Falubaz Zielona Góra is a Polishspeedway team based in Zielona Góra who currently races in Speedway Ekstraliga. The club has won Polish Speedway League seven times. It is commonly known as Falubaz due to one of its former names.
Stadium
The stadium, informally named as W69, is located on 69 Wrocławska Street. It contains 15,000 seats. The track is 337.50 metres long and has a granite surface. It has had an inflatable airfence since May 4, 2006. The stadium is currently being renovated. Some of the benches are being replaced with plastic seats, the floodlights have been erected, the cash desks and the fence were modernised. The track was widened on the bends and the club's new headquarters has been built and moved from 31 Dworcowa Street. Falubaz have been champions of Poland 7 times in their history.
History
The club was founded in 1946 with the establishing of a motorcycle department of Militia Sports Club. The first speedway race in the city took place on a 450 meters long track on October 20, 1946. The winner was Zygmunt Dolata as he hold best time of the meeting. In 1947 Mieczysław Chlebisz, a re-emigrant from the UK, arrived back to the city, bringing the first professional speedway motorcycle as used in many speedway leagues, including Britain. In the 1948 season a Poznan District League was set up, containing 9 teams, including Leszczyński Klub Motorowy, Ostrowski Klub Motorowy, Unia Gniezno, Unia Gorzów and Unia Zielona Góra. The club's riders were : Jerzy Błoch, Mieczysław Chlebicz, Kazimierz Juzala, Alfons Kostusiak, Ksawery Sawicki, Józef Śmigielski, Stanisław Świstak and Marian Zadoń. On 3 October 2011, a fan was accidentally run over and killed by an unmarked police vehicle during celebrations of the team's victory in the national championship. Two police officers were injured and nine people arrested during riots that ensued overnight.
KSF Zielona Góra is a football team founded by fans of Falubaz in 2010. They started form the bottom of the football pyramid in the local amateur divisions however they have been promoted every year since their existence, four promotions in a row and started the 2014/15 season in the IV liga, the fifth tier.
