Jarosław Araszkiewicz
Jarosław Piotr Araszkiewicz (born 1 February 1965 in Szamotuły) is a Polish professional football manager and former player. Career Club He played as a striker or winger. He can be called football nomad as he had changed clubs 15 times during the course of his career. He played for such clubs as: Legia Warsaw, MSV Duisburg, Dyskobolia Grodzisk, but he is best known as an icon of Lech Poznań. Araszkiewicz won five league titles with Lech, five out of ten that Lech won in its history; the last title was somewhat controversial, as at the end of the season Legia Warsaw was at the top of the table, but due to match-fixing allegations the title was handed to Lech Poznań. Araszkiewicz also won the Polish Cup with Lech twice. He began his professional career in Lech and returned later to Poznań. He played 176 matches and scored 40 goals for Lech. National team He played 12 times for Poland. Managerial career After retiring from the playing career he was still linked to Poznań an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Szamotuły
Szamotuły (, ) is a town in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, about northwest of the centre of Poznań. It is the seat of Szamotuły County and of the smaller administrative district Gmina Szamotuły. The population was 19,090 in 2011. History Szamotuły was probably founded in the 11th century, and was first mentioned in documents in 1231. Duke Przemysł I of Greater Poland established local fairs before 1257. Szamotuły was granted town rights in 1383 or earlier. It was a private town of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded and then occupied by Germany. On September 12, 1939, the German '' Einsatzgruppe VI'' entered the town to commit various atrocities against Poles as part of the ''Intelligenzaktion''. The Germans carried out mass a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pelikan Łowicz
Pelikan Łowicz () is a Polish association football, football club based in Łowicz. As of the 2025–26 season, they play in the IV liga Łódź, the fifth tier, after suffering relegation from the 2024–25 III liga#Group I, 2024–25 III liga. Current squad References External linksOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:Pelikan Lowicz Association football clubs established in 1945 1945 establishments in Poland Łowicz County Football clubs in Łódź Voivodeship ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Poznań
Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair, Poznań, Saint John's Fair (''Jarmark Świętojański''), traditional St. Martin's croissant, Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect. Among its most important heritage sites are the Renaissance in Poland, Renaissance Old Town, Poznań Town Hall, Town Hall and Poznań Cathedral. Poznań is the fifth-largest List of cities and towns in Poland#Cities, city in Poland. As of 2023, the city's population is 540,146, while the Poznań metropolitan area (''Metropolia Poznań'') comprising Poznań County and several other communities is inhabited by over 1.029 million people. It is one of four historical capitals of medieval Poland and the ancient capital of the Greater Poland region, currently the administrative capital of the pr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Polish Cup
The Polish Cup in Association football, football ( ) is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout football competition for Polish football club (association football), football clubs, held continuously since 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title. Due to mass participation of teams, the tournament is often called ''The Cup of the Thousand Teams'' ( ). Participation is open to any club registered with the PZPN, Polish FA, regardless of whether it competes in any league in the national pyramid or not. Reserve and veteran teams are also eligible, with reserve teams reaching the final on two occasions (and winning it once). The Cup is popular among lower-level teams, as it gives them a chance to play better known sides. In some cases, the underdogs have even reached the final, with the most famous example being Czarni Żagań, who were playing in the third division, when they reached the 1964–65 final, eventually ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Football Player
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby league, and rugby union. It has been estimated that there are 250 million association football players in the world, and many play other forms of football. Career Jean-Pierre Papin has described football as a "universal language". Footballers across the world and at almost any level may regularly attract large crowds of spectators, and players are the focal points of widespread social phenomena such as association football culture. Footballers usually begin as amateurs and the best players progress to become professional players. Normally they start at a youth team (any local team) and from there, based on skill and talent, scouts offer contracts. Once signed, some learn to play better football and a few advance to the senior or profe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Manager (association Football)
