WKS Śląsk Wrocław SA

Over thirty players and two coaches represented Śląsk and Warta in their careers.

Bogdan Kajdasz This Warta graduate played for our club in its first season in the Premier League. He originally went to Legia, from which he was loaned to Śląsk in the summer of 1951. After Wrocław’s relegation from the second league, he returned to the capital. During the 1952 season, he returned to Wrocław and won promotion to the second league with OWKS in 1952. He scored important goals. In the next season, he returned to Poznań and became a Lech player.

He played in Kolejorz for two years to return to his hometown, Warta. He died in 2007.

Edmund Kruger in 1955-56 the only Poznań player in CWKS (in 1956 Zenon Witczak played

in reserves). The team’s smallest player, but without the slightest fear of fighting a physically stronger opponent – this is how his teammate Mieczysław Jurecki summed him up. He contributed significantly to the promotion of the Military Team to the 2nd league. He was a player of the first eleven in coach Suchoń’s team. After the army, he returned to Warta, where it was difficult for him to break into the first team and he played mainly in the reserves. He died in 1997.

Tadeusz Błażejewski a student of Warta, with whom he was promoted to the second league in 1955. In the years 1957-58, the leading striker of Silesia, in the 1959 season he already played for Legia. The club from the capital turned out to be faster than Pogoń Szczecin and Warta. The competition between these three clubs for this striker was widely commented on in the press at the time. With Legia, he won the Polish runner-up title in 1960 and the bronze medal of the Ekstraklasa in 1961. In 1963, he returned to his hometown of Warta.

He died in 2001.

Tadeusz Łuczak in September 1956 he made his debut in the first Warta team. He came to Silesia at the end of 1959 as part of his military service. Already as a conscript, with the consent of Wrocław activists, he played in the last match of the season in Warta against … Śląsk. In May 1960, he suffered a serious injury during a match between Wrocław and Opole. He then returned to Poznań. In 1961, Śląsk activists convinced him to play for Wrocław again, arranging for him to be transferred to the reserve. He was considered the most versatile player in the then WKS. He played the ball very well and led the team tactically. In the 1962/63 season he was captain. One of the first civilians in the club. In the summer of 1963, he returned to Warta, where he played until the fall of 1973. After finishing his football career, he coached subsequent generations of the Greens in various age categories. In 2012, he was recognized as Warta’s Trainer of the Century. He died in 2020.

Paweł Sasin he made his debut for WKS in the fall of 2001 in a match against RKS Radomsko.

It was – as it later turned out – his only top league appearance in the relegation season for Silesia. Not having a guaranteed place in the first team, at the beginning of 2002 he was on tests in the third league Inkopax Wrocław, but eventually he stayed at Oporowska. The next season he played much more, but he did not save WKS from another relegation. In the 3rd league he was an outstanding player for Śląsk. After the unsuccessful second league play-offs with Arka, he was loaned to Lech Poznań. In the summer of 2005, Kolejorz bought him from Śląsk. After just half a year, he joined Korona. In 2008, he and the Kielce club were punitively relegated to the second league for his involvement in corruption. In the spring of 2009, he returned to the top league, joining Cracovia. In the fall of 2011, he played for Warta, which was then in the Ekstraklasa.

Waldemar Tęsiorowski he is one of the most famous players of Silesia, a long-time captain of our club. In 1987, he won the Polish Cup with WKS. After being relegated from the top league with Wojskowy, in the summer of 1993 he left for Warta Poznań, where he spent half a year. Then he played for Ślęza Wroclaw and Górnik Zabrze for a little longer. In the summer of 1995, he joined GKS Bełchatów. He was a player of Brunatny until April 1996. He returned to Silesia twice more

– in 1998 and 2003. After finishing his football career, he became an assistant to coach Tarasiewicz. As the second coach, he was promoted with Wojskowe to the second league in 2005 and to the top league in 2008. He also won the Ekstraklasa Cup in 2009.

Śląsk and Warta Poznań players:

Tadeusz Błażejewski: Warta (Wych) to 1956 and 1963-70, Silesia 1957-58

Edward Cecot: Warta 1994-95, Śląsk 1999-00

Marian Cichosz: Śląsk (CWKS) 1955(w), Warta 1962-63

Krzysztof Danielewicz: Silesia 2014-15(j), 2020(w) Warta

Paweł Kaczorowski: Śląsk 2007(w), Warta 2007-08

Bogdan Kajdasz: Warta (wych) until 1950 and 1955, Silesia (OWKS) 1951-52 (with a break)

Robert Kiłdanowicz: Warta 1992-94 (with a break), Śląsk 1995(j)

Piotr Kluzek: Warta 1998(w), Śląsk 2008(w)

Edmund Krüger: Warta 1952-54 and 1957-59 (reserves), Silesia (CWKS) 1955-56

Tadeusz Łuczak: Warta (w) to 1959, 1960(j) and 1963-70, Silesia 1960(w) and 1961-63

Jerzy Misztur: Silesia 1989-93, Warta 1993(j)

Rafał Molewski: Warta 1994-95 and 1996(j), Silesia 1995-96

Piotr Najewski: Warta 1996(w) and 2003(j), Śląsk 2000(w)

Tomasz Nawrot: Warta (sneakers) and 2004(w), Śląsk 2003(w)

Czesław Owczarek: Warta 1991-93, 1994(j) and 1998(w), Śląsk 1997(j)

Leszek Partyński: Śląsk 1983-84 (reserves), Warta 1991-93

Bartłomiej Pawłowski: Warta 2012(j), Śląsk 2020-21(j)

Sebastian Przybyszewski: Śląsk 2008(w), Warta 2009-10

Paweł Sasin: Silesia 2001-04, Warta 2011(j)

Jakub Słowik: Warta 2012(w), Śląsk 2017-19

Grzegorz Szamotulski: Śląsk 2001(w), Warta 2011(j)

Dariusz Szwagiel: Silesia (ych) until 1983 (reserves), Warta 1987-90 and 1991-93

Waldemar Tęsiorowski: Śląsk 1978-81 (juniors, reserves), 1984-93, 1998-99 and 2003-04, Warta 1993(j)

Marcin Trojanowski: 2008-09(j) Śląsk (ME), Warta 2012-13

Grzegorz Wan: Silesia 2005 and 2006-07, Warta 2008-09

Kazimierz Witczak: Warta (Wych) to 1957, Silesia 1961-62

Zenon Witczak: Warta (ych) until 1955 and 1956-58, Śląsk (CWKS) 1956 (reserves)

Dariusz Wojciechowski: Warta 1994(j), 1998(w), 2000(j) and 2004(j), Śląsk 1996-97

Marcin Wojciechowski: Śląsk 2002(j), Warta 2003(j), 2008-09 and 2010-11

Jerzy Zawadzki: Warta (high) to 1962 and 1964-73, Silesia 1963-64 (reserves)

Mieczysław Zawadzki: Warta 1959 and 1962-64, Śląsk 1960 (reserves)

Note: the list includes players who played in an official match of the first team for at least one club.

Śląsk and Warta coaches:

1. Petr Němec: Śląsk 2001-02, Warta 2016-19

2. Piotr Tworek: Warta 2019-21(j), Śląsk 2022(w)

Rafał Grodzicki – Śląsk footballer (2012-14). From May to December 2023, sports manager in Warta.

Jerzy Kasalik – football player (1969-70) and coach of Śląsk (1997), manager in Warta in the spring of 1995.

Mateusz Maćkowiak – a graduate of Warta, where he played in the youth teams

until spring 2016. Reserve player in Śląsk (2020-21).