Polish Cup
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Established
1925 (101 years old)
First Recorded Event
2025-08-05
Current Season
2026-2027
Current Round
200
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Poland
Gender
Male
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Description
The Polish Cup in football (Polish: Puchar Polski w piłce nożnej ), known as the STS Polish Cup (Polish: STS Puchar Polski) for sponsorship reasons, is an annual knockout football competition for Polish 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 (Polish: Puchar Tysiąca Drużyn ).
Participation is open to any club registered with the 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 won by Górnik Zabrze.
Lower league clubs have to enter regional qualification rounds and the winners of these join the teams from the first and second division in the competition proper. The regional qualifications are played in the preceding season, so that one edition of Polish Cup for lower ranked clubs can last two seasons. Each tie is decided by a single game which is held at the lower league side's stadium. The final used to be a single match, but 2002–2006 it was contested over two legs. Since 2007, the Cup has returned to the single-game final.
The first edition of the Polish Cup took place in 1926, but it was quickly abandoned. In the late 1930s, the President of Poland's Football Cup was organized, which featured teams of the Polish Football Association's regional districts.
The reigning champions, and the competition's most successful club with 21 wins, are Legia Warsaw, who defeated Pogoń Szczecin 4–3 in the final of the 2024–25 edition. Raków Częstochowa hold the record for most consecutive tournament game wins (16) between 2020 and 2023, winning the cup in 2021 and 2022.
Seasons
2026-2027
2025-2026
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Last 5 winners
Górnik Zabrze (2025-2026)
Legia Warsaw (2024-2025)
Wisła Kraków (2023-2024) Legia Warsaw (2022-2023)
Raków Częstochowa (2021-2022)Fanart
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