KS Cracovia (football)
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| Full name | Miejski Klub Sportowy Cracovia, S.S.A. |
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| Nickname(s) | Pasy (stripes) |
| Founded | 13 June 1906 |
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Józef Piłsudski Stadium, Kraków, Poland |
| Capacity | 15,016 |
| Chairman | Janusz Filipiak |
| Manager | Jacek Zieliński |
| League | Ekstraklasa |
| 2015–16 | 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
KS Cracovia (Polish pronunciation: [kraˈkɔvʲa]) is a Polish sports club based in Kraków. Cracovia is the oldest Polish football club still in existence (teams from Lwów were a few years older, but the city of Lwów was occupied and subsequently annexed by the Soviet Union in September 1939 and is now part of Ukraine), and has continually participated in competition since its founding on 13 June 1906
The early years of football in the city of Kraków are associated with professor Henryk Jordan. He was a Polish physician who had spent some time in Britain and after coming back to his native city introduced football to its youth. Jordan was a huge supporter of all sports and gymnastics. On 12 March 1889, he founded The Park of Games and Plays in Kraków, which was commonly called Jordan's Park. Places like this later spread all across Austrian Galicia, and apart from gymnastics, the youth there became acquainted with football.
However, it was not Kraków where the first football game on Polish soil took place. This happened in Lwów on 14 July 1894, with a 6-minute game between the teams of Lwów and Kraków. The home team proved better, winning 1–0, on a goal by Włodzimierz Chomicki.
Within the next few years, football slowly emerged as a rising sport. It was especially popular among high school students and in the fall of 1903 a group of them created the team of Sława Lwów (the name was later changed to Czarni Lwów) – the first Polish football club. In 1904 a group of Lwów's students, together with professor Eugeniusz Piasecki, came to Kraków to play an exhibition game. The match ended in Lwów's 0–4 defeat, and its far-reaching implications among Kraków's youth were enormous.
13 June 1906 is regarded as a crucial date in the history of football in Kraków. On that day two games of high school teams took place. These matches had been announced in Kraków's newspapers. Czarni Lwów beat the team of White-reds (Biało-czerwoni) and the IV Gymnasium beat Akademicy. The matches were warmly welcomed by Kraków's fans, who were surprised to see for the first time real football gear, brought by players from Lwów. 13 June is also regarded as the day of Cracovia's creation.
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