2012–13 I Liga (Poland)

I Liga

Season	2012–13
Champions	Zawisza Bydgoszcz
Promoted	Zawisza Bydgoszcz Cracovia
Relegated	Warta Poznań Polonia Bytom ŁKS Łódź
Matches played	291
Goals scored	730 (2.51 per match)
Top goalscorer	Maciej Kowalczyk (22 goals)
Biggest home win	Dolcan 5-0 Bogdanka Tychy 5-0 Warta
Biggest away win	ŁKS 1–7 Flota
Highest scoring	ŁKS 1–7 Flota
Longest winning run	8 games Dolcan, Flota
Longest unbeaten run	12 games Flota
Longest winless run	18 games Bytom
Longest losing run	6 games Bytom
Highest attendance	10,348[1] Cracovia 1–0 Sandecja
Lowest attendance	150[1] GKS Tychy 1-0 Miedź
← 2011–12 2013-14 →

The 2012–13 I Liga football league will see 18 teams competing for the first two places in the table which give promotion from this Polish second-level league to the Ekstraklasa 2013–14 season, whilst the bottom four teams will face relegation to the II Liga.

According to the competition rules, all clubs are required to field at least one youth player (born on 1992 or later and trained in Poland) in every game (except for the times when the only youth player on the roster is sent off or unable to continue playing, in which case he can't be substituted by a senior player).^[2]

On 28 February 2013 the Disciplinary Commission of the Polish FA suspended the ŁKS's license to compete in the I Liga, because of non-payment of salaries to former players.^[3] Since the club's appeal was unsuccessful, on 5 April the Polish FA announced the cancellation of Warta–ŁKS game on the 22nd match day.^[4] On 10 April the club announced its withdrawal from the I liga.^[5] As ŁKS had already played over 50% of their games, according to the rules of I liga, they will be ranked in the final league table, with the cancelled games counted as lost 0–3.^[2]

Changes from last season

From I Liga

Promoted to Ekstraklasa

• Piast Gliwice
• Pogoń Szczecin

Relegated to II Liga, Group East

• Wisła Płock
• Olimpia Elbląg

Relegated to II Liga, Group West

• KS Polkowice

Withdrew (see below)

• Ruch Radzionków

To I Liga

Relegated from Ekstraklasa

• ŁKS Łódź
• KS Cracovia

Promoted from II Liga, Group East

• Okocimski KS Brzesko
• Stomil Olsztyn

Promoted from II Liga, Group West

• Miedź Legnica
• GKS Tychy

Additional notes

Before the start of the season Ruch Radzionków withdrew from 2012–13 I Liga, citing financial problems.^[6] The club also withdrew its reverve team from Bytom region Klasa A (7th level).^[7] However, Ruch will be able to join the 2013–14 III Liga, after a one-year suspension.^[8]

Ruch's I Liga spot was taken by another Silesian club, Polonia Bytom, the highest placed team of the previous season's I Liga relegation zone.^[9]

Team Overview

Stadiums and locations

Arka

Cracovia

Łęczna

Ząbki

Flota

GKS Katowice

GKS Tychy

Kolejarz

ŁKS

Miedź

Brzesko

Olimpia

Polonia

Sandecja

Stomil

Nieciecza

Warta

Zawisza

Location of teams and stadiums in 2012–13 I Liga

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Arka Gdynia	Stadion GOSiRu	15,139
Cracovia	Stadion Cracovii	15,016
Dolcan Ząbki	Stadion Dolcanu	2,100
Flota Świnoujście	Stadion OSiR Wyspiarz	4,500
GKS Bogdanka	Stadion GKS Bogdanki	7,200
GKS Katowice	Stadion Miejski	9,511
GKS Tychy	Stadion Miejski in Jaworzno[10]	7,000
Kolejarz Stróże	Stadion Kolejarza Stróże	2,000
ŁKS Łódź	Stadion MOSiRu	7,000
Miedź Legnica	Stadion im. Orła Białego	6,244
Okocimski KS Brzesko	Stadion Okocimskiego KS	3,000
Olimpia Grudziądz	Stadion Centralny	5,250
Polonia Bytom	Stadion im. E Szymkowiaka	6,000
Sandecja Nowy Sącz	Stadion im. Ojca W. Augustynka	5,000
Stomil Olsztyn	Stadion OSiR	16,800
Nieciecza	Stadion Termaliki Bruk-Bet	2,093
Warta Poznań	Stadion Miejski	41,609
Zawisza Bydgoszcz	Stadion im. Z. Krzyszkowiaka	20,247

