Polish Football Association
The Polski Związek Pilki Nożnej ( PZPN ) is the Football Federation of Poland.
History
The PZPN was founded on 20 December 1919 in Warsaw during the " First Meeting of 31 Polish football clubs ". At the founding meeting were, among others, the following football clubs here: Cracovia Kraków, Wisła Kraków, Kraków RKS, Czarni Lwów, Pogoń Lwów, Lechia Lwów, ŁKS Łódź, Poznań and Warta Polonia Warszawa. The head was of 22 December 1919 to January 14, 1928 in Krakow, since it is located in Warsaw. The predecessor of the PZPN was the Związek Polski Pilki Nożnej ( Lwów ) , founded and active only in Galicia on 25 June 1911 in Lviv. On April 20, 1923, Poland was at the FIFA Congress in Geneva official member of the World Football Association. At the Congress of UEFA on March 2, 1955 in Vienna, the PZPN was taken as the 30th member of the European football association.
President of PZPN
- Edward Cetnarowski - (1919-1928)
- Władysław Bończa - Uzdowski - (1928-1937)
- Kazimierz Glabisz - (1937-1939)
- Tadeusz Kuchar - (1945-1946)
- Władysław Bończa - Uzdowski - (1946-1949)
- Andrzej Przeworski - (1949-1951)
- Jerzy Bordziłowski - (1951-1953)
- January Rotkiewicz - (1953-1954)
- Roman Gajzler - (1954 )
- Władysław Rajkowski - (1954-1956)
- Stefan Glinka - (1956-1961)
- Wit Hanke - (1961-1966)
- Wieslaw Ociepka - (1966-1972)
- Stanisław Nowosielski - (1972-1973)
- January Maj - (1973-1976)
- Edward Sznajder - (1976-1978)
- Marian Ryba - (1978-1981)
- Włodzimierz Reczek - (1981-1985)
- Edward Brzostowski - (1985-1986)
- Zbigniew Jabłoński - (1986-1989)
- Jerzy Domański - (1989-1991)
- Kazimierz Górski - (1991-1995)
- Marian Dziurowicz - (1995-1999)
- Michał Listkiewicz - (1999-2008)
- Grzegorz Lato - (2008-2012)
- Zbigniew Boniek - (2012 -present)
Secretaries General
- Orest Dłużyński - (1919-1921)
- Józef Lustgarten - (1921-1923)
- Władysław Jentys - (1923-1924)
- Adam Obrubański - (1924-1925)
- Waclaw Wojakowski - (1925-1927)
- Stanisław Pałkowski (1927-1928)
- January Wiktor Machowicz - (1928 )
- Stefan Filipek - (1928-1929)
- Mieczysław Korniak - (1929 )
- Marian Kułakowski - (1929-1930)
- Stanisław Kroczyński - (1930 )
- Andrzej Przeworski - (1930-1934)
- Michał Merliński - (1934-1937)
- Kazimierz Gawroński - (1937-1938)
- Narcyz Michałowski - (1938-1939)
- Tadeusz Zastawniak - (1945-1946)
- Franciszek Gęsior - (1946-1947)
- Czesław Krassowski - (1947-1949)
- Kazimierz Kalinowski - (1949-1951)
- Roman Giełda - (1951-1953)
- Mieczysław Szymkowiak - (1954-1955)
- Henryk force - (1955-1956)
- Roman Giełda - (1956-1959)
- Leszek Rylski - (1959-1972)
- Adam Konieczny - (1972-1976)
- Konrad Kaleta - (1978-1980)
- Zbigniew Kaliński - (1980-1989)
- Marek Pietruszka - (1989-1992)
- Edmund Zientara - (1992-1995)
- Michał Listkiewicz - (1995-1998)
- Zdzisław Kręcina - (1999-2011)
- Waldemar Baryło - (2012 )
- Maciej Sawicki - (since 2012)
Achievements
Regional Associations
The most important organizational structures of the PZPN form the Province associations for football ( pln Wojewódzki Związek Pilki Nożnej ), whose members are the sports clubs from the territory of one of the 16 provinces. The associations are subordinate as units without legal personality, the district associations ( Okręgowy Związek Pilki Nożnej ) as corporations and sub-districts ( Podokręg ).
UEFA five year ranking
Position in the UEFA five year ranking ( in parentheses the last year placement). The abbreviation CL and EL countries behind the coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2014/15 season of the Champions League and the Europa League.
As of the end of the European campaign of 2012/13