Klub Sportowy Unia Oświęcim is a Polish professional
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
club based in
Oświęcim
Oświęcim (; ; ; ) is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland, situated southeast of Katowice, near the confluence of the Vistula (''Wisła'') and Soła rivers.
Oświęcim dates back to the 12th century, when it was an im ...
, Poland. They play in the
Polska Hokej Liga
The Polska Hokej Liga (''PHL'') is the premier ice hockey league in Poland. The highest professional level of ice hockey in Poland is the Polish Hockey League (PHL); also referred to as the Polska Hokej Liga. Previously, it was known as the I Li ...
, the top-level ice hockey league in Poland. The team's colors are blue and white.
History
The club was created in 1946, with the ice hockey section being created in 1957. From 1957 to 1999 it was called ''KS Unia Oświęcim'', and from 1999 to 2006, ''Dwory Unia Oświęcim''. Their home ice is the ''Hala Lodowa MOSiR'' which can holds 3,500 people.
In June 2020,
Eliezer Sherbatov, captain of
Israel national team, signed a one-year contract with the team, which plays just a short walk from the site of the
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) d ...
, where one million Jewish people were killed during
the Holocaust
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.
Sherbatov said, "I have a great deal of motivation because it is Auschwitz. I want to win the championship, the Polish Cup and the continental title, and then everyone will know the one who did this is a Jewish–Israeli."
His father told him "to work hard, to show his lion’s heart, and to be proud of Israel and show people we are still alive."
Current roster
As of 7 February 2025.
Achievements
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Polish Championship:
**Champions (9): 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2024
**Runners-up (9): 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2020, 2022
**3rd place (3): 2011, 2012, 2023
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Polish Cup
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:
**Winners (2): 2000, 2002
Season-by-season
References
External links
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Ice hockey teams in Poland
Sport in Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Sport in Oświęcim