Stare Kotkowice [ˈstarɛ kɔtkɔˈvit͡sɛ] (German: Alt Kuttendorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Głogówek, within Prudnik County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the Czech border.

Historically located in Upper Silesia, in the Prudnik Land.

There are Neolithic archaeological sites in Stare Kotkowice.

[2] The earliest record of the village comes from a 13th-century act of donation by Duke Casimir I of Opole to the monastery in Czarnowąsy.

[2] A document of Duke Bolko V the Hussite from 1430 noted a church in the village and a conflict between the parish priest from nearby Biedrzychowice and the villagers of Kotkowice.