Legia Warsaw

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Legia Warsaw
Legia Warszawa.svg
Basic data
Surname Legia Warszawa Spółka Akcyjna
Seat Warsaw
founding 1916
Colours red-white-green-black
owner Dariusz Mioduski (since 2014)
president Dariusz Mioduski
Website legia.com
First soccer team
Head coach Aleksandar Vuković (Interim)
Venue Wojska Polskiego Stadium
Places 31,800
league Ekstraklasa
2019/20 1st place
home
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The corporation Legia Warsaw (Polish Legia Warszawa Spółka akcyjna ) is a professional Polish football company from Warsaw .

Legia Warsaw was founded in 1916 as a football club of the Polish legions and has been run as a joint stock company since 1997 . With 14 championships since 1955, the club is record champion together with league competitor Górnik Zabrze and the now fourth-class club Ruch Chorzów . In addition, there is the record of 19 final victories in the Polish Football Cup. Thus Legia Warszawa is the most successful and one of the most famous teams in Poland.

National player Michał Kucharczyk in the club's home colors
Statue for record player Kazimierz Deyna on the stadium grounds
Outside area and ...
… Interior of the Wojska Polskiego stadium, which was modernized in 2010
Fans of the football club in the infamous etayleta ultra fan curve

history

1916 to 1989

The football club was founded in March 1916 during the First World War in the Volhyn forests near the city of Maniewicze by members of the Polish legions under the name Drużyna Sportowa Legia . In the autumn of the same year, due to the increasing fighting, the club was relocated to Warsaw, where the first game against local rivals Polonia Warszawa played in April 1917 . In March 1920, the football club was incorporated into the regular Polish army , which was renamed Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Legia Warszawa in July 1922 .

In 1927 Legia Warszawa was one of the founding members of Ekstraklasa , the highest Polish league, in which, however, no championships could be won before the Second World War . Due to the lack of sporting success, the club even rose permanently in 1936 and the football department was dissolved in 1938.

In April 1945 the football club was reorganized and after the reintroduction of a national Polish football league in 1948 it was able to return to the upper house of football. In November 1949, the club was also renamed Centralny Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Warszawa , which went hand in hand with its role as the central sports club of the Polish armed forces within the People's Republic of Poland .

Up to 1989 you could win the Polish championship a total of four times, as well as take second place five times and third place four times. The Warsaw team played their first international competitive game in 1956 in the qualifying round for the European Cup against Slovan Bratislava (0: 4 and 2: 0). Well-known national players and legionnaires (Polish Legioniści ), as the fans called the team, from the time of the People's Republic of Poland include Kazimierz Deyna , Jan Tomaszewski , Robert Gadocha , Jacek Kazimierski , Paweł Janas , Stefan Majewski , Andrzej Buncol and Dariusz Dziekanowski .

Since 1989

With the political upheaval in Poland from the end of the 1980s, the structure of Polish football also changed. As early as April 1989, the club underwent structural changes and was reclassified within the superstructure club active in popular sports . In 1992, with the investments of the first major private investor Janusz Romanowski and the sponsorship of the Polish car manufacturer FSO, it was possible to put together a team that could again compete for the Polish championship.

After finishing the previous season in first place in 1993, the newly won championship title was revoked again due to allegations of bribery by the Polish Football Association and awarded runner-up Lech Poznań . In the decisive last game of the season against Wisła Kraków , which the Warsaw team won 6-0 and thus made it possible to win the championship, there had been obvious inconsistencies. In the following two seasons, however, the club was able to dominate the league again and won the Polish championship in 1994 and 1995.

From April 1997 the football club became independent and reorganized as a stock corporation. The main partner at that time was the South Korean automobile brand Daewoo . After winning the Polish championship in 2002, in June 2003 it was renamed Klub Piłkarski Legia Warszawa . As a result of the takeover by the Polish group of companies ITI Holdings in 2004, the Warsaw-based company finally won their eighth championship title in 2006, the year of their club anniversary.

Since June 2012 the football club has been officially run as Legia Warszawa Spółka Akcyjna . In six seasons from 2013 to 2018, the club was able to secure the Polish championship five times and at the same time win the Polish soccer cup four times. In addition to the successes of the first team, the Warsaw team has been able to win several youth championships for several years, building on a modern youth development scheme.

In the qualifying game for participation in the Europa League at Albanian FK Kukësi , Slovak midfielder Ondrej Duda, who played for Warsaw, was hit in the head by a stone and went down. The game was then canceled with a score of 2: 1 for Legia Warszawa . In September 2015, the football club was able to qualify again for the tournament after beating Zorya Luhansk (3: 2).

