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Włodzimierz Michał Chomicki (19 April 1878 — 12 July 1953) was a Polish teacher and amateur association football player. He is known in Ukraine and Poland as the first person to score an officially documented goal in their countries' history.
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Włodzimierz Michał Chomicki (19 April 1878 — 12 July 1953) was a Polish teacher and amateur association football player. He is known in Ukraine and Poland as the first person to score an officially documented goal in their countries' history.
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Biography Chomicki was born in Lviv on 19 April 1878 to Michał January and Maria (née Urbanik) Chomicki. He studied at the University of Lviv until 1902, then in Vienna the following year. He did not do any military service. On 14 July 1894, when Chomicki was only 16, he represented his hometown in an exhibition match against the Kraków Sokół team. A temporary English-style football pitch was set up in Stryiskyi Park to accommodate several sport performances during the General National Exhibition. Two years earlier, the first match, the 1st Falcon Rally, was scheduled but never occurred; this 1894 meeting was then called the 2nd Falcon Rally. As first official football game for what's now Poland and Ukraine, it was played with "local rules" rather than something more formal, with several modern journalists speculating that the players knew just as much about soccer as the spectators. Both teams wore white jerseys but the Cracovian players wore navy blue shorts, while the ones from Lviv wore grey. The number of spectators varies widely between 1,000 and 10,000 and there is speculation that figures such as Franz Joseph I of Austria, Eustachy Stanisław Sanguszko, Adam Stefan Sapieha, and Count Kasimir Felix…
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Legacy On Chomicki's 94th birthday, football fans added a commemorative plaque to his gravesite; it reads: "On 14 July 1894 in Lviv, at the Sokol Stadium, the first official football match between the teams from Kraków and Lviv took place. The first goal in this match, and the first in the history of Polish football, was scored by Włodzimierz Chomicki." In 1999, the Ukrainian Association of Football officially recognized 14 July 1894 as the historical beginning of Ukrainian football due to Chomicki's goal. In 2004, on the 110th anniversary of the game, a statue bearing a falcon atop a football was erected in Lviv on the grounds where the stadium used to stand. The inscription reads: "Lviv—the birthplace of Ukrainian football." There is also reportedly a roundabout dedicated to him in Chocianów.