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List of Lechia Gdańsk managers

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This is a list of Lechia Gdańsk managers. The current manager is Szymon Grabowski who joined the club on 14 June 2023. Most of the managers through Lechia's history have been Polish, however in recent years more nationalities have been represented. Currently there have been 8 managers from countries other than Poland, the first being Václav Křížek (Czech Republic) in 1949, and most recently David Badía (Spain) in 2023. Both Jerzy Jastrzębowski and Piotr Stokowiec could be seen as Lechia's most successful managers, with Jastrzębowski winning both the Polish Cup and Polish Super Cup in 1983, and getting Lechia promoted from III liga and II liga in successive seasons in 1983 and 1984,[1] with Stokowiec winning Lechia’s second Polish Cup and Polish Super Cup, while leading the team to their joint highest ever Ekstraklasa finish of 3rd, all in 2019. The other manager who has the record for managing Lechia to their highest finish in the Polish league is Tadeusz Foryś who achieved the feat in 1956.

Managers

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The list of managers from 1949 is complete.[2]

The first person to be classed as a head coach or manager of Lechia Gdańsk is Zygmunt Czyżewski who was in place for the first year after the clubs founding in 1945, while the club was in the regional divisions of Polish football. Czyżewski held this role while also being a player for the club, being the clubs first and only known player-manager. After Czyżewski left the role there are no known persons who held such a clear and defined role as "head coach" between 1946 until the clubs promotion into the Ekstraklasa in 1949. It is likely that during this time a player at the club also held the role of manager while playing, having a role similar to Czyżewski. By Lechia's own admission it was not until 1949 when the club made their first appearance in the Ekstraklasa did they have their first proper manager at the club when Ryszard Koncewicz was given the role.[3]

In total there have been 64 different people appointed as manager of Lechia Gdańsk over 79 different managerial appointments. Nine managers of Lechia Gdańsk have spent more than one spell at the club, the highest being Michał Globisz who held the position of manager four times, albeit two of those times being as caretaker-manager. 17 of the 61 managers previously spent time at Lechia during their playing careers. Aside from Polish, eight other nationalities have been represented by foreign managers, with no foreign manager having managed to win more than 10 games as manager. In two of the managerial appointments, the clubs official sources claim there have been two people working together as the manager of the team. Both of these instances occurred during the Lechia-Polonia Gdańsk spell between 1998 and 2002. The first such instance was when Lechia-Polonia was first merged with Witold Kulik and Stanisław Stachura managing together for 29 games. The other instance happened after the sacking of Jerzy Jastrzębowski when Wiesław Wika and Lech Kulwicki jointly became the caretaker-managers. It should be noted however that in these instances it is most likely that Witold Kulik and Wiesław Wika were the official managers of the team, with Stanisław Stachura and Lech Kulwicki being the assistant managers during their appointments during this time. Wika was in charge of one game, winning the game, and are therefor technically the only managers in the clubs history to have a perfect record. The turnover rate of managers throughout the clubs history has been high with only four managers, Jerzy Jastrzębowski, Stanisław Stachura, Bogusław Kaczmarek and Piotr Stokowiec having made it to 100 games as manager for the club.

Dates

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Some of the managers full dates of when they started/finished the job are known, where as with others its only the year that is known. The dates have been added to try and give the most accurate representation of when the manager held their role at the club.

If a manager is known to have left at the end of the season but the full date is not known, the date listed is that of the final official date of the season (for example this date is usually on 30 June if the season runs July–June), the same is for if a manager is known to have started at the beginning of the following season, the date listed will be the first official date of the season (this is usually 1 July if the season runs July–June). Some managers are known to have started their role after the winter break, if the official date is not known these will be listed as 1 February as often friendlies/official games were not played in January.

List

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Statistics & records

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Records

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(Correct as of 1 September 2022)

Managerial statistics

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This is a list of Lechia Gdańsk managers and their statistics in competitive competitions. The list includes caretaker managers, those managers given the contract on a caretaker/interim basis are shown in italics.

