In Poland he played for the Broń Radom, AZS-AWF Warszawa and Lechia Gdańsk.
[1] In 1975, Panek played for the Chicago Sting in the North American Soccer League.
He also played for the Chicago Cats of the American Soccer League that season.
Panek has also coached at Thomas More High School and was an assistant with the Milwaukee Rampage.
Panek has since returned to the Milwaukee Kickers Soccer Club, where he has been serving as their director of coaching since 2001.