Polonia Warsaw 1911 Sports Club Award Pin Badge Basketball Football KSJ Polish!! Looks like this was the first year for the sports club. Found some info Online. Guess they were under Russian control. Still in original envelope & backing. Great Survivor!!!

Polonia Warszawa

Full name Polonia Warszawa S.A.

Nickname(s) Czarne koszule (Blackshirts) – men's team

Czarne syrenki (Black Mermaids) – women's team

Short name KSP (Klub Sportowy Polonia)

Founded 19 November 1911; 113 years ago

Ground General Kazimierz Sosnkowski Stadium

Capacity 7,150[1]

Owner Grégoire Nitot

Chairman Grégoire Nitot

Manager Mariusz Pawlak

League I liga

2024–25 I liga, 6th of 18

Website kspolonia.pl

Home colours

Away colours

 Current season

Polonia Warsaw (Polish: Polonia Warszawa, pronounced [pɔˈlɔɲa varˈʂava]), founded on 19 November 1911, is the oldest existing sports club in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, best known for its football and basketball teams. It also has track and field, swimming, chess,[2] mountain biking, and contract bridge sections. Historically it also had sections in ice hockey, fencing, tennis, volleyball, hazena, cycling and boxing.[3]

The football team competes in the I liga, the second level of the Polish football league system.

History

20th century

Beginnings

Press notes about the football match between Polonia Warsaw and Korona Warsaw played on 19 November 1911, published in Świat weekly no 47 on 25 November 1911 and Sport Powszechny weekly no 39 on 26 November 1911

Polonia Warsaw was formed in the autumn of 1911 as a union of several gimnazjum school teams (including "Stella" and "Merkury").[3] Alongside co-founders Wacław Gebethner, Stefan Pronaszko, and Tadeusz Gebethner,[4] Wacław "Denhoff" Czarnocki was the co-founder of the club who also came up with its name.[5] "Polonia" is Latin for "Poland" and is often used by Polish migrants in reference to the diaspora communities of Poles living abroad in other countries.[6] The choice of such a name was a brave decision in the early 20th century, since Poland was not an independent country at this time, and Warsaw was part of the Russian partition; Poles living there were often subjected to repression and cultural imperialism from the Russian authorities ruling the Vistula Land. Due to this, Polonia could not be registered officially until political changes brought about by the advance of German troops into 

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