Piast Gliwice

Piast Gliwice (official club Sportowy Piast Gliwice Gliwice ) is an Upper Silesian sports club from the city of Gliwice ( German: Gleiwitz ). The association is since 2012 part of the top Polish league, the Ekstraklasa.

History

Piast Gliwice was founded on June 18, 1945. The traditional club colors are made up of red and blue. So far the club title wins were denied, but the team reached in the years 1978 and 1983, the Polish Cup final. In 1957, the club debuted in the second league, where he remained for 32 years. The best time in his second league affiliation had the club 1975-1983, as one among the best four teams in the league. In the 2007 /08 season Piast Gliwice was one of the favorites for promotion to the Ekstraklasa and was rewarded on 24 May 2008 after a 1-0 away win at Polonia Warszawa with the rise. On August 9, 2008 Piast Gliwice won the historic first game of the Ekstraklasa Cracovia Kraków era against 2-0. After a season of ups and downs Piast was able to secure ahead of the league on 29 matches and finished the first season in the Ekstraklasa at the 11th place in the table. In the following season had to place 16 back, the descent into the second division be commenced. In May 2012, the club was able to celebrate the renewed rise in the Ekstraklasa and ultimately rose even as First Place with Pogoń Szczecin in the excellence on. Unlike in previous years, the club was able to place well after the rise of the season and reached the end of the 2012/2013 season even the 4th for the Association of Upper Silesia the qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2013/14 brought.

Stadium

His football home games wearing GKS Piast Piast Gliwice from the stadium. This had 6,000 seats, of which 5,000 seats. As the stadium but did not meet the safety measures and criteria of the Ekstraklasa, the club had to temporarily escape with its home games in the stadium of Odra Wodzislaw. On 28 September 2010 the club leadership signed with the Polish construction company Polimexem Mostostal SA a contract to build a new stadium. The stadium Miejski was the same place as the old. It is identical to the Benteler Arena in Paderborn. The stadium has a capacity of 10,037 initially viewers, if needed you can increase this to about 15,000. Thus also is the first stadium in Upper Silesia, which meets the requirements of UEFA. There are places for 192 VIP, 30 commentators, 50 press, 30 disabled and 20 supervisors present. The cost of the new arena were 54 million PLN, which corresponds to approximately € 13.7 million. The whole amount was paid from the city treasury. The construction of the stadium, the club completed seven of his eight first season away games in 2011/12. The completion was the end of 2011. The opening game was held on November 5, 2011 in front of 10,000 spectators against Wisła Płock place and ended with a 2-1 victory for Piast.

Achievements

  • Polish Cup Finalist: 1978, 1983
  • Rise in the Ekstraklasa: 2008, 2012
  • Quarterfinals Puchar Ekstraklasy: 2009
  • UEFA Europa League Qualification: 2013

Name Changes

The first team

The seniors team of Piast Gliwice plays in the 2013/14 season in the Ekstraklasa, the top division of the Polish Football Association.

Current squad 2013/14

(As of September 23, 2013 )

Coach and coaching staff of the 2013/14 season

Known player

Stadion Piast II liga (Poland) May 24 Odra Wodzisław 2013–14 Ekstraklasa Brazil Portugal Dariusz Dudek Collins John Legia Warsaw
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