Cracovia (ice hockey)

Comarch Cracovia
Comarch Cracovia
City	Kraków, Poland
League	Polska Hokej Liga
Founded	1906 (club); 1923 (ice hockey section)
Home arena	Lodowisko im. Adama "Rocha" Kowalskiego
Colours	Red, white;
General manager	Mateusz Dróżdż
Head coach	Marek Ziętara
Website	cracovia-hokej.pl
Franchise history
1923–1997	KS Cracovia
1997-2023	MKS Cracovia SSA
2023-present	KS Cracovia SA

Cracovia, commonly erroneously referred to as Cracovia Kraków and currently playing as Comarch Cracovia for sponsorship reasons, is a professional ice hockey team based in Kraków, Poland. With 12 Polish Championships (as of 2022), it is one of the most accomplished Polish ice hockey teams. They play in the Polska Hokej Liga, the country's top division.

History

Founded in 1906, Cracovia is the oldest existing sports club in Poland. Ice hockey in the form of bandy had been first played around 1909, and the first North American style ice hockey game was played in 1912. The ice hockey section of the sports club was created in 1923. Currently, the men's ice hockey section functions independently, and is legally called MKS Cracovia SSA. The women's section continues to function under the sports society of KS Cracovia.

The men's professional team won five league titles in the 1930s and 1940s. It took them 57 years to win another league title after winning in 1949. They finally won the PLH again in 2006, and have since added six more titles, in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2017.

They are also the first Polish team to compete in the Champions Hockey League. They made their debut in the 2016–17 edition, where they were put into a group with Färjestad BK from the Swedish Hockey League and HC Sparta Praha from the Czech Extraliga. They would lose all four group stage matches.^[1]

Achievements

Polish champions (12 times): 1937, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017.
Polish Cup winners (3 times): 2013, 2015, 2021.
Polish SuperCup winners (3 times): 2014, 2016, 2017.
IIHF Continental Cup: 2022.
Polish 1. Liga champion (4 times): 1965, 1967, 1977, 2004.

Players

Current roster

Source: cracovia-hokej.pl^[2]Source: eliteprospects.com^[3]As of November 8, 2021.


No.	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
–	Denis Perevozchikov	G	L	31	2020	Perm, Russia
90	Aleš Ježek	D	L	34	2018	Tábor, Czechoslovakia
15	Collin Shirley	LW	L	28	2021	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
–	Lukasz Hebda	G	L	24	2019	Krynica-Zdrój, Poland
16	Saku Kinnunen	D	L	29	2021	Kuhmo, Finland
95	Damian Kapica	RW	L	32	2015	Nowy Targ, Poland
89	Jiří Gula	D	R	35	2019	Most, Czechoslovakia
94	Štěpán Csamangó	RW	R	30	2020	Czech Republic
3	Patryk Gosztyla	D	L	24	2019	Krynica-Zdrój, Poland
–	Jere Karlsson	D	L	29	2021	Turku, Finland
88	Artyom Voroshilo	RW	L	36	2021	Suoyarvi, Russia
11	Antoni Dziurdzia	F	L	23	2017	Kraków, Poland
2	Martin Dudáš	D	L	37	2020	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
72	David Zabolotny	G	L	30	2021	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
49	Jakub Müller	D	R	25	2021	Slaný, Czech Republic
32	Grigori Mishchenko	LW	R	32	2021	Kanibadam, Tajikistan
33	Jakub Šaur	D	L	32	2020	Brno, Czechoslovakia
10	Yevgeni Bodrov	C	L	36	2021	Tolyatti, Russia
81	Mateusz Bezwinski	D	L	23	2019	Kraków, Poland
14	Erik Němec	LW	L	30	2020	Metylovice, Czech Republic
12	Michal Jaracz	D	L	22	2018	Skawina, Poland
43	Maxim Ignatovich	D	R	33	2020	Novosibirsk, Russia
71	Sebastian Brynkus	F	L	23	2018	Nowy Targ, Poland
24	Dmitri Ismagilov	F	L	31	2021	Chelyabinsk, Russia
13	Yevgeni Popitich	F	L	30	2021	Perm, Russia
8	Łukasz Kamiński	F	L	25	2018	Nowy Targ, Poland
50	Ivan Yatsenko	C	L	32	2021	Yekaterinburg, Russia
7	Igor Augustyniak	F	R	23	2019	Tychy, Poland