Pogoń Lwów
| Full name | Lwowski Klub Sportowy Pogoń Lwów | ||
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| Nicknames | Pogoniacze, Pogoniarze, Pogonczycy | ||
| Founded | 1904 | ||
| Dissolved | 1945 | ||
| Ground | Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły Sports Park, 43 Jan Kiliński Street, Lwów | ||
| Capacity | about 10,000 | ||
| League | Polish Football League 1927–1939 | ||
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LKS Pogoń Lwów was a Polish professional sports club which was located in Lwów, Lwów Voivodeship (now Lviv in Ukraine), and existed from 1904 until 1945, when the city was annexed by the Soviet Union. It was the oldest Polish football club, only behind other teams from Lwów – Czarni and Lechia. With numerous departments, among them football, ice hockey and track and field, Pogoń was a major force of Polish sports in the interbellum period; its football team was never relegated from the elite Polish Football League.
On 2 July 1939, Pogoń played last pre-war official home game, drawing 1–1 with AKS Chorzów. The last pre-war game of the Pogoń's football team took place in Warsaw on 20 August 1939. Lwów's side lost 1–2 to Polonia Warsaw. The last goal was scored by the 20-year-old forward Piotr Dreher.
Due to the German, and then Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, football competitions in Poland were halted. The team was disbanded in 1945, after the city was annexed by the Soviet Union, and transferred to the Ukrainian SSR.
A club under the same name wishing to continue its traditions was formed in 2009.