University Sports Association of Poland

AZS sportspersons make up around 25% of members of Polish national teams, they are represented in all major sports events across the world, including the Olympic Games.

Akademicki Związek Sportowy was founded on 15 May 1909, during a meeting of students, which took place in Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Among most famous AZS's sportspersons of the interbellum period, there were Halina Konopacka, Roger Verey, Jerzy Ustupski, Władysław Segda and Adam Papée.

Most popular sports, practiced by members of the organization, were tourism, rowing, track and field, tennis, fencing and skiing.

Quick growth of the organization made it necessary to create central office of the AZS, which would coordinate activities of all local branches.