Puszcza Niepołomice

Polish football club located in Niepołomice, Polan

Football club

MKS Puszcza Niepołomice

Full name

Miejski Klub Sportowy Puszcza Niepołomice

Founded

1923; 101 years ago (1923)

Ground

Puszcza Stadium
Cracovia Stadium

Capacity

2,118 (Niepołomice)
15,016 (Kraków)

Chairman

Jarosław Pieprzyca

Manager

Tomasz Tułacz

League

Ekstraklasa

2023–24

Ekstraklasa, 12th of 18

Website

Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Current season

MKS Puszcza Niepołomice (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpuʂt͡ʂa ɲɛpɔwɔˈmit͡sɛ]) is a professional Polish football club located in Niepołomice, Poland. It currently plays in the Ekstraklasa after achieving promotion from I liga in 2023. The team's colors are yellow, white and green.

History

Puszcza Niepołomice was originally called Sports Club Niepołomianka. The team was established on the initiative of mayor Andrzej Wimer and Stanisław Ziemba, Władysław Iwański, Stanisław Brudnik and Adolf Engel in 1923.

The first president of KS Niepołomianka was Władysław Iwański. The then board also included the treasurer Stanisław Brudnik and the manager of the team - Stanisław Ziemba.

On 11 June 2023, a year in which Puszcza celebrated their 100th anniversary, they won the 2022–23 I liga play-off final and achieved promotion to Ekstraklasa for the first time in the club's history.^[1]

In their first-ever top-flight season, Puszcza recorded upset wins and draws against title contenders, and were praised for their effective use of set-pieces to score the majority of their goals,^[2]^[3] as they finished the 2023–24 campaign in 12th.^[4] For their efforts, Tomasz Tułacz and Oliwier Zych were nominated for Coach of the Season and Goalkeeper of the Season awards, respectively.^[5]

Honours

I liga
- Promotion play-off winner: 2022–23
Polish Cup
- Quarter-finalists: 2016–17, 2018–19, 2020–21

Stadium

From the 2023–24 season, Puszcza Niepołomice play at the Cracovia Stadium in Kraków, due to ineligibility of their ground in Niepołomice to host Ekstraklasa matches.^[6]

Current squad

As of 2 July 2024.^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	POL	Kewin Komar
3	DF	UKR	Roman Yakuba
5	DF	POL	Konrad Stępień
6	MF	KOR	Lee Jin-hyun
7	MF	BRA	Thiago
8	MF	POL	Piotr Mroziński
9	FW	POL	Artur Siemaszko
10	MF	POL	Hubert Tomalski
11	MF	POL	Mateusz Cholewiak
13	GK	POL	Krzysztof Wróblewski
14	MF	POL	Jakub Serafin (captain)
15	DF	POL	Piotr Gruszecki
16	MF	POL	Michał Walski
19	MF	POL	Jakub Stec
20	DF	POL	Filip Gil
22	DF	MDA	Artur Crăciun
27	DF	POL	Łukasz Sołowiej


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
28	MF	POL	Igor Pieprzyca
37	MF	POL	Szymon Jopek
44	MF	POL	Kacper Cichoń
45	FW	SVN	Rok Kidrič
67	DF	MDA	Ioan-Călin Revenco
70	MF	POL	Wojciech Hajda
80	MF	POL	Jakub Wójcik
93	MF	POL	Bartłomiej Poczobut
99	GK	POL	Kacper Piechota
—	DF	POL	Dawid Abramowicz
—	MF	POL	Patryk Kieliś
—	GK	POL	Michał Perchel
—	MF	POL	Mateusz Radecki
—	DF	SVK	Michal Sipľak
—	DF	POL	Dawid Szymonowicz
—	MF	POL	Mateusz Wójcik

Notable players

The players below played for their respective countries at any point during their career.

Notable Polish players

Notable foreign players

References

^ "Zwroty akcji w grze o PKO Ekstraklasę. Sensacyjny awans". sportowefakty.wp.pl (in Polish). 11 June 2023.
^ Witczyk, Łukasz (9 March 2024). "Trener Rakowa chwali Tomasza Tułacza. "Wykonuje dobrą pracę"". sportowefakty.wp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 25 May 2024.
^ "Stałe fragmenty – drużynowo". ekstrastats.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 25 May 2024.
^ Knura, Michał (25 May 2024). "Ekstraklasa zakończyła sezon. Puszcza wyżej od Cracovii, która przegrała w osłabieniu". sport.lovekrakow.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 25 May 2024.
^ "Tomasz Tułacz i Oliwier Zych nominowani do nagród sezonu!" (in Polish). Puszcza Niepołomice. 13 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
^ "Puszcza Niepołomice zagra przy Kałuży!". cracovia.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-06-22.
^ "Pierwsza drużyna" (in Polish). Puszcza Niepołomice. Retrieved 11 June 2023.