Date: 27 August 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 2-1 / Attendance: approx. 800 Experience For me, the heart of Polish football beats the loudest not in the top tier stadiums, but in tertiary towns like Slupsk…
Classic Encounters
Date: 19 August 2023 / League: who knows – seventh tier? Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience You can blame it on the fixture list, the holiday season or, even, the utter bastard of a heatwave that’s…
Date: 12 August 2023 / League: Polish 4th tier Final Score: 0-0 / Attendance: 3,290 Experience When the fixture list was first released, I think the reaction was a collective sigh of disappointment – certainly among my friends, anyhow.…
Date: 10 June 2023 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 2-4 (match abandoned) / Attendance: 950 Experience Zap, pow, wallop! Abandoned on 87 minutes due to crowd trouble, this local derby started slowly only to finish in feisty…
Date: 8 June 2023 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 0-6 / Attendance: approx. 300 Experience I’ll be straight, it wasn’t until 2019 I first heard of Okocimsko Brzesko, and even then it took a major crowd disturbance…
Date: 3 May 2023 / League: Polish fifth tier Final Score: 0-2 / Attendance: 500 approx. Experience As much as I enjoy the big games at the big clubs, there’s an air of predictability to the matchday experience –…
Date: 11 March 2023 / League: Polish 3rd division Final Score: 0-0 / Attendance: 4,195 Background Though set over a 100 kilometres apart, this fixture is considered a derby given the dearth of clubs found between the cities of…
Date: 9 November 2022 / League: Polish Cup (last 16) Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: 7,561 In A Nutshell Separated by the league system for years, two old foes finally meet for a place in the Cup quarter-final! Background…
Date: 5 November 2022 / League: Polish top tier Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: 9,628 In A Nutshell Inside a compact and likeable stadium, two old rivals produce a nuclear-powered atmosphere that will long be remembered by those that…
Date: 1 October 2022 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 2-0 (match abandoned) / Attendance: 700 (that’s a guess) In A Nutshell I shall allow Google’s translation of the entry on 90minut.pl to speak nobly on my behalf:…