TG Sokół Sokołów Małopolski

The TG Sokół Sokołów Małopolski is a Polish football club based in Sokołów Małopolski, Poland. The club (as an independent Gymnastic Society) was established on November 17, 1894. They're currently playing in Klasa Okręgowa (6th league level).

Football

 * Regional OZPN Rzeszow Cup (winner) – 1950/1951
 * 1st place – Klasa A (promotion to Klasa Okręgowa – 3rd level) – 1971/72
 * III liga – 1973/74

Badminton

 * Second League – 1986/87, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90
 * 4th place - Youth Championships of Poland - 1989

Club name variations

 * 1894 TG Sokół Sokołów Małopolski
 * 1945 KS Sokołów Małopolski
 * 1947 ZKS Związkowiec Sokołów Małopolski
 * 1951 KS Spójnia Sokołów Małopolski
 * 1955 KS Sparta Sokołów Małopolski
 * 1957 KS Sokołowianka Sokołów Małopolski
 * 1998 TG Sokół Sokołów Małopolski
 * 2002 Crunchips TG Sokół Sokołów Małopolski
 * 2003 TG Sokół Sokołów Małopolski

History
The organisation was founded on the initiative of twenty-three members in 1894. The first chairman of TG Sokół Sokołów Małopolski was Karol de Rüdenstein Rampelt. Originally, the club consisted of gymnastics, athletics and bowling sections.

Association football was introduced in Sokołów in the summer of 1912 by Józef Woś, a student of Lviv University. Among the first Sokolów football enthusiasts and founders of the football team were Tadeusz Niedziocha, Karol Piela and Franciszek Smolak. TG Sokół played its first matches at Błonia near Turza, but in 1921 the club moved to the new stadium, where it has been playing ever since. In Interwar Period TG Sokół was a member of Lwów District Football Association also known as Lwów League.

In 1920's and 1930's also existed volleyball, acrobatics and basketball club departments.

TG Sokół Sokołów Małopolski was founder member of Rzeszów sub-district Football Association in 1938.

The club disbanded in 1939 after the beginning of the Second World War. During the war, the team suspended play until being re-established in 1945, but the new Soviet authorities banned the Sokół and it was not allowed to emerge after the war.

In 1947 the club was reactivated under the name of the Związkowy Klub Sportowy Związkowiec. The initiators of the revival of sports in Sokołów Małopolski in the post-war period were Tadeusz Łuszczki, Mieczysław Bieniek, Jan Osiniak, Piotr Pasierb, Kazimierz Stawiarski, Tadeusz Marian Śmietana and also some former players and activists of Pogoń Lwów.

Nowadays
In 2015, the club runs a football academy called Akademia Futbolu TG Sokół (Football Academy of TG Sokół). TG Sokół Sokołów Małopolski in 2019 becomes a junior partner of Raków Częstochowa.

Stadium
The construction of the current stadium of the club was completed in 1921 and is located in the west of the city.

Famous players

 * 🇵🇱 Piotr Piechniak, player of Polish national football team, former player of APO Levadiakos, Polonia Warszawa, GKS Katowice, Odra Wodzisław and Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski
 * 🇵🇱 Janusz Czyrek, former player of Zawisza Bydgoszcz and Stal Mielec
 * 🇵🇱 Mariusz Stelmach, former player of Śląsk Wrocław
 * 🇵🇱 Zdzisław Napieracz, former player of Zagłębie Sosnowiec and Stal Rzeszów
 * 🇵🇱 Zygmunt Marciniak, former player of Zawisza Bydgoszcz and Cracovia

Chairman

 * 🇦🇹 Karol de Rüdenstein Rampelt (since 1894)
 * 🇦🇹 Ignacy Pasierb
 * 🇦🇹 Jakub Stąpor
 * 🇦🇹 Franciszek Stąpor
 * 🇵🇱 Jan Grzybczyk-Rejent (since 1918)
 * 🇵🇱 Wincenty Stawiarski (to 1939)
 * 🇵🇱 Antoni Bałajewicz (1947–1950)
 * 🇵🇱 Jan Mikulaniec (1950–1951)
 * 🇵🇱 Marcin Kuryś (1951–1952)
 * 🇵🇱 Franciszek Ożóg (1952–1953)
 * 🇵🇱 Roman Babula (1953–1954)
 * 🇵🇱 Marcin Gabriel (1954–1955)
 * 🇵🇱 Teodor Piękoś (1955–1957)
 * 🇵🇱 Kazimierz Stawiarski (1957–1958)
 * 🇵🇱 Teodor Piękoś (1958–1959)
 * 🇵🇱 Kazimierz Stawiarski (1959–1961)
 * 🇵🇱 Teodor Piękoś (1961)
 * 🇵🇱 Jan Osiniak (1961–1962)
 * 🇵🇱 Teodor Piękoś (1962–1965)
 * 🇵🇱 Kazimierz Stawiarski (1965–1966)
 * 🇵🇱 Stanisław Chorzępa (1966–1981)
 * 🇵🇱 Jan Bieńkowski (1981–1988)
 * 🇵🇱 Władysław Frącz (1988)
 * 🇵🇱 Jan Bieńkowski (1988–1999)
 * 🇵🇱 Tadeusz Piela (1999–2004)
 * 🇵🇱 Kazimierz Woś (2004–2007)
 * 🇵🇱 Piotr Holdenmajer (2007)
 * 🇵🇱 Kazimierz Woś (2007–2011)
 * 🇵🇱 Mateusz Szot (2011–2014)
 * 🇵🇱 Mirosław Kus (2014)
 * 🇵🇱 Sławomir Dec (2014–present)

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