Warta Poznań

Warta Poznań (official club Warta Poznań Sportowy ) is a sports club from the Polish city of Poznan, the football department was twice national champion.

History

The club was founded in 1912, as Posen still belonged to Prussia, under its current name and is thus ten years older than in the past decades sporty successful local rival Lech Poznan. The club name has several meanings: It refers on the one hand on the Warta River (Polish: Warta ), lies on the poses, on the other hand, it means in German " guard ". What he meant was after the self- understanding of the club founder concern for the Poles. Thus, the club was regularly matches against other clubs from Poland, including against Wisla Krakow, which belonged to the end of the First World War with Austria - Hungary.

The club was in 1927 to the founding members of the Football League, the highest Polish league. In 1929, he won the league title for the first time. However, this title was extremely controversial, because the decision had not fallen on the sports field, but only after the end of the season at the green table: In retrospect, a lost game against Touring Lodz was interpreted as a victory for Warta, since the Lodz a player without had license used. So Warta moved up to first place in the league, had the new champion, only one point ahead of Garbarnia Krakow, against which he had recently lost 1:5.

Behind the club were national patriotic oriented groups, but played in it also members of the German minority, including the scorer Friedrich Scherfke and the midfielder Alexander Schreier, who was repeatedly invited to training courses for the national team, but ultimately was not used. 1937 called for the Warta Board the expulsion of Jewish Associations of the championship.

After the German invasion of Poland and the reconnection of Posen to the German Reich in October 1939, the club was disbanded. Scherfke and Schreier were now on for the newly formed 1st FC poses, the only German could belong. The Poles, however, was forbidden any organized sports. Several Warta players should forced to work in the " Old Reich " will be deported, but succeeded Scherfke for temporarily "Specialist Office of football " initiated in 1940 in the new German sports management to let them underline the deportation lists, including the former national player Marian Fontowicz and Bolesław Gendera. He also warned former club mates, who belonged to the Polish resistance, prior actions of the SS

Some of the top players of Warta took during the German occupation part in the unofficial city championship, which was held conspiratorial sports grounds on the outskirts and in the surrounding areas. Several Warta player came in German concentration camps. In Auschwitz I, the former national player Marian Einbacher and Adam Knioła died.

After the withdrawal of the Armed Forces, the club was re-established in February 1945. 1947 Warta won for the second and so far last time the championship. To track record includes the runner-up of the 1922, 1925, 1928, 1938 and 1946.

In 1950, she got down from the top Polish league. In the same year Warta, which was in the eyes of the new communist leadership of the club of political opponents before the war, was forced united with the operation of the engineering club Combine HCP, the new club was called Stal Poznań. After the brief political thaw of 1956, the old name was reinstated, but the club was more dependent on financing from the HCP. However, the regional political leadership favored local rivals Lech.

A temporary recovery took Warta until the early nineties. In 1993 they had the rise in the Ekstraklasa. 1995, they rose but again and then played only in the second and third league. 2007 reached the summit of the third division.

Since September 2010, the association shall pay Lech Poznan its home games in the new " Municipal Stadium " (Stadium Miejski ) from. In January 2011, the club hit the headlines of the press, as the photo model and former Polish " Playmate of the Year " Izabella Lukomska - Pyżalska was elected club president.

Achievements

  • Polish Champion: 1929, 1947
  • Polish Vice Champion: 1922, 1925, 1928, 1938, 1946
  • Polish Football Cup - Semi-finalist: 1926

Known player

Current squad

As of May 17, 2013

12 Poland Adrian Lis 01 Poland Łukasz Radliński

13 Poland Adrian Bartkowiak 08 Poland Adam Gajda 0 - Poland Przemysław Kanarek 26 Poland Michał Kołodziejski 03 Poland Cezary Michalak 16 Poland Alain Ngamayama 24 Poland Wojciech Onsorge 0 - Poland Przemysław Otuszewski 05 Poland Maciej Wichtowski 20 Poland Wojciech Wilczynski

15 Poland Paweł Czoska 19 People's Republic of China Fei Yu 11 Poland Paweł Giel 23 Poland Michał Jakobowski 0 - Poland Gracjan Konieczny 04 Poland Hubert Kotus 07 Poland Tomasz Magdziarz 18 Poland Leszek Nowosielski 25 Poland Mateusz Pogonowski 21 Poland Marcin Trojanowski 14 Poland Robert Ziętarski

09 Poland Krzysztof Bartoszak 22 Poland Igor Jurga 10 Poland Marcin Klatt

Hockey

The men's team plays in the Polish league and reached in the 2010/11 season in third place.

  • Polish field hockey champion of Men: 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980
  • Polish indoor hockey master of men: 1964, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982

Footnotes

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