Nickname(s) | Biało-czerwone (The white and reds) ORLICE (The Eaglesses) | ||
---|---|---|---|
Association | Polish Football Association (Polski Związek Piłki Nożnej) | ||
Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
Head coach | Nina Patalon | ||
Captain | Ewa Pajor | ||
Most caps | Maria Makowska (111) [1] | ||
Top scorer | Ewa Pajor (59) | ||
FIFA code | POL | ||
| |||
FIFA ranking | |||
Current | 29 1 (15 December 2023) [2] | ||
Highest | 27 (December 2005 – March 2006; June 2007 – March 2008; May 2010) | ||
Lowest | 36 (June 2018) | ||
First international | |||
Italy 3–0 Poland (Catania, Italy; 27 June 1981) | |||
Biggest win | |||
Israel 0–13 Poland (Ramat Gan, Israel; 24 February 1998) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Iceland 10–0 Poland (Reykjavík, Iceland; 13 September 2003) | |||
European Championship | |||
Appearances | 0 |
The Poland women's national football team represents Poland in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Polish Football Association, has never qualified for a major international tournament.
Poland is one of the earliest nation in Europe to begin developing women's football, having fielded its female team for the first time in 1981, for a friendly against Italy away. Poland's debut ended with a 0–3 defeat in Catania.
Since its inception, Poland has little success at the international stage, and has failed to qualify for any major tournament, although the team has come close in several occasions. This has been largely due to most of its female footballers are not professional, many Polish female footballers are part-timers, unlike the far more successful men's counterparts. [3] Despite their part-time status, the fact that the team has seen its rise in fortune since 2010s, having come very close in qualifying for UEFA Women's Euro 2013, 2022, as well as the 2011, 2015 and 2023 FIFA Women's World Cups were seen as signs of potential growth of the women's team.
Since late 2010s, more efforts have been put in order to give the women's national team more recognition. After failing to qualify for the UEFA Women's Euro 2022, the PZPN has undertaken the step to bid for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025, with the establishment of a separate women's football department, while the domestic women's league of Poland, Ekstraliga, is also moving toward establishing full-time professionalism in undisclosed dates. [4] [5]
The Poland women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as "Biało-czerwone (The white and reds)" or "ORLICE (The Eaglesses)".
Win Draw Lose Fixture
21 February Friendly | Poland | 1–1 | Switzerland |
6 April Friendly | Poland | 2–1 | Costa Rica |
11 April Friendly | Netherlands | 4–1 | Poland | Rotterdam |
20:00 |
| Report |
| Stadium: Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Nanna Løf Andersen (Denmark) |
22 September 2023–24 UEFA Nations League | Greece | 1–3 | Poland | Athens |
19:00 (20:00 EEST) |
| Report | Stadium: Georgios Kamaras Stadium, Referee: Réka Molnar (Hungary) |
26 September 2023–24 UEFA Nations League | Poland | 2–1 | Ukraine | Gdynia |
18:00 |
| Report |
| Stadium: Stadion Miejski w Gdyni, Referee: Elvira Nurmustafina (Kazakhstan) |
27 October 2023 UEFA Nations League B | Poland | 2–1 | Serbia | Tychy |
17:45 | Report |
| Stadium: Stadion Miejski Referee: Zuzana Valentová (Slovakia) |
31 October 2023 UEFA Nations League B | Serbia | 1–1 | Poland | Stara Pazova |
19:00 |
| Report |
| Stadium: Sportski centar FSS Referee: Galiya Echeva (Bulgaria) |
1 December 2023 UEFA Nations League B | Ukraine | 0–1 | Poland | Stalowa Wola (Poland) [6] |
18:00 | Report |
| Stadium: Podkarpackie Centrum Piłki Nożnej Attendance: 1,944 Referee: Ana Maria Terteleac (Romania) |
5 December 2023 UEFA Nations League B | Poland | 2–0 | Greece | Sosnowiec |
19:00 | Report | Stadium: Zagłębiowski Park Sportowy Referee: Jelena Pejković (Croatia) |
23 February Friendly | Poland | v | Switzerland |
27 February Friendly | Poland | v | Switzerland |
Position | Name |
---|---|
Head coach | Nina Patalon |
Assistant coach | Maciej Laskowski |
Assistant coach | Marta Mika |
Goalkeeping coach | Łukasz Maćkowiak |
Physical coach | Adam Matuszczak |
Analyst | Marta Walczak |
Name | From | To | Source |
---|---|---|---|
Tadeusz Maślak | 1981-06-27 | 1984-06-30 | |
Jerzy Pach | 1984-07-01 | 1985-12-31 | |
Józef Kopeć | 1986-01-01 | 1989-12-31 | |
Józef Drabicki | 1990-01-01 | 1990-12-31 | |
Jerzy Miedziński | 1991-01-01 | 1991-12-31 | |
Władysław Szyngiera | 1992-01-31 | 1998-12-31 | |
Leszek Baczyński | 1999-01-31 | 1999-12-31 | |
Albin Wira | 2000-02-01 | 2003-09-18 | |
Jan Stępczak | 2003-09-18 | 2009-06-10 | |
Robert Góralczyk | 2009-06-11 | 2011-01-11 | |
Roman Jaszczak | 2011-01-11 | 2013-02-21 | |
Wojciech Basiuk | 2013-02-21 | 2016-06-07 | [8] |
Miłosz Stępiński | 2016-06-07 | 2021-03-15 | [9] [10] |
Nina Patalon | 2021-03-23 | [11] | |
Up-to-date caps, goals, and statistics are not publicly available; therefore, caps and goals listed may be incorrect.
Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club | Latest call-up |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GK | Karolina Klabis | 8 | 0 | AZS UJ Kraków | v. Ukraine, 26 September 2023 | |
DF | Katja Skupień | 0 | 0 | Górnik Łęczna | v. Ukraine, 26 September 2023 | |
DF | Małgorzata Grec | 11 September 1999 | 7 | 0 | Dijon | v. Serbia, 31 October 2023 |
FW | Magdalena Sobal | 0 | 0 | KS Pogoń Tczew | v. Serbia, 31 October 2023 |
Most capped players
| Top goalscorers
|
FIFA Women's World Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Result | Pld | W | D * | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
1991 | Did not qualify | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | |||||||
1995 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 15 | ||||||||
1999 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 9 | ||||||||
2003 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 1 | ||||||||
2007 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 29 | ||||||||
2011 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 9 | ||||||||
2015 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 14 | ||||||||
2019 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 12 | ||||||||
2023 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 9 | ||||||||
2027 | To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||
Total | 0/10 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 70 | 35 | 12 | 25 | 149 | 98 |
Summer Olympics record | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Result | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA |
1996 | Did not qualify | ||||||
2000 | |||||||
2004 | |||||||
2008 | |||||||
2012 | |||||||
2016 | |||||||
2020 | |||||||
2024 | Unable to qualify | ||||||
2028 | To be determined | ||||||
2032 | |||||||
Total | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
UEFA Women's Euro record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D * | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | ||
1984 | Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
1987 | ||||||||||||||||
1989 | ||||||||||||||||
1991 | Did not qualify | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | |||||||||
1993 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 12 | ||||||||||
1995 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 15 | ||||||||||
1997 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 9 | ||||||||||
2001 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 11 | ||||||||||
2005 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 36 | ||||||||||
2009 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 20 | ||||||||||
2013 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 11 | ||||||||||
2017 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 16 | ||||||||||
2022 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 5 | ||||||||||
2025 | To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||||
Total | 0/14 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 64 | 20 | 11 | 33 | 104 | 135 |
Year | Result | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Coach |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | 11th place | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | Jan Stępczak |
2009 | 11th place | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | Jan Stępczak |
2019 | Runners-up | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | Miłosz Stępiński |
Total | Runners-up | 10 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 20 | – |
Football is the most popular sport in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally. The first professional clubs were founded in the early 1900s, and the Poland national football team played its first international match in 1921.
The Switzerland national football team represents Switzerland in men's international football. The national team is controlled by the Swiss Football Association.
The Poland national football team represents Poland in men's international football competitions since their first match in 1921. They are known by the nicknames "The White-Red" and "The Eagles", symbolized by their coat of arms featuring a white eagle on a red background.
The Belarus national football team represents Belarus in men's international football, and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus, the governing body for football in Belarus. Belarus' home ground is Dinamo Stadium in Minsk. Since independence in 1991, Belarus has not yet qualified for a FIFA World Cup or UEFA European Championship.
The Montenegro national football team has represented Montenegro in men's international football since 2007. It is controlled by the Football Association of Montenegro, the governing body for football in Montenegro. Montenegro's home ground is Podgorica City Stadium in Podgorica.
Jakub "Kuba" Błaszczykowski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a winger, currently a businessman and Wisła Kraków's part owner. He started his professional football at Wisła Kraków establishing himself at a young age. In 2007, he joined Borussia Dortmund, where he spent the majority of his career, making over 250 appearances and winning two Bundesliga titles, two DFL-Supercups, and one DFB-Pokal.
The Ukraine women's national football team represents Ukraine in international women's football. The team is administered by the Ukrainian Association of Football.
The Russia women's national football team represents Russia in international women's football. The team is controlled by the Russian Football Union and affiliated with UEFA. Yuri Krasnozhan replaced Elena Fomina as coach of the team in December 2020.
The Switzerland women's national football team represents Switzerland in international women's football.
Łukasz Piotr Piszczek is a Polish professional footballer and coach who serves as a player-manager for III liga club Goczałkowice-Zdrój. He is primarily positioned as a right-back, but is capable of playing as a centre-back.
The Poland national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Poland and is controlled by the Polish Football Association.
The Serbia women's national football team represents Serbia in international women's football competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia.
Agnieszka Winczo is a Polish football player.
The Ekstraliga is the top Polish league for women's association football teams.
Ewa Pajor is a Polish football striker, currently playing for VfL Wolfsburg and the Poland national team.
Nina Patalon is a Polish football manager and former player who played as a midfielder, currently in charge of Poland women's national team.
Dennis Jastrzembski is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for 2. Bundesliga club Fortuna Düsseldorf. Born in Germany, he has represented both Germany and Poland at youth level.
Adrian Dawid Benedyczak is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie B club Parma.
Ana Jelenčić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Italian Serie A club Parma and the Croatia women's national team.
Dżesika Jaszek is a Polish footballer who plays as a forward for Czarni Sosnowiec and has appeared for the Poland women's national team. She won the U17 European title with Poland in 2013 as well as numerous domestic trophies.