Career
Czyżniewski played 57 games for Arka Gdynia, winning the Polish Cup in 1979, and 95 league matches for Bałtyk Gdynia. He also had a spell abroad in Cyprus. From 2002 through 2006, he was a goalkeeping coach at Amica Wronki.
He moved to Lech Poznan to become director of scouting until 2009.
From 2009 to 2012 he served as Director of sports at Arka again.