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…
Unknown Gems
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,…
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…
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…
Behold, one of Webber’s great discoveries! I could talk all day long about the little away cage snuck into the corner, the abandoned terrace running down the side and antique ticket kiosk that marks the entrance of the ground.…
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…
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…