Date: 18 August 2024 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 3-0 (walkover) / Attendance: approx. 450 Experience I had hoped that my recent trip to Lodz would prove to be the only debacle of my summer (for that,…
East Poland
Date: 25 May 2024 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 5-1 / Attendance: approx. 400 I visited Orzel Przeworsk to see history being made – this was, I was told, the last time their legendary away cage would…
Date: 25 March 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 0-2 / Attendance: approx. 500 Experience To a large degree, I must admit I’m guilty of misrepresenting Polish football – the nation’s football scene is wild and often…
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: 28 August 2021 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: approx. 300 In A Nutshell A killer of a journey and a killer of a hangover fail to dampen the magic of this lower-end beauty……
Date: 14 August 2021 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 2-1 / Attendance: approx. 100 Background There’s not much I can tell you about Cisowianka Drzewce other than, according to the club crest, they were founded in 2002.…
Date: 7 August 2021 / League: Polish fifth tier Final Score: 3-0 / Attendance: approx. 300 In A Nutshell Largely forgotten by the Lublin public, this friendly club plies its football inside a historic stadium that today resembles, more…
Date: 13 June 2019 / League: Lubelski Regional Cup Final Final Score: 2-3 / Attendance: 999 Preamble A district cup final contested between two local rivals inside a tumbledown ruin. Background Poland has a law classifying anything with an…
Date: 1 April 2017 / League: Polish tier 4Final Score: 2-0 / Attendance: 3,050 Preamble For me, this is where it all really began – my love affair with Polish football started here at this very match! Why? See:…
As a stadium nerd, this is precisely the kind of place that I love to uncover. Entered under a sign written in a groovy 70s-style script, the ground presents a motherlode of curiosities, inconsistencies, contrasts and treasures – all…