Zaglebie Lubin
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KGHM Zagłębie Lubin is a 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...

 professional football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club
Football team
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 based in Lubin
Lubin
Lubin is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. From 1975–1998 it belonged to the former Legnica Voivodeship. Lubin is the administrative seat of Lubin County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Lubin, although it is not part of the territory of the latter,...

, 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...

. It was founded on September 10, 1945 as OMTUR Lubin.

History

In 2007
Ekstraklasa 2006-07
The 2006-07 Ekstraklasa season started on 28 July 2006 and finished on 26 May 2007. Zagłębie Lubin were crowned champions with 62 points.For the second time league was sponsored by cell phone operator Orange and official name for championship was Orange Ekstraklasa 2006/2007.-Corruption:On 12 April...

 Zagłębie became league champions for a second time (their first title was won in 1991
Ekstraklasa 1990-91
-League standings:-References:*...

).

The following season Zaglebie was forcibly relegated from the Ekstraklasa (top division) after it was found that their promotion to the Ekstraklasa in the 2004-05
Ekstraklasa 2004-05
-League standings:-Results:...

 season had been tarnished by match-fixing. In May 2009, the club secured its return to the Polish top division for the 2009-10 season.

Achievements

  • Ekstraklasa (First Division):
    • Winner (2): 1990-91
      Ekstraklasa 1990-91
      -League standings:-References:*...

      , 2006-07
      Ekstraklasa 2006-07
      The 2006-07 Ekstraklasa season started on 28 July 2006 and finished on 26 May 2007. Zagłębie Lubin were crowned champions with 62 points.For the second time league was sponsored by cell phone operator Orange and official name for championship was Orange Ekstraklasa 2006/2007.-Corruption:On 12 April...

    • 2nd (1): 1989-90
      Ekstraklasa 1989-90
      -League standings:-References:*...

    • 3rd (1): 2005-06
      Ekstraklasa 2005-06
      The 2005-06 Ekstraklasa season started on 24 July 2005 and ended 13 May 2006. Legia Warsaw were crowned champions after ending Wisła Kraków's 3 season winning streak...

  • Polish Cup
    Polish Cup
    The Polish Cup in football or officially Remes Puchar Polski, is an elimination tournament for Polish football clubs, held continuously from 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title...

    :
    • Finalist (2): 2004-2005, 2005-2006
    • Semi-Finalist (2): 1978-1979, 2000-2001
  • Polish SuperCup
    Polish SuperCup
    The Polish SuperCup in football is an annually held match between the champion of the Ekstraklasa and the Polish Cup winner. To this date the Polish SuperCup has been played out 21 times with the Polish Cup winner taking the trophy 13 times, while the Ekstraklasa champions had won the trophy 8 times...

    :
    • Winner (1): 2007
    • Finalist (1): 1991
  • Polish League Cup
    Football in Poland
    Football is the most popular sport in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally. The first professional clubs were founded in the early 1900s, and the Polish national football team played its first international match in 1921.There are hundreds of...

    :
    • Finalist (1): 2000-2001

Zagłębie in Europe

Season Competition Round Club Score
1990-91
UEFA Cup 1990-91
The UEFA Cup 1990–91 was won by Internazionale on aggregate over Roma. This tournament also marked the return of English clubs after a five-year ban resulting from the Heysel Stadium Disaster in 1985...

UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

1R   Bologna F.C. 1909
Bologna F.C. 1909
Bologna Football Club 1909, known simply as Bologna, is an Italian Football League club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, formed in 1993. The club are nicknamed the rossoblù because of the red and blue striped shirts they wear. Red and Blue are the official colours of the town.During its history...

0-1, 0-1
1991-92
European Cup 1991-92
The 1991–92 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Barcelona after extra time in the final against Sampdoria, giving Spain its first championship trophy since 1966. The winning goal was scored by Ronald Koeman with a free-kick. This was the last tournament...

European Cup 1R   Brøndby IF
Brøndby IF
Brøndby IF is a Danish professional football club based in Brøndbyvester, Brøndby, on the western outskirts of Copenhagen and is the biggest football club in Denmark with almost 2000 members. The club is also known as Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening, or Brøndby and BIF for short...

0-3, 2-1
1995-96
UEFA Cup 1995-96
The UEFA Cup 1995-96 was won by Bayern Munich on aggregate over Bordeaux. Girondins de Bordeaux went to the finals all the way from the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1995....

UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

Q   FC Shirak
FC Shirak
Shirak Football Club , is an Armenian football club, playing in the town of Gyumri . The home stadium for Shirak is the Gyumri City Stadium.- History :...

0-0, 1-0
1R   AC Milan 0-4, 1-4
1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup
UEFA Intertoto Cup
The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for European clubs that had not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The competition was discontinued...

GR   SV Ried
SV Ried
SV Ried is an Austrian association football club from Ried im Innkreis. The team plays its home matches at the 7,680 capacity Keine-Sorgen Arena. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga after winning promotion from the Erste Liga in the 2004/05 season...

2-1
  Silkeborg IF
Silkeborg IF
Silkeborg IF is a Danish professional football club based in the city of Silkeborg, in the middle of Jutland. Silkeborg IF plays in the Danish Superliga. The club was founded in 1917 and they first reach the highest level of football in Denmark in 1987, at that time called 1st division today known...

0-0
  Conwy United 3-0
  R. Charleroi S.C.
R. Charleroi S.C.
Sporting du Pays de Charleroi is a Belgian football club based in the city of Charleroi, in the province of Hainaut. Charleroi plays in the Belgian Pro League and their current spell at the highest level in Belgian football has started in the 1985–86 season...