In association football, the manager is the person who has overall responsibility for the running of a football team A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an All-st .... They have wide-ranging responsibilities, including selecting the team, choosing the tactics, recruiting and transferring players, negotiating player contracts, and speaking to the media. In professional football, a manager is usually appointed by and answerable to the club's board of directors, but at an amateur level the manager may have total responsibility for the running of a club. Responsibilities The manager's responsibilities in a professional football club usually include (but are not limited to) the following: * Selecting the team of players for matches, and their formation. * Planning the strateg ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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KKS Wiara Lecha
KKS could refer to: * Giiwo language (ISO 639-3 code), an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria * Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka * Karin Keller-Sutter, a Swiss politician * Kinin–kallikrein system, a hormonal system * Kirk Sandall railway station, England * KKS 1925 Kalisz, a football club in Poland * Kool Savas, a rap musician from Germany * Kristiania Kommunale Sporveie, a defunct tram operator in Oslo, Norway * Kuala Kangsar, a toll plaza on the North–South Expressway in Malaysia * Kvindelige Kunstneres Samfund, Danish Society of Female Artists * Lech Poznań Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań S.A., commonly referred to as KKS Lech Poznań or simply Lech Poznań (), is a Polish professional football club based in Poznań and currently competing in the Ekstraklasa, the nation's highest division. ..., a football club in Poland ** KKS Wiara Lecha, a football club founded by its fans * The Kirillov-Kostant-Souriau symplectic form of symplectic geometry, see Coadjoint re ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zagłębie Sosnowiec
Zagłębie Sosnowiec () is a Polish professional association football, football club based in Sosnowiec. They compete in II liga in the 2025–26 II liga, 2025–26 season, following relegation from the 2023–24 I liga. The club was established in 1906. It has won Polish Cup four times (1962, 1963, 1977, 1978), and has finished as runner-up in the Polish championship four times (1955, 1964, 1967, 1972). Apart from football, the organization of Zagłębie has other departments, such as ice-hockey (KH Zagłębie Sosnowiec; five times Polish champion: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985) and men's basketball (twice Polish champion: 1985, 1986). History The history of Zagłębie Sosnowiec dates back to 1906, when the city of Sosnowiec belonged to Congress Poland, Russian Empire. In that year, a group of young workers of the Milowice Steelworks formed a sports organization. Their activities were mostly concentrated on playing football at suburban meadows. In 1908, local activist Aleksander ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sokół Kleczew
Klub Sportowy Sokół Kleczew is a Polish football club based in Kleczew, Greater Poland Voivodeship, established in 1928. As of the 2025–26 season, they compete in the II liga, the third tier of Polish football, after winning group II of the 2024–25 III liga. Players Current squad Other players under contract Coaching staff Honours *III liga **Group II ***Champions: 2024–25 **Kuyavia-Pomerania - Greater Poland ***Champions: 2013–14 ***Runners-up: 2012–13, 2014–15 * IV liga Greater Poland (South) **Champions: 2010–11 **Runners-up: 2008–09 *Polish Cup The Polish Cup in Association football, football ( ) is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout football competition for Polish football club (association football), football clubs, held continuously since 1950, and is the second most i ... (Greater Poland regionals) **Winners: 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2022–23 *Polish Cup (Konin regionals) **Winners: 2008– ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Unia Swarzędz
''Unia'' (), released on 25 May 2007, is the fifth full-length studio album by the power metal band Sonata Arctica, following the album ''Reckoning Night''. The first single from the album was " Paid in Full", released on 27 April 2007. This is also the last album that features guitarist Jani Liimatainen, who was later replaced by Elias Viljanen after the album was released. The album was mixed at Finnvox Studios, and mastered at Cutting Room Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. The album was also released as a limited edition noble book in 7" size (1000 copies), exclusively available via mailorder from Nuclear Blast records. The limited edition came with a differing track listing and bonus tracks "To Create a Warlike Feel" and "Out in the Fields". Sound and themes ''Unia'' is darker and more aggressive than Sonata Arctica's earlier work, with mid-tempo songs, more inclusion of 7 string guitars and a minimal amount of solos. It has been described as a significant "turning point". Voca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jarota Jarocin
Jarota Jarocin is a football club in Jarocin Jarocin () is a town in west-central Poland with 25,700 inhabitants (1995), the administrative capital of Jarocin County in Greater Poland Voivodeship. Jarocin is a historical town, having been founded and granted city rights in the 13th century. ..., Poland, competing in IV liga Greater Poland, the fifth flight of domestic football. References External links Official club websiteJarota Jarocin(90minut.pl) Association football clubs established in 1998 1998 establishments in Poland Football clubs in Greater Poland Voivodeship Jarocin County {{Poland-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |