KKS Czarni Sosnowiec is a football club from Sosnowiec

Sosnowiec

Sosnowiec is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie in southern Poland, near Katowice. It is one of the central districts of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a combined population of over two million people located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river .It is situated in...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

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The club was founded in 1924. It is best known for its women's football team, founded 5 September 1974, that holds the Polish record for championship titles won, with 12 titles to its name. After some financial problems the club was in the 2007-08 season relegated from the Ekstraliga Kobiet

Ekstraliga Kobiet

The Ekstraliga Kobiet is the top level women's football league of Poland.The women's league startet out to play a champion in 1979-80. The first title holder was Czarni Sosnowiec in 1980. In 2005 the league was renamed to Ekstraliga Kobiet. The winner of the league qualifies for the UEFA Women's...

; in 2008-09 they reached the promotion playoffs but lost convincingly. With the expansion of the Ekstraliga in 2010-11 a second-place was enough to ensure direct promotion again.

Accomplishments

• Polish Championship: 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
• Polish Cup: 1985, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

External links

• Official Website