Poland national football team

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Poland

Nickname

Biało-czerwoni
("The-white-and-red")

Orły
("The Eagles")

Association

Polski Związek Piłki Nożnej

Confederation

UEFA (Europe)

Head coach

Leo Beenhakker

Captain

Maciej Żurawski

Most caps

Grzegorz Lato (100)

Top scorer

Włodzimierz Lubański (48)

Home stadium

Silesia Stadium

FIFA code

POL

FIFA ranking

Highest FIFA ranking

17 (September 2005)

Lowest FIFA ranking

61 (March 1998)

Elo ranking

Highest Elo ranking

1 (Oct 1975)

Lowest Elo ranking

55 (Aug 1956, Apr 1998)





First kit





Second kit

First international

Hungary 1 - 0 Poland

(Budapest, Hungary; 18 December 1921)

Biggest win

Poland 9 - 0 Norway

(Szczecin, Poland; 4 September 1963)

Biggest defeat

Denmark 8 - 0 Poland

(Copenhagen, Denmark; 26 June 1948)

World Cup

Appearances

7 (First in 1938)

Best result

3rd place, 1974, 1982

European Championship

Appearances

- (First in -)

Best result

Men's Football
Olympic medal record
Silver	1992 Barcelona	Team
Silver	1976 Montreal	Team
Gold	1972 Munich	Team

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The Poland national football team (Polish: Polska reprezentacja narodowa) is the national football team of Poland, under the auspices of the Polish Football Association.

It played its first international match on 18 December 1921 in Budapest against Hungary and was defeated 0:1. Poland won the Gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the Silver medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the World Cup, Poland finished third twice: in 1974 and 1982.

1 World Cup record
- 1.1 Football World Cup, Spain 1982
- 1.2 Football World Cup, Germany 1974
2 European Championship record
3 Olympic Games record
4 Polish national team 2006
- 4.1 Current Squad
- 4.2 2006 World Cup information
5 Top goal scorers
6 See also

[edit] World Cup record

1930 - Did not enter
1934 - Withdrew during qualifying
1938 - Round 1 (top 15)
1950 - Did not enter
1954 - Withdrew
1958 to 1970 - Did not qualify
1974 - 3rd place
1978 - Round 2 (top 8)
1982 - 3rd place
1986 - Round 2 (top 16)
1990 to 1998 - Did not qualify
2002 - Round 1 (top 32)
2006 - Round 1 (top 32)

[edit] Football World Cup, Spain 1982

Polish national team result: 3rd place
Coach: Antoni Piechniczek
Players: Zbigniew Boniek, Andrzej Buncol, Włodzimierz Ciołek, Marek Dziuba, Andrzej Iwan, Jan Jałocha, Paweł Janas, Janusz Kupcewicz, Marek Kusto, Grzegorz Lato, Stefan Majewski, Waldemar Matysik, Józef Młynarczyk, Andrzej Pałasz, Włodzimierz Smolarek, Andrzej Szarmach, Roman Wójcicki, Władysław Żmuda
Reserve players: Tadeusz Dolny, Jacek Kazimierski, Piotr Mowlik, Piotr Skrobowski

[edit] Football World Cup, Germany 1974

Polish national team result: 3rd place
Coach: Kazimierz Górski
Players: Lesław Ćmikiewicz, Kazimierz Deyna, Jan Domarski, Robert Gadocha, Jerzy Gorgoń, Zbigniew Gut, Zdzisław Kapka, Henryk Kasperczak, Kazimierz Kmiecik, Grzegorz Lato, Zygmunt Maszczyk, Adam Musiał, Andrzej Szarmach, Antoni Szymanowski, Jan Tomaszewski, Władysław Żmuda
Reserve players: Mirosław Bulzacki, Andrzej Fischer, Roman Jakóbczak, Zygmunt Kalinowski, Marek Kusto, Henryk Wieczorek

Poland's current third kit

[edit] European Championship record

1960 to 2004 - Did not qualify
2008 - Qualifying In course

Poland have yet to qualify for the European Championships but if UEFA chooses the Polish/Ukrainian bid for EURO 2012 then both countries will be granted automatic entree as hosts of the tournament.

[edit] Olympic Games record

[edit] 26th Olympic Games, Barcelona 1992

Polish national team result: 2nd place
Coach: Janusz Wójcik
Players: Dariusz Adamczuk, Marek Bajor, Jerzy Brzęczek, Dariusz Gęsior, Marcin Jałocha, Andrzej Juskowiak, Aleksander Kłak, Andrzej Kobylański, Wojciech Kowalczyk, Marek Koźmiński, Tomasz Łapiński, Grzegorz Mielcarski, Ryszard Staniek, Piotr Świerczewski, Mirosław Waligóra, Tomasz Wałdoch.
Reserve players: Dariusz Koseła, Arkadiusz Onyszko, Dariusz Szubert, Tomasz Wieszczycki.

