GKS Katowice is a professional

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team in

Katowice Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...

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. The team was founded in 1964. GKS Katowice won six

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titles between 1958 and 1970. From 2017 to 2019 the name of the club was changed to Tauron KH GKS Katowice, due to sponsorship by

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. The club finished the regular season 2021-2022 in 1st place and won the playoffs by defeating

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and

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Notable members

The original coaches for GKS Katowice were

Aggie Kukulowicz Adolph Frank "Aggie" Kukulowicz (April 2, 1933 – September 26, 2008) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and Russian-language interpreter. He played four games in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, then played 12 c ...

, and

Stanislav Konopásek Stanislav Konopásek (April 18, 1923 – March 6, 2008) was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Playing career Konopásek played as a winger when he was drafted for LTC Praha in 1935, whom he would play with until 1950. He also played on the ...

Achievements

Polish championship: * 1st place (8): 1958, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1970, 2022, 2023 * 2nd place (10): 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1967, 1969, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2018 * 3rd place (10): 1955, 1963, 1966, 1975, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2019, 2020

IIHF Continental Cup The Continental Cup is a second-level ice hockey tournament for European clubs (behind Champions Hockey League), begun in 1997 after the discontinuing of the European Cup. It was intended for teams from countries without representatives in the ...

: * 3rd place (2): 2019, 2025

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: * Winner (1): 1970 * Finalist (1): 2001 2nd ligue: * 1st place (1): 2012 Autosan cup: * 1st place (3): 1973, 1975, 1976

Champions Hockey League

GKS Katowice will make its

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debut in the 2022-23 season. The team will face

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and

Fehérvár AV19 Hydro Fehérvár AV19 is a Hungary, Hungarian professional ice hockey team that plays in the Austrian Austrian Hockey League, win2day ICE Hockey League. They were founded in 1960 and played from 1978 in the Hungarian Országos Bajnokság I (men's ...

Players in the season 2021/2022

References

External links

Official site
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