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2016–17 Lechia Gdańsk Season
The 2016–17 Ekstraklasa season was Lechia's 73rd since their creation, and was their 9th continuous season in the top league of Polish football. The season covers the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017. Players First team squad Transfers Players In Players Out Friendlies Summer Winter Ekstraklasa Regular season Matches League table Championship round Matches League table Polish Cup Stats Goalscorers References {{DEFAULTSORT:2016-17 Lechia Gdansk season Lechia Gdańsk seasons Lechia Gdańsk Lechia Gdańsk () is a Polish football (soccer), football club based in Gdańsk. As of the 2025–26 Ekstraklasa, 2025–26 season, they compete in the Ekstraklasa. The club was founded in 1945 by people Polish population transfers (1944–1946 ...
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Lechia Gdańsk
Lechia Gdańsk () is a Polish football (soccer), football club based in Gdańsk. As of the 2025–26 Ekstraklasa, 2025–26 season, they compete in the Ekstraklasa. The club was founded in 1945 by people Polish population transfers (1944–1946), expelled from Lviv, Lwów, who were supporters of Poland's oldest football team Lechia Lwów, founded in 1903. The club's name comes from Lechia, a poetic name for Poland, and is a continuation of the name used by the club based in Lwów. In their early years, Lechia enjoyed some success, most notably finishing third in the Ekstraklasa, Polish top division, before spending decades in the second and third tiers. In the early 1980s, Lechia won the Polish Cup, the Polish Super Cup, and played in a European competition for the first time. After having two mergers with other teams in the 1990s the club had to restart from the sixth tier in 2001. In May 2008 the club was promoted again to the Ekstraklasa, with the club's most recent success co ...
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Steven Vitória
Steven de Sousa Vitória (born 11 January 1987) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a centre-back for Primeira Liga club Boavista and the Canada national team. Having started out at Porto, he went on to play for several clubs in Portugal in both the Primeira Liga and the Segunda Liga, this including a one-year spell at Benfica. He also competed professionally in the United States and Poland. Vitória is a Canadian international, making his debut in 2016 at the age of 29, after previously representing Portugal at youth international level. He was part of the squads at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2017, 2021 and 2023, reaching the semi-finals in 2021, as well as at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Early life Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Portuguese immigrants from the Azores, Vitória played youth soccer with the Sudbury Lions, CS Azzurri, Mississauga Falcons, Dixie SC, Kleinburg-Nobleton SC, and Glen Shields SC. He joined the Woodbridge Strikers at the age of ...
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Grzegorz Wojtkowiak
Grzegorz Wojtkowiak (; born 26 January 1984) is a Polish professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of Lech Poznań II. International career He debuted for the Poland national team in a 0–2 away win over San Marino on 10 September 2008. He was part of the roster for the UEFA Euro 2012 held in Poland and Ukraine, but remained benched for all three games played in the tournament by the co-hosts. He earned a total of 23 caps and made his final appearance in a 2–1 friendly win against Lithuania on 6 June 2014. Managerial career Shortly after retiring from professional football in mid-2021, Wojtkowiak joined the technical staff of Lech Poznań's academy, starting off as an assistant coach of the under-19 team. In July 2023, he took charge of Lech's under-17s, before moving up to Lech's senior team in December 2023 to work as an assistant under Mariusz Rumak. On 28 May 2024, three days after Lech's reserve side was relegated to the fourth div ...
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Mario Maloča
Mario Maloča (born 4 May 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Gorica. Club career Maloča spent most of his youth career at Dinamo Zagreb and had spells with youth teams at NK Zagreb, Inter Zaprešić and Kamen Ingrad. In 2007, Maloča signed for Hajduk Split. He made his Prva HNL debut with Hajduk at the age of 18 against Šibenik in the 2007–08 season and soon became a first team regular, playing alongside renowned defenders such as Igor Tudor, Goran Sablić and Boris Živković. After the season ended he signed a five-year contract with Hajduk, binding him to Poljud until 2013. In April 2015, he was dropped to B team for a short time, and in July 2015 he left Hajduk. In July 2017, Maloča joined 2. Bundesliga side SpVgg Greuther Fürth on loan for the 2017–18 season. In May 2019 it was confirmed, that he had joined Lechia Gdańsk on a 3-year contract. International career Maloča also earned 13 caps for Croatia's U-19 and U-21 ...
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Sławomir Peszko
Sławomir Konrad Peszko (; born 19 February 1985) is a Polish professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who was most recently in charge of II liga club Wieczysta Kraków. Peszko has won championships and cup competitions in his native Poland with Wisła Płock, Lech Poznań, and Lechia Gdańsk. Between 2011–2015, Peszko played abroad starting with a move to Germany with 1. FC Köln in 2011, and had short spells in England with Wolverhampton Wanderers, and Italy with Parma F.C., Parma. Peszko was a Poland national football team, Polish international player for ten years from 2008–2018 and represented Poland in the UEFA Euro 2016, 2016 Euro’s and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018 World Cup. Club career Peszko began his career in the youth ranks of Nafta Jedlicze before moving to Wisła Płock, Orlen Płock. Here, he made his professional debut on 28 August 2002 as a substitute in a Polish Cup tie against Jagiellonka Nieszawa ...