Name Nat From To G W D L %W
Lechia Gdańsk
Zygmunt Czyżewski Poland 7 August 1945 30 June 1946 20 13 2 5 65%
Ryszard Koncewicz Poland 1 February 1949 4 July 1949 10 3 1 6 30%
Václav Křížek Czech Republic 5 July 1949 31 December 1949 12 1 2 9 8.3%
Czesław Bartolik Poland 1 February 1950 19 April 1953 67 31 13 23 46.2%
Ferdinand Fritsch Austria 20 April 1953 31 December 1953 18 2 5 11 11.1%
Tadeusz Foryś Poland 1 February 1954 31 December 1957 93 43 24 26 46.2%
Leszek Goździk Poland 1 February 1958 31 December 1958 22 3 8 11 13.6%
Henryk Serafin Poland 1 February 1959 7 August 1960 39 12 9 18 30.7%
Piotr Nierychło Poland 8 August 1960 16 March 1961 7 3 1 3 42.8%
Lajos Szolár Hungary 17 March 1961 31 December 1961 26 9 6 11 34.6%
Edward Drabiński Poland 1 January 1962 19 August 1962 20 7 3 8 35%
Grzegorz Polakow Poland 20 August 1962 23 September 1962 5 1 0 4 20%
Roman Rogocz Poland 24 September 1962 30 June 1963 19 3 3 13 15.7%
Władysław Lemiszko Poland 1 July 1963 22 November 1964 47 17 10 20 36.1%
Jerzy Wrzos Poland 1 February 1965 30 June 1966 47 17 15 15 36.1%
Henryk Gronowski Poland 1 July 1966 27 November 1966 17 4 5 8 23.5%
Edward Brzozowski Poland 1 February 1967 10 September 1967 21 8 6 7 38%
Bogumił Gozdur Poland 11 September 1967 30 June 1970 87 44 21 22 50.5%
Jerzy Słaboszowski Poland 1 July 1970 30 June 1971 34 24 6 4 70.5%
Roman Rogocz Poland 1 July 1971 30 June 1973 31 22 4 5 70.9%
Ryszard Kulesza Poland 1 July 1972 30 June 1974 63 21 23 19 33.3%
Wojciech Łazarek Poland 1 July 1974 30 November 1975 53 30 14 9 56.6%
Grzegorz Polakow Poland 1 February 1976 30 June 1976 15 8 5 2 53.3%
Marian Geszke Poland 1 July 1976 28 November 1976 16 5 9 2 31.2%
Józef Walczak Poland 29 November 1976 30 June 1978 46 27 13 6 58.6%
Janusz Pekowski Poland 1 July 1978 30 June 1979 35 20 9 6 57.1%
Wojciech Przybylski Poland 1 July 1979 30 November 1980 49 19 17 13 38.7%
Jerzy Brzyski Poland 1 February 1981 30 June 1981 16 3 6 7 18.7%
Michał Globisz Poland 1 June 1981 20 March 1982 18 5 4 9 27.7%
Edward Wojewódzki Poland 21 March 1982 30 June 1982 13 1 4 8 7.7%
Jerzy Jastrzębowski Poland 1 July 1982 23 September 1984 76 49 16 11 64.4%
Michał Globisz Poland 24 September 1984 24 November 1984 7 2 3 2 28.5%
Wojciech Łazarek Poland 25 November 1984 24 November 1985 40 10 11 19 25%
Michał Globisz Poland 1 February 1986 30 June 1986 12 4 4 4 33.3%
Marian Geszke Poland 1 July 1986 30 June 1987 33 9 9 15 27.2%
Zbigniew Kociołek Poland 1 July 1987 2 April 1988 21 4 10 7 19%
Stanisław Stachura Poland 3 April 1988 14 May 1989 39 12 8 19 30.7%
Bogusław Kaczmarek Poland 15 May 1989 6 June 1992 116 37 36 43 31.8%
Adam Musiał Poland 7 June 1992 30 June 1993 39 16 11 12 41%
Zbigniew Tymiński Poland 1 July 1993 25 September 1993 12 2 2 8 16.6%
Marian Geszke Poland 26 September 1993 19 November 1994 42 13 13 16 30.9%
Janusz Kupcewicz Poland 1 February 1995 30 June 1995 17 4 4 9 23.5%
Olimpia-Lechia Gdańsk
Hubert Kostka Poland 1 July 1995 27 April 1996 26 8 3 15 30.7%
Stanisław Stachura Poland 28 April 1996 30 June 1996 9 3 4 2 33.3%
Lechia Gdańsk
Stanisław Stachura Poland 1 July 1996 16 November 1996 14 4 1 9 28.5%
Józef Gładysz Poland 17 November 1996 30 June 1997 21 5 6 10 28.8%
