Krzysztof Popczyński
Personal information
Full name Krzysztof Popczyński
Date of birth (1969-03-08) 8 March 1969
Place of birth Kraków, Poland
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1][2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Borek Kraków
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1990 Garbarnia Kraków
1990–1995 Hutnik Kraków 139 (19)
1994 → Kiruna FF (loan)
1996 Panionios 11 (0)
1996–1997 Borek Kraków
1997 Hutnik Kraków
1997–1998 Esbjerg fB
1998–2001 VB Vagúr (35)
2001 Skawinka Skawina
2002–2005 GÍ Gøta (19)
2006 HB Tórshavn (12)
2008 TB Tvøroyri
Managerial career
1998–2001 VB Vagúr (player-coach)
2002–2005 GÍ Gøta (player-coach)[3]
2006–2007 HB Tórshavn (player-coach)
2008 TB Tvøroyri (player-coach)
2008–2013 Aarhus Fremad
2014–2015 FC Djursland
2016–2018 Horsens Freja
2019–2021 Kjellerup IF
2022 Thisted FC
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Krzysztof Popczyński (born 8 March 1969) is a Polish football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a midfielder.[1][2]

Career

Playing career

Born in Kraków, Popczyński played for a number of Polish as well as international clubs during his active career.[4] He had his most successful spells in hometown club Hutnik Kraków between 1990 and 1995, where he made 135 appearances and scored 19 goals, and between 1998 and 2001, where he, as a player-manager for Faroese club VB Vagúr managed to score 35 goals throughout three seasons. He furthermore had short spells at Greek club Panionios and Danish club Esbjerg fB.

Coaching career

Popczyński had a notable run as a player-coach in Faroe Islands, where he besides VB Vagúr also managed GÍ Gøta, HB Tórshavn and TB Tvøroyri.[5]

On 27 July 2008, Popczyński was appointed as the new head coach of Danish club Aarhus Fremad who had recently been relegated from the Danish second tier.[5] He coached the club for five years, before being sacked in favour of Jesper Tollefsen in July 2013 after missing promotion play-offs.[6]

In November 2014, Popczyński signed a one-year contract to replace Jesper Borup as the head coach of FC Djursland who were at the bottom of the Danish fourth division.[7] However, he was unable to keep the team up and the club was relegated to the Jutland Series, the fifth tier of Danish football at the end of the season.[8] Another horrific season followed, in which Djursland suffered relegation to the sixth tier, after a decisive 3–1 loss in the penultimate round of the season to Fuglebakken KFUM.[8] Popczyński announced his resignation as of 31 October 2015, a few games befores the second consecutive relegation became a fact.[9]

In October 2017, Popczyński was named the new manager of Horsens Freja competing in the Danish fifth tier. He signed a two-year contract, and would be coaching the first team while completing his Danish Football Union coaching degree.[10] On 5 November 2018, however, he resigned from his position at Horsens Freja citing disagreements over personal ambitions regarding amount of training sessions with the first-team's lacking ambitions.[11]

A month later, on 12 December 2018, Popczyński was announced as the new head coach of Danish third tier club Kjellerup IF, who were bottom of the table.[12] He was sacked by Kjellerup in November 2021.[13]

In July 2022 he was announced as the new manager of Thisted FC in the Danish 2nd Division.[14] He left the club on 7 November 2022.[15]

Honours

Manager

VB Vágur

GÍ Gøta

HB Tórshavn

  • Faroe Islands Premier League: 2006

Career statistics

Manager

As of 1 July 2013
Team Nat Year Record
GWDLWin
Vágs Bóltfelag Faroe Islands 1998 1856727.78%
Vágs Bóltfelag Faroe Islands 1999 1863933.33%
Vágs Bóltfelag Faroe Islands 2000 18124266.67%
Vágs Bóltfelag Faroe Islands 2001 1893650%
GÍ Gøta Faroe Islands 2002 18102655.56%
GÍ Gøta Faroe Islands 2003 1855827.78%
GÍ Gøta Faroe Islands 2004 1865733.33%
GÍ Gøta Faroe Islands 2005 29851627.59%
Havnar Bóltfelag Faroe Islands 2006 27167459.26%
Havnar Bóltfelag Faroe Islands 2007 27154855.56%
Tvøroyrar Bóltfelag Faroe Islands 2008
Aarhus Fremad Denmark 2008–09 301361143.33%
Aarhus Fremad Denmark 2009–10 30178556.67%
Aarhus Fremad Denmark 2010–11 30196563.33%
Aarhus Fremad Denmark 2011–12 301210840%
Aarhus Fremad Denmark 2012–13 30187560%
Total 3561718110748.03%

References

  1. 1 2 Krzysztof Popczyński at WorldFootball.net
  2. 1 2 Krzysztof Popczyński at 90minut.pl (in Polish)
  3. ↑ Gí Gøta retain their place in the 1st Division
  4. ↑ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander. "Foreign Players in Greece since 1959/60". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 11 May 2005.
  5. 1 2 Rydzy, Mikkel. "Ex-Esbjerg-spiller skal træne Aarhus F". bold.dk. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  6. ↑ Anker-Møller, Kristian. "Aarhus Fremad skifter træner". bold.dk. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  7. ↑ Loberg Jøns, Tommy (20 November 2014). "Popczynski ny cheftræner i FC Djursland". amtsavisen.dk. Amtsavisen. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  8. 1 2 "FC Djursland tager hele turen fra 2. division til serie 1". stiften.dk. Aarhus Stiftstidende. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  9. ↑ Thomsen, Lars Norman (13 October 2015). "Seriefodbold: FC Djurslands cheftræner varsler sit farvel". syddjurs.lokalavisen.dk. Lokalavisen. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  10. ↑ Poulsen, Tommy. "Polsk træner skal løfte lokal traditionsklub". hsfo.dk. Horsens Folkeblad. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  11. ↑ Outzen, Jan. "Krzysztof Popczynski stopper i Horsens Freja". horsensfreja.dk. Horsens Freja. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  12. ↑ Græsdal Maajen, Anton. "Kjellerup hyrer tidligere Aarhus Fremad-træner". bold.dk. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  13. ↑ "Kjellerup IF fyrer træneren med øjeblikkelig virkning". Midtjyllands Vais. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  14. ↑ Schmidt, Martin. "Krzysztof Popczynski afløser Bo Zinck i Thisted". bold.dk. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  15. ↑ THISTED FC OG CHEFTRÆNER KRZYSZTOF POPCZYNSKI STOPPER SAMARBEJDET, thistedfc.dk, 7 November 2022
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