Polish Cup

Polish Cup
Founded 1925
Current champions Legia Warsaw (14th title)
Most successful club Legia Warsaw (14 titles)
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2011–12 Polish Cup

The Polish Cup in football (Polish: Puchar Polski, Polish pronunciation: [ˈpuxar ˈpɔlskʲi]) or officially Remes Puchar Polski, is an elimination tournament for Polish football clubs, held continuously from 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title. Due to mass participation of teams, the tournament is often called The Cup of the Thousand Teams (Polish: Puchar Tysiąca Drużyn, Polish pronunciation: [ˈpuxar tɨˈɕõt͡sa ˈdruʐɨn]).

Participation is open to any club registered with the Polish FA, regardless of whether it competes in any league in the national pyramid. Reserve and oldboys teams are also eligible, with reserve teams particularly reaching the final on two occasions (and winning it once). The Cup is popular among lower level teams, as it gives them a chance to play better known sides. In some cases, the underdogs even reached the final, with the most famous example being Czarni Żagań, which in 1964–1965 season lost the final game 0–4 to Górnik Zabrze.

Lower league clubs have to enter regional qualification rounds and the winners of these join the teams from the first and second division in the competition proper. Each tie is decided by a single game which is held at the lower league side's stadium. The final used to be a single match, but 2002–2006 it was contested over two legs, Italian style. Since 2007, the Cup has returned to the single-game final.

First edition of the Polish Cup took place in 1926, but it was quickly abandoned. In the late 1930s, the President of Poland's Football Cup (1936 - 1939) was organized, which featured teams of the Polish Football Association's regional districts.

Contents

Polish Cup winners

Previous cup winners are:[1]

Performance by club

Club Winners Runners-up Winning Years
Legia Warsaw 14 6 1955, 1956, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2008, 2011
Górnik Zabrze 6 7 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972
Lech Poznań 5 2 1982, 1984, 1988, 2004, 2009
Wisła Kraków 4 6 1926, 1967, 2002, 2003
Zagłębie Sosnowiec 4 1 1962, 1963, 1977, 1978
GKS Katowice 3 5 1986, 1991, 1993
Ruch Chorzów 3 5 1951, 1974, 1996
Amica Wronki 3 1 1998, 1999, 2000
Polonia Warsaw 2 – 1952, 2001
Śląsk Wrocław 2 – 1976, 1987
Dyskobolia Grodzisk 2 – 2005, 2007
Gwardia Warszawa 1 1 1954
Lechia Gdańsk 1 1 1983
ŁKS Łódź 1 1 1957
Wisła Płock 1 1 2006
Jagiellonia Białystok 1 1 2010
Arka Gdynia 1 – 1979
Miedź Legnica 1 – 1992
Stal Rzeszów 1 – 1975
Widzew Łódź 1 – 1985
Polonia Bytom – 3 –
GKS Bełchatów – 2 –
Piast Gliwice – 2 –
Pogoń Szczecin – 2 –
Zagłębie Lubin – 2 –
Aluminium Konin – 1 –
Czarni Żagań – 1 –
Korona Kielce – 1 –
Raków Częstochowa – 1 –
ROW II Rybnik – 1 –
Sparta Lwów – 1 –
Stal Mielec – 1 –

See also

References

  1. ^ "Poland - List of Cup Finals". RSSSF. http://rsssf.com/tablesp/polcuphist.html. Retrieved 29 July 2011. 

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