Ruch Chorzów

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Ruch Chorzów

Full name	Ruch Chorzów S.A.
Nickname(s)	Niebiescy (The Blues), Niebieska eRka (The Blue R), HKS (from Hutniczy KS)
Founded	1920 (April 20)
Ground	Stadion Ruchu (Capacity: 10,000 seats)
Chairman	Katarzyna Sobstyl
Manager	Waldemar Fornalik
League	Ekstraklasa
2008-09	9th
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Ruch Chorzów (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrux ˈxɔʐuf]) is a Polish football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. It is one of the most successful football teams in Poland, 14 time national champion, 3 time winner of the Polish Cup. Currently (2008/2009) in Ekstraklasa.

Ruch Chorzów has also had a very successful female handball team (9 time national champion).

History

The club was founded on April 20, 1920 in Hajduki Wielkie (then Bismarckhütte). It was known as Ruch Hajduki Wielkie until 1938, with Ruch being a reference to the Silesian Uprisings. The club's first match, a 3:1 win against Orzeł Józefowiec, was played on May 3, 1920, on the anniversary of the Constitution of May 3, 1791. In early 1939, the municipality of Hajduki Wielkie merged with Chorzów, which led to the club taking on its current name Ruch Chorzów. The club was renamed Bismarckhütter SV 99 after the German occupation of Poland, and joined the Gauliga Oberschlesien in 1941, however, it reverted to its old name in 1945.^[1] In 1948, under communist pressure, the club was renamed Unia Chorzów, in 1955 it became Unia-Ruch, and finally in 1956 returned to the name Ruch.

Achievements

• Ekstraklasa (First League)
  • Winners (14-record): 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1960, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1989
  • Runners-up (5): 1950, 1956, 1963, 1970, 1973
• Polish Cup:
  • Winners (3): 1951, 1974, 1996
  • Runners-up (5): 1963, 1968, 1970, 1993, 2009
• UEFA Champions League
  • Quarter-Final (1): 1975
• UEFA Cup
  • Quarter-Final (1): 1974
• Intertoto Cup
  • Finalist (1): 1998

Current squad

As of September 8, 2009.^[2]

No. Position Player 1 GK Mateusz Struski 2 DF Piotr Stawarczyk 3 DF Grzegorz Baran 5 DF Paweł Lesik 6 MF Wojciech Grzyb 7 MF Daniel Feruga 8 DF Krzysztof Nykiel 9 MF Marcin Zając 11 MF Marcin Nowacki 12 GK Damian Matras 13 MF Maciej Scherfchen 14 FW Łukasz Janoszka 15 DF Rafał Grodzicki

No. Position Player 17 MF Michał Pulkowski 19 FW Artur Sobiech 20 MF Pavol Baláž 21 DF Maciej Sadlok 22 DF Tomasz Brzyski 23 FW Andrzej Niedzielan 24 FW Martin Fabuš 27 FW Bartosz Flis 28 MF Gábor Straka 29 DF Ariel Jakubowski 30 GK Matko Perdijić 32 DF Piotr Kieruzel 80 GK Krzysztof Pilarz

Out on loan

No. Position Player 18 FW Marcin Sobczak (at Zawisza Bydgoszcz)

Notable former players

Ruch in Europe

Season	Competition	Round		Club	Score
1972/73	UEFA Cup	1R		Fenerbahçe SK	3-0, 0-1
		2R		Dynamo Dresden	0-1, 0-3
1973/74	UEFA Cup	1R		Wuppertaler SV	4-1, 4-5
		2R		FC Carl Zeiss Jena	3-0, 0-1
		3R		Budapest Honvéd FC	0-2, 5-0
		1/4F		Feyenoord Rotterdam	1-1, 1-3
1974/75	European Cup	1R		Hvidovre IF	0-0, 2-1
		2R		Fenerbahçe SK	2-1, 2-0
		1/4F		AS Saint-Étienne	3-2, 0-2
1975/76	European Cup	1R		KuPS	5-0, 2-2
		2R		PSV Eindhoven	1-3, 0-4
1979/80	European Cup	1R		Dynamo Berlin	1-4, 0-0
1989/90	European Cup	1R		CSKA Sofia	1-1, 1-5
1996/97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Q		Llansantffraid	1-1, 5-0
		1R		Benfica Lisboa	5-1, 0-0
1998	Intertoto Cup	1R		FK Austria Wien	1-0, 2-2
		2R		Örgryte IS	1-2, 1-0
		3R		C.F. Estrela da Amadora	1-1, 1-1
		4R		Debreceni VSC	1-0, 3-0
		5R		Bologna F.C. 1909	0-1, 0-2
2000/01	UEFA Cup	Q		FK Žalgiris Vilnius	1-2, 6-0
		1R		Internazionale Milano F.C.	0-3, 1-4

References

External links

• Official website (Polish)
• Fansite (Polish)