2014–15 Legia Warsaw season

Legia Warszawa is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland.

Legia Warsaw

2014-15 season
Manager	Henning Berg
Ekstraklasa	2nd
Polish Cup	Winner
UEFA Europa League	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: Orlando Sá (13 goals) All: Orlando Sá (14 goals)
Highest home attendance	26,527 (vs Wisła Kraków, 15 March 2015)
Lowest home attendance	8,000 (vs Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała, 8 April 2015)
Home colours Away colours

Season review

See also: 2014–15 Ekstraklasa

Players

Current squad

The numbers are established according to the official website: legia.com

Last updated on 16 August 2014

Squad no.	Name	Nationality	Position	Date of birth (age)
Goalkeepers
1	Lukasz Budzilek		GK	19 March 1991
12	Dušan Kuciak		GK	21 May 1985
91	Konrad Jałocha		GK	9 May 1991
95	Aleksander Wandzel		GK	12 January 1995
Defenders
2	Dossa Júnior		CB	28 July 1986
4	Igor Lewczuk		RB	30 May 1985
5	Mateusz Wieteska		CB	11 February 1997
15	Iñaki Astiz		CB	5 November 1983
17	Tomasz Brzyski		LB	10 January 1982
19	Bartosz Bereszyński		RB	12 July 1992
25	Jakub Rzeźniczak (VC)		CB	26 October 1986
28	Łukasz Broź		RB	17 December 1985
30	Ronan		LB	25 August 1994
Midfielders
3	Tomasz Jodłowiec		DM/CM	8 August 1985
6	Guilherme		LW	12 May 1991
8	Ondrej Duda		AM	15 December 1994
14	Mateusz Szwoch		AM/LW/RW	19 March 1993
18	Michał Kucharczyk		LW/RW	20 March 1991
20	Jakub Kosecki		LW/RW	29 August 1990
21	Ivica Vrdoljak (C)		DM/CM	19 September 1983
22	Michał Kopczyński		DM/CM	15 June 1992
23	Hélio Pinto		CM/AM	29 February 1984
27	Robert Bartczak		RW	12 March 1996
31	Krystian Bielik		DM	4 August 1998
32	Miroslav Radović (VC)		AM/ST	16 January 1984
33	Michał Żyro		LW/RW	20 September 1992
76	Bartłomiej Kalinkowski		DM/CM	11 July 1994
Forwards
9	Marek Saganowski		ST	31 October 1978
11	Arkadiusz Piech		ST	7 June 1985
45	Adam Ryczkowski		ST/RW	30 April 1997
70	Orlando Sá		ST	26 May 1988

Reserve team

• Legia Warszawa Reserve Team

Transfers

Transfers in

Entry date	Position	No.	Player	From club	Fee	Ref
22 May 2014	GK	1	Lukasz Budzilek	GKS Katowice	free	[1]
10 June 2014	AM	14	Mateusz Szwoch	Arka Gdynia	€75,000	[2]
18 June 2014	ST	11	Arkadiusz Piech	Zagłębie Lubin	€250,000	[3]
19 June 2014	RB	4	Igor Lewczuk	Zawisza Bydgoszcz	€200,000	[4]
4 July 2014	DM	31	Krystian Bielik	Lech Poznań	€100,000	[5]

Loans in

Start date	Position	No.	Player	From club	Ref
17 June 2014	LB	19	Ronan	Fluminense	[6]

Transfers out

Exit date	Position	No.	Player	To club	Fee	Ref
17 June 2014	DM	35	Daniel Łukasik	Lechia Gdańsk	€800,000	[7]
17 June 2014	GK	84	Wojciech Skaba	Ruch Chorzów	free	[8]
4 July 2014	ST	11	Michał Efir	Ruch Chorzów	€25,000	[9]
12 August 2014	ST	13	Vladimir Dvalishvili	Odense	free	[10]

Loans out

Start date	Position	No.	Player	To club	Ref
1 July 2014	CB	39	Mateusz Cichocki	Dolcan Ząbki
3 July 2014	LW	-	Aleksander Jagiełło	Arka Gdynia
21 July 2014	ST	27	Patryk Mikita	Dolcan Ząbki
14 August 2014	RW	7	Henrik Ojamaa	Motherwell	[11]

