Ginter Gawlik

Ginter Gawlik

Personal information
Date of birth	5 December 1930
Place of birth	Borsigwerk, Germany
Date of death	22 August 2005(2005-08-22) (aged 74)
Place of death	Würzburg, Germany
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defender, midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1942–1944	Reichsbahn SV Borsigwerk
1945–1950	Górnik Biskupice
1950–1964	Górnik Zabrze	136	(21)
1964–1965	Polonia Sydney
1966–1967	Polonia Sydney
International career
1957–1958	Poland	7	(1)
Managerial career
1966–1967	Polonia Sydney (player-manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ginter Gawlik (5 December 1930 – 22 August 2005) was a Polish footballer. He spent most of career playing for Polish team Górnik Zabrze.

Gawlik, who was not raised in Poland (until 1945, Zabrze, then called Hindenburg, belonged to Germany), started his career in the mid-1940s for the German team Reichsbahn SV Borsigwerk. After 1945, he played for Górnik Biskupice and in 1950 he moved to Górnik Zabrze, a powerhouse of Polish football. While playing for Górnik, the team won 5 Polish football championships in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Also, he played for the Poland national team, scoring one goal in 7 games. His debut took place on 23 June 1957 in Chorzów, when Poland beat the Soviet Union 2–1.

Honours

Górnik Zabrze

• Ekstraklasa: 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962–63, 1963–64