PGE's ambition is to support sports clubs that are successful
in Poland and also attain renown abroad. The emotions that are evoked by the teams we sponsor are the best evidence that sport may also be a source of positive energy.
PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A. provides sponsorship of the following teams:
It is unquestionably one of the best volleyball clubs in Poland. In the recent years the Bełchatów team dominated the Polish competitions, winning seven gold medals in the Championships of Poland in a row! The PGE Skra Bełchatów volleyball players were also successful in the international arena. In the seasons 2007/2008 and 2009/2010 they won the brown medals twice in the prestigious Volleyball Champions League tournaments. In 2009 and 2010 PGE Skra won the title of the Club Vice Champion of the World. This impressive list is complemented by five victories in the Cup of Poland. During the last season PGE Skra Bełchatów virtually traditionally won the title of the Men's Volleyball Champion of Poland and the Cup of Poland. The great success as well as the excellent organization of the club was noticed by independent observers. In 2009, during the annual Sport and Business Gala, Skra Bełchatów was acknowledged as the best organized sports club in Poland.
PGE Turów Zgorzelec is one of the best basketball teams in Poland. The Zgorzelec team's winning streak started in 2007 when they established cooperation with PGE. The team fought their way through to the final of the national league games. In the final, however, they had to acknowledge the superiority of Asseco Prokom Sopot. In the next two seasons these two teams were fighting for the champion's title again, but the team from Pomorze was always in the lead. After the poorer season 2010, there occurred a revival of the basketball team from Zgorzelec. PGE Turów once again won its way to the final game and once again they had to fight against Asseco Prokom. The Finals of 2011 will surely go down in the history of Polish basketball. The Zgorzelec team was by a hair's breadth from winning the gold medal, leading in the competition 3:2. However, the final two matches ended with the success of Asseco Prokom and once again PGE Turów had to settle for the silver medal. The PGE Turów Zgorzelec team was also present in international games. In the years 2007-2010 the basketball players participated in the ULEB Cup/EuroCup games, getting to the quarterfinal in the season 2008.
The Bełchatów team has been playing in the top class of the football league for many years. Last season the Bełchatów team played an important role in the fight for the podium, although eventually they ended up in the lower part of the table. The greatest success of PGE GKS Bełchatów was the title of the Vice Champion of Poland in the season 2006/07. A year later the football players made their debut in international games, getting to the second round of the UEFA Cup. The football players of PGE GKS Bełchatów continue the old tradition - football was popular in Bełchatów already in 1930. Originally football players were organized in the RKS Skra Workers' Sports Club, but in the mid-1970s when the construction of the Bełchatów Lignite Mine started, a decision was made to establish a genuine sports club. It still exists today.
Before the beginning of the season 2011 it was announced that PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna would sponsor the team from Podkarpacie. The challengers faced a difficult task of winning a place among the best six teams, which would guarantee their participation in the play-offs. The speedway riders of PGE Marma Rzeszów made the grade and managed to qualify to the final phase of the Speedway Extra League, outdistancing, among others, the titled teams from Tarnów and Częstochowa. In the first play-off round, the Rzeszów team had to square up to the subsequent Champion of Poland, Falubaz Stelmet Zielona Góra. The team from Zielona Góra won. Eventually, the Rzeszów team was on the fifth place by the end of the season, which is quite a promising result for newcomers.
Atom Trefl Sopot is the youngest team of all those sponsored by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. In the last season the volleyball players from Sopot made their debut in the national games after purchasing a licence from PTPS Piła. Atom Trefl Sopot continues the tradition of Trefl Gdynia (2008/09 – the Champion of the Second League) and Trefl Sopot (2009/10 – the Vice Champion of the First League). The new team's debut season in the top league of women's volleyball games was excellent. A combination of youth and routine resulted in the silver medal in the Championships of Poland. In the PlusLiga final play off, the Atom Trefl Sopot team had to acknowledge the superiority of the Bank BPS Muszynianka Fakro Muszyna team. In their first season in the Extra class, the players won the title of the Vice Champions of Poland, which entitles them to play in the Women's Champions League 2011/12. Hence, they will be playing for the top goals, both in Poland and in Europe. The team has been given a particular objective to achieve, and it is doing just that, not only in the sports dimension. Atom Trefl Sopot is also a live showpiece of the construction project of the first nuclear power plant to be implemented by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. Two of the three potential locations of the future plant are situated in Pomorze. In the season 2011/2012 players from the Atom Trefl Sopot team will be playing in blue-green costumes with a new logo on their shirts. The logo is a reference to the logo promoting the "Nuclear Awareness" Programme (www.swiadomieoatomie.pl), currently being implemented by the strategic sponsor of the Sopot club.
When on 25 September 1993 the handball players from Lublin played their first game in the top league nobody suspected that a new era was just beginning in women's handball. Two years after their debut, in 1995, the Lublin SPR won their first title of the Champion of Poland. That was how the unusual winning streak of the handball players from Lublin started; in the subsequent 16 years they won the most important title in Poland as many as 14 times. In the season 2011 the SPR players suffered from considerable health problems. Still, they managed to win their way to the great final, in which after a heroic fight they had to acknowledge the superiority of KGHM Metraco Zagłębie Lubin. Apart from their successes in Poland, the Lublin handball players can also boast their achievements in international games. In the years 2000 and 2002 SPR got to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and in 2001 they won in the EHF Cup.