Competitions

Friendlies

25 June 2014 Friendly	Legia Warsaw	2 – 0	FK Atlantas	Gniewino, Poland
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Kucharczyk  31' Sá  51'	Report		Attendance: 150

1 July 2014 Friendly	Legia Warsaw	4 – 1	Pogoń Szczecin	Gniewino, Poland
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Sá  9' (pen.) Pinto  13' (pen.) Kucharczyk  36' Broź  45' Piech  76'	Report	Frączczak  22' Zwoliński  86'

2 July 2014 Friendly	Legia Warsaw	0 – 0	Arka Gdynia	Gniewino, Poland
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report

8 July 2014 Friendly	Legia Warsaw	1 – 0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Warsaw, Poland
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Żyro  56'	Report		Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 150

Polish Super Cup

9 July 2014 Super Cup	Legia Warsaw	2 – 3	Zawisza Bydgoszcz	Warsaw, Poland
10:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Vrdoljak  29' Ryczkowski  43' Piech  61' Saganowski  71'	Report	Petasz  6' Luís Carlos  30' Álvarinho  54' Drygas  64' Vasconcelos  83' Gevorgyan  90'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 11,826 Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Toruń)

Ekstraklasa

19 July 2014 1	Legia Warsaw	0 - 1	GKS Belchatow	Warsaw, Poland
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Pinto  27' Rzeźniczak  83'	Report	Ślusarski  41' Ślusarski  45' Rachwał  47' Basta  83' Poźniak  90+1'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 8,700 Referee: Daniel Stefański (Bydgoszcz)

26 July 2014 2	Cracovia	1 - 3	Legia Warsaw	Krakow, Poland
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Nowak  4' Dudzic  53' Rymaniak  86'	Report	Kosecki  23' Jodłowiec  47' Vrdoljak  74' (.pen)	Stadium: Józef Piłsudski Stadium Attendance: 8,308 Referee: Mariusz Złotek (Stalowa Wola)

2 August 2014 3	Legia Warsaw	1 - 1	Górnik Zabrze	Warsaw, Poland
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Kosecki  55' Saganowski  66' Bereszyński  85'	Report	Lewczuk  25' (o.g.) Gancarczyk  53' Sadzawicki  67' Danch  87'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 12,351 Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Toruń)

9 August 2014 4	Legia Warsaw	5 - 0	Górnik Łęczna	Warsaw, Poland
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Vrdoljak  16' (64), pen.' Kosecki  49' Sá  70' (80)	Report	Božić  64'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 10,344 Referee: Jarosław Przybył (Kluczbork)

15 August 2014 5	Jagiellonia Białystok	0 - 3	Legia Warsaw	Białystok, Poland
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Gajos  30' Baran  45' Wasiluk  54'  79' Frankowski  62'	Report	Żyro  14' Radović  25' Rzeźniczak  32' Kosecki  70' Kucharczyk  84' Vrdoljak  86' Iñaki Astiz  90+2'	Stadium: Białystok City Stadium Attendance: 7,435 Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Toruń)

24 August 2014 6	Legia Warsaw	2 - 0	Korona Kielce	Warsaw, Poland
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Sá  63' Saganowski  76'	Report	Leandro  79' Outtara  90+2'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 12,729 Referee: Daniel Stefański (Bydgoszcz)

23 August 2014 7	Podbeskidzie	2 - 1	Legia Warsaw	Bielsko-Biała, Poland
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Sloboda  8' Korzym  38' Konieczny  62' Sokołowski  75' Górkiewicz  78'	Report	Sá  25' Vrdoljak  33' Szwoch  35' Brzyski  45' Rzeźniczak  90+5'	Stadium: Stadion Miejski (Bielsko-Biała) Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Jarosław Przybył (Kluczbork)

13 September 2014 8	Legia Warsaw	4 - 3	Śląsk Wrocław	Warsaw, Poland
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Radović  13' Dossa Júnior  21' Dossa Júnior  42' Kucharczyk  63' Żyro  73' Radović  85'	Report	Mila  34' Machaj  49' Hołota  56' Droppa  79' Flávio Paixão  90'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 16,187 Referee: Paweł Gil (Lublin)

21 September 2014 9	Wisła Kraków	0 - 3	Legia Warsaw	Krakow, Poland
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Burliga  55' Garguła  56'	Report	Kucharczyk  19' Broź  29' Sá  50' Jodłowiec  64' Saganowski  83' Duda  90+5' Radović  90+7'	Stadium: Stadion Miejski im. Henryka Reymana Attendance: 31,289 Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Płock)

