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Poland National Football Team
Head coach: Leo Beenhakker
Captain: Maciej Zurawski
Top scorer: Wlodzimierz Lubanski
FIFA ranking: 18
The Poland national football team (Polish: Polska reprezentacja narodowa) is the national football team of Poland, under the auspices of the Polish Football Association.
It played its first international match on 18 December 1921 in Budapest against Hungary and was defeated 0:1. Poland won the Gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the Silver medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the World Cup, Poland finished third twice: in 1974 and 1982.
2006 World Cup information
Poland surprisingly lost their first game of 2006 World Cup to underdogs Ecuador. The final score was 2-0 with goals from Carlos Tenorio and Agustin Delgado. Poland lost to group leader Germany on June 14th, final score 1-0 with a goal by Oliver Neuville in the 91st minute, thus ensuring their exit from the World Cup 2006. Then they beat also eliminated Costa Rica 2-1 with both Polish goals scored by Bosacki.
| Poland Team | |||||||||||||||||
| No. | NAME | POS | Height | Weight | Age | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | Lukasz Fabianski | G | 6-3 | 183 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Artur Boruc | G | 6-4 | 192 | 27 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Wojciech Kowalewski | G | 6-2 | 198 | 30 | ||||||||||||
| - | Marcin Baszczynski | D | 5-11 | 165 | 30 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Dariusz Dudka | D | 6-0 | 176 | 23 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Adam Kokoszka | D | 6-1 | 172 | 20 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Jacek Bak | D | 6-2 | 179 | 34 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Marcin Wasilewski | D | 6-1 | 194 | 27 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Michal Zewlakow | D | 6-0 | 174 | 31 | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Mariusz Lewandowski | D | 6-1 | 185 | 28 | ||||||||||||
| - | Rafal Murawski | M | 5-9 | 165 | 25 | ||||||||||||
| - | Maciej Iwanski | M | 5-7 | 152 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Grzegorz Bronowicki | M | 5-10 | 174 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Jakub Blaszczykowski | M | 5-9 | 157 | 21 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Jacek Krzynowek | M | 5-10 | 161 | 31 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Wojciech Lobodzinski | M | 6-1 | 176 | 24 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Radoslaw Sobolewski | M | 5-11 | 174 | 30 | ||||||||||||
| 17 | Przemyslaw Kazmierczak | M | - | - | 25 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Ebi Smolarek | S | 5-8 | 148 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Maciej Zurawski | S | 5-11 | 168 | 30 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Marek Saganowski | S | 5-10 | 172 | 28 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Grzegorz Rasiak | S | 6-3 | 185 | 28 | ||||||||||||
| Group A | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD | P | |
| Poland | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 19 |
| Serbia | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| Portugal | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 14 |
| Finland | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| Belgium | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 7 |
| Armenia | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 7 |
| Kazakhstan | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 6 |
| Azerbaijan | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 17 | -13 | 5 |
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