Gornik Zabrze host Piast Gliwice in the Polish Ekstraklasa. Zabrze have been the more consistent side in recent months, while Gliwice's form has swung about a fair bit.
Zabrze have also had continental football to juggle alongside the league programme this season, which adds a bit more context before we get into the numbers.
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Recent form: contrasting pictures
Gornik's sample covers league games plus continental fixtures against sides like Fenerbahçe and Ferencvarosi, so it's not a pure Ekstraklasa read, but the overall shape is positive: nine wins from twenty games with a healthy goal difference.
Gornik Zabrze: 20 completed matches; Piast Gliwice: 20 completed matches.
Gornik Zabrze
- Win
- 45% 9 / 20
- Draw
- 20% 4 / 20
- Loss
- 35% 7 / 20
- Scored
- 27
- Conceded
- 25
- Difference
- +2
Piast Gliwice
- Win
- 40% 8 / 20
- Draw
- 15% 3 / 20
- Loss
- 45% 9 / 20
- Scored
- 26
- Conceded
- 29
- Difference
- -3
| League | Home | Away | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ekstraklasa | Motor Lublin | Gornik Zabrze | 19.09.2026 | 0-0 |
| Ekstraklasa | Korona Kielce | Gornik Zabrze | 15.09.2026 | 0-2 |
| Ekstraklasa | Gornik Zabrze | Lech Poznan | 12.09.2026 | 2-1 |
| Ekstraklasa | Cracovia Krakow | Gornik Zabrze | 06.09.2026 | 0-1 |
| Ekstraklasa | Raków Częstochowa | Gornik Zabrze | 03.09.2026 | 1-2 |
| Ekstraklasa | Gornik Zabrze | GKS Katowice | 30.08.2026 | 2-3 |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | Monaco | Gornik Zabrze | 27.08.2026 | 4-1 |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | Gornik Zabrze | Monaco | 20.08.2026 | 2-3 |
| Ekstraklasa | Gornik Zabrze | Wisla Krakow | 16.08.2026 | 2-1 |
| UEFA Europa League | Gornik Zabrze | Ferencvarosi TC | 13.08.2026 | 1-1 |
| League | Home | Away | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | Pogon Szczecin | 20.09.2026 | 1-2 |
| Ekstraklasa | Radomiak Radom | Piast Gliwice | 14.09.2026 | 0-2 |
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | GKS Katowice | 04.09.2026 | 3-0 |
| Cup | Chemik Bydgoszcz | Piast Gliwice | 01.09.2026 | 0-3 |
| Ekstraklasa | Motor Lublin | Piast Gliwice | 29.08.2026 | 0-2 |
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | Legia Warszawa | 22.08.2026 | 1-1 |
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | Wieczysta Kraków | 15.08.2026 | 3-4 |
| Ekstraklasa | Lech Poznan | Piast Gliwice | 09.08.2026 | 3-0 |
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | Wisla Krakow | 01.08.2026 | 4-3 |
| Ekstraklasa | Zaglebie Lubin | Piast Gliwice | 27.07.2026 | 2-0 |
Piast's record over the same stretch is shakier. Eight wins and nine losses from twenty matches, conceding almost as many as they've scored, and their away form in particular has included some heavy defeats on the road.
Gornik have generally handled a busy schedule better than Piast have handled theirs.
Comparative Team Statistics: Gornik Zabrze vs Piast Gliwice

Head-to-head: tight and unpredictable
These two have met regularly down the years and the results have gone back and forth, with plenty of draws and one-goal margins mixed in. The most recent meeting, back in January, went the way of Gornik at home, 2-1.
| League | Home | Away | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ekstraklasa | Gornik Zabrze | Piast Gliwice | 31.01.2026 | 2-1 |
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | Gornik Zabrze | 26.07.2025 | 0-1 |
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | Gornik Zabrze | 17.05.2025 | 2-0 |
| Ekstraklasa | Gornik Zabrze | Piast Gliwice | 24.11.2024 | 1-0 |
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | Gornik Zabrze | 10.02.2024 | 1-3 |
| Ekstraklasa | Gornik Zabrze | Piast Gliwice | 05.08.2023 | 0-0 |
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | Gornik Zabrze | 31.03.2023 | 1-0 |
| Ekstraklasa | Gornik Zabrze | Piast Gliwice | 10.09.2022 | 3-3 |
| Ekstraklasa | Piast Gliwice | Gornik Zabrze | 26.02.2022 | 0-0 |
| Cup | Piast Gliwice | Gornik Zabrze | 09.02.2022 | 0-0 |
Before that Piast won away in July 2025, so there's no long unbroken run either way. It's the kind of fixture where recent history hasn't settled into a clear pattern.
The head-to-head slightly favours Gornik lately, but it's far from a one-sided rivalry.
League table tells its own story
As things stand, Gornik are top of the Ekstraklasa with 22 points from nine games, while Piast sit down in eighth on 13 points from the same number of matches. That's a nine-point gap between two teams who've played an identical number of fixtures.
| № | Team | Played | Win | Draw | Loss | GF/GA | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gornik Zabrze | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16/8 | 22 |
| 2 | Legia Warszawa | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 19/8 | 19 |
| 3 | Lech Poznan | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17/7 | 19 |
| 7 | Zaglebie Lubin | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11/10 | 15 |
| 8 | Piast Gliwice | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16/15 | 13 |
| 9 | GKS Katowice | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 16/13 | 12 |
Gornik's goal difference is also notably better, having conceded just eight compared to Piast's fifteen.
The current standings back up the picture painted by recent form.

Players to watch
Piast's Leandro Sanca has been their most productive forward with four goals in nine appearances, while Hugo Vallejo has chipped in three. For Gornik, Peter has matched that scoring rate with four goals in just seven games.
On the creative side, Gornik's R. Janicki and Piast's E. Twumasi have each provided two assists. Piast's Q. Boisgard has picked up three yellow cards in eight matches, worth keeping an eye on given his discipline record.
Squad lists and player details
Squad and player details
| Name | Country | Age | Position | Height | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. Janža | Slovenia | 33 | Defender | 175 | 76 |
| M. Højholt | Denmark | 25 | Midfielder | 182 | 65 |
| R. Massimo | Germany | 25 | Midfielder | 183 | 82 |
| S. Liseth | Norway | 29 | Attacker | 182 | 72 |
| T. Loska | Poland | 30 | Goalkeeper | 190 | 85 |
| P. Bochniewicz | Poland | 30 | Defender | 194 | 79 |
| J. Kubicki | Poland | 31 | Midfielder | 180 | 69 |
| M. Rakoczy | Poland | 24 | Midfielder | 177 | 71 |
| R. Janicki | Poland | 34 | Defender | 188 | 83 |
| Josema Sánchez | Spain | 30 | Defender | 184 | 81 |
| T. Ismaheel | Nigeria | 26 | Midfielder | 172 | 62 |
| M. Sáček | Czechia | 30 | Defender | 180 | 63 |
| L. Sadílek | Czechia | 30 | Midfielder | 179 | 64 |
| O. Zmrzlý | Czechia | 27 | Defender | 185 | 73 |
| E. Prekop | Slovakia | 28 | Attacker | 185 | 77 |
| Paulo Bernardo | Portugal | 24 | Midfielder | 184 | 78 |
| K. UrbaÅski | Poland | 22 | Midfielder | 183 | 66 |
| J. Antiste | France | 24 | Attacker | 183 | 75 |
| M. Dietz | USA | 24 | Midfielder | 189 | 74 |
| Z. Inoussa | Sweden | 24 | Attacker | 177 | 67 |
| Name | Country | Age | Position | Height | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Katsantonis | Cyprus | 26 | Attacker | 181 | 81 |
| J. Lokilo | Congo DR | 28 | Midfielder | 175 | 65 |
| Q. Boisgard | France | 29 | Midfielder | 174 | 75 |
| J. Łabojko | Poland | 29 | Midfielder | 179 | 78 |
| J. Czerwiński | Poland | 35 | Defender | 183 | 84 |
| Jorge Félix | Spain | 35 | Attacker | 175 | 76 |
| Hugo Vallejo | Spain | 26 | Attacker | 181 | 77 |
| E. Twumasi | Ghana | 29 | Defender | 173 | 76 |
| D. Gril | Slovenia | 25 | Goalkeeper | 187 cm | 83 kg |
| Juande Rivas | Spain | 27 | Defender | 188 | 78 |
| S. Ntamack Ndimba | France | 24 | Attacker | 178 | 74 |
| Leandro Sanca | Guinea-Bissau | 26 | Midfielder | 184 | 74 |
| F. Borowski | Poland | 22 | Defender | 181 | 68 |
| Marcel Mendes-Dudziński | Poland | 21 | Goalkeeper | 193 | 82 |
| S. Mucha | Poland | 22 | Midfielder | 173 | 70 |
| E. Fikaj | Albania | 20 | Defender | n/a | n/a |
| Ivan Lima | Portugal | 21 | Midfielder | 174 cm | 70 kg |
| I. Drapiński | Poland | 22 | Defender | 186 | 82 |
| J. Lewicki | Poland | 21 | Defender | 182 | 70 |
| O. Leśniak | Poland | 21 | Midfielder | 176 | 69 |
Everything in the data points towards Gornik as the side in better shape, both in the table and across their recent matches. Piast have shown they can be exposed, particularly away from home.
Without a market to weigh against that assessment, though, there's nothing concrete to back here. The form and standings tell a clear story, but that alone isn't enough to build a selection around.
