In 1998, 9 years after the Fall of Communism in Poland, the stadium was renamed in the honour of Father Władysław Augustynek, a popular local Catholic priest, who was a passionate fan of the club.

[3] In 2017, the club announced that the stadium would be fully renovated in order to comply with Ekstraklasa regulations.

[4] However, these plans were never realised, and throughout the 2017-18 Ekstraklasa season, while Sandecja was playing in Nieciecza, no works have been done at the stadium.

The club's hierarchy has been met with heavy criticism from Sandecja fans and from former Polish football player and current PZPN chairman Zbigniew Boniek[5] for their failure to renovate the stadium.

In 2018, the Mayor of Nowy Sącz, Ryszard Nowak, presented the design of the new stadium, which has been approved by PZPN.