polish association football club

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Lech Poznań ( polish pronunciation : [ lɛx ˈpɔznaj̃ ] ) is a polish professional football clubhouse based in Poznań and presently competing in the Ekstraklasa, the nation ‘s highest division. The club is named after Lech, the legendary laminitis of the polish nation.

The club was established on 19 March 1922 as KS Lutnia Dębiec, late changing its name respective times. From 1930 until 1994, the club was closely linked to Polish State Railways ( PKP ). As a consequence, its popular nickname is Kolejorz [ kɔˈlɛjɔʂ ], which means The Railwayman in local slang. The club ‘s debut in the Polish top division took place in the year 1948. The brightest era of Lech was in the early on 1980s and early 1990s. Lech has won the Polish league a full of seven times, most recently in 2015, and is the most popular football golf club in the Greater Poland region. [ 2 ]

history [edit ]

formation and early years ( 1920–1945 ) [edit ]

In August 1920, a group of young activists from the Catholic Youth Association decided to split off and form their own football team. The founders of the baseball club were : Jan Nowak, Antoni Dyzman, Jan Dyzman, Leon Nowicki, Józef Magdziak, Kazimierz Zmuda, Stanisław Nowicki, Stefan Fiedler, Józef Gośliński, Leon Stachowski, Józef Blumreder and Jan Wojtek. The origin of Lech can be traced back to 19 March 1922, when it was formally registered as a football club. [ 3 ] The club ‘s first base official name was Towarzystwo Sportowe Liga Dębiec. In September 1922 the cabaret gained a football slope on Grzybowa street. The first equal for the golf club was played in May 1922 against Urania Starołęka, which ended in a 1–1 draw. The club started its foundation in a low tier league, which at the time was the Class C.
The club achieved forwarding in 1928 to the class B after six years of being in Class C. In 1932 the golf club was promoted to Class A where the biggest teams of the region played. From there they could get promoted to the First National Division, but the clubhouse would not achieve that finish before the outbreak of World War II. In fall of 1933 the Klub Sportowy Kolejowego Przysposobienia Wojskowego Poznań ( “ Poznań Military Training Railway Sports Club ” ) was founded or KPW. In 1945, concisely after the war ended, sporting officials made Lech the first club from the city .

downfall and the Miracle of Błażejewo ( 1947–1979 ) [edit ]

In 1947, the Polish Football Association ( PZPN ) decided to create the first base national division ( Ekstraklasa ). At inaugural, the golf club was not admitted to the top flight, but the Kolejorz ( “ the trainman ”, the popular nickname of the club ) filed an appeal and the PZPN decided, in a special touch, to extend the First Division to 14 teams, including the KKS ( at that time called Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Poznań ) and Widzew Łódź. The first match was against Widzew Łódź which Widzew won 4–3.
The club changed its identify again in January 1957, this meter to Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań and in December to Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań, which lasted throughout the history of the team. That lapp year turned out to be one of the worst for the clubhouse, since it finished last and was relegated to the second division. Lech only gained twelve points in 22 games, despite having hitter Teodor Anioła, the club ‘s top scorer, with 141 goals and peak scorer of the polish championship in three back-to-back editions ( 1949-1951 ). [ 4 ] Along with Edmund Białas and Henryk Czapczyk, Anioła formed the celebrated three known as ABC. During that menstruation, the baseball club managed to finish third base in the First Division doubly, as the best result, before its delegating to second division.
Lech managed to return to the first part in 1961, but after two seasons with poor results, the blue team was relegated again in 1963. The clubhouse was even demoted to the third gear division, then known as the Interprovincial Division ( Liga międzywojewódzka ), in one of the biggest sports crisis of the organization. In 1972 the club returned to the first division, in which they had to fight again to avoid delegating every temper. Coach Jerzy Kopa, who arrived from Szombierki Bytom, was responsible for reviving Lech spectacularly. He took over the team in 1976, when they were bed of the postpone. Kopa gathered players at a train camp in Błażejewo, saved the team from relegation and twelve months late qualified for the first prison term to play in Europe after finishing third in the league, just two points behind the ace, Wisła Kraków. therefore, this transformation became known as The Miracle of Błażejewo. [ 5 ] The golf club ‘s first engagement in the UEFA Cup in 1978-79 was abbreviated, as they were eliminated in the first round by MSV Duisburg .