0-0
2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup
UEFA Intertoto Cup
The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for European clubs that had not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The competition was discontinued...

1R   FK Vilash Masalli 4-0, 3-1
2R   NK Slaven Belupo
NK Slaven Belupo
NK Slaven Belupo, often referred to simply as Slaven and known internationally as NK Slaven Koprivnica, is a Croatian football club based in the city of Koprivnica in the north of the country...

1-1, 0-0
2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup
UEFA Intertoto Cup
The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for European clubs that had not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The competition was discontinued...

1R   Hibernians FC 4-0, 0-1
2R   K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen 2-2, 1-2
2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup
UEFA Intertoto Cup
The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for European clubs that had not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The competition was discontinued...

1R   Dinaburg FC
Dinaburg FC
Dinaburg FC was a Latvian football club, playing in the city of Daugavpils. In 2009 it merged with FK Daugava. The club plays at the Daugava Stadium . In October 2009 the club was eliminated from Virsliga and also from The Baltic League, because of suspicion about totalizator playing at the club...

1-1, 0-1
2006/07
UEFA Cup 2006-07
The 2006–07 UEFA Cup was the 36th UEFA Cup, Europe's second tier club football tournament. On 16 May 2007, at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Sevilla won their second consecutive UEFA Cup, defeating Espanyol 3–1 on penalties after the match finished 2–2 after extra time...

UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

1Q   Dinamo Minsk 1-1, 0-0
2007/08 UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

2Q   Steaua Bucureşti 0-1, 1-2

Current squad

Notable players

Iliyan Mitsanski Manuel Arboleda
Manuel Arboleda
Manuel Santos Arboleda Sánchez is a Colombian football defender playing for Polish club Lech Poznań.Between Jan 31 and Feb 5, 2011, he is legally able and about to apply for Polish citizenship....

 Jarosław Bako Piotr Czachowski Mirosław Dreszer Marek Godlewski Jarosław Góra Maciej Iwański
Maciej Iwanski
Maciej Iwański is a Polish footballer, currently playing midfielder for Manisaspor.-Club:After Zagłębie Lubin's relegation for corruption, many of the top teams in the first division fought for Iwański's signature...

 Radosław Kałużny Janusz Kudyba
Janusz Kudyba
Janusz Kudyba is a Polish football striker.He played in the top leagues of Poland and Norway and now he coaches the Polish 2nd division football team Miedź Legnica.-References:* at 90 Minut...

 Romuald Kujawa Mariusz Lewandowski
Mariusz Lewandowski
Mariusz Lewandowski is a Polish footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for PFC Sevastopol and the Polish national football team. He also plays in defensive midfield where his stamina, strength and aerial ability come to good use.- Career :...

 Wojciech Łobodziński Stefan Machaj
Sławomir Majak Dariusz Marciniak Adam Matysek
Adam Matysek
Adam Matysek is a retired Polish football goalkeeper.He made 34 appearances for the Polish national team, and was a member of their squad at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, although he did not play any matches at the tournament.After his playing career, Matysek worked for the Polish Football Association...

 Olgierd Moskalewicz
Olgierd Moskalewicz
Olgierd Moskalewicz is a Polish professional soccer player who last plays for Pogoń Szczecin.-Club:In 2001, he had a brief spell with Diyarbakırspor in the Turkish Super Lig, appearing in two league matches....

 Andrzej Niedzielan
Andrzej Niedzielan
Andrzej Niedzielan is a Polish footballer who plays as a striker for Cracovia.-Early career:He began his career began in 1997, when he joined Promień Żary. Then he played for Zagłębie Lubin, where he did not impress...

 Łukasz Piszczek Jerzy Podbrożny
Jerzy Podbrozny
Jerzy Podbrożny is a former Polish football striker, one of the top scorers in Polish football history.Podbrożny led the Polish league in scoring: in 1992 with 20 goals and in 1993 with 25 goals, both times for Lech Poznań. After winning the championship both those years, he transferred to Legia...

 Eugeniusz Ptak Maciej Śliwowski
Maciej Śliwowski
Maciej Śliwowski is a retired Polish football forward.-External links:...

 Adam Zejer
Adam Zejer
Adam Zejer is a retired Polish professional footballer who played for Zagłębie Lubin, Stomil Olsztyn, Beşiktaş J.K., and Gaziantepspor.-Club career:Zejer spent two seasons in the Turkish Super Lig with Beşiktaş J.K...

 Dariusz Żuraw
Dariusz Zuraw
Dariusz Żuraw is a Polish professional footballer who plays for Arka Gdynia in the Polish Ekstraklasa.-Club career:...



Staff

  • Jan Urban
    Jan Urban
    Jan Urban is a Polish football manager and former player. Currently, he is coaching Polish club Zagłębie Lubin.-Club:...

  • Grzegorz Wilczyński
  • Dariusz Puchalski
  • Kianosh Khodakaram
    Kianosh Khodakaram
    Kianosh Khodakaram AKA Kian Karam is a Swedish/Iranian football manager is a UEFA Pro Licensed coach who is most famous for his time in Zaglebie Lubin and in the Liberian National team...

  • Zygmunt Stanowski
  • Marcin Broniszewski

External links


See also

  • Football in Poland
    Football in Poland
    Football is the most popular sport in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally. The first professional clubs were founded in the early 1900s, and the Polish national football team played its first international match in 1921.There are hundreds of...

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