Polish Football Season 2020/21
Rakow are putting everything into trying to equalise, but so far no joy.
Rakow slam in the equaliser at '81.
Rakow have probably won it with a goal at '89.
FT 2-1 and the celebrations begin, a win that they had to work very hard to get.
This opens up the battle for 4th in the league. I certainly don't regret watching this match, it was most enjoyable.
This opens up the battle for 4th in the league. I certainly don't regret watching this match, it was most enjoyable.
First half was as usual in these finals, but the second was really exciting. Our trademark, 'cross-shot' gave 1-0 lead to Arka, but Raków managed to turn it around. MVP: definitely Ivi López, hopefully he will stay at Raków for another season.
Matchday 28
League table
Results
Jagiellonia Białystok - Raków Częstochowa 0:0
Wisła Płock - Lechia Gdańsk 1:3
Dawid Kocyła 74' - Flávio Paixão 6' (penalty), Bartosz Kopacz 81', Joseph Ceesay 90'+5
Śląsk Wrocław - Zagłębie Lubin 0:0
Legia Warszawa - Wisła Kraków 0:0
Pogoń Szczecin - Warta Poznań 1:1
Rafał Kurzawa 60' - Makana Baku 54'
Lech Poznań - Stal Mielec 1:2
Tymoteusz Puchacz 80' - Vasyl Kravets 89' (own goal), Jonathan de Amo 90'+6
Piast Gliwice - Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała 2:0
Jakub Świerczok 44', 57'
Cracovia - Górnik Zabrze 1:0
Sergiu Hanca 3'
All matches played behind closed doors.
Top scorers:
22 - Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa)
14 - Jakub Świerczok (Piast Gliwice)
11 - Kamil Biliński (Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała), Jesús Imaz (Jagiellonia Białystok), Mikael Ishak (Lech Poznań), Flávio Paixão (Lechia Gdańsk)
10 - Jesús Jiménez (Górnik Zabrze)
9 - Jakov Puljić (Jagiellonia Białystok)
8 - Patryk Szysz (Zagłębie Lubin)
7 - Felicio Brown Forbes (Wisła Kraków), Erik Expósito (Śląsk Wrocław), Mateusz Kuzimski (Warta Poznań), Ivi López (Raków Częstochowa), Filip Mladenović (Legia Warszawa), Filip Starzyński (Zagłębie Lubin)
Legia were champions on Wednesday already after Raków failed to win vs Jagiellonia. Another trophy was decided on Sunday, when Raków won the cup themselves. This is their first trophy ever in 100 years of history, so congratulations
Legia won the league for the 16th time, but has 15 official championship titles (one was taken back by PZPN without any evidence of match fixing). Nevertheless, Legia has the most championship titles in Poland and the most trophies overall (apart from 15 official championships also won the domestic cup 19 times).
This wasn't an exciting matchday. So many goalless results say it all. Wisła Płock played quite well surprisingly, but missed penalty and another great chances so it had to end this way. Lech... Please, how many times? They were dominating over Stal, finally found the back of the net, basically nothing should happen there. Stal scored after two long throw-ins, and as you can see above - one of them was an own goal, and the second deep in the injury time. Disastrous from Lech, this is going to be their worst season since their first season after last promotion (2002/03).
Piast are now on 4th place which would be quite a nice option for ECL qualifying. Actually it doesn't make any difference, but for me they look most consistent. The main issue is to keep Jakub Świerczok, who is only on loan from Ludogorets and it will cost a lot of money to sign him permanently. This is the same problem as Warta have with Makana Baku loaned from Holstein Kiel. But really, Lechia, Zagłębie and Śląsk are not convincing at all.
Cracovia will stay in the league for sure for the next season. Wisła Kraków are not totally safe yet though. They will be relegated if:
- they lose their both matches vs Lech and Piast
- Podbeskidzie win by margin of exactly 4 goals vs Wisła Płock and then vs Legia
- Stal Mielec collect at least 4 points in their last three matches (Raków, Legia, Śląsk)
- Wisła Płock draw their last match vs Zagłębie
Then there are three teams with 30 points and Wisła Kraków have worst H2H among them. But well, Podbeskidzie need to score at least four times vs Wisła Płock, so it's not likely to happen.
Realistically speaking, Podbeskidzie are in big trouble now. Stal won two matches miraculously and have still one more match to play (tomorrow vs Raków). Podbeskidzie can be relegated on Saturday already if they fail to win vs Wisła Płock and Stal achieve a better result vs Raków.
League table
Results
Jagiellonia Białystok - Raków Częstochowa 0:0
Wisła Płock - Lechia Gdańsk 1:3
Dawid Kocyła 74' - Flávio Paixão 6' (penalty), Bartosz Kopacz 81', Joseph Ceesay 90'+5
Śląsk Wrocław - Zagłębie Lubin 0:0
Legia Warszawa - Wisła Kraków 0:0
Pogoń Szczecin - Warta Poznań 1:1
Rafał Kurzawa 60' - Makana Baku 54'
Lech Poznań - Stal Mielec 1:2
Tymoteusz Puchacz 80' - Vasyl Kravets 89' (own goal), Jonathan de Amo 90'+6
Piast Gliwice - Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała 2:0
Jakub Świerczok 44', 57'
Cracovia - Górnik Zabrze 1:0
Sergiu Hanca 3'
All matches played behind closed doors.
