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Daniel Pliński, a 38-year-old middle blocker of AZS Olsztyn, has played his 454th match in the Polish Men’s Championship, PlusLiga, setting a new record in the number of appearances in the history of the professional competition in Poland (since June 30, 2000).
In Saturday’s match against Effector Kielce, Pliński who was a member of the Polish National Team from 2005 to 2010, broke the old record of Krzysztof Ignaczak by one appearance.
Pliński’s PlusLiga career started in Stolarka Wołomin (1997-2002, only 2000-2002 counts, 60 games). It continued in: Polska Energia Sosnowiec (2002-2004, 54 games), Jastrzębski Węgiel (2004-2007, 86 games), Skra Bełchatów (2007-2014, 171 games), Czarni Radom (2014-2016, 61 games), AZS Olsztyn (22 games).
The list of Top 10 players with largest number of appearances in PlusLiga by sportowefakty.wp.pl:
1. Daniel Pliński, 2000/2001 – currently playing, 454
2. Krzysztof Ignaczak, 2000/2001 – 2015/2016, 453
3. Krzysztof Gierczyński, 2000/2001 – 2014/2015, 420
4. Michał Ruciak, 2002/2003 – currently playing, 418
5. Wojciech Jurkiewicz, 2000/2001 – currently playing, 417
6. Wojciech Grzyb, 2000/2001 – currently playing, 407
7. Piotr Gacek, 2002/2003 – currently playing, 405
8. Paweł Woicki, 2003/2004 – currently playing, 390
9. Grzegorz Szymański, 2000/2001 – currently playing, 378
10. Piotr Lipiński, 2000/2001 – currently playing, 375
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