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Polish footballer

Leszek Lipka
Personal information
Full name Leszek Lipka
Date of birth (1958-06-04) 4 June 1958 (age 66)
Place of birth Kraków, Poland
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Wisła Kraków
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1976–1990 Wisła Kraków 319 (29)
1990 Błękitni Kielce
International career
1979–1981 Poland 21 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leszek Lipka (born 4 June 1958) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his active career in Wisła Kraków.

Club career

Born in Kraków, Lipka debuted in Ekstraklasa in the late 1970s, and remained in Wisła until 1990. He played in 378 official Wisła games, scoring 37 goals.

International career

On 2 May 1979, he earned his first cap for the Poland national team, in a 2–0 victory over the Netherlands, at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów. Lipka was a starter in the Polish team under manager Ryszard Kulesza, and scored a goal in a 2–0 victory versus Malta in December 1980. Altogether, he capped 21 times for Poland, with his last game taking place on 25 March 1981 in Bucharest against Romania.

Coaching career

After retiring, he managed several lower class teams of Lesser Poland.

Honours

Wisła Kraków

References

  1. "Leszek Lipka". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  2. Leszek Lipka at football portal www.90minut.pl
  3. "Leszek Lipka". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 June 2024.


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