On 11 July 1946, a sports club was established by the local coal mine by the name
KS Nowa Ruda and its history has been intertwined with that of the local mine. That same year the name changed to
Klub Sportowy Węglowiec. In 1949, another name change meant that the club was called
KS Górnik. In 1955, a merger of the club with another local team
Włókniarz Nowa Ruda caused the new club to become
ZKS Piast Nowa Ruda, a name which became legally recognised in 1957. Under the decision of the Minister of Mining and Energy in 1972, another merger took place when the local mine in
Nowa Ruda was merged with another in
Słupiec to become one, which meant that its two football teams also merged, therefore
ZKS Górnik Słupiec merged with Piast to become
GKS Piast Nowa Ruda, before finally reverting it original prefix
KS in 1992, a name which remains to this day. The club's biggest footballing achievements came in the mid-1980s and early 1990s where the team has enjoyed spells in the higher leagues, including a season in the
second highest division and several in the
third tier. ==Honours==