Polonia Warsaw: An emotional goodbye

What a week it has been for Polonia Warsaw and its fans.  On Tuesday the club was denied a licence to play in the Ekstraklasa for next season due to huge debts, a decision which means Polonia will fall down the Polish league structure.   From August Polonia will play in either the 4th, 5th or […]

Polonia in the Warsaw lower leagues: 5 reasons for optimism

It’s a very sad day to be a Polonia Warsaw fan.  The famous old club, whose history goes back to 1911, has been denied a licence to play in the Polish top-flight, the Ekstraklasa, next season due to the horrendous financial management of their owner Ireneusz Król.  As a result Polonia will fall down the […]

Warsaw Groundhopping: Warsaw Liga Okręgowa I: Drukarz Warszawa 8 Dolcan Ząbki II 2

Yesterday was a pretty momentous day for Warsaw, Polish and world football.  Legia Warsaw became Polish champions for a tenth time after Lech Poznań lost 2-0 at home to relegation favourites Podbeskidzkie Bielsko-Biała and three Poles started for Borussia Dortmund in their narrow loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions’ League final at Wembley.  My […]

Polonia Warsaw: One big question mark

I’ve not written about Polonia for a long time.  Back in the autumn when they were winning game after game it was a lot easier to put digital pen to digital paper.  Polonia were playing great football, attacking menacingly down the wings and had two quality strikers in Łukasz Teodorczyk and Vladimir Dvalishvili to finish […]

A rather enjoyable day: Warsaw Klasa A III: Gwardia Warszawa 1 Walka Kosów 0

This weekend I unfortunately didn’t get the chance to get to Polonia’s game with Podbeskidzkie Bielsko Biała due to teaching commitments.  I still haven’t watched a Polonia victory live and it was thus sod’s law that they took the opportunity to record their first win in nine games.  To get my fix of live football I […]

Majówka

We’re slowly coming to the end of a long holiday weekend in Poland.  Each year Poles get both May 1 (International Worker’s day) and May 3 (Polish Constitution day) off from work.  On bad years one of these days will fall on the weekend and part of the holiday is lost.  This year was a good […]