Stal Stalowa Wola

Founded in 1938, the club competes in the II liga, the third division of Polish football.

Stal Stalowa Wola

Full name	Stal Stalowa Wola Piłkarska Spółka Akcyjna
Nickname(s)	Stalówka Hutnicy (Steelworkers)
Founded	1938; 86 years ago (1938) as Klub Sportowy Stalowa Wola (Sports Club Stalowa Wola)
Ground	Podkarpackie Centrum Piłki Nożnej
Capacity	3,764
Chairman	Wiesław Siembida
Coach	Ireneusz Pietrzykowski
League	II liga
2022–23	III liga, group IV, 1st of 18 (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Stal's greatest success are 12th place in the 1993–94 Ekstraklasa, 1990–91 I liga championship and the quarter-final of the 1991–92 Polish Cup. It is the fourth best team in the history of the I liga, second professional association football division.

Since the spring round of the 2019–20 season, Stalowa Wola has played its home games at the 3,764-capacity Podkarpackie Centrum Piłki Nożnej. Previously the team had played at the Stadion MOSiR from the 1930s, when the stadium was built. The club has a long-standing rivalry with Siarka Tarnobrzeg, and matches between the two sides are known as the great derby of Subcarpathia.

The club's traditional colours are green and black, and the club is known as Stalówka and Hutnicy (Steelworkers). At the beginning of its existence, it was associated with the Huta Stalowa Wola. In May 2010, a joint-stock sport company was built up under the name "Stal Stalowa Wola Piłkarska Spółka Akcyjna". It is the lawful successor and continuator of the "ZKS Stal Stalowa Wola" tradition. In July 2018, the city of Stalowa Wola took over the club's majority stake.

In 1938, Feliks Olszak [pl], who was the director of Huta Stalowa Wola, established the Klub Sportowy Stalowa Wola (Sports Club Stalowa Wola). At that time, the club had a pitch without running tracks and stands. The players were amateurs. During this period, training sessions took place after finishing work, and the matches were played on Sunday. The first match took place on May 4, 1939, in the Saint Florian's Day who is the patron saint of steelworkers.

After the World War II, the club resumed its activity. In the 1953 season, Stal won the Klasa A (4th level). For the first time footballers from Stalowa Wola were promoted to II liga (2nd level) in 1973, under the leadership of Jerzy Kopa. Stal players played in the second league until 1987, when they won promotion to Ekstraklasa in the play-offs against Górnik Knurów. Stal Stalowa Wola played in Ekstraklasa in the following seasons: 1987–88, 1991–92, 1993–94 and 1994–95. The greatest successes of Stal include participation in the quarter-finals of the Polish Cup (1991–92 edition).

In the wake of winning the 2001–02 II liga (fourth group), Stal was elevated to I liga. In the primary season in the subsequent level, it was fifteenth completing in the relegation zone. At this level, it showed up again in 2006. It tumbled to the third level after the 2009–10 season, assuming the penultimate position in the league, ahead of Motor Lublin only. In the 2009–10 Polish Cup edition, Stal reached the 1/8 finals. In the second round, it unexpectedly eliminated the title defender Lech Poznań with Robert Lewandowski in the squad (0–0, p. 4–1). In 2010–2020, Stal played continuously in II liga.

The 2019–20 II liga season began severely for the Subcarpathian team – they had one point in the initial five matches. After the loss to Błękitni Stargard (0–1), the coach Paweł Wtorek resigned. He was replaced by Szymon Szydełko, who was unable to turn around the club's fortunes. Stalówka finished the season in 15th, thus becoming relegated to III liga. Szydełko stayed at the club, beginning another season with a victory in the Polish Cup over the II liga side Skra Częstochowa (3–1 win). On October 31, 2020, after the 0–3 loss to Wisła Puławy, Szymon Szydełko was released from his contract (at the time of his release, Stal was sixth, 18 points behind to first place). On November 4, 2020, Jaromir Wieprzęć was announced as his successor. They were not able to win the promotion back the following season, finding themselves remaining in the fourth-tier III liga.

In the 2022–23 season, Stal won the Polish Cup of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and were promoted to the II liga – securing promotion in the penultimate round by winning 7–0 over Wisła Sandomierz and reaching a six-point lead over Avia Świdnik.

• 1938–1944 – Klub Sportowy Stalowa Wola (Sports Club Stalowa Wola)
• 1944–1947 – Związkowy Klub Sportowy Stalowa Wola (Association Sports Club Stalowa Wola)
• 1947–1949 – Związkowy Klub Sportowy Metal Stalowa Wola (Association Sports Club Metal Stalowa Wola)
• 1949–1952 – Związkowy Klub Sportowy Stal Stalowa Wola (Association Sports Club Stalowa Wola)
• 1952–1957 – Koło Sportowe Stalowa Wola (The Sports Network Stalowa Wola)
• 1957–1958 – Międzyzakładowy Klub Sportowy Stal Stalowa Wola, in short MKS Stal Stalowa Wola
• 1958–2010 – Zakładowy Klub Sportowy Stal Stalowa Wola, in short ZKS Stal Stalowa Wola
• 2010–today – Stal Stalowa Wola Piłkarska Spółka Akcyjna (Stal Stalowa Wola Football Joint Stock Company), in short Stal Stalowa Wola P.S.A.