Top scorers:
22 - Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa)
14 - Jakub Świerczok (Piast Gliwice)
11 - Kamil Biliński (Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała), Jesús Imaz (Jagiellonia Białystok), Mikael Ishak (Lech Poznań), Flávio Paixão (Lechia Gdańsk)
10 - Jesús Jiménez (Górnik Zabrze)
9 - Jakov Puljić (Jagiellonia Białystok)
8 - Patryk Szysz (Zagłębie Lubin)
7 - Felicio Brown Forbes (Wisła Kraków), Erik Expósito (Śląsk Wrocław), Mateusz Kuzimski (Warta Poznań), Ivi López (Raków Częstochowa), Filip Mladenović (Legia Warszawa), Filip Starzyński (Zagłębie Lubin)
Legia were champions on Wednesday already after Raków failed to win vs Jagiellonia. Another trophy was decided on Sunday, when Raków won the cup themselves. This is their first trophy ever in 100 years of history, so congratulations
Legia won the league for the 16th time, but has 15 official championship titles (one was taken back by PZPN without any evidence of match fixing). Nevertheless, Legia has the most championship titles in Poland and the most trophies overall (apart from 15 official championships also won the domestic cup 19 times).This wasn't an exciting matchday. So many goalless results say it all. Wisła Płock played quite well surprisingly, but missed penalty and another great chances so it had to end this way. Lech... Please, how many times? They were dominating over Stal, finally found the back of the net, basically nothing should happen there. Stal scored after two long throw-ins, and as you can see above - one of them was an own goal, and the second deep in the injury time. Disastrous from Lech, this is going to be their worst season since their first season after last promotion (2002/03).
Piast are now on 4th place which would be quite a nice option for ECL qualifying. Actually it doesn't make any difference, but for me they look most consistent. The main issue is to keep Jakub Świerczok, who is only on loan from Ludogorets and it will cost a lot of money to sign him permanently. This is the same problem as Warta have with Makana Baku loaned from Holstein Kiel. But really, Lechia, Zagłębie and Śląsk are not convincing at all.
Cracovia will stay in the league for sure for the next season. Wisła Kraków are not totally safe yet though. They will be relegated if:
- they lose their both matches vs Lech and Piast
- Podbeskidzie win by margin of exactly 4 goals vs Wisła Płock and then vs Legia
- Stal Mielec collect at least 4 points in their last three matches (Raków, Legia, Śląsk)
- Wisła Płock draw their last match vs Zagłębie
Then there are three teams with 30 points and Wisła Kraków have worst H2H among them. But well, Podbeskidzie need to score at least four times vs Wisła Płock, so it's not likely to happen.
Realistically speaking, Podbeskidzie are in big trouble now. Stal won two matches miraculously and have still one more match to play (tomorrow vs Raków). Podbeskidzie can be relegated on Saturday already if they fail to win vs Wisła Płock and Stal achieve a better result vs Raków.
Stal Mielec have been denied license for Ekstraklasa 2021/22 season.
Is it a gamechanger? Not yet, they can appeal so they can still get it. No idea if they have serious financial problems (these are the broken criteria), probably more info to follow.
Is it a gamechanger? Not yet, they can appeal so they can still get it. No idea if they have serious financial problems (these are the broken criteria), probably more info to follow.
Matchday 29
League table
Results
Stal Mielec - Raków Częstochowa 0:1 (postponed from matchday 23)
Ivi López 90'+3 (penalty)
Górnik Zabrze - Jagiellonia Białystok 3:1
Jesús Jiménez 29', 64' (penalty), Alex Sobczyk 71' - Jakov Puljić 15'
Zagłębie Lubin - Pogoń Szczecin 1:1
Karol Podliński 70' - Michał Kucharczyk 8'
Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała - Wisła Płock 1:1
Jakub Hora 5' - Mateusz Szwoch 28' (penalty)
Lechia Gdańsk - Cracovia 1:1
Flávio Paixão 69' - Cornel Râpă 25'
Wisła Kraków - Lech Poznań 1:2
Jakub Błaszczykowski 78' - Mikael Ishak 12', Serafin Szota 61' (own goal)
Warta Poznań - Śląsk Wrocław 2:3
Maik Nawrocki 40', Mario Rodríguez 90' - Erik Expósito 49', 59', Róbert Pich 82'
Stal Mielec - Legia Warszawa 0:0
Raków Częstochowa - Piast Gliwice 1:0
Vladislavs Gutkovskis 32'
All matches played behind closed doors.