Golden senesce of Lech ( 1980–1993 ) [edit ]

The arrival of coach Wojciech Łazarek in 1980 at the baseball club was key to overcome third rate and european engagement. That year the team reached the concluding of the polish Cup for the first gear time, losing 0–5 to Legia Warsaw in Częstochowa. Two years late, the club managed to win the first title in its history, the polish Cup, by defeating Pogoń Szczecin 1–0 in Wroclaw.
The hitter Andrzej Juskowiak, top goalscorer and champion in the Ekstraklasa in 1990 with 18 goals. The league championships of 1983 and 1984 went down in history as they were the first two league titles of the Kolejorz and for winning on such close margins against Widzew Łódź. The first league backing for Lech was a point of advantage ( 39 ) over Widzew ( 38 ). The 15 goals scored by the top scorekeeper of the tournament, Mirosław Okoński and the engagement of other players like Krzysztof Pawlak and Józef Adamiec were very authoritative to win their first base league championship. interim, the championship of the comply temper both teams staged an arouse tournament and tied at 42 points. Lech defended championship by having a better remainder of goals than Widzew to break the tie. That season was historic for the aristocratic team, as they got their first double by becoming champions of the polish Cup, after winning in the final at Wisła Kraków ( 3–0 ).
As polish champions, Lech participated for the first clock in the european Cup, although they could not pass the foremost round in the two seasons. In its first season it was eliminated by Athletic Club. In the first stage in Poland, Mariusz Niewiadomski and Mirosław Okoński scored the foremost two satyr goals in the tournament and the team won 2–0. however, the return match in San Mamés was a nightmare for the Poles and the spanish team qualified by winning 4–0. The following temper the team faced the current champion, F.C. Liverpool, who won by a 5–0 aggregate.
In 1988, Lech won another cup by beating Legia in Łódź in the penalty gunfight. In the moment round of the european Cup, Lech faced Barcelona, coached by Johan Cruyff. After finishing the two games in a 1-1 draw, Barcelona, in the end the tournament, could entirely eliminate Lech in the penalty gunfight.
Jerzy Kopa returned to Lech in 1990 along with Andrzej Strugarek and Kolejorz returned to be proclaimed league champions for the third gear time. Andrzej Juskowiak was the exceed scorer of the tournament with 18 goals and his team finished with 42 points, two more than the runner-up, Zagłębie Lubin. Henryk Apostel, however, was the coach who led Lech to two new championships in 1992 and 1993. The first one was achieved with a acquire over GKS Katowice, while the second one tied in points with the second team, Legia, and lone won because Legia was penalized for disputed match repair.
In the fall of 1990, Lech played one of the most spectacular qualifiers of the last ten in the european Cup. At Bułgarska street stadium the polish club defeated Olympique Marseille 3-2 in the first leg of the irregular round. The return match at the Stade Vélodrome, the french team, thrashed Lech 6–1, in a peer in which most of the polish players complained of food poison. Since 1993 the club entered into a major fiscal crisis and had to sell its most significant players to continue in master football .

New disappointments and successes ( 1994–present ) [edit ]

Lech managed to stay in the middle of the table and their best consequence was fourth set in 1990, which allowed him to play in the 1999-00 UEFA Cup, where they eliminated Liepājas Metalurgs in the passing round and were defeated by IFK Göteborg in first cycle. however, equitable a few months former, in 2000, Lech was relegated to the second division after 28 years of bearing in the top flight. Lech ‘s first season in the second division was a calamity, as they were very stopping point to falling to the third division. It was only with a great attempt that the club was saved from relegation and even won the promotion the next season to the first division.
Robert Lewandowski scored 32 goals in 58 matches with Lech Poznań (2008–2010). In their first year of the rejoinder to the I league ( 2002–03 ) Lech focused on ensuring permanence. The following season began with a very negative active for the Kolejorz. After five days, the club hired a modern passenger car, Czesław Michniewicz. [ 6 ] The unexpected date of the young coach turned out to be a shock, since Lech finished the season in one-sixth position. Most significant, however, was the conquest of a new polish Cup by defeating their great equal, Legia Warsaw, in the final two games in 2004. several days former, the fans celebrated in Poznań the victory of Lech in the Super Cup against Wisła Kraków. Although the next two seasons did not bring any success of that proportion, Lech managed to finish at the top of the table at the end each season with coach Franciszek Smuda.
Smuda formed a potent team with the arrival at the club of players like Robert Lewandowski, Hernan Rengifo, Semir Štilić, Marcin Zając and Rafał Murawski. In the Ekstraklasa 2008–09 season, Lech had a big temper and finished in third base locate and qualified for the UEFA Europa League thanks, in part, to the 14 goals scored by Robert Lewandowski. On 19 May 2009 Lech won the Cup for the fifth fourth dimension by beating Ruch Chorzów with a solo finish by Sławomir Peszko at the Silesian stadium.
The follow season, Jacek Zieliński replaced Franciszek Smuda ( who was hired as national coach ) as passenger car of Lech. With many of the players who achieved third place and the cup last season, Zieliński managed to make Lech champion for the sixth fourth dimension in its history in the 2009-10 temper. The striker Robert Lewandowski returned to be a reference point in assail and was top scorer of the championship with 18 goal differential. In their participation in the Champions League 2010–11 they were eliminated by Sparta Prague in the third round and without Lewandowski, who was transferred to Borussia Dortmund. One of their most successful european appearance was in the UEFA Europa League 2010–11, in which they eliminated Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk to enter the group stage of the tournament for the first time. Lech managed to qualify as moment in the group with Manchester City, leaving Juventus and FC Salzburg out of the tournament. however, they were eliminated by Braga, runner-up of the tournament months late, in the round of 32 after winning in Poland ( 1–0 ) and losing in Portugal ( 2–0 ) .

