Lech Poznań

Lech Poznan ( officially: KKS Lech Poznań) is a Polish football club.

History

The club was founded on 19 March 1922, named after Lech, the alleged founder of Poland. He celebrated his greatest successes in the years 1982-1993, in which the team five times Polish champion and three times won the Polish Cup competition. In 2004, the Poznań knüpften first time at this successful time when they won the trophy for the fourth time. After the merger of the team in the summer of 2006 with Amica Wronki, Lech Poznan was set back to the front ranks of the Ekstraklasa .. / On 19 May 2009 the team succeeded after a 1-0 victory against Ruch Chorzów in Slaski stadium for the first time the total fifth Cup victory. After the 2008/ 09 season Jacek Zielinski went to the heritage of Franciszek Smuda as head coach. Prior to the 2009/10 season Zielinski was finally able to get to the Superpuchar Polski his first title with Lech Poznan on penalties against Wisła Kraków. After 17 years of association, whose nickname is Kolejorz could again celebrate winning the Polish championship and can thus participate in the 2010/2011 season in the qualification for the UEFA Champions League 2010/11.

European Cup

Were less successful performances by the Poznan in the UEFA Champions League ( to 1991 European Cup champion) and in the European Cup Winners' Cup, in which Lech Poznan regularly failed in the second round at the latest. The bitterest blow came for the team on 9 November 1988, when they were able to fight for the second time 1-1 against FC Barcelona, ​​who ultimately won the European Cup on home soil and only with 4:5 failed in a penalty shootout. 2008 Lech Poznan qualified after prolonged abstinence for the UEFA Europa League and reached the qualifying match against Chazar Lankaran and the first round match against Austria Wien the group stage. There, they met CSKA Moscow, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Deportivo La Coruña and AS Nancy and was able to move as a group into the final third of the last 32 teams. Terminus was in the second round, as they retired against Udinese Calcio and thus missed the knockout stages.

After the championship in the Polish League 2009/10 Lech Poznan took in the qualification for the UEFA Champions League in part 2010/11 and met in the second round on the azerbaidschanischen representatives İnter Baku. There the third round could be reached after a penalty shootout, but where you failed at Sparta Prague (0:1 and 0:1). By a 0-1 away win and a goalless draw in front of a home crowd in the play-offs of the UEFA Europa League 2010/11 against the Ukrainian side Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk managed Lech Poznan a place in the group stage of the Europa League. After going through victories against FC Red Bull Salzburg and Manchester City leading the table after four games, Lech Poznan secured a 1-1 draw at home to Juventus premature entry into the round of. There one was able to defeat the Portuguese representative Sporting Braga 1-0 in the first leg at home stadium, but lost the return match in Braga 0-2 and was eliminated from the tournament thus.

Stadium

Home ground of Lech Poznań is the 45,000 capacity stadium Miejski. The stadium was built in 1980 2010 was greatly expanded for the 2012 UEFA European Championship. In the 2012/2013 season, the average number of audience was in the Ekstraklasa at 22,640 spectators. Where in the top match against arch-rivals Legia Warsaw fans attracted by far the most ( 40 632 spectators ).

Achievements

At the national level

• Polish Champion: 1983, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2010
• Polish Cup winner: 1982, 1984, 1988, 2004, 2009
• Polish SuperCup winner 1990, 1992, 2004, 2009

In the Super Cup, the champion and cup winner of each game year are facing.

At the international level

• UEFA Cup / Europa League Round of (2008/ 09 and 2010/ 11)

Squad 2013/14

(Updated: October 5, 2013)

Known player

• Jarosław Araszkiewicz Poland
• Arkadiusz Bąk Poland
• Jacek Bąk Poland
• Jerzy Brzęczek Poland
• Jimmy Conrad United States
• Sylwester Czereszewski Poland
• Jacek Dembiński Poland
• Sekou Oumar Drame Guinea
• Arkadiusz Glowacki Poland
• Rafał Grzelak Poland
• Tomasz Iwan Poland
• Roman Jakóbczak Poland
• Andrzej Juskowiak Poland
• Mirosław Justek Poland
• Marcin Kikut Poland
• Waldemar Kryger Poland
• Marcin Kuś Poland
• Robert Lewandowski of Poland

• Damian Łukasik Poland
• George Stanley Mbwando Zimbabwe
• Piotr Mowlik Poland
• Mirosław Okoński Poland
• Sławomir Peszko Poland
• Jerzy Podbrożny Poland
• Artyom Rudņevs Latvia
• Maciej Scherfchen Poland
• Semir Štilić Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Piotr Świerczewski Poland
• Mirosław Trzeciak Poland
• Marcin Wasilewski Poland
• Artur Wichniarek Poland
• Jakub Wilk Poland
• Paweł Wojtala Poland
• Grzegorz Wojtkowiak Poland
• Marcin Zając Poland
• Maciej Żurawski Poland

Fan friendships

Fan friendships exist with Arka Gdynia and Cracovia Krakow, known collectively as " Wielka Triada " (Grand triad). In addition, there is also a friendship between KKS Lech Poznan and KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.

Rivalries

The biggest rival of Lech Poznan in sporting terms and in terms of fan culture, is without a doubt Legia Warsaw. This is evident especially when both teams meet.

Basketball Division

The basketball department of Lech Poznań won eleven times the Polish Championship, most recently in 1990. Due to financial reasons, the department was disbanded in 1997, however.