority of its years in either the regional leagues or the
third division, their highlights were reaching the 1st round of the 1966–67 and 1/16th of the 1975–76
Polish Cup
The Polish Cup in Association football, football ( ) is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout football competition for Polish football club (association football), football clubs, held continuously since 1950, and is the second most i ...
losing 2–0 to
Zagłębie Wałbrzych
Zagłębie Wałbrzych is a Polish multi-sports club in the south-western city of Wałbrzych. The club, based in the Biały Kamień neighbourhood, is the most famous for its football team, which competed in the Polish top division in the past.
H ...
and
Polonia Bytom
Polonia Bytom () is a Polish football club based in Bytom. Founded in 1920, the team won two List of Polish football champions, championships, in 1954 Ekstraklasa, 1954 and 1962 Ekstraklasa, 1962. As of the 2025–26 I liga, 2025–26 season, th ...
respectively. After relegation from the third tier in 1985 the section was disbanded.
Notable players
Its most notable players were
Walenty Czarnecki
Walenty Czarnecki (19 November 1941 – 19 December 2020) was a Polish professional footballer who played mainly as a midfielder. He has spent the vast majority of his career with Śląsk Wrocław, making 100 appearances and scored three goals in ...
and
Remigiusz Marchlewicz.
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Association football clubs established in 1947
Association football clubs disestablished in 1985
Football clubs in Poznań
1947 establishments in Poland
1985 disestablishments in Poland
Defunct football clubs in Poland
Military association football clubs in Poland
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