27 September 2014 10	Legia Warsaw	2 - 2	Lech Poznań	Warsaw, Poland
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Brzyski  76' Broź  82' Dossa Júnior  90' Dossa Júnior  90+1'	Report	Kędziora  11' Wilusz  30' Kamiński  33' Formella  40' Douglas  64' Gostkowski  89'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 25,934 Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Toruń)

5 October 2014 11	Piast Gliwice	3 - 1	Legia Warsaw	Gliwice, Poland
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Wilczek  16', 36', 76'	Report	Bielik  20' Rzeźniczak  80' Duda  90'	Stadium: Stadion Piast Attendance: 7,714 Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Toruń)

17 October 2014 12	Legia Warsaw	1 - 0	Lechia Gdańsk	Warsaw, Poland
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Sá  87'	Report		Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 18,171 Referee: Paweł Gil (Lublin)

Polish Cup

24 September 2014 Round of 32	Miedź Legnica	0–4	Legia Warsaw	Legnica
17:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Cierpka  29' Garuch  43'  53' Lafrance  71' Zgarda  78'	Report	Vrdoljak  23' Radović  49', 90' Brzyski  53'  74' Kosecki  53' Iñaki Astiz  61'	Stadium: Stadion im. Orła Białego w Legnicy Attendance: 5,100 Referee: Zbigniew Dobrynin (Łódź)

30 October 2014 Round of 16	Legia Warsaw	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Pogoń Szczecin	Warsaw
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Żyro  22' Broź  93' (pen.) Jodłowiec  107'	Report	Zwoliński  11'	Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 15,412 Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Płock)

12 February 2015 Quarter-finals First Leg	Śląsk Wrocław	1–1	Legia Warsaw	Wrocław
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Paixão  85'	Report	Żyro  45'	Stadium: Stadion Miejski Attendance: 15,183 Referee: Adam Lyczmański (Bydgoszcz)

5 March 2015 Quarter-finals Second Leg	Legia Warsaw	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–1 p)	Śląsk Wrocław	Warsaw
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Żyro  53'	Report	Grajciar  12'	Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 21,464 Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Płock)

1 April 2015 Semi-finals First Leg	Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała	1–4	Legia Warsaw	Bielsko-Biała
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Korzym  84'	Report	Masłowski  24' Vrdoljak  30' Kucharczyk  71' Kosecki  87'	Stadium: Stadion Miejski Attendance: 5,877 Referee: Mariusz Złotek (Stalowa Wola)

8 April 2015 Semi-finals Second Leg	Legia Warsaw	2–0	Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała	Warsaw
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Saganowski  19', 46'	Report		Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 10,870 Referee: Zbigniew Dobrynin (Łódź)

2 May 2015 Final	Lech Poznań	1–2	Legia Warsaw	Warsaw
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Jodłowiec  20' (own)	Report	Jodłowiec  30' Saganowski  55'	Stadium: National Stadium Attendance: 45,322 Referee: Daniel Stefański (Bydgoszcz)

Champions League

16 July 2014 Second Qualifying	Legia Warsaw	1–1	St Patrick's Athletic	Warsaw, Poland
	Radović  90+1'	Report	Fagan  38'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena, Warsaw Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Marius Avram (Romania)

23 July 2014 Second Qualifying	St Patrick's Athletic	0–5 (1-6 agg.)	Legia Warsaw	Dublin, ireland
		Report	Radović  25', 82' Żyro  69' Saganowski  87' Byrne  90+2' (o.g.)	Stadium: Tallaght Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)

*Celtic to play at Murrayfield Stadium due to Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony at Celtic Park
**Celtic was awarded a 3-0 walkover due to Legia fielding an ineligible player[12]

30 July 2014 Third Qualifying	Legia Warsaw	4–1	Celtic	Warsaw, Poland
21:45 GMT	Radović  10', 36' Iñaki Astiz  22' Żyro  84' Kosecki  89' Kosecki  90+1'	Report	McGregor  8' Ambrose  44' Mulgrew  86' Kayal  88' Griffiths  89'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 22,265 Referee: Pol van Boekel (Royal Dutch Football Association)

