Founded: March of 1916
Achievements: champions of Poland (10 times), Polish Cup winners (17 times, record), Polish Super Cup winners (4 times), Polish League Cup winners (once), 1970 Champions’ Cup semifinalists, 1991 Cup Winners’ Cup semifinalists.
Last season: 2nd place in Polish Ekstraklasa (21 wins, 7 draws, 9 defeats, 64 goals scored, 33 goals conceded).
Matches against 2014/15 Ekstraklasa laureates: Lech Poznan 2:2, 1:2, 1:2,Jagiellonia Białystok 1:3, 3:0, 1:0.
Goalkeeper #1 in 2014/15 Ekstraklasa: Dušan Kuciak (Slovakia)
Best striker in 2014/15 Ekstraklasa: Orlando Sa (Portugal, 13 goals)
Best assistant in 2014/15 Ekstraklasa: Tomasz Brzyski (10 assists)
Most experienced player: Marek Saganowski (36 years, forward)
Leading players: Dušan Kuciak (Slovakia, goalkeeper), Jakub Rzeźniczak (centre back), Tomasz Jodłowiec (supporting midfielder), Ivica Vrdoljak (Croatia, supporting midfielder), Michał Żyro (winger), Michał Kucharczyk (attacking midfielder), Ondrej Duda (Slovakia, attacking midfielder), Marek Saganowski (forward).
President: Boguslaw Lesnodorski (since December of 2012).
Head coach: Henning Berg (Norway, since December of 2013).
Interesting peculiarity: Legia won 2014/15 domestic league regular part. Still according to Ekstraklasa regulations eight best teams must define laureates playing one more round. That’s where Legia let Lech Poznan grab the title.
Did you know that… Last season Legia won the Europa League group confidently. They defeated FC Metalist Kharkiv twice (1:0 and 2:1). In the round of 32 they were outplayed by Ajax (0:1 and 0:3). Before the last season Polish side faced Ukrainian clubs in euro cups twice: in 1986/1987 UEFA Cup first round they defeated FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (0:0 and 1:0) and in 2006/2007 Champions League third qualifying round they lost against FC Shakhtar Donetsk (0:1 and 2:3).
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