| Józef Klotz | |
| Birth Date: | 2 January 1900 |
| Birth Place: | Kraków, Galicia, Austria-Hungary |
| Death Place: | Warsaw Ghetto, General Government |
| Height: | 1.85 m[1] |
| Position: | centre-half |
| Youthyears1: | 1910–1912 |
| Youthclubs1: | Jutrzenka Cracow |
| Years1: | 1912–1925 |
| Clubs1: | Jutrzenka Cracow |
| Years2: | 1925–1929 |
| Clubs2: | Maccabi Warsaw |
| Nationalyears1: | 1922 |
| Nationalteam1: | Poland |
| Nationalcaps1: | 2 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
Józef Klotz (2 January 1900 – 1941) was a Jewish Polish footballer who played centre-half.[2] He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He was killed by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.
Klotz was born in Kraków, southern Poland, and was Jewish.[3] [4] His father was a shoemaker.[5]
He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He scored it against Sweden in Stockholm in May 1922, in the team's third international match.[4] [6] [3] [7] [8]
Klotz played for two clubs. He played first for Jutrzenka Kraków, which he joined as a youth team player and played for from 1912 to 1925, and then for Maccabi Warszawa from 1925 to 1929 (both teams were Jewish minority teams).[9] [5] [10] He retired as a player in 1930.[5]
He was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. He was murdered there by the Germans in 1941.[4] [11] [3] [5]
In 2019, Klotz was honored by the Polish Football Association.[4] [12]
Jutrzenka Kraków Maccabi WarszawaPoland 0:3 
Hungary
Sweden 
1:2 Poland