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…
North Poland
Date: 11 June 2023 / League: Polish third tier (playoff final) Final Score: 1-1 (1-4 pens) / Attendance: 4,517 Experience The day previous I had been treated to an unexpected banger – an old school derby in Grajewo that…
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: 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: 10 February 2023 / League: Polish top flight Final Score: 0-0 / Attendance: 9,423 Overview Should it require any explanation, then allow me to justify my recent digital exile – the winter break felt like it lasted forever.…
If football grounds had dating profiles, it’s not the pretty, plastic bimbos that I’d be swiping right for but rather the dirty, old slappers with a load of missing teeth – in short, places like the knackered former home…
Date: 23 October 2022 / League: Polish 8th tier Final Score: 2-0 / Attendance: 25 approx. In A Nutshell Almost overcome by woodland, this fairy tale football ground almost redefines the romance of football. Stadium & Experience Lacking the…
Date: 22 October 2022 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 3-0 / Attendance: 100 approx. In A Nutshell I had headed up north to watch Arka Gdynia take on Chojniczanka Chojnice – though widely hyped, I was aware…
Date: 24 September 2022 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 1-2 / Attendance: 1,000 In A Nutshell With both these rivals just thirty minutes apart, this was a Pomeranian regional derby delivered with a punch (almost literally!). Background…