Football World Cup 2002 / Poland

The Polish national football team at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea :

qualification

Poland had remarkably little difficulty in asserting itself in the fairly homogeneous Group 5. The only defeat came in the penultimate game, when the qualification for the finals was already certain.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Poland	21:11	21st
2	Ukraine	10: 7	16
3	Belarus	12:11	15th
4th	Norway	12:14	10
5	Wales	10:12	9
6th	Armenia	7:19	5

Ukraine	-	Poland		1: 3 (1: 2)
Poland	-	Belarus		3: 1 (1: 1)
Poland	-	Wales		0: 0 (0: 0)
Norway	-	Poland		2: 3 (0: 2)
Poland	-	Armenia		4: 0 (2: 0)
Wales	-	Poland		1: 2 (1: 1)
Armenia	-	Poland		1: 1 (1: 1)
Poland	-	Norway		3: 0 (1: 0)
Belarus	-	Poland		4: 1 (1: 0)
Poland	-	Ukraine		1: 1 (1: 0)

Polish contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Jerzy Dudek	Liverpool FC	03/23/1973	2	0	0	0	0
12	Radoslaw Majdan	Goztepe Izmir	05/10/1972	1	0	0	0	0
22nd	Adam Matysek	RKS Radomsko	07/19/1968	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Tomasz Kłos	1. FC Kaiserslautern	07.03.1973	2	0	0	0	0
3	Jacek Zieliński	Legia Warsaw	10/10/1967	1	0	0	0	0
4th	Michał Żewłakow	Excelsior Mouscron	04/22/1976	2	0	0	0	0
5	Tomasz Rząsa	Feyenoord Rotterdam	03/13/1973	1	0	0	0	0
6th	Tomasz Hajto	FC Schalke 04	October 16, 1972	2	0	1	0	0
13	Arkadiusz Głowacki	Wisła Krakow	March 13, 1979	1	0	0	0	0
15th	Tomasz Waldoch	FC Schalke 04	05/10/1971	3	0	0	0	0
16	Maciej Murawski	Legia Warsaw	02/20/1974	1	0	0	0	0
20th	Jacek Bąk	RC Lens	March 24, 1973	1	0	1	0	0
midfield player
7th	Piotr Świerczewski	Olympique Marseille	04/08/1972	2	0	2	0	0
10	Radosław Kałużny	Energy Cottbus	02/02/1974	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Arkadiusz Bąk	Widzew Lodz	06.10.1974	1	0	0	0	0
18th	Jacek Krzynówek	1. FC Nuremberg	05/15/1976	3	0	1	0	0
21st	Marek Koźmiński	Ancona Calcio	02/07/1971	3	0	1	0	0
23	Paweł Sibik	Odra Wodzislaw	02/15/1971	1	0	0	0	0
striker
8th	Cezary Kucharski	Legia Warsaw	02/17/1972	1	0	1	0	0
9	Paweł Kryszałowicz	Eintracht Frankfurt	06/23/1974	3	1	0	0	0
11	Emmanuel Olisadebe	Panathinaikos Athens	12/22/1978	3	1	1	0	0
14th	Marcin Żewłakow	Excelsior Mouscron	04/22/1976	3	1	1	0	0
19th	Maciej Żurawski	Wisła Krakow	09/12/1976	3	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Jerzy Angel		06.10.1952

Preliminary round

report

After winning the qualification convincingly, expectations were high, but the first game against co-hosts South Korea was lost 2-0. The Poles showed a disappointing performance against the enthusiastic and strong-running Asians. In the second game against Portugal there was an even more pronounced 4-0 defeat. The Portuguese, who had surprisingly lost the first game against the USA, literally played the once again disappointing Eastern Europeans against the wall. Poland were eliminated early after two games. In the last game, which had become meaningless, you could finally play freely and beat the USA 3-1.

statistics

rank	country	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pts.
1	South Korea	3	2	1	0	4: 1	3	7th
2	United States	3	1	1	1	5: 6	−1	4th
3	Portugal	3	1	0	2	6: 4	2	3
4th	Poland	3	1	0	2	3: 7	−4	3

• June 4, 2002, 8:30 p.m. local time, Busan

Poland

-

South Korea

0: 2 (0: 1)

• Referee: Ruiz (Colombia)
• Poland: Dudek - Hajto, J. Bak (51st Klos), Waldoch, Michal Zewlakow - Kozminski, Kaluzny (65th Marcin Zewlakow), Swierczewski, Krzynowek - Zurawski (46th Kryszalowicz), Olisadebe
• South Korea: WJ Lee - JC Choi, Hong, TY Kim - NI Kim - Song, Yoo (61st CS Lee), EY Lee - Park - Hwang (50th Ahn), Seol (90th Cha)
• Goals: 0: 1 Hwang (26th), 0: 2 Yoo (53rd)
• Yellow cards: Krzynowek, Hajto, Swierczewski - Cha, Park
• Spectators: 48,760
• June 10, 2002, 8:30 p.m. local time, Jeonju

Poland

-

Portugal

0: 4 (0: 1)

• Referee: Dallas (Scotland)
• Poland: Dudek - Hajto, Waldoch, Michal Zewlakow (71st Rzasa) - Krzynowek, Swierczewski, Kaluzny (16th A. Bak), Kozminski - Zurawski (56th Marcin Zewlakow), Olisadebe, Kryszalowicz
• Portugal: Baia - Frechaut (63rd Beto), Couto, J. Costa, Jorge - Petit, Bento - Figo, Conceicao (69th Capucho) - Pinto (60th R. Costa), Pauleta
• Goals: 0: 1 Pauleta (14th), 0: 2 Pauleta (65th), 0: 3 Pauleta (77th), 0: 4 R. Costa (88th)
• Yellow cards: Swierczewski, A. Bak - Frechaut, J. Costa, Jorge
• Spectators: 31,000
• June 14, 2002, 8:30 p.m. local time, Daejeon

Poland

-

United States

3: 1 (2: 0)

• Referee: Lu (China)
• Poland: Majdan - Klos (89th Waldoch), Zielinski, Glowacki, Kozminski - Murawski, Krzynowek, Kucharski (65th Marcin Zewlakow) - Zurawski, Olisadebe (85th Sibik), Kryszalowicz
• USA: Friedel - Sanneh, Pope, Agoos (36th Beasley), Hejduk - Stewart (68th Jones), O'Brien, Reyna - Donovan - Mathis, McBride (58th Moore)
• Goals: 1-0 Olisadebe (3rd), 2-0 Kryszalowicz (5th), 3-0 Marcin Zewlakow (66th), 3-1 Donovan (83rd)
• Yellow cards: Majdan, Kozminski, Kucharski, Olisadebe - Hejduk
• Special incident: Zurawski misses a penalty (77th), Friedel saves
• Spectators: 26,482