Top scorers:
22 - Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa)
14 - Jakub Świerczok (Piast Gliwice)
12 - Mikael Ishak (Lech Poznań), Jesús Jiménez (Górnik Zabrze), Flávio Paixão (Lechia Gdańsk)
11 - Kamil Biliński (Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała), Jesús Imaz (Jagiellonia Białystok)
10 - Jakov Puljić (Jagiellonia Białystok)
9 - Erik Expósito (Śląsk Wrocław)
8 - Ivi López (Raków Częstochowa), Patryk Szysz (Zagłębie Lubin)
The TOP 3 places are already decided. Legia are champions which is known for a long time. But their last 6 matches are:
0-0
0-0
1-0
1-0
0-0
0-0
It hurts while watching
After Legia won 4-2 vs Pogoń they are not putting their best effort so their professionalism is in question. It is much better in the defense (close to the club record when it comes to consecutive clean sheets), but they can't beat even the 14th or 15th team in the league. Next weekend they face Podbeskidzie, who are 16th... And there are some dramas about extending contracts (a lot of players can leave or will negotiate soon). The players would like to know their future but the club is not willing to hurry up.
Raków will get the silver medals which means an outstanding season for them (remember the cup). From their last 7 league matches, they won 6 and drew one. Sometimes they were lucky, like vs Stal, Piast was very inefficient too. But these results are overall deserved. Now the last match vs Pogoń doesn't matter. Pogoń will receive bronze medals which is still their best result in the last 20 years.
Five teams are still competing for the last European spot. There are many variants, let me describe some basics:
- Piast qualify if they win and Śląsk fail to catch up on the overall GD. Or they are qualified with their and Lechia's wins. When it's a draw or loss, then some teams behind them can't win (multiple variants).
- Śląsk qualify if they win and Lechia fail to win and Piast fail to win or have the worse overall GD than Śląsk. There are also two variants when they draw and some others teams fail to win.
- Lechia qualify if they win and Piast fail to win, or they draw, Piast lose, and Śląsk and Zagłębie fail to win.
- Zagłębie qualify if they win and Piast, Lechia and Śląsk all fail to win.
- Warta qualify if they win and Piast and Zagłębie fail to win, and Lechia and Śląsk lose.
So, Piast are still favourites, but are not 100% dependant on themselves. They have better H2H with Lechia, but exactly even with Śląsk (0-2 and 2-0). It's unlikely that Śląsk beat Stal by a high margin as Stal are recently very solid in the defense, but who knows. Please note that last weekend only Śląsk won among these teams and it was a direct clash vs Warta. So it wouldn't be surprising if many of these teams struggle to win on the last matchday too, which opens a chance even for Warta.
Podbeskidzie are almost relegated. They have better H2H vs Stal but have to win and Stal have to lose to change their position. Or Stal fail to get the licence eventually. Probably they didn't fill in some documents, but there's chaos in general, so it's hard to tell if they can successfully appeal.
The last matchday will be played on 16 May at 17:30 CET. Here the reminder of the ties:
Cracovia - Warta Poznań (Warta fight for the 4th place)
Jagiellonia Białystok - Lechia Gdańsk (Lechia fight for the 4th place)
Lech Poznań - Górnik Zabrze (they are both competing for the 9th place
)
Legia Warszawa - Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała (Podbeskidzie fight for avoiding relegation)
Piast Gliwice - Wisła Kraków (Piast fight for the 4th place)
Pogoń Szczecin - Raków Częstochowa (irrelevant; Raków will finish 2nd and Pogoń 3rd)
Śląsk Wrocław - Stal Mielec (Śląsk fight for the 4th place and Stal fight for avoiding relegation)
Wisła Płock - Zagłębie Lubin (Zagłębie fight for the 4th place)
League table
Results
Stal Mielec - Raków Częstochowa 0:1 (postponed from matchday 23)
Ivi López 90'+3 (penalty)
Górnik Zabrze - Jagiellonia Białystok 3:1
Jesús Jiménez 29', 64' (penalty), Alex Sobczyk 71' - Jakov Puljić 15'
Zagłębie Lubin - Pogoń Szczecin 1:1
Karol Podliński 70' - Michał Kucharczyk 8'
Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała - Wisła Płock 1:1
Jakub Hora 5' - Mateusz Szwoch 28' (penalty)
Lechia Gdańsk - Cracovia 1:1
Flávio Paixão 69' - Cornel Râpă 25'
Wisła Kraków - Lech Poznań 1:2
Jakub Błaszczykowski 78' - Mikael Ishak 12', Serafin Szota 61' (own goal)
Warta Poznań - Śląsk Wrocław 2:3
Maik Nawrocki 40', Mario Rodríguez 90' - Erik Expósito 49', 59', Róbert Pich 82'
Stal Mielec - Legia Warszawa 0:0
Raków Częstochowa - Piast Gliwice 1:0
Vladislavs Gutkovskis 32'
All matches played behind closed doors.
