2022–23 Górnik Zabrze season

The 2022–23 season is Górnik Zabrze's 75th season in existence and the club's sixth consecutive season in the top flight of Polish football. In addition to the domestic league, Górnik Zabrze will participate in this season's edition of the Polish Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.

Górnik Zabrze

2022–23 season
Stadium	Arena Zabrze
Ekstraklasa	12th
Polish Cup	Round of 16
Home colours Away colours
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Players

First-team squad

As of 16 October 2022.^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  POL Daniel Bielica 3 DF  FIN Richard Jensen 4 DF  POL Aleksander Paluszek 5 DF  POL Kryspin Szcześniak (on loan from Pogoń Szczecin) 7 MF  ESP Dani Pacheco 8 MF  SVN Blaž Vrhovec 10 FW  GER Lukas Podolski 11 MF  POL Mateusz Cholewiak 13 DF  SWE Emil Bergström 15 MF  POL Norbert Wojtuszek 16 DF  POL Paweł Olkowski 17 MF  SUI Robin Kamber 20 FW  POL Szymon Włodarczyk

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 FW  POL Piotr Krawczyk 23 MF  CMR Jean Jules 24 MF  POL Krzysztof Kolanko 25 DF  GER Jonatan Kotzke 26 DF  POL Rafał Janicki 28 FW  POL Jan Ciućka 31 GK  POL Paweł Sokół 32 GK  GER Kevin Broll 33 MF  JPN Kanji Okunuki (on loan from Omiya Ardija) 64 DF  SVN Erik Janža (captain) 71 FW  SVN Amadej Maroša 77 DF  POL Jakub Szymański 96 DF  POL Robert Dadok

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 MF  POL Adrian Dziedzic (at Garbarnia Kraków until 30 June 2023) — GK  POL Jakub Grzesiak (at Stomil Olsztyn until 30 June 2023) — GK  POL Bartosz Neugebauer (at Chojniczanka Chojnice until 30 June 2023)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  POL Krzysztof Wingralek (at Znicz Pruszków until 30 June 2023) — MF  POL Mateusz Ziółkowski (at Zagłębie Sosnowiec until 30 June 2023)

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Ekstraklasa	15 July 2022	27 May 2023	Matchday 1		27	7	8	12	33	40	−7	025.93
Polish Cup	1 September 2022	8 November 2022	First round	Round of 16	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	066.67
Total					30	9	9	12	39	44	−5	030.00

Last updated: 6 April 2023
Source: Competitions

Ekstraklasa

Main article: 2022–23 Ekstraklasa

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
4	Pogoń Szczecin	34	17	9	8	57	46	+11	60	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round[a]
5	Piast Gliwice	34	15	8	11	40	31	+9	53
6	Górnik Zabrze	34	13	9	12	45	43	+2	48
7	Cracovia	34	12	10	12	41	35	+6	46
8	Warta Poznań	34	12	9	13	37	35	+2	45

Source: ekstraklasa.org
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Number of wins; 7) Number of away wins; 8) Lower number of points based on yellow and red cards (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, sending-off = 3 points - including 1 point for first yellow card); 9) Fairplay ranking; 10) Draw. (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played)^[2]
Notes:

1. Since the winner of the 2022–23 Polish Cup qualified for the Europa Conference League based on league position, the third Europa Conference League second qualifying round berth was transferred to the 4th-placed team.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: 6 April 2023.
Source: PKO Ekstraklasa

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Ground	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	L	W	W	L	D	D	D	D	W	L	L	L	D	W	W	L	L	D	D	L	W	L	L	W	L	D
Position

Updated to match(es) played on 6 April 2023. Source: PKO Ekstraklasa
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 1 June 2022.^[3]

Górnik Zabrze v Cracovia

18 July 2022 1	Górnik Zabrze	0–2	Cracovia	Zabrze
				Stadium: Stadion im. Ernesta Pohla

Polish Cup

Main article: 2022–23 Polish Cup

Statistics

Goalscorers