5 August 2014 Third Qualifying	Celtic	3 - 0 (w.o)** (4 - 4 agg.)	Legia Warsaw	Edinburgh, Scotland
19:45 GMT	van Dijk  53' Johansen  65'	Report	Żyro  36' Radović  55' Kucharczyk  61'	Stadium: Murrayfield Stadium * Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni (Italian Football Federation)

Europa League

21 August 2014 Play-off Round	Aktobe	0 – 1	Legia Warsaw	Aktobe, Kazachstan
	Korobkin  72'	Report	Duda  48'	Stadium: Central Stadium, Aktobe Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

28 August 2014 Play-off Round	Legia Warsaw	2 - 0 (3 - 0 agg.)	Aktobe	Warsaw, Poland
	Kucharczyk  26' Vrdoljak  29' Vrdoljak  66' (pen.) Kosecki  69' Kuciak  85'	Report	Korobkin  23' Logvinenko  65'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 18,549 Referee: Mattias Gestranius (Finland)

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LEG	TRA	LOK	MET
1	Legia Warsaw	6	5	0	1	7	2	+5	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	1–0	2–1
2	Trabzonspor	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10			0–1	—	2–0	3–1
3	Lokeren	6	3	1	2	4	4	0	10			1–0	1–1	—	1–0
4	Metalist Kharkiv	6	0	0	6	3	10	−7	0			0–1	1–2	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

18 September 2014 Group L	Legia Warsaw	1 – 0	Lokeren	Warsaw, Poland
	Radović  58' Broź  64' Rzeźniczak  77' Żyro  85'	Report	Scholz  56' Vanaken  78'	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

2 October 2014 Group L	Trabzonspor	0 – 1	Legia Warsaw	Trabzon, Turkey
	Constant  45' Papadopoulos  74' Yilmaz  90+5'	Report	Kucharczyk  16' Żyro  25'  88' Brzyski  35' Kucharczyk  43' Dossa Júnior  49' Duda  80'	Stadium: Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium Attendance: 9,875 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

22 October 2014 Group L	Metalist Kharkiv	0 - 1	Legia Warsaw	Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv
	Torres  36' Bolbat  36' Pshenychnykh  59' Edmar  86'	Report	Duda  28'  84'	Attendance: 2,374 Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)

27 November 2014 Group L	Legia Warsaw	2 - 1 (3 - 1 agg.)	Metalist Kharkiv	Pepsi Arena, Warsaw
	Saganowski  29' Kucharczyk  45+1' Duda  84' Sá  86' Rzeźniczak  90+1'	BBC Report	Villagra  14' Kobin  22' Torres  62' Kulakov  63' Edmar  86'	Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Eitan Shemeulevitch

6 November 2014 Group L	Lokeren	1 - 0 (1 - 1 agg.)	Legia Warsaw	Daknamstadion, Lokren
	Vanaken  7' Patosi  84'	BBC Report	Guilerhme  36' Rzezniczak  52' Jodłowiec  82'	Referee: Michael Koukolakis

Statistics

Appearances

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with no appearances not included in the list.

As of match played 2 October 2014[13]

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Ekstraklasa	Polish Cup	Champions League	Europa League	Super Cup	Total
				Apps	Apps	Apps	Apps	Apps	Apps
2	DF		Dossa Júnior	8	0	0	4	0	15
3	MF		Tomasz Jodłowiec	7 (1)	1	4	4	0	17
4	DF		Igor Lewczuk	4	0 (1)	0	0	1	6
5	DF		Mateusz Wieteska	2	0	0	0	1	3
8	MF		Ondrej Duda	2 (4)	1	3 (1)	4	0	15
9	FW		Marek Saganowski	6 (4)	0 (1)	0 (4)	0 (2)	1	18
11	FW		Arkadiusz Piech	3	0	0 (1)	0	1	5
12	GK		Dušan Kuciak	8	1	4	4	0	17
13	FW		Vladimir Dvalishvili	1	0	0	0	0	1
14	MF		Mateusz Szwoch	1 (2)	0	0	0	0	3
15	DF		Iñaki Astiz	1	1	4	0	0	6
17	DF		Tomasz Brzyski	7	1	4	4	0	16
18	MF		Michał Kucharczyk	2 (2)	1	3	4	0	12
19	DF		Bartosz Bereszyński	6	0	0 (1)	0	1	8
20	MF		Jakub Kosecki	8	1	1 (3)	0 (2)	1	16
21	MF		Ivica Vrdoljak	7 (2)	1	3 (1)	4	1	19
23	MF		Helio Pinto	6 (1)	0 (1)	1 (1)	0	0	10
25	DF		Jakub Rzeźniczak	7 (1)	1	4	4	0	17
28	DF		Łukasz Broź	4 (1)	1	4	4	0	14
31	MF		Krystian Bielik	1	0	0	0	0	1
32	MF		Miroslav Radović	5 (2)	1	4	4	0	16
33	MF		Michał Żyro	3 (1)	0	4	4	0	12
45	FW		Adam Ryczkowski	3 (1)	0	0	0	1	5
70	FW		Orlando Sá	3 (2)	0	1	0	0	6
76	MF		Bartłomiej Kalinkowski	1 (1)	0	0	0	1	3
96	GK		Konrad Jałocha	2 (1)	0	0	0	1	4