Top scorers:
22 - Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa)
14 - Jakub Świerczok (Piast Gliwice)
12 - Mikael Ishak (Lech Poznań), Jesús Jiménez (Górnik Zabrze), Flávio Paixão (Lechia Gdańsk)
11 - Kamil Biliński (Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała), Jesús Imaz (Jagiellonia Białystok)
10 - Jakov Puljić (Jagiellonia Białystok)
9 - Erik Expósito (Śląsk Wrocław)
8 - Ivi López (Raków Częstochowa), Patryk Szysz (Zagłębie Lubin)
The TOP 3 places are already decided. Legia are champions which is known for a long time. But their last 6 matches are:
0-0
0-0
1-0
1-0
0-0
0-0
It hurts while watching
After Legia won 4-2 vs Pogoń they are not putting their best effort so their professionalism is in question. It is much better in the defense (close to the club record when it comes to consecutive clean sheets), but they can't beat even the 14th or 15th team in the league. Next weekend they face Podbeskidzie, who are 16th... And there are some dramas about extending contracts (a lot of players can leave or will negotiate soon). The players would like to know their future but the club is not willing to hurry up.Raków will get the silver medals which means an outstanding season for them (remember the cup). From their last 7 league matches, they won 6 and drew one. Sometimes they were lucky, like vs Stal, Piast was very inefficient too. But these results are overall deserved. Now the last match vs Pogoń doesn't matter. Pogoń will receive bronze medals which is still their best result in the last 20 years.
Five teams are still competing for the last European spot. There are many variants, let me describe some basics:
- Piast qualify if they win and Śląsk fail to catch up on the overall GD. Or they are qualified with their and Lechia's wins. When it's a draw or loss, then some teams behind them can't win (multiple variants).
- Śląsk qualify if they win and Lechia fail to win and Piast fail to win or have the worse overall GD than Śląsk. There are also two variants when they draw and some others teams fail to win.
- Lechia qualify if they win and Piast fail to win, or they draw, Piast lose, and Śląsk and Zagłębie fail to win.
- Zagłębie qualify if they win and Piast, Lechia and Śląsk all fail to win.
- Warta qualify if they win and Piast and Zagłębie fail to win, and Lechia and Śląsk lose.
So, Piast are still favourites, but are not 100% dependant on themselves. They have better H2H with Lechia, but exactly even with Śląsk (0-2 and 2-0). It's unlikely that Śląsk beat Stal by a high margin as Stal are recently very solid in the defense, but who knows. Please note that last weekend only Śląsk won among these teams and it was a direct clash vs Warta. So it wouldn't be surprising if many of these teams struggle to win on the last matchday too, which opens a chance even for Warta.
Podbeskidzie are almost relegated. They have better H2H vs Stal but have to win and Stal have to lose to change their position. Or Stal fail to get the licence eventually. Probably they didn't fill in some documents, but there's chaos in general, so it's hard to tell if they can successfully appeal.
The last matchday will be played on 16 May at 17:30 CET. Here the reminder of the ties:
Cracovia - Warta Poznań (Warta fight for the 4th place)
Jagiellonia Białystok - Lechia Gdańsk (Lechia fight for the 4th place)
Lech Poznań - Górnik Zabrze (they are both competing for the 9th place
)Legia Warszawa - Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała (Podbeskidzie fight for avoiding relegation)
Piast Gliwice - Wisła Kraków (Piast fight for the 4th place)
Pogoń Szczecin - Raków Częstochowa (irrelevant; Raków will finish 2nd and Pogoń 3rd)
Śląsk Wrocław - Stal Mielec (Śląsk fight for the 4th place and Stal fight for avoiding relegation)
Wisła Płock - Zagłębie Lubin (Zagłębie fight for the 4th place)
Matchday 30
League table
Results
Cracovia - Warta Poznań 0:1
Makana Baku 82'
Attendance: 3670
Jagiellonia Białystok - Lechia Gdańsk 2:1
Jakov Puljić 9' (penalty), Tomáš Přikryl 78' - Karol Fila 61'
Attendance: 4572
Lech Poznań - Górnik Zabrze 1:1
Dani Ramírez 9' - Bartosz Nowak 77'
Attendance: 4890
Legia Warszawa - Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała 1:0
Rafael Lopes 24'
Attendance: 8000
Piast Gliwice - Wisła Kraków 2:3
Jakub Świerczok 17', Tiago Alves 83' - Patryk Sokołowski 11' (own goal), Stefan Savić 24', Piotr Starzyński 43'
Attendance: 2364
Pogoń Szczecin - Raków Częstochowa 1:3
Adam Frączczak 70' - Zoran Arsenić 31', Ivi López 67', Jakub Arak 77'
Attendance: 2123
Śląsk Wrocław - Stal Mielec 1:1
Krzysztof Mączyński 7' - Maciej Jankowski 90'+3
Attendance: 10 453
Wisła Płock - Zagłębie Lubin 4:0
Patryk Tuszyński 8', Rafał Wolski 26', Mateusz Szwoch 56', Alan Uryga 89'
Attendance: 750
Top scorers:
22 - Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa)
15 - Jakub Świerczok (Piast Gliwice)
12 - Mikael Ishak (Lech Poznań), Jesús Jiménez (Górnik Zabrze), Flávio Paixão (Lechia Gdańsk)
11 - Kamil Biliński (Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała), Jesús Imaz, Jakov Puljić (both Jagiellonia Białystok)
9 - Erik Expósito (Śląsk Wrocław), Ivi López (Raków Częstochowa)
OMG, what happened here. Five teams were fighting (?) for the 4th place and ECL qualifying, and only one of them won - it was Warta, who were 8th last weekend. Piast were the favourites but they lost to Wisła Kraków, who sacked the coach 2 days before this match (player and owner in one person, Jakub Błaszczykowski, had enough of Peter Hyballa). Jakub Świerczok missed a penalty that could be a 2-2 equalizer. Then Piast missed other chances too.
Śląsk scored early (goal of the week by Mączyński - https://streamable.com/v6d750) and had an opportunity to end this match in the added time. Instead, they conceded, which rescued Stal for sure and Śląsk could be in trouble. At the same time, Lechia scored an equalizer in Białystok, but it was disallowed. That was a correct decision, but penalty for Jagiellonia in the first half was fake (Jagiellonia player touched the ball with his hand first). Apart from that... Just see it. No, he wasn't a defender and he wasn't trying to clear - https://streamable.com/qe3z2q Nevertheless, Lechia would have qualified with a draw, but Śląsk are 4th because they had to count their H2H with Warta only.
Podbeskidzie are relegated. They can still hope that Stal won't get the license but they will probably get it. The decision should be known this week.
But this is not the end of the season. Tomorrow (on Monday) we will learn Ekstraklasa individual awards. Then we have plenty of matches in I liga and other lower divisions in Poland. Of course I will try to keep track of them for you.
League table
Results
Cracovia - Warta Poznań 0:1
Makana Baku 82'
Attendance: 3670
Jagiellonia Białystok - Lechia Gdańsk 2:1
Jakov Puljić 9' (penalty), Tomáš Přikryl 78' - Karol Fila 61'
Attendance: 4572
Lech Poznań - Górnik Zabrze 1:1
Dani Ramírez 9' - Bartosz Nowak 77'
Attendance: 4890
Legia Warszawa - Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała 1:0
Rafael Lopes 24'
Attendance: 8000
Piast Gliwice - Wisła Kraków 2:3
Jakub Świerczok 17', Tiago Alves 83' - Patryk Sokołowski 11' (own goal), Stefan Savić 24', Piotr Starzyński 43'
Attendance: 2364
Pogoń Szczecin - Raków Częstochowa 1:3
Adam Frączczak 70' - Zoran Arsenić 31', Ivi López 67', Jakub Arak 77'
Attendance: 2123
Śląsk Wrocław - Stal Mielec 1:1
Krzysztof Mączyński 7' - Maciej Jankowski 90'+3
Attendance: 10 453
Wisła Płock - Zagłębie Lubin 4:0
Patryk Tuszyński 8', Rafał Wolski 26', Mateusz Szwoch 56', Alan Uryga 89'
Attendance: 750
Top scorers:
22 - Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa)
15 - Jakub Świerczok (Piast Gliwice)
12 - Mikael Ishak (Lech Poznań), Jesús Jiménez (Górnik Zabrze), Flávio Paixão (Lechia Gdańsk)
11 - Kamil Biliński (Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała), Jesús Imaz, Jakov Puljić (both Jagiellonia Białystok)
9 - Erik Expósito (Śląsk Wrocław), Ivi López (Raków Częstochowa)
OMG, what happened here. Five teams were fighting (?) for the 4th place and ECL qualifying, and only one of them won - it was Warta, who were 8th last weekend. Piast were the favourites but they lost to Wisła Kraków, who sacked the coach 2 days before this match (player and owner in one person, Jakub Błaszczykowski, had enough of Peter Hyballa). Jakub Świerczok missed a penalty that could be a 2-2 equalizer. Then Piast missed other chances too.
Śląsk scored early (goal of the week by Mączyński - https://streamable.com/v6d750) and had an opportunity to end this match in the added time. Instead, they conceded, which rescued Stal for sure and Śląsk could be in trouble. At the same time, Lechia scored an equalizer in Białystok, but it was disallowed. That was a correct decision, but penalty for Jagiellonia in the first half was fake (Jagiellonia player touched the ball with his hand first). Apart from that... Just see it. No, he wasn't a defender and he wasn't trying to clear - https://streamable.com/qe3z2q Nevertheless, Lechia would have qualified with a draw, but Śląsk are 4th because they had to count their H2H with Warta only.
Podbeskidzie are relegated. They can still hope that Stal won't get the license but they will probably get it. The decision should be known this week.
