Włodzimierz Chomicki

Włodzimierz Michał Chomicki (19 April 1878 — 12 July 1953) was a Polish teacher and amateur association football player. He is known in Ukraine and Poland as the first person to score an officially documented goal in their countries' history.

Biography Chomicki was born in Lviv on 19 April 1878 to Michał January and Maria (née Urbanik) Chomicki. He studied at the University of Lviv until 1902, then in Vienna the following year. He did not do any military service. A temporary English-style football pitch was set up in Stryiskyi Park to accommodate several sport performances during the General National Exhibition. The game was played golden goal, or sudden death, and lasted only 6 minutes, when Chomicki scored on Kraków's goalkeeper. Before World War II, he worked at the 11th Lviv Gymnasium and/or Junior High School No. 9. He retired from teaching the year before the war but was too old to be eligible to fight. In 2004, on the 110th anniversary of the game, a statue bearing a falcon atop a football was erected in Lviv on the grounds where the stadium used to stand.