Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała have only formally existed since 1997, yet the club's footballing lineage stretches back to the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - it is the heir to the tradition of the Bielitzer Fussball Klub, founded in 1907 as Bielsko's first football team. Towarzystwo Sportowe Podbeskidzie was established on 11 July 1997 through the merger of the football section of BBTS Włókniarz Bielsko-Biała with the district club DKS Inter Komorowice, itself the product of an earlier merger between Inter Bielsko-Biała and DKS Komorowice. The newly formed club, initially playing under the name BBTS Ceramed Komorowice, thereby absorbed the traditions of several Bielsko sides - besides the Bielitzer Fussball Klub, also the post-war Budowlani Bielsko, founded in 1949, and Włókniarz - and the oldest of its predecessors had already taken part in the very first edition of the Polish Cup back in 1925, reaching the semi-final of the Kraków district before losing to the eventual overall winner, Wisła Kraków.
From the moment of its founding in 1997, the new club enjoyed a rapid sporting rise, climbing three tiers of Polish football within five years - from the regional league through the fourth and third divisions to the second tier, where in 2002 it adopted its present name, Podbeskidzie, underlining the club's regional character and its ties to the highland identity of the Beskid mountains. That progress was interrupted by a nationwide match-fixing scandal, for which Podbeskidzie was punished in the 2007-08 season with a six-point deduction and a fine of 50,000 złoty over six previously fixed matches - a penalty that, according to some commentators, cost the club its chance of promotion to the Ekstraklasa at the time. Despite the episode, the club did not stray from its course toward the top flight and, following the league restructuring of 2008, steadily built a strong side just below the elite.
A historic moment arrived in the 2010-11 season, when Podbeskidzie became the first team from Bielsko-Biała ever to win promotion to the Ekstraklasa, packing the Municipal Stadium to capacity and bringing rivals such as Legia Warsaw, Lech Poznań and Wisła Kraków to the city. In the top flight, the club - known to fans as the Highlanders - played from 2011 to 2016 and again in the 2020-21 season, recording its biggest-ever win along the way, a 4-0 rout of Jagiellonia Białystok in February 2013. Though Podbeskidzie has competed in the II liga since the 2024-25 season, the club remains one of the enduring symbols of football in the Podbeskidzie region, embodying more than a century of local footballing tradition beneath the Beskid mountains.