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GKS Tychy

Full name	Górniczy Klub Sportowy Tychy
Founded	20 April 1971; 55 years ago (1971-04-20)
Ground	Stadion Miejski
Capacity	15,300
Owner(s)	The Seelig Group Chien Lee
Chairman	Maximilian Kothny
Manager	René Poms
League	II liga
2025–26	I liga, 18th of 18 (relegated)
Website	https://kp-gkstychy.pl
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

GKS Tychy is a Polish professional football club, based in Tychy, that competes in the Polish II liga. The club was founded in 1971. It played in the Ekstraklasa between 1974–1977 and 1995–1997. Their biggest success was a second-place finish in the 1975–76 Ekstraklasa season.

The history of GKS Tychy dates back to 20 April 1971, when the government of the county of Tychy, together with Communist party activists (PZPR), decided to form a powerful sports organization. As a result of the merger of Polonia Tychy, Górnik Wesoła and Górnik Murcki, a strong, multi-department sports club was formed, with football and ice hockey as its major departments. Before the creation of GKS Tychy, ice hockey players of Górnik Murcki had twice won the Polish Cup (1967 and 1971).

The decision to merge the teams from Murcki and Wesoła was not welcomed by members of local communities, who wanted to keep their organizations. The Tychy County government did not care about these concerns, as the plan was to form a strong club, with top class athletes. GKS Tychy was financially supported by local coal mines, from Tychy, Lędziny, Wesoła and Bieruń. A new, 20,000 stadium was built, together with a swimming pool and ice-skating rink. By 1973, GKS Tychy had over 600 athletes in seven departments, including football, ice hockey, wrestling, and track and field.

Two years after its creation, the football team of GKS Tychy won promotion to the second level of Polish football tier, and in early summer of 1974, the team was promoted to Ekstraklasa. With its topscorer Roman Ogaza, Tychy in August 1974 debuted in Ekstraklasa, in a 1–1 game vs. Lech Poznań. In 1975–76 Ekstraklasa, GKS Tychy finished second, after Polish champion Stal Mielec, and in the UEFA Cup, it played against West German side Köln. In the first leg, in Cologne (15 September 1976), Tychy lost 0–2. In the second leg, which took place on 29 September 1976 at Silesian Stadium in Chorzów, Polish team tied 1-1, after a goal by Roman Ogaza. Ogaza himself was a member of Polish football team, which won silver in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, becoming the first athlete in the history of Tychy to win an olympic medal.

In the 1976–77 Ekstraklasa, GKS Tychy, to the surprise of experts, was relegated from Polish top division, despite the fact that its top players remained at Tychy. After several seasons in Polish Second Division, GKS was once again relegated (1983) to the third level of Polish football tier, remaining there until 1993. After a merger with Sokół Pniewy, the new team, called Sokół Tychy-Pniewy, played in 1995–96 Ekstraklasa and 1996–97 Ekstraklasa. Due to financial difficulties, the team was dissolved in 1997. Soon afterwards, new organization, called Tyski Klub Sportowy Tychy was founded. Later on, the team eventually returned to the historic name GKS Tychy and won promotion to the I liga (second tier) in 2012. In the 2020–21 season GKS qualified to promotion play-offs to the Ekstraklasa, but lost to the final winner Górnik Łęczna.

In April 2021, The Seelig Group (TSG) and Chien Lee of NewCity Capital together acquired 75% of GKS Tychy and became the controlling shareholders. Tyski Sport S.A. remains as 25% shareholder.

The Stadion Miejski (English: Municipal Stadium) is located in Tychy, Poland. It is the home ground of GKS Tychy. The stadium holds 15,300 people.