 

Stal Stalowa Wola plays its home matches at the Podkarpackie Centrum Piłki Nożnej (Subcarpathian Football Center) at the Hutnicza 10a Street. It opened in 2020 and has been the home stadium of Stal Stalowa Wola since its completion. The stadium has lighting and a heated pitch. It holds 3,764 people (including 258 seats for visitors fans). In the first match at the new stadium, on February 29, 2020, Stal drew 0–0 with Bytovia Bytów (it was also the inauguration of artificial lighting).

Current squad

As of 15 March 2021

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   SVK Adrián Knurovský 2 DF   POL Adam Waszkiewicz 4 MF   POL Wiktor Stępniowski 6 MF   POL Maciej Wojtak 8 DF   POL Michał Zięba 10 MF   POL Piotr Mroziński 11 MF   POL Rafał Surmiak 13 MF   POL Przemysław Stelmach 14 MF   POL Bartosz Wiktoruk 15 MF   POL Filip Szifer 16 DF   POL Bartosz Sobotka 18 FW   POL Tomasz Płonka 20 MF   POL Szymon Jopek

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF   POL Jakub Lebioda 22 FW   POL Bartosz Tłuczek 24 DF   POL Mateusz Hudzik 26 FW   POL Oliwier Pilch 27 DF   UKR Volodymyr Khorolskyi 43 GK   POL Tomasz Wietecha 99 GK   POL Maciej Siudak — MF   GUI Aboubacar Condé — MF   POL Aleksander Drobot — MF   SVK Dávid Haščák — MF   POL Kacper Piechniak — DF   POL Kacper Pietrzyk

Former players

Notable players

Players who have been capped, including national youth football teams.

Players who have played in the team of the Stal Stalowa Wola's stars against the Wisła Kraków's stars in 2017.

As of 23 March 2022

Club Management
President	Grzegorz Czajka
Coach	Łukasz Surma
Assistant coach	Maciej Gadowski
Physical preparation trainer	Bartłomiej Makowski
Physiotherapist	Łukasz Olszowy
Masseur	Tomasz Brud

Coaches over the years

List of coaches
2014–2016	Jaromir Wieprzęć
2016	Andrzej Kasiak
2016	Ryszard Kuźma
2016–2017	Rafał Wójcik
2017	Janusz Białek
2017–2018	Krzysztof Łętocha
2018	Tadeusz Krawiec
2018	Jaromir Wieprzęć
2018	Krzysztof Łętocha
2018–2019	Wojciech Fabianowski
2019	Paweł Wtorek
2019	Czesław Palik
2019–2020	Szymon Szydełko
2020–2021	Jaromir Wieprzęć
2021	Damian Skakuj
2021	Roland Thomas
2021–2022	Łukasz Bereta
2022–	Łukasz Surma

• I liga
  • Winners: 1990–91
• Polish Cup
  • Quarter-final: 1991–92

• Subcarpathian Stalowa Wola Polish Cup:
  • Winners: 2020–21
• Subcarpathian Polish Cup:
  • Runners-up: 2020–21

All-time records

• Ekstraklasa: 54th (103 points reached)
• I liga: 4th (1316 points reached)
• II liga: 17th (above 661 points reached)

Ekstraklasa records

• Number of seasons: 4
• First game: 0–1 (H) v Zagłębie Lubin (August 9, 1987)
• Biggest win: 4–0 (A) v Igloopol Dębica (November 23, 1991)
• Biggest defeat: 0–6 (A) v Górnik Zabrze (August 27, 1994)
• Longest series of victories: 2 (three times)
• Longest series of defeats: 4 (two times)
• Highest attendance at the Stadion MOSiR: 12,000 v Legia Warsaw 1–0 (October 30, 1994)

(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Polish Cup records

The following list is not complete.

1987–1988

1991–1992

1993–1994

1994–1995

Stal Stalowa Wola fans have a friendship with supporters of GKS Jastrzębie, Łada Biłgoraj, Polonia Przemyśl, Sokół Nisko and Stal Rzeszów. Stal's major rivals are Hutnik Kraków, Korona Kielce, KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Motor Lublin, Siarka Tarnobrzeg and Stal Mielec. The team's fan group is called "Stalówka The Firm". In 2020 officially begun a friendship with Ultras of Italian giants Inter Curva Nord Milano.

The great character species have games between Stal and Siarka Tarnobrzeg (called the great derby of Subcarpathia), Motor Lublin (called the east derby) and KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (called the metallurgical derby).

Stal Stalowa Wola II is a Polish football team, which serves as the reserve side of Stal Stalowa Wola. Reactivated in 2012, they began their participation with B class, having championed it in their first season (2012–13). Between 2019 and 2021, they were even featured in the IV league, but were relegated to the district class in 2021. They play their home matches at training pitch of the Podkarpackie Centrum Piłki Nożnej.