[edit] 22nd Olympic Games, Montreal 1976

Polish national team result: 2nd place
Coach: Kazimierz Górski
Players: Jan Benigier, Lesław Ćmikiewicz, Kazimierz Deyna, Jerzy Gorgoń, Henryk Kasperczak, Kazimierz Kmiecik, Grzegorz Lato, Zygmunt Maszczyk, Piotr Mowlik, Roman Ogaza, Wojciech Rudy, Andrzej Szarmach, Antoni Szymanowski, Jan Tomaszewski, Henryk Wawrowski, Henryk Wieczorek, Władysław Żmuda

[edit] 21st Olympic Games, Munich 1972

Polish national team result: WINNER
Coach: Kazimierz Górski
Players: Zygmunt Anczok, Lesław Ćmikiewicz, Kazimierz Deyna, Robert Gadocha, Jerzy Gorgoń, Zbigniew Gut, Hubert Kostka, Jerzy Kraska, Kazimierz Kmiecik Grzegorz Lato, Włodzimierz Lubański, Zygmunt Maszczyk, Joachim Marx, Marian Ostafinski, Zygfryd Szołtysik, Antoni Szymanowski, Ryszard Szymczak
Reserve players: Marian Szeja, Andrzej Jarosik

[edit] Polish national team 2006

[edit] Current Squad

Following players were named for the matches against Azerbaijan on 24 March 2007 and Armenia on 28 March 2007.

On 18 March 2007 Grzegorz Bartczak and Marcin Baszczyński were called up to replace the injured Paweł Golański.

On 25 March 2007 Łukasz Piszczek was additionally called up, because of Grzegorz Rasiak's illness.

Caps and goals as of 28 March 2007, included against Armenia.

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Artur Boruc	20 February 1980	24	0	Celtic F.C.
12	GK	Wojciech Kowalewski	11 May 1977	10	0	FC Spartak Moscow
-	GK	Tomasz Kuszczak	20 March 1982	4	0	Manchester United
-	DF	Grzegorz Bartczak	21 June 1985	0	0	Zagłębie Lubin
4	DF	Marcin Baszczyński	7 June 1977	35	1	Wisła Kraków
6	DF	Jacek Bąk	24 March 1973	84	3	Al-Rayyan
-	DF	Grzegorz Bronowicki	4 August 1980	5	0	Legia Warszawa
2	DF	Dariusz Dudka	9 December 1983	14	2	Wisła Kraków
3	DF	Adam Kokoszka	6 October 1986	2	1	Wisła Kraków
-	DF	Arkadiusz Radomski	27 June 1977	29	0	Austria Wien
13	DF	Marcin Wasilewski	9 June 1980	15	1	RSC Anderlecht
14	DF	Michał Żewłakow	22 April 1976	66	2	Olympiakos
17	MF	Jakub Błaszczykowski	14 December 1985	7	0	Wisła Kraków
19	MF	Łukasz Garguła	25 February 1981	6	1	GKS Bełchatów
16	MF	Przemysław Kaźmierczak	5 May 1982	8	1	Boavista F.C.
8	MF	Jacek Krzynówek	15 May 1976	68	10	VfL Wolfsburg
18	MF	Mariusz Lewandowski	18 May 1979	33	1	Shakhtar Donetsk
15	MF	Wojciech Łobodziński	20 October 1982	4	1	Zagłębie Lubin
5	MF	Rafał Murawski	9 October 1981	3	0	Lech Poznań
-	MF	Euzebiusz Smolarek	9 January 1981	21	7	Borussia Dortmund
20	MF	Radosław Sobolewski	13 December 1976	26	1	Wisła Kraków
7	FW	Ireneusz Jeleń	9 April 1981	18	2	AJ Auxerre
11	FW	Radosław Matusiak	1 January 1982	8	4	Palermo
-	FW	Łukasz Piszczek	3 June 1985	1	0	Zagłębie Lubin
-	FW	Grzegorz Rasiak	12 January 1979	34	8	Southampton F.C.
9	FW	Maciej Żurawski (captain)	12 September 1976	61	16	Celtic F.C.

Coach: Leo Beenhakker
Assistant coach: Dariusz Dziekanowski
II Assistant coach: Bogusław Kaczmarek
Goalkeeper coach: Andrzej Dawidziuk
Consultant: Jan de Zeeuw
Goalkeeper coach-consultant: Frans Hoek

[edit] 2006 World Cup information

Poland surprisingly lost their first game of 2006 World Cup to underdogs Ecuador. The final score was 2-0 with goals from Carlos Tenorio and Agustin Delgado. Poland lost to group leader Germany on June 14th, final score 1-0 with a goal by Oliver Neuville in the 91st minute, thus ensuring their exit from the World Cup 2006. Then they beat also eliminated Costa Rica 2-1 with both Polish goals scored by Bosacki.