The team was founded in 1910, in the southern Polish town of Żywiec, which at the time was under the control of Austria-Hungary.

Among founders, there were such well-known people such as Edmund and Władysław Zyzak; Ludwik, Franciszek and Władysław Pantofliński; Leonard Rybarski; Otto Szmidt; Wiktor Dubowski and other local youths, passionate about football.

Their first opponents were small clubs founded in those years, from Kraków, Lwów, and other towns.

In their first season, they started brightly, but after the sale of top scorers Krzysztof Zaremba to local giants Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała and Krzysztof Bizacki to GKS Tychy, they failed to regain the same form they had had before, and finished in 11th place.

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