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

Europe [edit ]

  • UEFA Europa League:
    • Round of 32 (2): 2009, 2011

european engagement [edit ]

As of 16 December 2010, Lech Poznań had played a full of 62 games in european contest during the years 1978–10. Among the most memorable games in the club ‘s history were the clashes against Barcelona in the 1988–89 season of the UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup second gear cycle. After both matches ended with 1–1 draw, Lech Poznań lost the penalty shoot-out with 4–5. Barcelona finally went on to win the tournament. During the 1983–84 european Cup temper, Lech earned a 2–0 acquire at home plate against spanish champions Athletic Bilbao. During the 1990–91 season, Lech eliminated the greek champions Panathinaikos in the first gear round, with a 5–1 score on aggregate. In the future bind Lech was knocked out by Marseille but won the first base leg 3–2 at home. During the 2008–09 UEFA Cup season, Lech made it to the group stage of the rival after knocking out higher seeded teams of Grasshopper ( notching its greatest margin of victory with a 6–0 win at home ) and Austria Wien ( scoring the decisive goal in the last infinitesimal of extra-time ). In the group stage, Lech finished third-placed ahead of Nancy and Feyenoord to secure a position in the Third Round, where it was knocked out by the italian side Udinese. Their home grind Stadion Poznań has been wholly rebuild and completed in September 2010 for UEFA Euro 2012, during which it is expected to host 3 games in Group C .
Kolejorz wrote another glorious chapter in golf club ‘s history during its 2010–11 UEFA Europa League campaign. After being knocked out by Sparta Prague during Champions League qualification, they made it to the group stagecoach of the Europa League. This time the polish underdog had to face the boastfully names : Juventus and Manchester City. In Turin a hat-trick by Artjoms Rudņevs earned them a surprising 3–3 draw. After defeating the english side at family 3–1, Lech made it to the top of the group. The game against Juventus was played in very regretful, snow-clad conditions and ended in a 1–1 draw. This was enough to put Lech Poznań into the hard phase of the Europa League .

tilt of results [edit ]

As of 10 December 2020

UEFA Team rank [edit ]

As of 20 September 2021. [8]

Records [edit ]

current team [edit ]

As of 11 September 2021.[9]

notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on lend [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

retire numbers [edit ]

12 – numeral retired for fans, called “ 12th player ” [ 10 ]

Coaching staff [edit ]

Stadiums [edit ]

Dębiec Stadium [edit ]

initially the club ‘s beginning stadium was located in the Dębiec district between two train tracks. [ 11 ] It belonged to PKP ( the Polish state railways ) and was demolished in 2013 after a long time period of inactivity. [ 12 ]

Edmund Szyc Stadium [edit ]

Edmund Szyc Stadium is a presently ruined multi-purpose stadium in the Wilda district, named after Edmund Szyc, one of founders of Warta Poznań. [ 13 ] It is the historic home of the other football team Warta Poznań, [ 14 ] but Lech played there sporadically between the 1950s and 1970s .

Stadion Poznań [edit ]

The Stadion Poznań is the home background of Lech Poznań, and was one of the venues for the group phase of Euro 2012. It has a league capacity of 43,269 ( all seated ). The stadium was primitively built between 1968 and 1980. From its inauguration in August 1980 Lech Poznań has used the ground as its main venue ; since 2010 it has besides been used by Warta Poznań, which presently plays in I Liga. [ 15 ] The labor is situated on the street ul. Bułgarska 17 in the southwest part of the city ( Grunwald zone ).

