Date: February 2024 / League: youth level Experience The last couple of days saw me working in Walbrzych, a city many in Poland associate with industrial blight, poverty, crime and other forms of social cancer. When the coal mines…
Unknown Gems
Date: 15 October 2023 / League: Polish seventh tier (possibly!) Final Score: 5-2 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience I’ve got a couple of bangers that are queueing patiently to be posted, not least a wild derby shot the day…
Date: 1 October 2023 / League: possibly 7th tier of the Polish pyramid Final Score: 0-2 / Attendance: approx. 50 Experience I’m the first to admit, when it comes to uncovering some of the more obscure grounds I am…
Date: 16 September 2023 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 1-2 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience The number of games that I still need to write up isn’t that far off triple figures, but there are some that…
Date: 12 August 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 2-0 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience I like football grounds that look as if they pre-date the time of dinosaurs, so when I visited Chemik in April (for…
Date: 29 July 2023 / League: Polish 2nd tier Final Score: 3-0 / Attendance: 1,696 approx. Experience Polish football – at least the higher divisions – returned to action a couple of weeks back and, more importantly, so did…
To call this ground a stadium is a bit of a madness – it offers one low bank of seating running down one side of the pitch and, then, well… that’s your lot. But despite this quite unpromising description,…
When it was opened in 1968, this stadium held 30,000, a fitting home for a team that at the time was playing in the top league – and games in the European Cup were swiftly to follow. The years…
Opened in 1925 on the seventh anniversary of Polish independence, this stadium is neither in Poznan nor Warta’s legitimate home. Found in a tiny town by the name of Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Warta’s temporary lodgings though are not short on…
Welcome to the time machine. The benches that once lined the stands of this cosmic commie era bowl were removed in 2009, and today all that remains are ever-stretching acres of vast concrete terracing. For stadium nerds, this football…