Unia Tczew is a sports club based in
Tczew
Tczew (, formerly ) is a city on the Vistula River in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, with 59,111 inhabitants (December 2021). It is the capital of Tczew County and the largest city of the ethnocultural region of Kociewie within th ...
, Poland. The sports club was created in 1922 and is separated into two areas,
football
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and
rowing
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.
Football
The club was founded in 1922 as ''Tczewski Sports Club'' changing its name in 1924 to ''TKS Olympia Tczew''. In 1929 the team joined the Pomeranian OZPN and received support from the Railway Military Training and as a result became ''KPW Unia Tczew''. In 1938, the Unia achieved their greatest success in their inter-war history - 3rd place in Class A (second tier). In the 2006–07 season, Unia advanced from the District Class to the IV liga. Unia remained in the league until the 2008–09 season, when the team appeared in the reformed Pomeranian IV liga (fifth level). In 2009, the football section was merged with
Wisła Tczew
Wisła Tczew is a Polish professional football and boxing club based in Tczew, Kociewie, Poland.
Founded in 1924, the club has traditionally worn a white and red strip for both home and away appearances. The club takes its name from the Polish w ...
creating Gryf 2009 Tczew. After the merger the club never officially reformed with a first team in the Polish leagues. In 2012 however to celebrate 90 years since the team's creation, Unia was reformed again for the 2012–13
Polish Cup
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, playing a total of three games in their run.
The club has fielded teams in the regional Polish Cup since, but has not entered a team into a league competition since 2009, now focusing on running the club with the main focus being on youth development and on youth teams.
Rowing
The rowing section was created in 1926 and joined the
Maritime and Colonial League
The Maritime and Colonial League (Polish: ''Liga Morska i Kolonialna'') was a mass Polish social organization, created in 1930 out of the Maritime and River League (''Liga Morska i Rzeczna''). In the late 1930s it was directed by general Marius ...
. In 1929 the team joined the Unia Tczew sports club, and competed for the first time the same year. The team took the silver medal at that years Polish Championships. The club had varying results of success after the Second World War, and poor results since the 1990s, not finishing in the top 20 of the standings in Poland in any given year.
The most famous rowers who trained with Unia in their youth include;
Barbara Wenta-Wojciechowska,
Czesława Kościańska and
Mateusz Biskup
Mateusz Biskup (born 8 February 1994) is a Polish rower. He competed at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, in the men's quadruple sculls and men's double sculls events, respectively.
He won a bronze medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2024 ...
.
Historic club names
*1922: Tczewski Klub Sportowy
*1924: Tczewski Klub Sportowy Olympia
*1929: Klub Sportowy Kolejowego Przysposobienia Wojskowego Unia
*1945: Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Unia
*1950: Koło Sportowe Kolejarz
*1957: Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Unia
*1997: Stowarzyszenie Piłkarskie KKS Unia
*2007: Stowarzyszenie Piłkarskie Tczewski KP Unia
*2009: Gryf 2009 Tczew (merger created with Wisła Tczew)
*2012: Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Unia 1922 (independent Unia team)
Honours
Football
*Class A: 3rd place – (1938)
*III liga: (2) 3rd place – (1959, 1960)
*Polish Cup: 1/32 final – 1969–70
References
External links
Official website – unia.tczew.pl(in Polish)
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Association football clubs established in 1922
1922 establishments in Poland
Football clubs in Kociewie
Football clubs in Pomeranian Voivodeship