Górnik Leczna
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GKS Bogdanka Łęczna (ˈboɢɖɐ͡kɑ ˈwɛnt͡ʂna) is a Polish 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 based in Łęczna, 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...

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Due to corruption the club was expelled from Orange Ekstraklasa and relegated to the 3rd division. They just received promotion into the Polish First League
Polish First League
I Liga is the second level of the Polish association football league, below the Ekstraklasa and above the II Liga. Run by the Polish Football Association since its inception in 1948, all teams from 2002 onwards must have professional status and a licence, issued by the Association...

 for the 2008-09 season.

Current squad

Accurate as of July 26, 2011

Out on loan

Notable players

Sebastian Szałachowski, player of U-21 Polish national football team Grzegorz Bronowicki
Grzegorz Bronowicki
Grzegorz Bronowicki is a Polish football defender who last plays for Ruch Chorzów.-Career:Bronowicki spent most of his early career at Górnik Łęczna, apart from one season which he spent at Lewart Lubartów...

 - the current player of Poland national football team
Poland national football team
The Poland national football team represents Poland in association football and is controlled by the Polish Football Association, the governing body for football in Poland...

 Tomasz Zahorski
Tomasz Zahorski
- Club career :He began his career playing for Pisa Barczewo, where he moved to OKS 1945 Olsztyn. Later, Zahorski played for Tecza Biskupiec and again for Pisa. In the 2004/05 season, he moved to OKS 1945 Olsztyn, where he played for until the fall of 2005. In the spring of the 2005/06 season, he...

 - the current player of Poland national football team
Poland national football team
The Poland national football team represents Poland in association football and is controlled by the Polish Football Association, the governing body for football in Poland...


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...

  • List of football teams
  • Champions' Cup/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...

  • 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...


Women's section

The women's section of Górnik Łęczna has been playing in the second and third tier leagues of Poland. In the 2009-10 season with the expansion of the Ekstraliga Kobiet
Ekstraliga Kobiet
The Ekstraliga Kobiet is the top level women's football league of Poland.The women's league startet out to play a champion in 1979-80. The first title holder was Czarni Sosnowiec in 1980. In 2005 the league was renamed to Ekstraliga Kobiet. The winner of the league qualifies for the UEFA Women's...

 the team finally gained promotion to it by finishing second in its 2nd tier division. In 2006-07 the team reached the semi-finals of the Polish Cup but lost to Medyk Konin.

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