Polonia Chodzież

ChKS Polonia Chodzież
Full nameChodzieski Klub Sportowy
Polonia Chodzież
Short namePolonia Chodzież
Founded1924 (1924)
StadiumStanisław Kitkowski Stadium
Capacity3,000
Managing bodyFunction committee
CoachDawid Jasiński
LeagueIV liga Greater Poland
2023–24IV liga Greater Poland, 7th of 18 (promoted)[1]
Websitewww.poloniachodziez.pl
Club colours

Polonia Chodzież is a Polish sports club from Chodzież, Greater Poland. It currently only has a men's and youth association football section.

The club used to be a multi-sports club with many other sports and teams. The club's table tennis team used to play in the top division in the 60s.[2] Its other former sections were: basketball, track and field athletics, handball, volleyball, chess, and sailing.

When the club was founded in 1920s it was one of many competing sports societies in the city.[3] In football, its biggest league success was reaching the third division in 1989, lasting 5 seasons. The club is known for numerous giant-killings in the Polish Cup; reaching the quarter-finals in 1955, 1/8th in 1992 and 1/16th in 1955.[4] The club has frequently reached the main rounds of the cup throughout its history.

References

  1. ^ "IV liga Artbud 2023/2024, grupa: wielkopolska I". www.90minut.pl (in Polish).
  2. ^ Mateusz Margraf (2012), Tenis stołowy w Wielkopolsce w latach 1945 – 2011 (Masters dissertation) (in Polish), Poznań: UAM, Faculty of History, pp. 1–186
  3. ^ Anna Karbowniczak (27 March 2020), Historia Chodzieży: Piłka nożna jakiej dziś nie pamiętamy - czyli chodzieski futbol w czasach II RP (in Polish), Nasze Miasto (Chodzież)
  4. ^ "Poland - Full Cup History".