But this is not the end of the season. Tomorrow (on Monday) we will learn Ekstraklasa individual awards. Then we have plenty of matches in I liga and other lower divisions in Poland. Of course I will try to keep track of them for you.
Ekstraklasa 2020/21 individual awards
Best U-21 player: Kamil Piątkowski (Raków Częstochowa)
Best goalkeeper: Dante Stipica (Pogoń Szczecin)
Best 'Turbokozak' (winner of the tv show where players show their skills in different tasks on the pitch): Tymoteusz Puchacz (Lech Poznań)
Best defender: Filip Mladenović (Legia Warszawa)
Best midfielder: Luquinhas (Legia Warszawa)
Goal of the season: Jesús Imaz (Jagiellonia Białystok) vs Cracovia https://streamable.com/nmt06l
Best striker: Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa)
Top scorer: Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa) - 22 goals
Best coach: Marek Papszun (Raków Częstochowa)
Player of the season: Filip Mladenović (Legia Warszawa)
Best U-21 player: Kamil Piątkowski (Raków Częstochowa)
Best goalkeeper: Dante Stipica (Pogoń Szczecin)
Best 'Turbokozak' (winner of the tv show where players show their skills in different tasks on the pitch): Tymoteusz Puchacz (Lech Poznań)
Best defender: Filip Mladenović (Legia Warszawa)
Best midfielder: Luquinhas (Legia Warszawa)
Goal of the season: Jesús Imaz (Jagiellonia Białystok) vs Cracovia https://streamable.com/nmt06l
Best striker: Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa)
Top scorer: Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa) - 22 goals
Best coach: Marek Papszun (Raków Częstochowa)
Player of the season: Filip Mladenović (Legia Warszawa)
Stal Mielec have been granted Ekstraklasa license, so Podbeskidzie are officially relegated.
I liga - postponed matches (played yesterday)
Arka Gdynia - Sandecja Nowy Sącz 3:0
Bruk-Bet Termalica - Chrobry Głogów 0:0
Puszcza Niepołomice - Miedź Legnica 0:1
Now all I liga teams have completed 30 matches. This weekend will see a direct clash between GKS Tychy and Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza. In addition to this, Odra Opole face Miedź Legnica. Both teams can still hope to advance to the play-offs.
I liga - postponed matches (played yesterday)
Arka Gdynia - Sandecja Nowy Sącz 3:0
Bruk-Bet Termalica - Chrobry Głogów 0:0
Puszcza Niepołomice - Miedź Legnica 0:1
Now all I liga teams have completed 30 matches. This weekend will see a direct clash between GKS Tychy and Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza. In addition to this, Odra Opole face Miedź Legnica. Both teams can still hope to advance to the play-offs.
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1. Bruk-Bet Termalica 30 61
2. GKS Tychy 30 56
--------------direct promotion---------------
3. Radomiak Radom 30 56
4. Arka Gdynia 30 55
5. ŁKS Łódź 30 51
6. Górnik Łęczna 30 49
---------------play-offs--------------------
7. Miedź Legnica 30 46
8. Odra Opole 30 43
9. Chrobry Głogów 30 43
10. Widzew Łódź 30 41
11. Sandecja Nowy Sącz 30 40
12. Korona Kielce 30 38
13. Puszcza Niepołomice 30 34
14. Stomil Olsztyn 30 29
15. GKS 1962 Jastrzębie 30 28
16. Apklan Resovia 30 28
17. Zagłębie Sosnowiec 30 23
---------------relegation-------------------
18. GKS Bełchatów 30 20I liga - matchday 31
Results
GKS Bełchatów - Radomiak Radom 0:1
GKS Tychy - Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza 0:2
Zagłębie Sosnowiec - GKS Jastrzębie 3:0
Stomil Olsztyn - Puszcza Niepołomice 2:1
ŁKS - Górnik Łęczna 3:1
Odra Opole - Miedź Legnica 2:1
Arka Gdynia - Widzew Łódź 0:0
Resovia - Korona Kielce 1:1
Sandecja Nowy Sącz - Chrobry Głogów 1:1
Standings
Bruk-Bet need one more point to advance to Ekstraklasa. GKS Bełchatów are closer to be relegated, their match vs Radomiak was postponed by an hour because one of the floodlights was burning. And Radomiak are going to play in Bełchatów in case they advance to Ekstraklasa... Perfect rehearsal for them.
Górnik Łęczna and Miedź lost, so multiple teams can still be engaged in fight for the play-offs.
In II liga, Górnik Polkowice will advance to I liga if they win their postponed match vs Znicz on Wednesday. 2nd GKS Katowice and 3rd Chojniczanka play each other next weekend.