In August 2016 , they made it into the group stage of the Champions League for the first time since 1995/96 . As third behind Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid , the club missed the last sixteen.

Together with the record championship (14th title, level with Ruch Chorzow and Gornik Zabrze) of the 2019/20 season, the team secured the sixth title of the past eight seasons.

Stadion

Legia Warszawa plays its home games in the Wojska Polskiego stadium , which was completed in 1930 and renovated in 2010 and is located in Warsaw's downtown Powiśle district . It seats 31,800 spectators and meets the official UEFA criteria for a Category 4 stadium , the highest classification of the European Football Association.

The opening match took place against English Arsenal (5-6). In the first season after the reopening, the average number of spectators was 17,679, and in the following year it was even 19,011. The Ultrafankurve the stadium bears the proper name razor blade (Polish Żyleta ).

successes

Legia in Polish competitions

The football club won its first Polish championship in 1955, followed by thirteen other championship titles. In 1955, the club also won the Polish Football Cup for the first time, which it then secured 18 more times for itself. Legia Warszawa is thus the Polish record cup winner by far.

European Cup balance sheet

Thanks to the victories in the Polish Football Cup, Legia Warszawa is regularly represented internationally, so that since 1994 it has never been more than a season without a European Cup appearance. The best performance in each of the individual European competitions:

Current squad 2020/21

(As of August 22, 2020)

No. position Surname
1 PolandPoland TW Artur Boruc
2 CroatiaCroatia FROM Josip Juranović
3 PolandPoland FROM Mateusz Hołownia
4th PolandPoland FROM Mateusz Wieteska
5 PolandPoland FROM Igor Lewczuk
7th CroatiaCroatia MF Domagoj Antolić
8th GeorgiaGeorgia MF Walerian Gwilia
9 Czech RepublicCzech Republic ST Tomáš Pekhart
12 PolandPoland TW Mateusz Kochalski
14th PolandPoland FROM Michał Karbownik
16 PortugalPortugal FROM Luís Rocha
17th PolandPoland MF Mateusz Cholewiak
19th PolandPoland TW Wojciech Muzyk
20th Guinea-aGuinea ST José Kanté
21st PortugalPortugal ST Rafael Lopes
22nd PolandPoland MF Paweł Wszołek
24 PortugalPortugal MF André Martins
No. position Surname
25th SerbiaSerbia FROM Filip Mladenović
27 FranceFrance ST Vamara Sanogo
29 MontenegroMontenegro FROM Marko Vešović
30th PolandPoland MF Kacper Kostorz
31 PolandPoland MF Piotr Pyrdoł
33 PolandPoland TW Radosław Cierzniak
34 SpainSpain FROM Iñaki Astiz
35 PolandPoland TW Cezary Miszta
39 PolandPoland ST Maciej Rosołek
41 PolandPoland FROM Paweł Stolarski
44 FranceFrance FROM William Rémy
55 PolandPoland FROM Artur Jędrzejczyk
67 PolandPoland MF Bartosz Kapustka
77 PolandPoland MF Radosław Cielemęcki
82 BrazilBrazil MF Luquinhas
99 PolandPoland MF Bartosz Slisz

