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Gwarek Walbrzych

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…

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RKS Grodziec

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,…

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Szombierki Bytom

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…

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Warta Poznan

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…

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Sarmacja Bedzin

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…