1983 Polish Super Cup

Football competition 1983 Polish Super Cup File:Gdansk stadion MOSiR.jpg 260 The Gdańsk Sports Center Stadium in Gdańsk hosted the final. Lechia Gdańsk 1 Lech Poznań 0 30 July 1983 Stadion MOSiR Gdańsk Henryk Klocek (Kielce) 12,000 1987 The 1983 Polish Super Cup was the first ever Polish Super Cup (which would later be an annual Polish football match played between the reigning winners of the Ekstraklasa and Polish Cup) to be contested. It was held on 30 July 1983 between the 1982–83 Ekstraklasa champions Lech Poznań and the 1982–83 Polish Cup winners Lechia Gdańsk at the home of the Polish Cup winners Lechia, the Stadion MOSiR in Gdańsk. Due to this being the inaugural Super Cup, it was both teams first appearance in the competition. Lechia won 1–0 to win the Super Cup title.https://lechiahistoria.pl/artykuly/superpuchar-dla-lechii-1983/ Superpuchar Polski dla Lechii! (30.07.1983) lechiahistoria.pl History The idea of a Polish Super Cup came from the annual cup competition held in England between the league champions and the FA Cup winners, with the two teams playing for the FA Community Shield. The first edition was to be held between Szombierki Bytom and Legia Warsaw with the date scheduled to be on 22 June 1980. The fixture however never took place, either due to sporting reasons or geopolitical, social and economic reasons at the time, and the implementation of a Super Cup was not tried again for three years.http://www.hppn.pl/liga/trofea-ligowe/superpuchar-polski Historia rozgrywek o Superpuchar Polski hppn.pl The idea was thought of again in 1983 when third division side Lechia Gdańsk unexpectedly won the Polish Cup. Activists of Lechia pushed for the creation of the Super Cup, and with both Lechia and the Champions of Poland, Lech, both having a week available for a game before the start of the following season agreed to hold the inaugural Super Cup competition. While the game was seen as an entertaining spectacle and was enjoyed by the crowd in Gdańsk, it was not until 1987 when the Polish Football Association with the help of the Gloria Victis Foundation (who helped fund the competition while the cups proceeds went to the foundation), before the Super Cup became an annual competition in Poland. Match 30 July 1983 17:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Lechia Gdańsk 1–0 Lech Poznań Jerzy Kruszczyński 88 Stadion MOSiR, Gdańsk 12,000 Henryk Klocek (Kielce) FFFFFF _lechiaGdanskSPP1983 FFFFFF _lechiaGdanskSPP1983 _lechiaGdanskSPP1983 Lechia Gdańsk 0000FF 0000FF 0000FF 0000FF 0000FF Lech Poznań GK POL Tadeusz FajferDF POL Andrzej MarchelDF POL Lech KulwickiDF POL Andrzej SalachDF POL Dariusz RaczyńskiMF POL Aleksander CybulskiMF POL Jacek GrembockiMF POL Dariusz WójtowiczFW POL Maciej KaminskiFW POL Jerzy KruszczyńskiFW POL Ryszard Polak Manager:POL Jerzy JastrzębowskiGK POL Jan SzczechDF POL Henryk PałkaDF POL Ryszard KałużyńskiDF POL Adam WilczekDF POL Jan MirkaMF POL Andrzej SlizMF POL Marcin ŻemajtisMF POL Zbigniew ŻurekMF POL Marian CzernohorskiFW POL Marek MajkaFW POL Marian Brzezoń76 Substitutes:FW POL Henryk Tkocz 76 Manager:POL Teodor Wieczorek Trophy The trophy was funded by the Katowice Daily Sport newspaper and was made by miners from the Szombierki Coal Mine out of a lump of coal. After Lechia won the trophy it was displayed in the club's conference room, due to this also being where the Pomeranian Football Association held their meetings. At some point the trophy was lost, it was not found again until 2014 in a slightly damaged condition and underwent renovation works. Currently the trophy is on display in the Lechia Museum at Stadion Gdańsk.http://www.trojmiasto.sport.pl/sport-trojmiasto/1,111904,15729611,Tajemnica_Superpucharu_Polski__Trofeum_Lechii_odnalezione.html Tajemnica Superpucharu Polski. Trofeum Lechii odnalezione po latach trojmiasto.sport.pl See also 1983–84 Ekstraklasa 1983–84 Polish Cup References 1983 Category:1982–83 in Polish football Category:Sports competitions in Gdańsk Category:July 1983 sports events in Europe Category:Lechia Gdańsk Category:Lech Poznań Category:20th century in Gdańsk