Orest Lenczyk

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Orest Lenczyk
Lenczyk with Śląsk Wrocław in 2012
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-12-28) 28 December 1942 (age 81)
Place of birth Sanok, Poland
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Sanoczanka Sanok
Stomil Poznań
Ślęza Wrocław
Moto Jelcz Oława
Managerial career
1970–1971 Karpaty Krosno
1972 Stal Rzeszów (assistant)
1972–1974 Siarka Tarnobrzeg
1974–1975 Stal Mielec (assistant)
1975–1976 Wisła Kraków (assistant)
1976–1979 Wisła Kraków
1979–1981 Śląsk Wrocław
1982–1984 Ruch Chorzów
1984–1985 Wisła Kraków
1985–1986 Igloopol Dębica
1987–1988 Widzew Łódź
1990–1991 GKS Katowice
1994 Wisła Kraków
1995 Pogoń Szczecin
1995–1996 GKS Katowice
1996–1999 Ruch Chorzów
1999 GKS Bełchatów
1999–2000 Widzew Łódź
2000–2001 Wisła Kraków
2002 Ruch Chorzów
2005–2008 GKS Bełchatów
2009 Zagłębie Lubin
2009–2010 Cracovia
2010–2012 Śląsk Wrocław
2013–2014 Zagłębie Lubin
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Orest Lenczyk (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɔrɛst ˈlɛnt͡ʂɨk]; born 28 December 1942) is a Polish former professional football manager and former player.

Playing career[edit]

Lenczyk was born in Sanok.[1] He was a player in lower divisions teams such as Sanoczanka Sanok, Stomil Poznań, Sleza Wrocław, and Moto-Jelcz Olawa. At the age of 28, Lenczyk ended his career as a footballer, and began working as a coach.

Managerial career[edit]

At first, Lenczyk coached in several teams of southeastern Poland, before finding a job at Wisła Kraków in 1975, where he was an assistant. Next year, he became the manager of Wisła's first team, winning the league title in the 1977–78 season.[2] Furthermore, Lenczyk's Wisła got to the quarter-finals of the 1978–79 European Cup, beating Club Brugge, and Zbrojovka Brno, only to lose to the runner-up, Malmö FF. Lenczyk worked for Wisla for several more seasons (1984–1985, 1994, 2000–2001), and during his last season in Kraków, he won promotion to the second round of UEFA Cup, after eliminating Real Saragossa.

In October 2005, he got a job at GKS Bełchatów. After first, difficult season, his team was Polish runner-up, with such players, as Radosław Matusiak, Pawel Strąk, Łukasz Garguła, and Piotr Lech. He was fired in March 2008, after five defeats in a row. On 16 April 2009, he was named head coach of Zagłębie Lubin,[3] winning promotion to the Ekstraklasa. In August 2009, Lenczyk became the coach of Cracovia, replacing Artur Płatek. After problems with Cracovia's management, he came to terms with the higher-ups to dissolve his contract.

On 27 September 2010, he was named the successor to Ryszard Tarasiewicz at Śląsk Wrocław.[4] The team finsihed runners-up in the 2010–11 season. In the followig campaign, Śląsk won the league title.

Honours[edit]

Wisła Kraków

GKS Katowice

Śląsk Wrocław[5]

Individual

References[edit]

  1. ^ GKS Belchatow - manager Orest Lenczyk. Dziennik.pl, July 30, 2006 Retrieved on 25 August 2009
  2. ^ Orest Lenczyk in Cracovia, press release 2009-08-12 Retrieved on 25 August 2009
  3. ^ Orest Lenczyk is manager of Zaglebie Lubin. Gazeta Wyborcza Wroclaw, April 16, 2009 Retrieved on 25 August 2009
  4. ^ Orest Lenczyk became a manager of Śląsk Wrocław On 27 September 2010
  5. ^ a b c "Orest Lenczyk". tygodnikpowszechny.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Przemysław Kaźmierczak piłkarz miesiąca marca" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 15 August 2011.
  7. ^ "Lenczyk i Rudniew najlepsi we wrześniu" (in Polish).
  8. ^ "OREST LENCZYK TRENEREM SEZONU!" (in Polish). Śląsk Wrocław. 31 May 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2024.

See also[edit]

Media related to Orest Lenczyk at Wikimedia Commons

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