Goalscorers

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.

As of match played 2 October 2014[14]

Ranking	Position	Squad Number	Player	Ekstraklasa	Polish Cup	Champions League	Europa League	Polish Super Cup	Total
1	FW	70	Orlando Sá	5	0	0	0	0	5
2	MF	32	Miroslav Radović	4	2	5	1	0	12
3	MF	21	Ivica Vrdoljak	3	1	0	1	0	5
	DF	2	Dossa Júnior	3	0	0	0	0	3
5	FW	9	Marek Saganowski	2	0	1	0	1	4
	MF	20	Jakub Kosecki	2	1	1	0	0	4
7	MF	3	Tomasz Jodłowiec	1	0	0	0	0	1
	MF	9	Ondrej Duda	1	0	0	1	0	2
	DF	17	Tomasz Brzyski	1	0	0	0	0	1
	MF	18	Michał Kucharczyk	1	0	1	2	0	4
	MF	33	Michał Żyro	1	0	3	0	0	4
11	FW	45	Adam Ryczkowski	0	0	0	0	1	1

Assists

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total assists are equal.

As of match played 2 October 2014[15]

Ranking	Position	Squad Number	Player	Ekstraklasa	Polish Cup	Champions League	Europa League	Polish Super Cup	Total
1	DF	20	Tomasz Brzyski	7	0	1	1	0	9
2	MF	32	Miroslav Radović	2	0	1	0	0	3
	MF	23	Hélio Pinto	2	0	0	0	0	2
4	MF	3	Tomasz Jodłowiec	1	1	0	0	0	2
	MF	8	Ondrej Duda	1	0	2	0	0	3
	FW	9	Marek Saganowski	1	0	0	0	0	2
	FW	11	Arkadiusz Piech	1	0	0	0	0	1
	MF	18	Michał Kucharczyk	1	1	2	1	0	5
	MF	20	Jakub Kosecki	1	1	1	0	0	3
	MF	21	Ivica Vrdoljak	1	0	1	1	1	4
	DF	28	Łukasz Broź	1	0	1	0	0	2
	MF	33	Michał Żyro	1	0	3	1	0	5
13	MF	79	Bartłomiej Kalinkowski	0	0	0	0	1	1

References

1. "Lukasz Budzilek's a Warsaw Legion Player". Legia Warszawa. 22 May 2014.
2. "Mateusz Szwoch's a Warsaw Legion Player". Legia Warszawa. 10 June 2014.
3. "Arkadiusz Piech w Legii". Legia Warszawa. 18 June 2014.
4. "Igor Lewczuk's a Warsaw Legion Player". Legia Warszawa. 19 June 2014.
5. "Krystian Bielik's a Warsaw Legion Player". Legia Warszawa. 4 July 2014.
6. "Ronan loaned to Legia". 17 June 2014.
7. "Daniel Łukasik Transfers from Legia to Lechia". WP. 17 June 2014.
8. "Skaba's a Ruch Player". Ruch Chorzów. 17 June 2014.
9. "Michał Efir's in Ruch". Onet. 4 July 2014. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
10. "Wladimer Dwaliszwili's leaving Legia". Legia Warszawa. 12 August 2014.
11. "Ojamaa will play in Motherwell". 14 August 2014.
12. "Celtic reinstated to Champions League after Legia Warsaw error". BBC. 8 August 2014.
13. "KP LEGIA WARSZAWA Stats 2014/15". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
14. "Legia Goalscorers". WP. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
15. "Legia Assists". WP. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

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