Results
GKS Bełchatów - Radomiak Radom 0:1
GKS Tychy - Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza 0:2
Zagłębie Sosnowiec - GKS Jastrzębie 3:0
Stomil Olsztyn - Puszcza Niepołomice 2:1
ŁKS - Górnik Łęczna 3:1
Odra Opole - Miedź Legnica 2:1
Arka Gdynia - Widzew Łódź 0:0
Resovia - Korona Kielce 1:1
Sandecja Nowy Sącz - Chrobry Głogów 1:1
Standings
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1. Bruk-Bet Termalica 31 64
2. Radomiak Radom 31 59
---------------direct promotion-------------
3. GKS Tychy 31 56
4. Arka Gdynia 31 56
5. ŁKS Łódź 31 54
6. Górnik Łęczna 31 49
----------------play-offs-----------------
7. Miedź Legnica 31 46
8. Odra Opole 31 46
9. Chrobry Głogów 31 44
10. Widzew Łódź 31 42
11. Sandecja Nowy Sącz 31 41
12. Korona Kielce 31 39
13. Puszcza Niepołomice 31 34
14. Stomil Olsztyn 31 32
15. Apklan Resovia 31 29
16. GKS 1962 Jastrzębie 31 28
17. Zagłębie Sosnowiec 31 26
----------------relegation----------------
18. GKS Bełchatów 31 20Górnik Łęczna and Miedź lost, so multiple teams can still be engaged in fight for the play-offs.
In II liga, Górnik Polkowice will advance to I liga if they win their postponed match vs Znicz on Wednesday. 2nd GKS Katowice and 3rd Chojniczanka play each other next weekend.
Ekstraklasa 2020/21 financial distribution
All figures in PLN (~0,222 EUR).
The columns are as follows: fixed amount, historical ranking, sporting results, Pro Junior System (reward for fielding U-21 players), COVID-19 tests, total amount.
All figures in PLN (~0,222 EUR).
The columns are as follows: fixed amount, historical ranking, sporting results, Pro Junior System (reward for fielding U-21 players), COVID-19 tests, total amount.
I liga - matchday 32
Results
Widzew Łódź - GKS Tychy 0:2
Miedź Legnica - ŁKS 3:0
Chrobry Głogów - GKS Bełchatów 0:1
GKS Jastrzębie - Sandecja Nowy Sącz 1:1
Korona Kielce - Arka Gdynia 3:3
Radomiak Radom - Resovia 3:1
Odra Opole - Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza 1:0
Górnik Łęczna - Stomil Olsztyn 1:1
Puszcza Niepołomice - Zagłębie Sosnowiec 0:4
Standings
Bruk-Bet still haven't assured themselves promotion as they lost vs Odra and both Radomiak and GKS Tychy won. Even Bełchatów are still alive after they won vs Chrobry, but they need to be tied with a team (or teams) they have a better H2H with. Otherwise they are relegated.
The play-offs fight is even more interesting, Miedź and Odra almost caught Górnik Łęczna, who eventually drew vs Stomil. Miedź have better H2H with Odra, and neutral with Górnik and the same goal difference (+13). If Miedź and Górnik are tied, goals scored can be the next tie breaker.
Next week will see a.o. Bruk-Bet visiting ŁKS and Arka facing Radomiak. At the bottom, Bełchatów play vs Jastrzębie.
Results
Widzew Łódź - GKS Tychy 0:2
Miedź Legnica - ŁKS 3:0
Chrobry Głogów - GKS Bełchatów 0:1
GKS Jastrzębie - Sandecja Nowy Sącz 1:1
Korona Kielce - Arka Gdynia 3:3
Radomiak Radom - Resovia 3:1
Odra Opole - Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza 1:0
Górnik Łęczna - Stomil Olsztyn 1:1
Puszcza Niepołomice - Zagłębie Sosnowiec 0:4
Standings
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1. Bruk-Bet Termalica 32 64
2. Radomiak Radom 32 62
-------------direct promotion-------------
3. GKS Tychy 32 59
4. Arka Gdynia 32 57
5. ŁKS Łódź 32 54
6. Górnik Łęczna 32 50
---------------play-offs-------------------
7. Miedź Legnica 32 49
8. Odra Opole 32 49
9. Chrobry Głogów 32 44
10. Sandecja Nowy Sącz 32 42
11. Widzew Łódź 32 42
12. Korona Kielce 32 40
13. Puszcza Niepołomice 32 34
14. Stomil Olsztyn 32 33
15. Zagłębie Sosnowiec 32 29
16. Apklan Resovia 32 29
17. GKS 1962 Jastrzębie 32 29
-----------------relegation----------------
18. GKS Bełchatów 32 23The play-offs fight is even more interesting, Miedź and Odra almost caught Górnik Łęczna, who eventually drew vs Stomil. Miedź have better H2H with Odra, and neutral with Górnik and the same goal difference (+13). If Miedź and Górnik are tied, goals scored can be the next tie breaker.
Next week will see a.o. Bruk-Bet visiting ŁKS and Arka facing Radomiak. At the bottom, Bełchatów play vs Jastrzębie.
