Alfred Kobylański
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alfred Kobylański | ||
| Date of birth | 10 September 1925 | ||
| Place of birth | Łazy, Poland | ||
| Date of death | 1 November 2009 (aged 84) | ||
| Place of death | Gdynia, Poland | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Flota Gdynia | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1951–1953 | Polonia Warsaw | 26 | (8) |
| 1954 | Polonia Bydgoszcz | 11 | (0) |
| 1955–1957 | Lechia Gdańsk | 38 | (7) |
| Total | 75 | (15) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Alfred Kobylański (10 September 1925 – 1 November 2009) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward.
Biography[edit]
Kobylański's first club was Flota Gdynia, who he is known to have played for in the youth sides.[1] He played for Polonia Warsaw from 1951 until 1953 and was part of the team who won the Polish Cup in 1952 by beating main rivals Legia Warsaw in the final.[2] In total for Polonia he made 26 appearances and scored 8 goals in the Ekstraklasa. In 1954 he spent a season at Polonia Bydgoszcz, making 11 appearances,[3] before moving to Lechia Gdańsk the following season. He made his Lechia debut on 25 March 1955 in the 1-0 defeat against Polonia Bytom.[4] In his first season with Lechia he was again in a Polish Cup final against Legia Warsaw, this time being on the wrong end of a 5-0 defeat.[5] In the 1956 season he played 12 times and scored 4 goals as Lechia achieved their greatest achievement in their early history by finishing 3rd in the I liga.[6][7] He left the club midway through the following season having scored a total of 11 goals in 44 games for the club.[8]
Personal life[edit]
Kobylański's son is former Polish international and Olympic silver medalist Andrzej Kobylański,[9][10] and his grandson is the footballer Martin Kobylański.[11]
Honours[edit]
Polonia Warsaw
- Polish Cup: 1952
References[edit]
- ^ "Alfred Kobylański". lechia.gda.pl.
- ^ "WIELKI TRIUMF W FINALE PUCHARU POLSKI". kspolonia.pl.
- ^ "Alfred Kobylański". wikiliga.pl.
- ^ "1955 I Liga". lechia.net.
- ^ "Lechia Gdańsk Historia". lechia.pl. Archived from the original on 2017-03-25. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ "Tabela - 1956". hppn.pl.
- ^ "1956 I Liga". lechia.net.
- ^ "1957 I Liga". lechia.net.
- ^ "ANDRZEJ KOBYLAŃSKI". 90lat-kszo.pl.
- ^ "Andrzej Kobylański". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- ^ "Martin Kobylański kolejnym wzmocnieniem Lechii. Kontrakt na 2,5 roku". trojmiasto.sport.pl.