Gwardia Koszalin

Gwardia Koszalin

Full name	Klub Sportowy Gwardia Koszalin
Founded	1946 (1946)
Ground	Stanisław Figas Stadium
Capacity	950
Chairman	Jarosław Burzak
Manager	Michał Mikołajczak & Daniel Wojciechowski
League	IV liga West Pomerania
2023–24	IV liga West Pomerania, 2nd of 18
Website	http://www.gwardia-koszalin.pl/
Home colours

Stadium of Gwardia Koszalin

Gwardia Koszalin is a Polish multisports club, founded in 1946 in the northern city of Koszalin. Besides football, Gwardia supports other departments - handball, boxing, and judo. The departments are autonomous, and have their own, separate budgets.

Gwardia, like all Polish sports organizations bearing that name (Guards in English), was originally supported by the Polish Police. It was founded as Milicyjny Klub Sportowy (Militia's Sports Club), and in 1948 the name was changed to Gwardia. The Club's colours are red, white and blue.

Football club

Gwardia's stadium and clubhouse are located on 34 Falata Street, and stadium's capacity is 950.

Even though Gwardia's football team has never won promotion to the Ekstraklasa, the club raised several notable players, such as Piotr Rzepka, Mirosław Okoński, Miroslaw Trzeciak, Robert Dymkowski, also Sebastian Mila, who was transferred there in his early teens, from a local side Baltyk Koszalin. Gwardia spent some years in Polish Second Division, and the biggest success of its football team was reaching quarter-finals of the Polish Cup, in 1975–76, when, after beating Gornik Zabrze, they lost to Śląsk Wrocław. Up to the 2016–17 season, the team participated in the III liga.

In June 2017, the football team was promoted to II liga.

External links

• Official website
• Gwardia Koszalin at the 90minut.pl website (Polish)