Ludwik Gintel

Ludwik Gintel

Gintel in 1922
Personal information
Date of birth	(1899-09-26)26 September 1899
Place of birth	Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	11 July 1973(1973-07-11) (aged 73)
Place of death	Tel Aviv, Israel
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Positions	Right-back forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1911–1916	Jutrzenka Kraków
1916–1930	Cracovia
International career
1921–1925	Poland	8	(0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ludwik Gintel (Hebrew: לודוויק גינטל; 26 September 1899 – 11 July 1973) was a Polish footballer.¹

Gintel was born Kraków. He was Jewish.² He worked as an architect and bank clerk.³

Gintel began his football career playing for the Jewish Sports Association Jutrzenka Kraków.³ He then played 328 games for Cracovia,⁴ until 1931, as a right-back (later forward). With Cracovia, he was twice the champion of Poland (1921 and 1930). In 1928, he was the Polish top division's top scorer.²

He was also capped 12 times for the Poland national team, making eight official appearances.³ Included among his appearances for the team was in their first-ever Olympic appearance at the 1924 Olympic Games.³

After the World War II broke out, he emigrated to Palestine.³ He died by suicide in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1973.³

Cracovia

• Ekstraklasa: 1921,⁵ 1930⁶

Individual

• Ekstraklasa top scorer: 1928⁷