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Michał Chrapek
Michał Chrapek (born 3 April 1992) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Piast Gliwice. Club career Early career Chrapek started training football aged seven in community centre team at OPP Jaworzno. He played there as a right back for three years. Then he joined Victoria Jaworzno. Wisła Kraków In 2007, he moved to Wisła Kraków youth team. On 15 March 2009, he made his debut in Młoda Ekstraklasa team of Wisła. On 11 December 2009, he made his first team debut in the Ekstraklasa game against Zagłębie Lubin. In August 2011, he signed a one-year loan deal with Kolejarz Stróże, where he played in all 30 games of the 2011–12 season, scoring 3 goals. Calcio Catania On 12 June 2014, Chrapek moved to Italy and signed for Calcio Catania. Lechia Gdańsk After an unsuccessful year in Italy, he signed for Polish Ekstraklasa side Lechia Gdańsk. Śląsk Wrocław On 22 June 2017, he signed a contract with Śląsk Wrocław. Piast ...
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Lukáš Haraslín
Lukáš Haraslín (born 26 May 1996) is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a winger for Sparta Prague and the Slovakia national team. Club career Parma Haraslín debuted with Parma in Primavera against Juventus on 2 November 2013, coming on as a substitute for Marco Boscolo Zemelo in the 54th minute. Parma lost the game 2–3. Just a week later Haraslín was already a part of the starting line-up for a 1–0 victory over Bologna. However, his season was cut short by an injury that would rule him out between January and March 2014, leading to only nine starts during the season. Despite this, by the end of the season, Haraslín managed to score his first two goals against Modena in a 5–0 victory on 12 April 2014. In the subsequent season, Haraslín played over twice as many games (20), scoring 9 goals, particularly between November and January, when he scored in 5 of 7 games he started, tallying a total of 7 goals. This won him promotion for the senior team as he m ...
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Ariel Borysiuk
Ariel Borysiuk (; born 29 July 1991) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for regional league club Orzeł Baniocha. He earned twelve caps with the Poland national team. Club career Legia Warsaw Born in Biała Podlaska, Borysiuk made his debut in Ekstraklasa on 23 February 2007 at the age of 16 years and 213 days, becoming the second youngest footballer ever to play for Legia. He is also Legia's youngest ever goalscorer, notching his first goal for the club at the age of 16 years and 265 days on 19 April 2008, in a 0–2 away win over Odra Wodzisław . This goal at the time made him the second youngest player to score a goal in Ekstraklasa with only Włodzimierz Lubański being younger when he scored. 1. FC Kaiserslautern On the last day of the 2011–12 winter transfer window, Borysiuk transferred to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He was sent off on his debut for Kaiserslautern against 1. FC Köln for receiving two yellow cards, which came in the 3 ...
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Grzegorz Kuświk
Grzegorz Kuświk (born 23 May 1987) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for IV liga Greater Poland club Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski. Club career On 3 October 2020, he signed with Stomil Olsztyn Stomil Olsztyn S.A., historically known and played under the names OKS 1945 Olsztyn and OKS Stomil Olsztyn, is a Polish football club based in Olsztyn. In the 2025–26 season, they will compete in the IV liga Warmia-Masuria after suffering thei .... On 29 September 2021, he moved to a sixth-division side Zenit Międzybórz, where he also served as an assistant coach. Honours Zenit Międzybórz * Regional league Wrocław: 2022–23 References External links * * 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Ostrów Wielkopolski Footballers from Greater Poland Voivodeship Polish men's footballers Men's association football forwards GKS Bełchatów players Górnik Polkowice players Ruch Chorzów players Lechia Gdańsk players Stal Mielec players ...
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Sebastian Mila
Sebastian Mila (born 10 July 1982) is a Polish former professional Association football, footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, who is currently the assistant coach of the Poland national football team, Poland national team. His longest spell at a club was with Śląsk Wrocław, with whom he won the Ekstraklasa and Polish Super Cup. He played for two teams outside of Poland; FK Austria Wien, Austria Wien in Austria, where he won the Austrian Football Bundesliga, Austrian Bundesliga and the Austrian Cup, and had a short spell with Vålerenga I.F. Fotball, Vålerenga in Norway. Mila was an international for the Poland national football team, Poland national team, earning a total of 38 caps and scoring 8 goals, and was included in the nation's squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Club career Early years Born in Koszalin, Mila grew up playing for local teams Gwardia Koszalin and Bałtyk Koszalin before he moved to Gdańsk at the age of 16 and started training with the Lechia ...
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