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…
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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,…
Wrecked, ruined grounds are quite a forte in Poland, but Wojkowice is something else. A true, one-off rarity, it appears like a lost relic from a different world. Presenting itself as a mass of broken terraced steps that run…
With the ground facing the threat of renovation, it’s quite possible that by the time you read this it’ll be completely different to the place that I enjoyed. Hope that’s not the case, for this is one hell of…
There’s just one side to speak of at Slavia Ruda Slaska, and that’s a decaying concrete bank hewn into a natural slope that vanishes into the forest; crowning it sits a half-destroyed press cabin that wobbles so much you…
A ruin wrapped inside woodland would be the best way to describe this horseshoe-shaped stadium, and it’s particularly striking when carpeted in the auburn colours of autumn. Stepping over jagged piles of stone, it’s a magical trip back in…
Disclaimer: after enjoying a brief homecoming in 2021, it appears that Targowek are again living the life of a gypsy club, playing their home games anywhere but home – that’s possibly due to redevelopment issues. If that’s the case,…
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…
