26
FIFA Ranking
2
Finals
2018
Last World Cup
1982 (3rd)
Best Performance
Poland stuttered to a second place finish in Group I behind England, eventually finishing two points ahead of Albania and three ahead of Hungary, and after receiving a bye in their first play off tie against Russia, they went on to defeat Sweden 2-0 to make it to their 9th World Cup finals in history and 4th in the last 20 years. In 6 of their last 7 outings in all major tournaments since 2002, they have been knocked out in the Group Stages, with the only exception being the 2016 European Championships where they managed to reach the Quarter Final stages before being knocked out by eventual champions Portugal on penalties.
Player to Watch
Lewandowski is the most decorated Polish player in the country’s history in terms of appearances and goals and he contributed 9 goals in qualifying to become the third highest scorer in Europe during these qualifiers. His record, particularly domestically, is truly remarkable, where he scored 238 goals in 253 games for Bayern Munich over 8 seasons, but this summer, he made the move to Spain to join Barcelona.
Squad List
Name
Wojciech Szczęsny
Łukasz Skorupski
Bartłomiej Drągowski
Kamil Glik
Jan Bednarek
Artur Jedrzejczyk
Robert Gumny
Jakub Kiwior
Mateusz Wieteska
Matty Cash
Bartosz Salamon
Grzegorz Krychowiak
Kamil Grosicki
Piotr Zieliński
Przemysław Frankowski
Sebastian Szymański
Nicola Zalewski
Szymon Żurkowski
Jakub Kamiński
Michał Skóraś
Damian Szymański
Krystian Bielik
Robert Lewandowski (captain)
Arkadiusz Milik
Krzysztof Piątek
Karol Świderski
Position
GK
GK
GK
DF
DF
DF
DF
DF
DF
DF
DF
MF
MF
MF
MF
MF
MF
MF
MF
MF
MF
MF
FW
FW
FW
FW
Club
Juventus (Italy)
Bologna (Italy)
Spezia (Italy)
Benevento (Italy)
Aston Villa (England)
Legia Warsaw (Poland)
FC Augsburg (Germany)
Spezia (Italy)
Clermont (France)
Aston Villa (England)
Lech Poznań (Poland)
Al-Shabab (Saudi Arabia)
Pogoń Szczecin (Poland)
Napoli (Italy)
Lens (France)
Feyenoord (Netherlands)
Roma (Italy)
Fiorentina (Italy)
VfL Wolfsburg (Germany)
Lech Poznań (Poland)
AEK Athens (Greece)
Birmingham City (England)
Barcelona (Spain)
Juventus (Italy)
Salernitana (Italy)
Charlotte FC (United States)
Age
32
31
25
34
26
35
24
22
25
25
31
32
34
28
27
23
20
24
20
22
27
24
34
28
27
25
Caps
64
7
2
96
42
40
3
2
1
7
10
91
86
72
24
15
5
5
3
0
8
5
132
62
23
16
Goals
0
0
0
6
1
3
0
0
0
1
0
5
17
9
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
76
16
10
7