Full Name: Zagłębie Spółka Akcyjna City: Sosnowiec Founded: 1906 Stadium: Stadion Ludowy (7500) Colors: Red, White, Green Previous: Klub Sportowy Milowice (1906-08), Towarzystwo Sportowe Union (1908-18), TS Victoria (1918-31), TS Unia Sosnowiec (1931-45), Robotniczy Klub Sportowy Sosnowiec (1945), Rejonowa Komenda Uzupełnień Sosnowiec (1945-48), ZKSM Unia (1948-49), Zakładowy Klub Sportowy Stal (1949-62), Górniczy Klub Sportowy Zagłębie (1962-93), Stal (1993-94), Miejski Ośrodek Sportu i Rekreacji (1994), Sosnowieckie Towarzystwo Sportowe Sosnowiec (1994), Sosnowieckie Towarzystwo Sportowe Zagłębie (1994-2001), Zagłębie Sosnowiec Sportowa Spółka Akcyjna (2001-04) Nicknames: Zagłębiacy, Sosnowiczanie
Description: Zagłębie means "coal field" and references Sosnowiec's location in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie - The coalfields of Dąbrowskie, a region of southern Poland. The club was founded as KS Milowice, Milowice being a village that was eventually incorporated into the city of Sosnowiec. Amongst the other older names Stal translates as steel, symbolic of the club's relationship to the large steel industry in the town. The current name Zagłębie Spółka Akcyjna means something like Zagłębie Inc but the club are generally known only as Zagłębie Sosnowiec. Because of their involvement in a match-fixing scandal, Zagłębie Sosnowiec will be automatically relegated at the end of the season. If they finish in the normal relegation places they'll go down to the third division, otherwise they'll go to the second.
The stadium name - Stadion Ludowy - translates as Popular Stadium. The nicknames Zagłębiacy and Sosnowiczanie translate as Zaglebians and Sosnowiecians respectively.
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Full Name: Zagłębie Spółka Akcyjna
