LKS Igloopol Dębica () is a Polish sports club from
Dębica
Dębica (; yi, דעמביץ ''Dembitz'') is a town in southeastern Poland with 44,692 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the capital of Dębica County. Since 1999 it has been situated in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship; it had previously been in ...
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Subcarpathian Voivodeship,
Poland
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History
LKS Igloopol was formed by the Agro-Industrial Combine "Igloopol" in 1978 in
Dębica
Dębica (; yi, דעמביץ ''Dembitz'') is a town in southeastern Poland with 44,692 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the capital of Dębica County. Since 1999 it has been situated in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship; it had previously been in ...
. The club rose through the
league pyramid
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very quickly as the amount of investment in the club increased. The club had its greatest successes in the early 1990s when it played for two seasons (
1990/1991 and
1991/1992) in the
top division of Polish football. Currently the club plays in the District class of Dębica.
Fans
Igloopol have a small but fanatical fan-base, with the fanatics stand amassing between 30-250 fans usually. In the 2005/2006 winter break an
ultras
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group ''Ultras Morsy '06'' dedicated to creating
match choreographies was created.
Apart from in Dębica itself, Igloopol have fans in
Pustynia,
Kozłów,
Kędzierz,
Żyraków
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,
Wola Żyrakowska
Wola Żyrakowska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żyraków, within Dębica County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Żyraków, north of Dębica, and west of the regi ...
and even in
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The fans have friendly contacts with fans of
Ruch Chorzów
Ruch Chorzów () is a Polish association football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. It is one of the most successful football teams in Poland: fourteen-time national champions, and three-time winners of the Polish Cup. Currently the team play ...
, mainly because their local arch-rivals Wisłoka have friendly relations with
Górnik Zabrze.
Wisłoka Dębica
Wisłoka Dębica () is one of the oldest existing sports clubs in Poland, founded in 1908 by a group of Dębica's high school students. The name comes from the River Wisłoka, which flows by the town of Dębica (south-east Poland, 110 kilometers ...
are the clubs fiercest rival, and the Dębica derby is one of the most hotly contested derbies in the country. Apart from Wisłoka and Górnik Zabrze,
Siarka Tarnobrzeg (who also have good relations with Wisłoka) and
Resovia Rzeszów are also considered rivals.
Honours
*Quarter-final
Polish Cup - 1984/1985
*2 seasons in the
Ekstraklasa - 1990/1991, 1991/1992
**12th place
Ekstraklasa - 1990/1991
*8 seasons in the
Second Division
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- 1983/1990, 1992/1993
*Subcarpathian Regional Polish Cup Semi-Finals - 2012/2013
*Junior Subcarpathian Champions - 2004/2005
References
External links
Fan websiteInfo about the club on the 90minut.pl webpage
Association football clubs established in 1978
1978 establishments in Poland
Dębica
Football clubs in Podkarpackie Voivodeship
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