Lechia Lwów [SEP] inception
Lechia Lwów
Lechia Lwów (full name: Lwowski Klub Sportowy "Lechia" Lwów) was the first Polish professional football club, founded in summer 1903 in Lwów by students of the 3rd and 4th gymnasiums as well as former members of the Sokół football department.
During the Second Republic of Poland the club was one of four teams from Lwów that played in the Polish Football First league (season 1931 – 12th). The club became two times champion of Lwów District League (liga okręgowa) where it spent 17
from Lechia Lwów, as a majority of the workers at BOP and those who studied at the Gdańsk University of Technology had been Expelled from Lwów at the end of WW2.
Lechia fared well in its early years in the lower divisions. In the 1946/47 and 1947/48 seasons Lechia finished top of their district championships. For Lechia to be promoted to the top division (Ekstraklasa) they needed to win additional qualifying rounds against the other district champions. Lechia achieved this in the 1947/48 season when they finished top of the promotion playoffs