I liga - matchday 33
Results
Korona Kielce - Widzew Łódź 1:1
ŁKS - Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza 3:2
Arka Gdynia - Radomiak Radom 0:2
GKS Bełchatów - GKS Jastrzębie 0:2
Resovia - Chrobry Głogów 1:0
Stomil Olsztyn - Miedź Legnica 1:1
Odra Opole - GKS Tychy 1:5
Zagłębie Sosnowiec - Górnik Łęczna 0:1
Sandecja Nowy Sącz - Puszcza Niepołomice 2:1
Standings
Recent matches in I liga are really exciting! Bruk-Bet lost another game and still can't have the promotion assured. Vs ŁKS, they got a 'soft' penalty and equalized in the 89th minute, but ŁKS got a penalty in minute 90+8 to score the winner just before the final whistle.
Radomiak won comfortably in Gdynia and are the new leaders. But they still are not certain to be promoted because GKS Tychy also won this weekend.
Radomiak and Bruk-Bet both need one point in their last matches to secure the promotion. They are also both promoted if Tychy fail to win. If all these teams are equal on points, then Bruk-Bet and Tychy are promoted.
Arka and ŁKS are the teams to participate in promotion play-offs for sure. The 6th team will be either Górnik Łęczna or Miedź. Miedź will be 6th if they win and Łęczna lose. That's because their H2H is neutral and Miedź will have a better goal difference then (currently they have +13 and Łęczna +14; which will change obviously if the former win and the latter lose). Odra are definitely out of race.
Bełchatów are definitely relegated.
In II liga, Górnik Polkowice are already promoted. The second team promoted will be either GKS Katowice or Chojniczanka Chojnice. Wigry Suwałki and KKS Kalisz will participate in promotion play-offs for sure and several teams will still fight for the last spot. Bytovia Bytów are already relegated to III liga to their relevant group.
Last matchday in I liga will be played on 13 June at 12:40 CET. Here are the ties:
Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza - Stomil Olsztyn
Chrobry Głogów - Arka Gdynia
GKS Jastrzębie - Resovia
GKS Tychy - ŁKS
Górnik Łęczna - Sandecja Nowy Sącz
Miedź Legnica - Zagłębie Sosnowiec
Radomiak Radom - Korona KIelce
Puszcza Niepołomice - GKS Bełchatów
Widzew Łódź - Odra Opole
Results
Korona Kielce - Widzew Łódź 1:1
ŁKS - Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza 3:2
Arka Gdynia - Radomiak Radom 0:2
GKS Bełchatów - GKS Jastrzębie 0:2
Resovia - Chrobry Głogów 1:0
Stomil Olsztyn - Miedź Legnica 1:1
Odra Opole - GKS Tychy 1:5
Zagłębie Sosnowiec - Górnik Łęczna 0:1
Sandecja Nowy Sącz - Puszcza Niepołomice 2:1
Standings
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1. Radomiak Radom 33 65
2. Bruk-Bet Termalica 33 64
---------------direct promotion-------------
3. GKS Tychy 33 62
4. Arka Gdynia 33 57
5. ŁKS Łódź 33 57
6. Górnik Łęczna 33 53
-----------------play-offs------------------
7. Miedź Legnica 33 50
8. Odra Opole 33 49
9. Sandecja Nowy Sącz 33 45
10. Chrobry Głogów 33 44
11. Widzew Łódź 33 43
12. Korona Kielce 33 41
13. Stomil Olsztyn 33 34
14. Puszcza Niepołomice 33 34
15. GKS 1962 Jastrzębie 33 32
16. Apklan Resovia 33 32
17. Zagłębie Sosnowiec 33 29
------------------relegation----------------
18. GKS Bełchatów 33 23Radomiak won comfortably in Gdynia and are the new leaders. But they still are not certain to be promoted because GKS Tychy also won this weekend.
Radomiak and Bruk-Bet both need one point in their last matches to secure the promotion. They are also both promoted if Tychy fail to win. If all these teams are equal on points, then Bruk-Bet and Tychy are promoted.
Arka and ŁKS are the teams to participate in promotion play-offs for sure. The 6th team will be either Górnik Łęczna or Miedź. Miedź will be 6th if they win and Łęczna lose. That's because their H2H is neutral and Miedź will have a better goal difference then (currently they have +13 and Łęczna +14; which will change obviously if the former win and the latter lose). Odra are definitely out of race.
Bełchatów are definitely relegated.
In II liga, Górnik Polkowice are already promoted. The second team promoted will be either GKS Katowice or Chojniczanka Chojnice. Wigry Suwałki and KKS Kalisz will participate in promotion play-offs for sure and several teams will still fight for the last spot. Bytovia Bytów are already relegated to III liga to their relevant group.
Last matchday in I liga will be played on 13 June at 12:40 CET. Here are the ties:
Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza - Stomil Olsztyn
Chrobry Głogów - Arka Gdynia
GKS Jastrzębie - Resovia
GKS Tychy - ŁKS
Górnik Łęczna - Sandecja Nowy Sącz
Miedź Legnica - Zagłębie Sosnowiec
Radomiak Radom - Korona KIelce
Puszcza Niepołomice - GKS Bełchatów
Widzew Łódź - Odra Opole