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| Established | April 21, 2006 |
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| Location | Polish Army Stadium |
| Type | Sports Museum |
| Website | Official website (in Polish) |
The Legia Warsaw Museum is a museum and stadium tour dedicated to Legia Warsaw club history in Warsaw in Poland. The museum, located at the Polish Army Stadium, was opened on 21 April 2006 and is open daily for tours.
The stadium includes a museum and fan shop section which are open to the public with a tour starting every hour from 11:00–19:00 M-F and weekends 11:00-17:00 CET, taking the visitor to various parts of the stadium, through the locker rooms, and alongside the pitch, to see the club's Wall of Fame. Legia Warsaw Museum is not limited to football only. The Club includes information on many other sports, e.g. boxing, gymnastics, wrestling, motorcycle speedway or fencing, and in the Museum there are pieces of exhibitions connected to them, such as the gold medal won by the wrestler Andrzej Wroński at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988. [1]
The museum and tour are situated in the Polish Army Stadium in Warsaw inside the club's home stadium. [1]
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 5 Polish Super Cup 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.
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Legia Warszawa, known in English as Legia Warsaw, is a Polish multi-sports club based in Warsaw, Poland.
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The 2014 Polish Super Cup was held on 9 July 2014 between the 2013–14 Ekstraklasa winners Legia Warsaw and the 2013–14 Polish Cup winners Zawisza Bydgoszcz. Zawisza Bydgoszcz won the match 3–2, winning the trophy for the first time in their history.
The 2012 Polish Super Cup was held on 12 August 2012 between the 2011–12 Ekstraklasa winners Śląsk Wrocław and the 2011–12 Polish Cup winners Legia Warsaw. Śląsk Wrocław won the match on penalties after the match finished 1–1, winning the trophy for the second time in their history.
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The Polish League Cup was a short lived cup competition in Poland spanning three editions from 1999 to 2002.
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