Dąb Katowice
| Full name | Górniczy Klub Sportowy Dąb Katowice | |
|---|---|---|
| Short name | Dąb Katowice | |
| Founded | 1911 as SV Eiche | |
| Dissolved | 1968 | |
| Ground | Kolyba, Dąb | |
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Dąb Katowice was a Polish sports club from the Upper Silesian capital of Katowice.
The club was founded in 1911 as Sport Verein Eiche in what was then the mining village of Domb located in the Province of Upper Silesia, German Empire, before restructuring and changing its name to "Dąb" in 1922.[1]
Dąb had numerous sports sections, including swimming (multiple champions of Poland in the years 1935–1939), boxing, gymnastics, ice-hockey (champion of Poland 1939), wrestling, cycling[2] and association football. Their ice hockey club was the first in Poland to feature Canadian players.[3]
Dąb's football team played two seasons in the Polish top flight in 1936, when they finished 8th,[4] and in 1937[5], when they were expelled from the league mid-season, due to an attempt to bribe the Śląsk Świętochłowice goalkeeper to aid their relegation battle.[6] All Dąb's results were expunged (recorded as 0–3 losses) and the team was relegated as result.[7]
Dąb's most famous player (and later manager) was Ewald Dytko, who took part in the famous 1938 World Cup round of 16 tie against Brazil on 5 June 1938 in Strasbourg, which ended in a 5-6 loss for his Poland side.[8]
After the Second World War, from 1946, the club underwent further name changes and mergers before adopting its pre-war name in 1957.[9]
The club existed until 9 September 1968, when it was merged into GKS Katowice. Since 1963, GKS had been in a process of absorbing local clubs in order to form one strong club for the city.
References
- ^ Dzieje Dębu (1299-1999). Monografia historyczna dzielnicy Katowic. Katowice: Muzeum Historii Katowic. p. 64. ISBN 83-97727-30-X.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: checksum (help) - ^ Mirosław Ponczek (2013). "Początki i rozwój polskiej kultury fizycznej na Górnym Śląsku do 1945 roku". Kultura Fizyczna (in Polish). 12 (1). Częstochowa: Prace Naukowe Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie.
- ^ "KS "BAILDON" KATOWICE". Panorama (in Polish). No. 46. 12 November 1972. p. 35 – via Arcanum.com.
- ^ "Liga 1936". 90minut.pl. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
- ^ "Liga 1937". 90minut.pl. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
- ^ Christopher Lash (2020). "'The Whole of Poland Saw It, and You Gentlemen are Blind': Match-Fixing in Polish Football–A Case Study from 1993". Match Fixing and Sport: 94–108.
- ^ Waldemar Wołkanowski (2019), "Sportowe kontakty wileńsko-śląskie w dwudziestoleciu międzywojenny" [Sports contacts in Vilnius and Silesia in the interwar period], Między Śląskiem a Wileńszczyzną [Between Silesia and Vilniusia], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, pp. 198–208
- ^ "Eward Dytko d. Ewald Oskar (1914-1993)". olimpijski.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2 October 2024.
- ^ Dzieje Dębu (1299-1999). Monografia historyczna dzielnicy Katowic. Katowice: Muzeum Historii Katowic. p. 82. ISBN 83-97727-30-X.
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