European Football Championship 2008 / Poland

The Polish national team at the European Football Championship 2008 in Austria and Switzerland :

qualification

Game results

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
09/02/2006	Bydgoszcz	Finland	1: 3 (0: 0)	0: 1, 0: 2 J. Litmanen (54th, 76th), 0: 3 M. Väyrynen (84th), 1: 3 Ł. Garguła (90.)
09/06/2006	Warsaw	Serbia	1: 1 (1: 0)	1: 0 R. Matusiak (30th), 1: 1 D. Lazović (71.)
07/10/2006	Almaty	Kazakhstan	1: 0 (0: 0)	1-0 E. Smolarek (52nd)
10/11/2006	Chorzów	Portugal	2: 1 (2: 0)	1: 0, 2: 0 E. Smolarek (9th, 18th), 2: 1 N. Gomes (90th + 2)
11/15/2006	Brussels	Belgium	1: 0 (1: 0)	1: 0 R. Matusiak (19th)
03/24/2007	Warsaw	Azerbaijan	5: 0 (3: 0)	1-0 J. Bąk (3rd), 2-0 D. Dudka (6th), 3-0 W. Łobodziński (34th), 4-0 J. Krzynówek (58th), 5-0 P. Kaźmierczak (84.)
03/28/2007	Kielce	Armenia	1: 0 (1: 0)	1: 0 M. Żurawski (26.)
06/02/2007	Baku	Azerbaijan	3: 1 (0: 1)	0: 1 B. Subašić (6th), E. Smolarek (63rd), J. Krzynówek (66th, 90th)
06/06/2007	Yerevan	Armenia	0: 1 (0: 0)	0: 1 H. Mkhitaryan (66.)
09/08/2007	Lisbon	Portugal	2: 2 (1: 0)	1: 0 M. Lewandowski (44.), 1: 1 Maniche (50.), 1: 2 C. Ronaldo (73.), 2: 2 J. Krzynówek (88.)
09/12/2007	Helsinki	Finland	0-0
10/13/2007	Warsaw	Kazakhstan	3: 1 (0: 1)	0: 1 D. Byakov (20th), 1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 1 E. Smolarek (56th, 64th, 65th)
11/17/2007	Chorzów	Belgium	2: 0 (1: 0)	1: 0, 2: 0 E. Smolarek (45th, 49th)
11/21/2007	Belgrade	Serbia	2: 2 (1: 0)	1: 0 R. Murawski (28th), R. Matusiak (47th), N. Žigić (69th), D. Lazović (71th)

table

space	team	Games	Victories	draw	defeat	Gates	difference	Points
1.	Poland	14th	8th	4th	2	24:12	+12	28
2.	Portugal	14th	7th	6th	1	24:10	+14	27
3.	Serbia	14th	6th	6th	2	22:11	+11	24
4th	Finland	14th	6th	6th	2	13: 7	+6	24
5.	Belgium	14th	5	3	6th	14:16	−2	18th
6th	Kazakhstan	14th	2	4th	8th	11:21	−10	10
7th	Armenia	12	2	3	7th	4:13	−9	9
8th.	Azerbaijan	12	1	2	9	6:28	−22	5

The first two teams qualified directly for the EURO 2008 .

Polish contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the European Championship	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Artur Boruc	Celtic Glasgow	02/20/1980	3	0	0	0	0
12	Wojciech Kowalewski	Corona Kielce	05/11/1977	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Łukasz Fabiański	Arsenal FC	04/18/1985	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Mariusz Jop	FK Moscow	08/03/1978	1	0	0	0	0
3	Jakub Wawrzyniak	Legia Warsaw	07/07/1983	1	0	0	0	0
4th	Paweł Golański	Steaua Bucharest	10/12/1982	2	0	0	0	0
5	Dariusz Dudka	Wisła Krakow	December 9, 1983	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Jacek Bąk	FK Austria Vienna	March 24, 1973	2	0	1	0	0
13	Marcin Wasilewski	RSC Anderlecht	06/09/1980	3	0	1	0	0
14th	Michał Żewłakow	Olympiacos Piraeus	04/22/1976	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Michał Pazdan	Górnik Zabrze	09/21/1987	0	0	0	0	0
23	Adam Kokoszka	Wisła Krakow	10/06/1986	1	0	0	0	0
midfield player
8th	Jacek Krzynówek	VfL Wolfsburg	05/15/1976	3	0	1	0	0
10	Łukasz Garguła	GKS Bełchatów	02/25/1981	0	0	0	0	0
16	Łukasz Piszczek 2	Hertha BSC	06/03/1985	1	0	0	0	0
17th	Wojciech Łobodziński	Wisła Krakow	10/20/1982	3	0	0	0	0
18th	Mariusz Lewandowski	Shakhtar Donetsk	05/18/1979	3	0	2	0	0
19th	Rafał Murawski	Lech poses	10/09/1981	2	0	0	0	0
20th	Roger Guerreiro	Legia Warsaw	05/25/1982	3	1	0	0	0
striker
7th	Euzebiusz Smolarek	Racing Santander	01/09/1981	3	0	1	0	0
9	Maciej Żurawski	AE Larisa	09/12/1976	1	0	0	0	0
11	Marek Saganowski	Southampton FC	10/31/1978	3	0	0	0	0
21st	Tomasz Zahorski	Górnik Zabrze	11/22/1984	1	0	1	0	0
Trainer
	Leo Beenhakker		08/02/1942

² Piszczek moved into the Polish team for Jakub Błaszczykowski because Błaszczykowski injured his thigh during training on June 5, 2008 and had to cancel his participation in the European Championship.

Preliminary round

Game results

• Germany - Poland 2: 0 (1: 0)
• Austria - Poland 1: 1 (0: 1)
• Poland - Croatia 0: 1 (0: 0)

Poland are eliminated from the tournament after the preliminary round after only one draw and two defeats.

For details see European Football Championship 2008 / Group B

Individual evidence

1. ^ Out for Poland's Blaszczykowski