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Górniczy Klub Sportowy (GKS) Tychy is a Polish professional ice hockey team from Tychy which current plays in the Polska Hokej Liga, the highest professional ice hockey league in the country.
The club was founded April 20, 1971. GKS Tychy is a four-time Polish champion - 2005, 2015, 2018 and 2019. The club has also won eight Polish Cup titles, in 2001, 2006-2009, 2014, 2016 and 2017, making them the first Polish team to win the Cup three years in a row and to have nerver lost a Polish Cup final. Furthermore, GKS Tychy is the first Polish club who won a medal of European Cup with a third place in 2016 Continental Cup.
Stadion Zimowy, the home arena of GKS Tychy, has a capacity of 2,753 seats.
Players
John Murray
Jakub Zawalski
Denis Akimoto
Bartosz Ciura
Alexander Yeronov
Adam Baginski
Mike Cichy
Gleb Klimenko
Christian Mroczkowski
Alex Szczechura
Mike Szmatula
Alexei Yefimenko
Major achievements
Polish Championships
Winners (4): 2005, 2015, 2018, 2019
Runners-up (9): 1988, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017
Third place (6): 1981, 1983, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2013
Polish Cup
Winners (8): 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2017
Polish SuperCup
Winners (2): 2015, 2018
Finalist (1): 2017
IIHF Continental Cup
Third place (1): 2016
Famous players
Henryk Gruth
Krzysztof Oliwa
Mariusz Czerkawski
Michał Garbocz
External links
Official website (in Polish)
Polska Hokej Liga: PHL Tabela Archived 2017-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- GKS Tychy
- GKS Tychy (ice hockey)
- Tychy
- GKS Katowice (ice hockey)
- Mariusz Czerkawski
- Krzysztof Oliwa
- Mariusz Kieca
- Krzysztof Podsiadło
- Wojciech Tkacz
- Michal Piskoř