Gryf Słupsk
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| Full name | Klub Sportowy Gryf Słupsk |
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| Nickname(s) | Rycerze Księstwa Słupskiego, Trójkolorowi |
| Founded | 1956 |
| Ground | Green Street Stadium, Słupsk, Poland |
| Capacity | 3000 |
| Chairman |
 Paweł Kryszałowicz |
| Manager |
Grzegorz Bednarczyk |
| League | IV liga (V tier) |
Gryf Słupsk is a Polish multi-sports club, mostly known for its association football team, from Słupsk, Pomerania.
Gryf was created at the end of 1956 due to a merger of four local factory clubs: KS Unia operating next to the local furniture factory (Słupskie Fabryki Mebli); KS Traktor – next to the agricultural mechanics plant (Zakłady Naprawczych Mechanizacji Rolnictwa abbreviated to ZNMR); KS Stal the club of "Famarol" agricultural tools factory (Fabryka Narzędzi Rolniczych FAMAROL); and KS Sparta which played next to the "Sezamor" ship equipment and tools factory (Słupska Fabryka Sprzętu Okrętowego „SEZAMOR”).
The club's chosen colours were white and green. The football sections of the club was founded in 1957. It was then that the Polish Football Association brought to life the III Division, from which Gryf was allowed to start from. The first coach was Bronislaw Koziar, a former Pogoń Lwów player.
Prior to that, from 1946 KS Gwardia Słupsk functioned, with the club colours red - white - blue, which was the only predecessor of the later ZGKS Gryf. Official, historical and archival data frequently refers to Gryf from 1946 onwards. However, this is a common mistake as the clubs only merged in 1964, when it changed it became Gryf and changed to the tricolour, which are official emblems of the club to this day. For seven years (1957–64) the clubs operated as two completely different and independent clubs alongside each other.
The School of Civic Military Police began operating in Słupsk in 1945. At the end of the first year of its operations, the idea to set up their own sports club arose. The infrastructure had to be based on city-owned facilities, but the club was operated by school staff and nearly all the members were school attendees. First meeting and discussions on the future of the club took place April 26, 1946, and the club officially came into being on 7 May. The club was called Klub Sportowy Centrum Wyszkolenia Milicji Obywatelskiej or KS CWMO for short. The first president was Józef Romański. In 1947 KS CWMO was soon renamed Gwardia. It gained promotion to the West Pomeranian A-klasa. Already in 1947, KS CWMO players tried their hand at international matches, losing to the representation of the Hungarian police 3:9 and 4:0. However, the level of football of the Hungarian at the time was clearly superior to other countries in Europe, the time of the "golden eleven" - runners-up in the World Cup of 1958.
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