| Germany 2006: |
| POLAND |
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| KEY FACTS |
| World Ranking |
| 17th |
| POLAND NEWS |
| Few would have picked Poland to qualify from the group stages in a group that consisted of England and Austria. And while they failed to take top place, their results were strong enough to be the best second placed team in UEFA. A major factor in this is Poland's ability to score, at least once a match, which lead them to two strong victories over Austria. They could have finished top but for a 1-2 loss to England. Tomas Frankowski and Maciej Zurawski scored 7 times each to prove themselves as the lynch-pin in the Poland attack and will definatly find themsevles a key part in germany '06. |
| Qualifying Group Position |
| 2nd |
| Group F |
| Top Scorers |
| Tomas Frankowski Maciej Zurawski |
| 7 Goals |
| QUALIFYING |
| 3-1 |
| Austria |
| Dft |
| 09-Oct-04 |
| 3-2 |
| Wales |
| Dft |
| 13-Oct-04 |
| 1-0 |
| Dft |
| 3-0 |
| Azerbaijan |
| Dft |
| 04-Jun-05 |
| 3-2 |
| Austria |
| Dft |
| 03-Sep-05 |
| 1-0 |
| Wales |
| Dft |
| 07-Sep-05 |
| 1-2 |
| Lost To |
| 12-Oct-05 |
| 1-2 |
| Lost To |
| 08-Sep-04 |
| 30-Mar-05 |
| 8-0 |
| Azerbaijan |
| Dft |
| 26-Mar-05 |
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| 3-0 |
| Northern Ireland |
| Dft |
| 04-Sep-04 |
| Northern Ireland |
| POLAND'S WORLD CUP HISTORY |
| Appearances (Champions in bold) |
| 1938, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 2006 |
| SQUAD (club in brackets) |
| Goalkeepers |
| Artur Boruc (Celtic, Scotland) |
| Lukasz Fabianski (Legia Warsaw, Poland) |
| Tomasz Kuszczak (West Brom. Albion, England) |
| Defenders |
| Jacek Bak (Al Rayyan, Qatar) |
| Marcin Baszczynski (Wisla Cracow, Poland) |
| Dariusz Dudka (Wisla Cracow, Poland) |
| Seweryn Gancarczyk (Metalist Kharkiv, Ukraine) |
| Mariusz Lewandowski (Shakhtar Donetski, Ukr) |
| Michal Zewlakow (Anderlech, Belgium) |
| Midfielders |
| Piotr Giza (Cracovia Cracow, Poland) |
| Damian Gorawski (FC Moscow, Russia) |
| Kamil Kosowski (Kaiserslautern, Germany) |
| Jacek Krzynowek (Bayer Leverkusen, Germany) |
| Sebastian Mila (Austria Vienna, Austria) |
| Arkadiusz Radomski (Austria Vienna, Austria) |
| Forwards |
| Pawel Brozek (Wisla Cracow, Poland) |
| Ireneusz Jelen (Wisla Plock, Poland) |
| Grzegorz Rasiak (Southampton, England) |
| Maciej Zurawski (Celtic, Scotland) |
| Euzebiusz Smolarek (Dortmund, Germany) |
| Radoslaw Sobolewski (Wisla Cracow, Poland) |
| Mariusz Jop (FC Moscow, Russia) |
| Miroslawa Szymkowiak (Trabzonspor, Turkey) |