Well-known former players

Placements

Playtime league space
1921-1926 District league and KO system
1927 Ekstraklasa 5.
1928 Ekstraklasa 3.
1929 Ekstraklasa 4th
1930 Ekstraklasa 3.
1931 Ekstraklasa 3.
1932 Ekstraklasa 5.
1933 Ekstraklasa 6th
1934 Ekstraklasa 3.
1935 Ekstraklasa 6th
1936 Ekstraklasa 10.
1937 second grade
1938 second grade
1939 second grade
1946-1947 District league and KO system
1948 Ekstraklasa 4th
1949 Ekstraklasa 9.
1950 Ekstraklasa 10.
1951 Ekstraklasa 3.
1952 Ekstraklasa 6th
1953 Ekstraklasa 5.
1954 Ekstraklasa 7th
1955 Ekstraklasa 1.
1956 Ekstraklasa 1.
1957 Ekstraklasa 4th
1958 Ekstraklasa 6th
1959 Ekstraklasa 4th
1960 Ekstraklasa 2.
1961 Ekstraklasa 3.
1962 Ekstraklasa 5.
1962/63 Ekstraklasa 7th
1963/64 Ekstraklasa 4th
1964/65 Ekstraklasa 4th
1965/66 Ekstraklasa 6th
1966/67 Ekstraklasa 4th
1967/68 Ekstraklasa 2.
1968/69 Ekstraklasa 1.
1969/70 Ekstraklasa 1.
1970/71 Ekstraklasa 2.
1971/72 Ekstraklasa 3.
1972/73 Ekstraklasa 8th.
1973/74 Ekstraklasa 4th
1974/75 Ekstraklasa 6th
1975/76 Ekstraklasa 8th.
1976/77 Ekstraklasa 8th.
1977/78 Ekstraklasa 5.
1978/79 Ekstraklasa 5.
1979/80 Ekstraklasa 4th
1980/81 Ekstraklasa 5.
1981/82 Ekstraklasa 4th
1982/83 Ekstraklasa 8th.
1983/84 Ekstraklasa 5.
1984/85 Ekstraklasa 2.
1985/86 Ekstraklasa 2.
1986/87 Ekstraklasa 5.
1987/88 Ekstraklasa 3.
1988/89 Ekstraklasa 4th
1989/90 Ekstraklasa 7th
1990/91 Ekstraklasa 9.
1991/92 Ekstraklasa 10.
1992/93 Ekstraklasa 2.
1993/94 Ekstraklasa 1.
1994/95 Ekstraklasa 1.
1995/96 Ekstraklasa 2.
1996/97 Ekstraklasa 2.
1997/98 Ekstraklasa 5.
1998/99 Ekstraklasa 3.
1999/00 Ekstraklasa 4th
2000/01 Ekstraklasa 3.
2001/02 Ekstraklasa 1.
2002/03 Ekstraklasa 4th
2003/04 Ekstraklasa 3.
2004/05 Ekstraklasa 2.
2005/06 Ekstraklasa 1.
2006/07 Ekstraklasa 3.
2007/08 Ekstraklasa 2.
2008/09 Ekstraklasa 2.
2009/10 Ekstraklasa 4th
2010/11 Ekstraklasa 3.
2011/12 Ekstraklasa 3.
2012/13 Ekstraklasa 1.
2013/14 Ekstraklasa 1.
2014/15 Ekstraklasa 2.
2015/16 Ekstraklasa 1.
2016/17 Ekstraklasa 1.
2017/18 Ekstraklasa 1.

useful information

Legia's record goal scorers

The most accurate attacker in the service of Legia Warszawa was Lucjan Brychczy . This scored a total of 182 goals in 368 games for Warsaw. This makes him, along with Józef Nawrot, the only player who has scored more than 100 league goals for Legia.

space Name of the player Gates Period
1. PolandPoland Lucjan Brychczy 182 1954-1972
2. PolandPoland Józef Nawrot 106 1927-1936
3. PolandPoland Kazimierz Deyna 94 1966-1988
4th PolandPoland Marian Łańko 75 1925-1930
5. PolandPoland Robert Gadocha 72 1966-1975
6th PolandPoland Jan Pieszko 68 1967-1976
7th SerbiaSerbia Miroslav Radović 66 2006–
PolandPoland Janusz Żmijewski 1960-1972
9. PolandPoland Cezary Kucharski 58 1995-2006
PolandPoland Marek Saganowski 2002-2016
11. PolandPoland Marcin Mięciel 56 1994-2010

Note : Only league hits were counted. Goals in national and international cup competitions were not included.

Legia's record player

Lucjan Brychczy with 368 league games for Legia Warsaw record player for the capital city.

space Name of the player Calls Period
1. PolandPoland Lucjan Brychczy 368 1954-1972
2. PolandPoland Jacek Zieliński 329 1992-2004
3. PolandPoland Kazimierz Deyna 304 1966-1988
4th PolandPoland Horst Mahseli 295 1955-1969
5. PolandPoland Tomasz Sokołowski 291 1996-2005
6th SerbiaSerbia Miroslav Radović 268 2006–
7th PolandPoland Marek Józwiak 263 1987-2005
8th. PolandPoland Adam Topolski 239 1973-1981
9. PolandPoland Tomasz Kiełbowicz 237 2001–2012
10. PolandPoland Bernard Blaut 236 1962-1972
PolandPoland Janusz Żmijewski 1960-1972
12. PolandPoland Lesław Ćmikiewicz 225 1970-1979

Note : Only league games were counted. Games in national and international cup competitions were not included.

Web links

Commons : Legia Warsaw  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Grupa ITI sprzedała 100 proc. akcji Legii Warszawa , January 9, 2014, accessed October 5, 2016
  2. Legia Warsaw secures 14th championship title in Poland. July 11, 2020, accessed July 12, 2020 .
  3. record champions! Legia makes 14th championship clear. July 11, 2020, accessed July 12, 2020 .
  4. Celtic benefits from Legia's substitution error. In: kicker.de. Kicker sports magazine , August 8, 2014, accessed on August 9, 2014 .