Andrzej Bikiewicz Poland 1 July 1997 30 June 1998 35 22 7 6 62.8%
Lechia-Polonia Gdańsk
Witold Kulik Poland 1 July 1998 30 June 1999 29 13 4 12 44.8%
Jerzy Jastrzębowski Poland 1 July 1999 4 March 2000 27 9 7 11 33.3%
Wiesław Wika & Lech Kulwicki Poland 5 March 2000 11 March 2000 1 1 0 0 100%
Romuald Szukiełowicz Poland 12 March 2000 4 October 2000 34 12 9 13 35.2%
Stanisław Stachura Poland 5 October 2000 30 June 2002 65 16 13 36 24.6%
Lechia Gdańsk
Michał Globisz Poland 1 July 2001 25 August 2001 2 2 0 0 100%
Tadeusz Małolepszy Poland 26 August 2001 16 November 2002 38 30 4 4 78.9%
Jerzy Jastrzębowski Poland 1 February 2003 21 May 2004 53 45 3 5 84.9%
Marcin Kaczmarek Poland 22 May 2004 16 June 2006 74 38 17 19 51.3%
Tomasz Borkowski Poland 17 June 2006 27 August 2007 41 16 12 13 39%
Dariusz Kubicki Poland 30 August 2007 22 July 2008 32 22 4 6 68.7%
Jacek Zieliński Poland 23 July 2008 5 April 2009 37 9 7 21 24.3%
Tomasz Kafarski Poland 7 April 2009 8 November 2011 94 32 27 35 34%
Rafał Ulatowski Poland 9 November 2011 14 December 2011 4 1 3 25%
Paweł Janas Poland 17 December 2011 24 May 2012 13 3 5 5 23%
Bogusław Kaczmarek Poland 6 June 2012 4 June 2013 32 11 8 13 34.3%
Michał Probierz Poland 4 June 2013 26 March 2014 42 12 15 15 28.5%
Ricardo Moniz Netherlands 27 March 2014 4 June 2014 10 5 3 2 50%
Quim Machado Portugal 16 June 2014 21 September 2014 9 3 3 3 33.3%
Tomasz Unton Poland 21 September 2014 17 November 2014 7 1 2 4 14.2%
Jerzy Brzęczek Poland 17 November 2014 1 September 2015 30 11 9 10 36.6%
Thomas von Heesen Germany 1 September 2015 3 December 2015 12 3 2 7 25%
Dawid Banaczek Poland 3 December 2015 13 January 2016 3 2 1 66.6%
Piotr Nowak Poland 13 January 2016 27 September 2017 66 31 16 19 46.9%
Adam Owen Wales 27 September 2017 3 March 2018 16 4 6 6 25%
Piotr Stokowiec Poland 5 March 2018 28 August 2021 139 64 35 40 46.6%
Tomasz Kaczmarek Poland 1 September 2021 1 September 2022 40 18 7 15 45%
Maciej Kalkowski Poland 1 September 2022 19 September 2022 3 0 2 1 0%
Marcin Kaczmarek Poland 19 September 2022 21 March 2023 18 7 2 9 38.8%
David Badía Spain 21 March 2023 14 June 2023 9 1 2 6 11.1%
Szymon Grabowski Poland 14 June 2023 present 35 21 5 9 60%

Stats correct as of 31 May 2024.

Honours

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This is a list of honours of Lechia Gdańsk and the manager who was in charge of Lechia when they achieved that honour.

Ekstraklasa

Polish Cup

Polish Super Cup:

I liga

II liga

European Competitions

Condensed

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Competition won Manager & year
Polish Cup Jerzy Jastrzębowski (1983)
Piotr Stokowiec (2019)
Polish Super Cup Jerzy Jastrzębowski (1983)
Piotr Stokowiec (2019)

Top three Ekstraklasa finishes

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Position Manager Year
3rd Tadeusz Foryś 1956
Piotr Stokowiec 2018–19

International managers

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The managers below have managed Lechia as well as managing an international team at some point during their career. The dates in brackets are the managers time with Lechia.

Poland
Antigua and Barbuda
Sudan
Tunisia

References

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