• 20 April 1971 – 1996: Górniczy Klub Sportowy Tychy
• 1996: Sokół Tychy
• 1997: Górniczy Klub Sportowy Tychy
• 1998: TKS Tychy
• 2000: Górnośląski Klub Sportowy Tychy '71
• 2008: Górniczy Klub Sportowy Tychy

Season	Competition	Round		Club	Score
1976–77	UEFA Cup	1R		1. FC Köln	0–2, 1–1

As of 29 July 2026

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 5 DF  CRO Matija Horvat 6 MF  POL Oskar Wojtczak 8 MF  SVK Matúš Begala 9 FW  POL Mateusz Lewandowski 10 MF  POL Damian Kądzior (vice-captain) 11 MF  POL Mateusz Koniuszy 13 GK  POL Tymoteusz Proczek 14 DF  POL Łukasz Tumala 16 DF  POL Paweł Olkowski 17 FW  POL Dawid Kasprzyk 19 MF  POL Michał Trąbka 21 DF  POL Bartosz Jankowski

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 DF  POL Igor Łasicki (captain) 27 DF  POL Bartosz Brzęk 30 MF  POL Piotr Gębala 31 GK  POL Kacper Myszkowski 39 GK  POL Jakub Mądrzyk 44 MF  POL Nico Baier 45 DF  POL Daniel Hoyo-Kowalski 75 DF  POL Józef Chorosiński 77 MF  AUT Josip Eškinja 79 MF  POL Marcin Kozina 99 FW  POL Tymoteusz Ryguła

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 32 MF  POL Miłosz Krzak

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Tychy.

Poland Krzysztof Bizacki (1990–1993, 1995–1996, 2008–2014) Eugeniusz Cebrat (1971–1977, 1979–1983) Piotr Ćwielong (2017–2019) Jerzy Dudek (1995–1996) (pictured) Dariusz Fornalak (1996–1997) Seweryn Gancarczyk (2015–2017) Radosław Gilewicz (1991–1992) Dariusz Grzesik (1984, 2004) Bartosz Karwan (1993) Damian Kądzior (2025–present) Jakub Kiwior (2012–2016) Ryszard Komornicki (1980–1982) Marcin Kowalczyk (2018–2020) Ryszard Kraus (1994–1995) Jerzy Ludyga (1975–1979) Janusz Nawrocki (1995–1997) Krzysztof Nowak (1995–1996) Roman Ogaza (1975–1978) Paweł Olkowski (2026–present) Lechosław Olsza (1975–1977) Sebastian Przyrowski (2015) Marcin Radzewicz (2014–2018) Marek Rzepka (1995–1997) Michał Stasiak (2015) Krystian Szuster (1996–1997) Rafał Szwed (1996–1997) Jakub Świerczok (2016–2017) Bogusław Wyparło (1996–1997)

Bosnia & Herzegovina Filip Arežina (2016) Democratic Republic of the Congo Wilson Kamavuaka (2020) Estonia Ken Kallaste (2019–2020) Kyrgyzstan Edgar Bernhardt (2018–2019) Mexico Carlos Peña (2019) Moldova Eugen Zasavițchi (2017) Slovakia Tomáš Malec (2021–2023) Slovenia Denis Popovič (2014) Soviet Union Valeri Panchik (1993) Trinidad and Tobago Keon Daniel (2018–2020) Zimbabwe Edelbert Dinha (1995–1996)

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Caretaker managers listed in italics.

As of 11 March 2026

Position	Staff
Manager	René Poms
Assistant coaches	Marcin Paczkowski Dino Škvorc
Goalkeeping coach	Bartosz Kowalczyk
Assistant goalkeeping coach	Hubert Makowski
Match analyst	Jakub Słota
Fitness coach	Damian Fos
Team manager	Mateusz Długasiewicz
Kitman	Sławomir Skowroński
Physiotherapists	Robert Cypcer Radosław Krowiak
Masseur	Janusz Wolski

Active sections:

• Basketball
• Ice hockey (men's)
• Ice hockey (women's)
• Football (women's)
• Futsal (men's)
• Esports

• Official website
• GKS Tychy at 90minut.pl