Dąb Katowice was a former Polish

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...

 sports club from Upper Silesian capital of Katowice

Katowice

Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

. Founded in 1911 as SV Eiche (Sport Verein Eiche) (Katowice was then located in German Empire

German Empire

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, its German name was Kattowitz), the club existed until September 9, 1968, when a merger with GKS Katowice

GKS Katowice

GKS Katowice is a Polish football club based in Katowice, Poland. The club currently plays in the Polish First League.-History:In 1963 in Katowice a special organizational committee was called with the purpose of uniting all the clubs and sporting organizations of city into one large club which...

 took place and a new organization took over the name GKS.

Dąb had numerous sports sections, including swimming

Swimming (sport)

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 (multiple champions of Poland in the years 1935-1939), boxing

Boxing

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, gymnastics

Gymnastics

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, ice-hockey (champion of Poland 1939), wrestling

Wrestling

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 and soccer. Dąb's soccer team played two seasons in Polish League - in 1936 it was 8th, but in 1937 it was expelled from the League in mid-season, due to an attempt to bribe rivals. All Dąb's games’ results were changed to 0-3 and subsequently the team was relegated. Katowice's side most famous player is Ewald Dytko

Ewald Dytko

Edward Jan Dytko was a German-born Upper Silesian soccer player, who, when his home country became Poland by Treaty of Versailles represented the no longer existing team of Dąb Katowice, also in 1935-39 he played in the Polish National Team.He was born in Zalenze and since early childhood played...

, who took part in the legendary 1938 World Cup Soccer game Poland - Brazil

Brazil

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 5-6 (June 5, 1938, Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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, France

France

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).