Polonia Warsaw, founded on 19 November 1911, is the oldest existing sports club in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, best known for its football and basketball teams. It also has track and field, swimming, chess, mountain biking, and contract bridge sections. Historically it also had sections in ice hockey, fencing, tennis, volleyball, hazena, cycling and boxing.
Polonia Warsaw, 1912
Władysław Szczepaniak (first from right) in Polonia's hockey team, early 1930s
Co-founder and footballer of KSP Tadeusz Gebethner would go on to become a partisan in WWII
Front entrance view of Polonia's Stadium
Legia Warszawa, commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is the most successful Polish football club in history, winning record 15 Ekstraklasa champions titles, a record 20 Polish Cup and 5 Polish SuperCup trophies. The club's home venue is the Polish Army Stadium. Legia is the only Polish club never to have been relegated from the top flight of Polish football since World War II.
Legia and the Division of Sanitary team after a 7–0 win by Legia. Spring 1916
Legia Warsaw in 1916
Kazimierz Deyna, Lucjan Brychczy and coach Edmund Zientara
Dariusz Dziekanowski – Ekstraklasa top goalscorer for the 1987–88 season