# 2022–23 Górnik Zabrze season

The 2022–23 season is Górnik Zabrze's 75th season in existence and the club's sixth consecutive season in the top flight of Polish football. In addition to the domestic league, Górnik Zabrze will participate in this season's edition of the Polish Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 16 October 2022.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | POL | Daniel Bielica |
| 3 | DF | FIN | Richard Jensen |
| 4 | DF | POL | Aleksander Paluszek |
| 5 | DF | POL | Kryspin Szcześniak (on loan from Pogoń Szczecin) |
| 7 | MF | ESP | Dani Pacheco |
| 8 | MF | SVN | Blaž Vrhovec |
| 10 | FW | GER | Lukas Podolski |
| 11 | MF | POL | Mateusz Cholewiak |
| 13 | DF | SWE | Emil Bergström |
| 15 | MF | POL | Norbert Wojtuszek |
| 16 | DF | POL | Paweł Olkowski |
| 17 | MF | SUI | Robin Kamber |
| 20 | FW | POL | Szymon Włodarczyk |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | FW | POL | Piotr Krawczyk |
| 23 | MF | CMR | Jean Jules |
| 24 | MF | POL | Krzysztof Kolanko |
| 25 | DF | GER | Jonatan Kotzke |
| 26 | DF | POL | Rafał Janicki |
| 28 | FW | POL | Jan Ciućka |
| 31 | GK | POL | Paweł Sokół |
| 32 | GK | GER | Kevin Broll |
| 33 | MF | JPN | Kanji Okunuki (on loan from Omiya Ardija) |
| 64 | DF | SVN | Erik Janža (captain) |
| 71 | FW | SVN | Amadej Maroša |
| 77 | DF | POL | Jakub Szymański |
| 96 | DF | POL | Robert Dadok |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 29 | MF | POL | Adrian Dziedzic (at Garbarnia Kraków until 30 June 2023) |
| — | GK | POL | Jakub Grzesiak (at Stomil Olsztyn until 30 June 2023) |
| — | GK | POL | Bartosz Neugebauer (at Chojniczanka Chojnice until 30 June 2023) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | POL | Krzysztof Wingralek (at Znicz Pruszków until 30 June 2023) |
| — | MF | POL | Mateusz Ziółkowski (at Zagłębie Sosnowiec until 30 June 2023) |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Ekstraklasa | 15 July 2022 | 27 May 2023 | Matchday 1 | | 27 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 025.93 |
| Polish Cup | 1 September 2022 | 8 November 2022 | First round | Round of 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 39 | 44 | −5 | 030.00 |
Last updated: 6 April 2023 Source: Competitions

### Ekstraklasa
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 4 | Pogoń Szczecin | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 57 | 46 | +11 | 60 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round |
| 5 | Piast Gliwice | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 40 | 31 | +9 | 53 | |
| 6 | Górnik Zabrze | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 45 | 43 | +2 | 48 | |
| 7 | Cracovia | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 41 | 35 | +6 | 46 | |
| 8 | Warta Poznań | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 37 | 35 | +2 | 45 | |
* ↑ Since the winner of the 2022–23 Polish Cup qualified for the Europa Conference League based on league position, the third Europa Conference League second qualifying round berth was transferred to the 4th-placed team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 6 April 2023. Source: PKO Ekstraklasa

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| Ground | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | W | W | L | D | D | D | D | W | L | L | L | D | W | W | L | L | D | D | L | W | L | L | W | L | D | |
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#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 1 June 2022.