Orange Ekstraklasa is the official name of the Polish football premier league. "Orange" is the name of the main sponsor - Orange Polska.
The Ekstraklasa (former I liga) was formed as Liga Piłki Nożnej (LPN) March 1, 1927 in Warsaw, but Polish Championships as non-league competition and The Polish Football Federation PZPN (Polski Związek Piłki Nożnej) were formed December 20, 1919 in Warsaw, a year after the independence of Poland in 1918.
Currently Ekstraklasa has 16 teams. The winner automatically receives the Polish Championship title.
2007/2008 teams:
Name:Cracovia Kraków City:Kraków 06/07 finish: 4th
Stadium:Stadion imieniaJózefa Piłsudskiego; Capacity: 6 500 Manager:Stefan Majewski
Name:Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wlkp. City: Grodzisk Wielkopolski 06/07 finish 5th Stadium: Dyskobolia Stadium; Capacity6 800 Manager:Jacek Zieliński
Name:GKS Bełchatów City:Bełchatów 06/07 Finish: 2nd Stadium:GKS Stadium; Capacity: 6 870 Manager Orest Lenczyk
Name:Górnik Zabrze City:Zabrze 06/07 Finish:14th Stadium:Stadion imienia Ernesta Pohla; Capacity:17,000 Manager: Ryszard Wieczorek
Name:Jagiellonia Białystok City:Białystok 06/07 Finish:2nd (2L) Stadium:Hetman Stadium;Capacity: 7,500 Manager: Artur Płatek
Name:Korona Kielce City:Kielce 06/07 Finish:7th Stadium:Stadion Miejski Kielce; Capacity:15,500 manager: Jacek Marek Zieliński
Name:Lech Poznań City:Poznań 06/07 finish:6th Stadium:Stadion Miejski; Capacity:24,166 Manager: Franciszek Smuda
name:Legia Warszawa City:Warsaw 06/07 Finish:3rd Stadium: Stadion Wojska Polskiego; Capacity:15,378 (13 622 seats) Manager:Jan Urban
Name:Łódzki Klub Sportowy City:Łódź 06/07 Finish: 9th Stadium:ŁKS Stadium; Capacity:15,000 (12 160 seats) Manager Mirosław Jabłoński
name:Odra Wodzisław City:Wodzisław Śląski 06/07 finish:10th Stadium:MOSiR Stadium; Capacity:6,700 Manager: Janusz Białek
Name:Polonia Bytom City:Bytom 06/07 Finish: 3rd (2L) Stadium: Stadion imienia Edwarda Szymkowiaka; Capacity:10,000 (2 500 seats) Manager: Dariusz Fornalak
Name:Ruch Chorzów City:Chorzów 06/07 Finish:1st (2L) Stadium:Ruch Stadium; Capacity:10,000 Manager Dušan Radolskż
Name:Widzew Łódź City:Łódź 06/07 Finish:12th Stadium:Widzew Stadium; Capacity:9,892 Manager: Marek Zub
Name:Wisła Kraków City:Kraków 06/07 Finish:8th Stadium:Wisła Stadium; Capacity:20,346 Manager: Maciej Skorża
Name:Zagłębie Lubin City:Lubin 06/07 Finish:1st Stadium:Stadion GOS; Capacity:15,000 (7 300 seats) Manager: Rafał Ulatowski
Name:Zagłębie Sosnowiec City:Sosnowiec 06/07 Season:4th (2L) Stadium:Stadion Ludowy ; Capacity:10,000 (7 000 seats) Manager: Robert Moskal
Other club info: Zagłębie Sosnowiec - at the end of 2007/08 will be relegated one level lower, so if they'll end the season as 16th or 15th team of 1st division, they'll be relegated to 3rd division, if they'll finish the league at higher place, they'll be relegated to 2nd division
League winners of the past decade:
1997 Widzew Łódź
1998 Łódzki Klub Sportowy
1999 Wisła Kraków
2000 Polonia Warszawa
2001 Wisła Kraków
2002 Legia Warszawa
2003 Wisła Kraków
2004 Wisła Kraków
2005 Wisła Kraków
2006 Legia Warszawa
2007 Zagłębie Lubin
Teams with most title wins:
Titles Team
14 Górnik Zabrze
14 Ruch Chorzów
10 Wisła Kraków
8 Legia Warszawa
5 Cracovia Kraków
5 Lech Poznań
4 Pogoń Lwów
4 Widzew Łódź
2 Polonia Warszawa
2 Zagłębie Lubin
2 ŁKS Łódź
2 Stal Mielec
2 Polonia Bytom
2 Warta Poznań
1 Śląsk Wrocław
1 Szombierki Bytom
1 Garbarnia Kraków
European qualification.
Poland currently recieves 1 Champions league position. and 2 Uefa cup positions due to its ranking of 23 in the UEFA co-efficients list.
Conclusion: The Ekstraklasa is a very good league to start your career as a football manager, personally my opinion on the best game in this league would be Polonia Bytom, one of the weaker side's in the league which enables for a real challenge.
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