Editing Tychy (section)

==Sports==
[[File:LodowiskoTychy.JPG|thumb|right|Tychy Winter Stadium, home to [[GKS Tychy (ice hockey)|GKS Tychy]] ice hockey club]]
Tychy is home to two major sporting teams, both named GKS Tychy. GKS stands for Górniczy Klub Sportowy, ({{langx|en|Miner's Sporting Club}}), which is a common prefix for Polish sports teams situated near mines or in mining regions.

=== Ice hockey ===
[[File:Finał Mistrzostw Polski 2017-18 w Hokeju na lodzie GKS Tychy - Tauron KH GKS Katowice 2-1 (d) 9.jpg|thumb|GKS Tychy celebrating the Polish championship in 2018]]
The [[GKS Tychy (ice hockey)|GKS Tychy ice hockey club]] is among the most successful in Poland and plays in its premier league, the [[Polska Liga Hokejowa|Ekstraliga]]. Established in 1971, the team won the Polish Championships in [[2004–05 Polska Liga Hokejowa season|2005]], [[2014–15 Polska Hokej Liga season|2015]], 2018, 2019 and 2020 and has won the Polish Cup eight times. The club is housed in the newly refurbished Tychy Winter Stadium ({{langx|pl|Stadion Zimowy w Tychach}}), which seats 2,700 people.

Several players from the club have gone on to play in the American and Canadian [[National Hockey League|NHL]]. These include [[Mariusz Czerkawski]] and [[Krzysztof Oliwa]].

===Football===
[[File:Tychy stadion wewn.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tychy City Stadium]], home to the [[GKS Tychy]] football club]]
The [[GKS Tychy|GKS Tychy football club]] football club was also established in 1971 and currently plays in the [[Polish Second League]]. Throughout a varied career the club reached its peak classification between 1974 and 1977, when it made it into the {{Lang|pl|[[Ekstraklasa]]|italic=no}}, Poland's top league, where it finished second in [[1975–76 Ekstraklasa|1976]].<ref name=ety/> During those glory days GKS Tychy also participated in the [[1976–77 UEFA Cup]]. It played in the top division again in [[1995–96 Ekstraklasa|1995]]–[[1996–97 Ekstraklasa|1997]]. [[Tychy City Stadium]] ({{langx|pl|Stadion Miejski w Tychach}}) is home to the club and seats 15,300 spectators.

A few notable footballers were either born in Tychy or spent some of their career at the club, the most famous being [[Real Madrid]] and [[Poland national football team|Poland]] goalkeeper [[Jerzy Dudek]]. Ekstraklasa player [[Bartosz Karwan]] started his career there, as did retired player [[Radosław Gilewicz]]. [[S.S.C. Napoli|Napoli]] and Poland national team striker [[Arkadiusz Milik]] was born in Tychy, as well as former [[Bayer Leverkusen]] defender [[Lukas Sinkiewicz]], who now holds German citizenship.

Tychy hosted several matches of the [[2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup]].

=== American Football ===
Tychy Falcons are an American Football team established in 2008. They currently competed in PFL2 - second tier of American Football in Poland. 

=== Other sporting teams===
Tychy is also home to several other sports teams, including [[basketball]] team GKS Tychy, [[futsal]] team GKS Futsal Tychy and [[floorball]] team TKKF Pionier Tychy.