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Jakub Gronowski

Polish association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ107086700 ↗
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Jakub Gronowski (born 8 April 1983) is a Polish former professional footballer. He played as a forward.

Career

Gronowski started his career playing with Bałtyk Gdynia, with whom he made 62 appearances over three seasons. Gronowski joined Lechia Gdańsk for the 2003–04 season. During this season, he made 20 appearances and scored one goal for the club as the it went on to win promotion from the IV liga. After spending the following season with Kaszuby Połchowo he again returned to Lechia Gdańsk, making eight appearances in the II liga, Poland's second division. These six months with Lechia would prove to be the highlight of Gronowski's career as he would go on to have short spells with teams playing in the lower divisions. After his second spell with Lechia he went on to play for Cartusia Kartuzy, Orkan Rumia twice, Gryf Wejherowo twice, Bytovia Bytów, Powiśle Dzierzgoń, GKS Przodkowo, KP Starogard Gdański, Wda Lipusz, Tucholanka Tuchola, and Kolejarz Chojnice being his final club in 2020.

Personal life

Gronowski's grandfather is former Lechia Gdańsk and Poland international footballer Robert Gronowski. Through his grandfather he is related to Henryk Gronowski, Robert's brother, who was also a former Lechia Gdańsk and Poland international footballer.

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“Jakub Gronowski” enters the record as polish association football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jakub, Gronowski and Polish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2003, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-04-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jakub, Gronowski and Polish.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q107086700. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2003 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jakub Gronowski” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.