It was clear that Marcin Kaminski and FC Schalke 04 would be parting ways this summer. Now we know where he is headed.

Marcin Kaminski is making the leap from the second division to the first division. To do so, the 33-year-old is crossing national borders and moving from FC Schalke 04 to Polish first division club Wisla Plock. The Polish club has already announced the transfer. According to the announcement, the center back has signed until June 30, 2027. An Instagram post also reveals that Kaminski will wear the number 35 in future. Wisla Plock is one of three teams to have been promoted to the Ekstraklasa. Kaminski is the second signing for the center-back position after Aleksandre Kalandadze, who joined from Dinamo Tbilisi in Georgia. For Kaminski, it is a return to his homeland after spells in the youth departments of Aluminium Konin and Lech Poznan, which he left in the summer of 2016 to join VfB Stuttgart.

Kaminski had previously won two Polish championships with Lech Poznan (2010, 2015) and also won the Polish Super Cup in 2015. With Stuttgart, he achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in 2017. After extending his contract, he was loaned to Fortuna Düsseldorf in 2018, where he played 27 Bundesliga matches as a regular. After his return, he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture but fought his way back and was part of the Stuttgart team that was promoted to the Bundesliga again in 2020.

In 2021, Kaminski joined FC Schalke 04, which had just been relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga. With Schalke, he achieved direct promotion back to the Bundesliga in the 2021/22 season. By the summer of 2025, he had played 102 competitive games for Schalke, scoring nine goals.

In March 2025, Schalke informed him that his expiring contract would not be renewed. In the end, that decision stood, allowing Kaminski to move to his native Poland on a free transfer. There, he will now play his part in ensuring that Wisla Plock does not immediately return to the second division after being promoted.