In the years 2003–10 the stadium underwent a complete reconstruction, including the build of four new amply covered stands. [ 16 ] Currently it is the one-fifth largest stadium in Poland ( after National Stadium, Silesia Stadium, The Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw and PGE Arena Gdańsk ) and third base largest in Ekstraklasa ( after the latter two ). [ 17 ] The deluxe open after final renovation took place on 20 September 2010, with Sting ‘s Symphonicity Tour concert .

  • Exterior of the municipal stadium in Poznań
  • Full Exterior of the stadium
  • Full inside showing very important person stand
  • Interior of the municipal stadium

Fans [edit ]

Lech Poznań is considered to have one of the strongest fan support in Poland ascribable to the club ‘s high modal attendance in the Ekstraklasa and the air during the games. Lech ‘s fanbase is chiefly located in the Greater Poland region, with winnow clubs in many other towns .

Friendships and rivalries [edit ]

For over a ten Lech supporters have a fellowship with fans from Arka Gdynia and KS Cracovia sometimes called the Wielka Triada or The Great Triad. Close friendship links Lech fans besides with KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski and ŁKS Łódź supporters. Among the more ardent element of supporters, there are some private contacts with Fratria, fans of Spartak Moscow, and Crveni Đavoli, fans of Radnički Kragujevac from Serbia .
satyr supporters during 2014-15 Ekstraklasa season The biggest rival is Legia Warsaw with whom they contest the “ Derby of Poland ”. Wisła Kraków, Lechia Gdańsk and Śląsk Wrocław are besides boastfully rivals due to the fans friendship with Arka and Cracovia, similarly Korona Kielce are disliked due to the friendship with KSZO and Widzew Łódź ascribable to ŁKS. other teams that can be considered rivals are Ruch Chorzów and Pogoń Szczecin. In past the “ Greater Poland bowler hat ” was played against regional rivals Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski before their decline. Relations with local rival Warta Poznań are neutral as the clubs have about always played in different leagues and many fans attend matches of both teams .

The Poznań [edit ]

The fans ‘ goal celebration involving the turn of their backs to the cant, joining arms and jumping up and down in unison—originated in 1961 [ citation needed ]. It is known in the English talk universe as “ The Poznan ” after Manchester City began using the celebration following their clash with Lech Poznań in the group stages of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League. besides popular with fans of scots cabaret Celtic who call their translation “ The Huddle ”, in court to the team ‘s pre-match ritual of a huddle before every game kicks off .

Rap music [edit ]

many polish rappers who hail from Poznań have been powerfully linked to the Lech supporter fit and the club prominently features in their music. Peja was an ardent athletic supporter since he was 15 years honest-to-god, and was active voice in the bully scene in the 90s. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Evtis, [ 20 ] Ascetoholix, [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Bzyk [ 23 ] and DJ Decks are all big supporters. The fans have produced recorded and released two rap cadmium ‘s called Definicja Kibol and Definicja Kibol 2 as compilation of respective artists. [ 24 ] [ 25 ]

other departments [edit ]

Lech Poznań II [edit ]

The golf club operates a allow team which presently plays in II liga, the third tier of the league pyramid. They gained promotion in the 2003–04 season to the third tier after winning the league and beating Jarota Jarocin 2–0 twice, 4–0 on aggregate. In that lapp season they reached the First Round of the polish Cup but were knocked out by Górnik Konin 3–1. In the 2006–07 temper the reserve teams were scrapped in favor of a central young person league, but in the 2013–14 season they were reinstated, meaning that between 2007 and 2013 the team ceased to exist. They were reinstated to their former league put for the 2013–14 temper .

Lech Poznań UAM [edit ]

Lech ‘s women section was opened on 26 August 2021. [ 26 ] It was formed through a partnership with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. It presently competes in the one-fourth women ‘s league, and is coached by Alicja Zając .

Lech Poznań Academy [edit ]

The Lech Poznań Academy ( polish : Akademia Lecha Poznań ) is the club ‘s youth system, with respective teams across all children ‘s ages up until its most senior U-19 young person team. [ 27 ] The teams play in the Central Junior League, which was at beginning formed to replace the clubs ‘ reserve teams which participated in the league pyramid. The cabaret ‘s youth system is the most extensive and advanced in the state and has produced many players which went on to play in the aged team .

KKS Wiara Lecha [edit ]

KKS Wiara Lecha is a football club founded by Lech Poznań supporters in 2011. only active supporters can play in the team and they have to have made a contribution to the patron scene in order to be admitted to the squad .

luminary players [edit ]

Managers [edit ]

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

bibliography [edit ]

  • Jarosław Owsiański, Lech Poznań – przemilczana prawda, Poznań: Drukarnia Beyga, 2017, 978-83-939221-6-1.