Ernest Pohl

Ernest Pohl

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Career

Pohl scored 39 goals in 46 international matches for Poland national football team and to this day remains the most prolific Ekstraklasa. He played for Slavia Ruda Śląska, Orzeł Łódź between 1952 and 1953, CWKS Warsaw between 1953 and 1956 and Górnik Zabrze between 1957 and 1967. During the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he scored five goals in a 6–1 win against Tunisia. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification in 1990, he relocated to Germany, where his wife and daughters had moved earlier. In 2004, Górnik Zabrze's stadium was named after him.

Career statistics

Scores and results list Poland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Pohl goal.

Club
Legia Warsaw (1954–1956)
Club
Górnik Zabrze (1957–1967)
Club
Poland men's national football team (1955–1965)
Club
Slavia Ruda Śląska (1945–1952)
Club
Legia Warsaw (1953–1956)
National team
Poland

Trophies & Awards

Award
Honored Master of Sports of Poland
Award
Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Legacy

Honours

Legia Warsaw

Ekstraklasa: 1955, 1956 Polish Cup: 1954–55, 1955–56 Górnik Zabrze

Ekstraklasa: 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67 Polish Cup: 1964–65 Individual

Ekstraklasa top scorer: 1954, 1961, 1963–64 Ekstraklasa Hall of Fame: 2024

Clubs

Played together with

Archive

Passport
Identifiers & aliases
Description

Polish footballer (1932–1995)

Position

forward

Extract from Wikipedia

Ernest Pohl, also known as Ernst Pol, was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. With 186 goals, he is the Polish top division's record goalscorer.

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