Pogoń Lwów

The Lwowski club Sportowy Pogoń Lwów (short LKS Pogoń Lwów ) ​​was a Polish sports and football club from the city, now part of Ukraine Lviv and several Polish football champions. It existed from 1907 until its dissolution after the invasion of Russian and German troops in Poland 1939. In January 2009, the club was re-established.

History

The Sports Club Pogon Lwów in 1907 in what was then Austria- Hungary belonging eastern Galician capital of Lvov (Polish Lwów ) ​​formed from a fusion of the two clubs KS Lechia Lwów and club Gimnastyczno Sportowy - IV -go Gimnazjum. The predecessor club club Gimnastyczno Sportowy - IV -go Gimnazjum was raised already in 1904 as a pure sports and gymnastics club at the high school IV of Lviv to the upgrading of the local students from the baptism. This Pogon Lwów one next to the city rivals Czarni (1903), Lechia (1904) and Hasmonea (1908), as well as the then westgalizischen clubs Cracovia Krakow Wisla Krakow ( both 1906) and Resovia Rzeszów (1905 ) to the oldest Polish football clubs and the Polish first professional sports clubs. The club colors were blue and red Pogońs Played in the 1913 opened Kiliński Park Stadium, which was renamed in 1938 in Marshall Rydz - Śmigły Sports Park and then provided space for 10,000 spectators.

His most successful period witnessed the athletic club in the 1920s as he could from 1922 to 1926 to win four times in a row, the Polish Championship. 1922 Pogoń Lviv emerged as one of the two regional champions under his English coach Sid Kimpton in the two finals for the championship against KS Warta Poznan and remained successful with 1:1 and 4:3. A year later, defeated the Lemberger the TS Wisła Krakow to a 1:2 and 2:1 in a required third encounter 3-0. After due preparation for the Olympic Games no championships was announced by the Association in 1924, until 1925 Pogoń could successfully defend his title. ( 1:0 1:0) by, in the round of decisions between now three regional champions to Pogoń sat against Warta Poznan ( 4:1 2:2 ) and Wisła Kraków. The last great success celebrated the team with the fourth league title in 1926, against the Warta Poznan ( 7:1 2:2 ) and Polonia Warsaw ( 2:2; 2-0) could be achieved.

In subsequent years, the club reached again top rankings in the championship, but ( Cracovia and Wisła) could not prevail against the strong teams from Krakow. After the invasion of the German troops in Poland had the championship - Pogoń was at the time in third place in the table - be aborted 1939 four games remaining. Due to the German -Soviet Border and Friendship Treaty Lemberg fell in 1939 to now the Soviet Union, after which the Lwowski KS Pogoń was just like all the other Polish clubs in the city of Lviv forcefully removed.

In January 2009, the club was re-founded by the Polish consul in Lviv. At present, the club assumes its games on a adjacent location of the club Dynamo Lviv. Since 2011 Pogoń plays in the 4th Ukrainian league.

Achievements

  • 4 x Polish Champion: 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926
  • 3 x Polish Vice Champion: 1932, 1933, 1935
  • 1 x Polish Junior runner-up: 1937
  • 19 Erstligasaisonen: 1921-1939

Well-known former players

  • Spirydion Albański
  • Mieczysław Batsch
  • Józef Garbień
  • Emil Goerlitz
  • Karol Hanke
  • Karol Kossok
  • Waclaw Kuchar
  • Michał Matyas
  • Marian Stark
  • January Wasiewicz
  • Adolf Room

Hockey Department

The greatest success in the hockey club history celebrated Pogoń Lwów in 1933, when they won the Polish Championship titles along with Legia Warsaw.

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