It focuses on training and developing players in the Pomeranian region and is well known for its development of female players with the women's football team being the academies most successful section, with AP Orlen playing in the Ekstraliga, the highest division of women's football in Poland.

APLG were founded in 2010[2] with close cooperation with Lechia Gdańsk and funded by the Lotos group.

This name change was also due to the confusion with Lechia Gdańsk and some fans and those associated with ALPG feeling as though the team had no identity of their own.

In August 2022, Grupa Lotos were taken over by the Polish oil refining company, PKN Orlen.

2020–21 was the club's first season in Poland's top league[9] where the team finished in a respectable ninth place.