Overview
- Zabrze’s city council voted unanimously to sell 86 percent of Górnik Zabrze to Lukas Podolski, with a purchase contract scheduled for signature the following day.
- The privatization fixes the sale price at about €940,000 while requiring Podolski to inject roughly €3 million into the club over coming years as part of the contract.
- The City of Zabrze will retain a so-called golden share that lets it block changes to the club name and insignia, preserving municipal safeguards after privatization.
- Podolski, who has played for Górnik since 2021 and helped the team win the Polish Cup this season, says he sees himself as a fan-owner and has not decided whether he will continue playing.
- The deal reflects a wider Polish model where municipalities transfer operational control but keep protective rights, and it shifts day-to-day financial and sporting responsibility to Podolski while tying him to defined investment obligations.