Dawid Banaczek

Dawid Banaczek

Personal information
Date of birth	(1979-06-03) 3 June 1979
Place of birth	Gdynia, Poland
Height
Position(s)	offensive midfielder/striker
Team information
Current team	Lechia Gdańsk (coach)
Youth career
1987–1996	Lechia Gdansk
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–1999	Lechia Gdansk
1999–2001	Bayern München II	46	(6)
2001	IFK Norrköping	8	(2)
2002	RKS Radomsko	12	(2)
2002-2003	IFK Norrköping	25	(2)
2003	Widzew Lodz	2	(0)
2004	FC Vaduz
2004	Ethnikos Asteras	9	(1)
2005	Amica Wronki	5	(2)
2005-2007	Zaglebie Lubin	18	(1)
2007	Sigma Olomouc	4	(0)
2008	Viktoria Köln
2008-2010	Kaszubia Koscierzyna	52	(12)
International career
1996-2000	Poland U16-U21
Managerial career
2012–2013	Lechia Gdansk U9
2013–2014	Kaszubia Koscierzyna
2015	Lechia Gdansk U17
2015–	Lechia Gdansk (coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dawid Banaczek (born 3 June 1979) is a Polish former footballer who played as a attacking midfielder or forward and current a football coach.

Early life

Dawid was born in Gdynia and grew up in Gdansk (both being parts of Tricity urban area in Poland). Dawid's father Ryszard was a rugby Polish national team player and then a rugby coach in Lechia Gdansk, while his mother Barbara was a volleyball player. Dawid is the eldest of two boys.

Early career

Banaczek made his first appearance for Lechia Gdansk where he began his trainings in 1987. As a teenager, Banaczek represented Poland U16 to U21. In 1995 he participated in the U16 European Championships, held in Belgium.

Playing career

He had played in the Lechia senior team for 3 seasons. In 1999, Banaczek signed a 2-year contract, with Bayern Munich II. In the new club, Dawid played for two seasons in the amateur team.

IFK Norrköping.
In 2001, he had signed a contract with the Swedish club IFK Norrköping in which he debuted in Allsvenskan. Between 2001 and 2003, Banaczek (with a short, 3-month interval in RKS Radomsko), played continuously in the IFK.

Amica Wronki.
In Wronki, under supervision of coach Maciej Skorża, he spent one round as a substitute.

Zaglebie Lubin.
In the Polish league, he enjoyed his greatest successes as a player in Zaglebie Lubin, with which, in the 2006/2007 season, he reached for the championship of Poland, and in the previous year, in season 2005/2006, he won a bronze medal of the Polish Ekstraklasa. Beside Zaglebie and Amica Wronki, Banaczek played in two more teams of the Ekstraklasa: RKS Radomsko and Widzew Łodz.

Sigma Olomouc.
The last high-level stop on his football way was the Czech team Sigma Olomouc.

National Team

He was repeatedly a member of Polish youth national teams, from U15 to U21. In 1995, under coach Andrzej Zamilski, he participated in the European U16 Championship in Belgium.

Managerial career

Lechia Gdansk

In 2012, Dawid Banaczek started cooperation with Lechia Gdansk, where he led the team of the Lechia Gdansk Football Academy U9.

Kaszubia Koscierzyna

On 1 July 2013, Banaczek assumed the position of the head coach of the Kaszubia Koscierzyna team. The contract with the coach has been concluded for one year.

Lechia Gdansk

From July to August 2015 head coach in Lechia Gdansk U17.

After 8 weeks of working with U17 he became first team Thomas von Heesen's assistant coach. From 03.12.2015 he became first team coach of Lechia Gdansk.

Personal life

Dawid is married to Anna Iga. Together they have a daughter Laura, who is a artistic gymnast in SGA Gdynia.

In 2011, Dawid Banaczek has established the Football Pro Academy. The principal goal of the academy, to be achieved within several years, is searching for talents and children with passion and enthusiasm to practice this sport, and subsequently, beginning of trainings on a more advanced level.

Banaczek speaks English and German.

Honours

As a player
Zaglebie Lubin

• Polish championship: 2006-2007.
• Third place: 2005-2006.
• Polish Cup Finalist: 2005-2006.
• Participation in the UEFA Cup: 2006-2007

External links

• Dawid Banaczek profile at 90minut