Dwight Eversley Yorke CM is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian professional football coach and former player who was most recently in charge of Australian A-League club Macarthur FC.
Legia Warszawa, commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is the most successful Polish football club in history, winning record 15 Ekstraklasa champions titles, a record 20 Polish Cup and four Polish SuperCup trophies. The club's home venue is the Polish Army Stadium. Legia is the only Polish club never to have been relegated from the top flight of Polish football since World War II.
The Polish Cup in football 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.
Lechia Gdańsk is a Polish football club based in Gdańsk. The club was founded in 1945 by people expelled from Lwów, who were supporters of Poland's oldest football team Lechia Lwów, founded in 1903. The club's name comes from Lechia, a poetic name for Poland, and is a continuation of the name used by the club based in Lwów. In their early years, Lechia enjoyed some success, most notably finishing third in the Polish top division, before spending decades in the second and third tiers. In the early 1980s, Lechia won the Polish Cup, the Polish Super Cup, and played in a European competition for the first time. After having two mergers with other teams in the 1990s the club had to restart from the sixth tier in 2001. In May 2008 the club was promoted again to the Ekstraklasa, with the club's most recent success coming in 2019, finishing third in the league and again winning both the Polish Cup and the Super Cup, before suffering relegation to I liga in 2023.
Jakub Wawrzyniak is a Polish former footballer. He usually played as a left-back or center-back. Earlier in his career, he also appeared a few times as a striker and as a midfielder.
Ariel Borysiuk is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for II liga club Chojniczanka Chojnice. He has twelve caps with the Poland national team.
Franciszek Smuda is a Polish football coach and former footballer who also holds a German passport. As a player, he spent his career playing for clubs in Poland, the United States and Germany. In 1983, he turned to coaching, becoming the manager of Widzew Łódź, Wisła Kraków, Legia Warsaw and Lech Poznań, among others. He has won three Polish league titles. Since 2009 he was the manager of the Poland national team, but resigned on 16 June 2012, following their elimination from Euro 2012.
Krzysztof Stanisław Gawara is a former Polish football player and former manager of Legia Warsaw.
Poland Ekstraklasa, meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams.
The 2012–13 Ekstraklasa or T-Mobile Ekstraklasa for sponsorship reasons, was the 79th season of the highest level of football leagues in Poland since its establishment in 1927. It began on 17 August 2012 and concluded on 2 June 2013. A total of 16 teams are participating, 14 of which competed in the league during the 2011–12 season, while the remaining two were promoted from the I Liga. Each team played a total of 30 matches, half at home and half away.
Olimpia-Lechia Gdańsk was a short lived Polish association football club, created by a merger of Lechia Gdańsk and Olimpia Poznań, which played in the Ekstraklasa for the 1995–96 season.
The 2018–19 Lechia Gdańsk season is the club's 75th season of existence, and their 11th continuous in the top flight of Polish football. The season covered the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.
Tomasz Unton is a Polish former footballer. Unton spent the majority of his career playing in Pomerania, with his longest spell at Lechia Gdańsk.
The 2014–15 Ekstraklasa season was Lechia's 71st since their creation, and was their 7th continuous season in the top league of Polish football.
Stanisław Stachura is a retired Polish football player and manager.
Jerzy Słaboszowski also sometimes written as Jerzy Słaboszewski was a football player and manager. During his playing career Słaboszowski played for Mieszko Piast Cieszyn, Cracovia, Legia Warsaw, Lublinianka, and Warszawianka. His greatest spell coming with Legia, winning the Polish Cup in 1955 and the league in the same year. During his coaching career he managed Lechia Gdańsk, finishing runners up in the league, also managing Arka Gdynia, Stilon Gorzów Wielkopolski and Olimpia Elbląg. Słaboszowski was the first Polish manager to manage in both Libya and the United Arab Emirates, managing both Al Jazeera Zuwara and Al Ahli Dubai, the latter with whom he won the 1975–76 United Arab Emirates league.
Grzegorz Król is a former Polish former footballer who played as a forward. He started his career with Lechia Gdańsk aged 16, enjoying his greatest success during his 6 seasons with Amica Wronki, with whom he won the Polish Cup three times, and the Polish Super Cup twice. Other notable clubs Król played for were; Lech Poznan, GKS Bełchatów, and Polonia Warsaw.
Dariusz Wójtowicz is a Polish footballer who played as a midfielder. He is mostly known for his spells with Lechia Gdańsk and Wisła Kraków during his playing career, before going on to manage lower league clubs.
Bogusław Oblewski is a retired former footballer who played as a defender and later football manager. His playing career was mostly spent in the top divisions of Poland, playing for some of Poland's biggest football clubs; Legia Warsaw, Lech Poznań and Lechia Gdańsk. His managerial career was mostly spent in the lower regional divisions in Poland.
Sebastian Nowak is a former Polish footballer who played as a defender. His playing career lasted just over 10 years, during which time he made 90 appearances and scored 5 goals in the I liga, while also retiring with two honours to his name.
