Czarni Żagań is a Polish association football club based in
Żagań
Żagań (French language, French and , ) is a town in western Poland, on the Bóbr river, with 25,731 inhabitants (2019), capital of Żagań County in the Lubusz Voivodeship, located in the historic region of Lower Silesia.
Founded in the 12th ce ...
,
Lower Silesia. They play in the
IV liga Lubusz, the fifth level of the
national football league system.
History
The club was founded in 1957 by
soldiers from the Żagań Garrison. It is the most successful football teams in
Lubusz Voivodeship
Lubusz Voivodeship ( ) is a voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in western Poland with a population of 972,140. Its regional capitals are Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra. The region is characterized by a landscape of forests, lake ...
; only Czarni from this voivodeship reached the final of the
Polish Cup
The Polish Cup in Association football, football ( ) is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout football competition for Polish football club (association football), football clubs, held continuously since 1950, and is the second most i ...
. They lost 4–0 to
Górnik Zabrze
Górnik Zabrze Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Górnik Zabrze S.A. or simply Górnik Zabrze (), is a Polish association football, football club from Zabrze. Górnik is one of the most successful Polish football clubs in history, winning ...
. After the 1965 final, Czarni should have played in the
1965–66 European Cup Winners' Cup
The 1965–66 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup club football tournament was won by Borussia Dortmund in an extra-time final victory over Liverpool at Hampden Park in Glasgow. West Ham United were the defending champions, but were eliminat ...
, but for political and military reasons, Czarni didn't join the competition.
In the years 2019–2021, there was a senior women's team. The resulting
crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border meant that at the beginning of November 2021 most players of Czarni serving in the Polish Armed Forces received official orders, which prevented them from representing Czarni in the last four games of the
IV liga
IV liga (Czwarta liga) is the fifth level of the Polish football league system. The current structure of IV liga was created in the 2000–01 season after introducing the new administrative division of Poland. Groups consist most often of 18 c ...
in 2021.
The Lubusz Football Association didn't allow the matches of Czarni to be postponed due to the possibility of suspending the games in connection with the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
.
Season statistics
Women
Men
Honours
*
Polish Cup
The Polish Cup in Association football, football ( ) is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout football competition for Polish football club (association football), football clubs, held continuously since 1950, and is the second most i ...
:
**Finalists: 1964–65
*Polish Cup (Lubusz regionals):
**Winners: 5x: 1962–63, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1999–2000
**Finalists: 1952, 1963–64, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1990–91
References
Football clubs in Poland
Military association football clubs in Poland
Association football clubs established in 1957
1957 establishments in Poland
Football clubs in Lubusz Voivodeship
Żagań County
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