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Legia Warszawa | ||
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Full name | Legia Warszawa SA | |
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Nickname(s) | Wojskowi ("Militarians") Legioniści ("Legionnaires", "Legionarries") | |
Founded | March 1916 | |
Ground | Polish Army Stadium (Capacity: 31,800) | |
Chairman | ![]() | |
Manager | ![]() | |
2022-23 | Ekstraklasa, 2nd | |
Website | Club home page | |
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Legia Warszawa is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is one of the most successful Polish football clubs in history winning twelve Ekstraklasa Champions titles, a record 18 Polish Cup trophies and four Polish SuperCup matches. The club's home venue is the Polish Army Stadium.
Legia was formed between 5 and 15 March 1916 during military operations in World War I on the Eastern Front in the neighborhood of Maniewicze in Volhynia, as the main football club of the Polish Legions. After the war, the club was reactivated 14 March 1920 in an officer casino in Warsaw as Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Warszawa, renamed Legia in 1923 after merger with another local club, Korona. It became the main official football club of the Polish Army – Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Legia Warszawa (Military Sports Club Legia Warsaw). From 1949 to 1957, Legia was known as CWKS Warszawa (Central Military Sports Club Warsaw).
Before 8 April 2004 it was owned by Pol-Mot and from 8 April 2004 (sold for 3 million złoty) until 9 January 2014, it was owned by media conglomerate ITI Group Currently the club is owned by Dariusz Mioduski (60%), Bogusław Leśnodorski (20%) and Maciej Wandzel (20%) – who serves as the club's chairman. The first two acquired the club for an undisclosed sum, which also included paying off debts made by previous ownership, and Wandzel joined them in September 2014.
External links[]
- Official website (Polish) (English)
- Legia Fansite (Polish)
- Legionisci Fansite (Polish)
- Team profile at Naszaliga (Polish)
- Team profile on Polish Football Clubs Database (Polish)
- LEGIA.us – Unofficial forum of Legia Warszawa fans (Polish)
- Legia Warszawa Ultras Group
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Legia Warsaw squad - 2024–25 |
1. Wandzel 2. Dossa Júnior 3. Jodłowiec 4. Lewczuk 5. Wieteska 6. Guilherme 8. Duda 9. Saganowski 11. Piech 12. Kuciak 14. Szwoch 15. Astiz 16. Masłowski 17. Brzyski 18. Kucharczyk 19. Bereszyński 20. Kosecki 21. Vrdoljak 22. Kopczyński 23. Pinto 24. Szwoch 25. Rzeźniczak 91. Bartczak 28. Broź 32. Radović 33. Żyro 39. Hołownia 45. Ryczkowski 66. Kurowski 70. Sá 73. Moneta 76. Kalinkowski 91. Jałocha –. Ronan Manager:![]() |
Ekstraklasa 2024–25 |
Cracovia · GKS Katowice · Górnik Zabrze · Jagiellonia Białystok · Korona Kielce · Lech Poznań · Lechia Gdańsk · Legia Warsaw · Motor Lublin · Piast Gliwice · Pogoń Szczecin · Puszcza Niepołomice · Radomiak Radom · Raków Częstochowa · Stal Mielec · Śląsk Wrocław · Widzew Łódź · Zagłębie Lubin |
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