Polonia Przemyśl is a Polish sports club, located in the south-eastern city of

Przemyśl Przemyśl (; yi, פשעמישל, Pshemishl; uk, Перемишль, Peremyshl; german: Premissel) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was p ...

. Founded in 1909, it is one of the oldest sports associations in Poland.

History

The club, whose hues are white-red-blue, supports two departments -

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and men's

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. The football team plays in

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, while the basketball side plays in the second division. Polonia's basketball team was a powerhouse in Poland in the mid-1990s, when it was second in Poland (1995) and third (1996). The idea of creating a football club came from

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, which at the time was under Polish control. The team itself was created by Z. Ritterschild and J. Theobald. The new organization was formed in the fall of 1909, and adopted the name "San" - Przemyśl was still under Austrian rule, the name "Polonia" could not therefore be accepted. The first official meeting of the team 'San' took place in 1910, against the team's rival "Slavia", composed of Czech and Slovak military members in the garrison of Przemyśl. The team "San" lost their inaugural match 2–3. In the years 1910-1914, the team played a total of 26 games, including a 2–1 victory in 1914 against Resovia. Polonia finished the 2012–13 season seventh out of 16 teams in

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. They collected 43 points from a total of 12 wins, 7 draws and 11 losses. They managed to score 52 goals overall, 33 home and 19 away, and conceded a total of 41, 15 home and 26 away, with an overall goal difference of 11.

International matches

* 1924: against Turkey olympic football team: 3–3 (2–1)

Achievements

*6th place in

I liga I liga ( pl, Pierwsza liga, ), currently named Fortuna I liga due to its sponsorship by Fortuna, is the men's second professional association football division of the Polish football league system, below the Ekstraklasa and above the II liga v ...

- 1951 ''(in one of the four groups)''

Fans

Fans of Polonia sympathise with

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. Their fiercest rivals are fellow locals Czuwaj Przemyśl with whom they contest a heated derby.

External links

Official webpage of Polonia Przemyśl

Unofficial webpage of Polonia Przemyśl

Polonia Przemyśl
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