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager	Chairman	Team captain	Kit maker	Shirt sponsor
Arka Gdynia	Sikora, PawełPaweł Sikora	Petrkiewicz, WojciechWojciech Petrkiewicz	Jarzębowski, TomaszTomasz Jarzębowski	Adidas	Polnord, Gdynia
Cracovia	Stawowy, WojciechWojciech Stawowy	Filipiak, JanuszJanusz Filipiak	Radomski, ArkadiuszArkadiusz Radomski	Nike	Comarch
Dolcan Ząbki	Podoliński, RobertRobert Podoliński	Szczęsny, JerzyJerzy Szczęsny	Maciej Tataj	Zina	Dolcan
Flota Świnoujście	Nowak, DominikDominik Nowak	Rozwałka, EdwardEdward Rozwałka	Niewiada, MarekMarek Niewiada	Jako	LZ
GKS Bogdanka	Rzepka, PiotrPiotr Rzepka	Kapelko, ArturArtur Kapelko	Nikitović, VeljkoVeljko Nikitović	Jako	Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka
GKS Katowice	Górak, RafałRafał Górak	Krysiak, JacekJacek Krysiak	Napierała, AdrianAdrian Napierała	adidas	Ideon
GKS Tychy	Mandrysz, PiotrPiotr Mandrysz	Sowa, AlinaAlina Sowa	Kopczyk, ŁuczakŁuczak Kopczyk	Nike	RPWiK Tychy, Tyski Sport
Kolejarz Stróże	Cecherz, PrzemysławPrzemysław Cecherz	Dywan, BolesławBolesław Dywan	Walęciak, DariuszDariusz Walęciak	Nike	FPON^1
ŁKS Łódź	Chojnacki, MarekMarek Chojnacki	Janicki, MaciejMaciej Janicki	Wyparło, BogusławBogusław Wyparło	Zina	Colorit
Miedź Legnica	Baniak, BogusławBogusław Baniak	Pajączek, MartynaMartyna Pajączek	Hempel, KamilKamil Hempel	Givova	DSA SA
Okocimski KS Brzesko	Łętocha, KrzysztofKrzysztof Łętocha	Kwaśniak, CzesławCzesław Kwaśniak	Pawłowicz, MateuszMateusz Pawłowicz	Select	Okocim, Imex
Olimpia Grudziądz	Asensky, TomaszTomasz Asensky	Bojarowski, JacekJacek Bojarowski	Kowalski, BartłomiejBartłomiej Kowalski	Nike	Grudziądz
Polonia Bytom	Trzeciak, JacekJacek Trzeciak	Nowakowski, RadosławRadosław Nowakowski	Mateusz Mika	Hummel	LKJ-Bud, Bytom
Sandecja Nowy Sącz	Świerad, JanuszJanusz Świerad	Danek, AndrzejAndrzej Danek	Fröhlich, JánJán Fröhlich	Adidas	AW Wiśniowski
Stomil Olsztyn	Kaczmarek, ZbigniewZbigniew Kaczmarek	Czałpiński, JacekJacek Czałpiński	Bucholc, JanuszJanusz Bucholc	R-Gol	DBK
Termalica Bruk-Bet Nieciecza	Moskal, KazimierzKazimierz Moskal	Witkowska, DanutaDanuta Witkowska	Karol Piątek	Nike	Termalica
Warta Poznań	Owczarek, CzesławCzesław Owczarek	Łbik, MarekMarek Łbik	Magdziarz, TomaszTomasz Magdziarz	Nike	Family House
Zawisza Bydgoszcz	Shatalov, YuriyYuriy Shatalov	Osuch, AnitaAnita Osuch	Skrzyński, ŁukaszŁukasz Skrzyński	Jako	Solbet

1. ^ Kolejarz displays the charity's logo on their kit.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Termalica	Dušan Radolský	Resigned	28 May 2012	Pre-season	Kazimierz Moskal	14 June 2011
ŁKS Łódź	Andrzej Pyrdoł		1 June 2012	Pre-season	Marek Chojnacki	1 June 2011
Cracovia	Tomasz Kafarski	Mutual consent	11 June 2012	Pre-season	Wojciech Stawowy	11 June 2011
Sandecja	Robert Moskal	End of contract	11 June 2012	Pre-season	Jarosław Araszkiewicz	11 June 2011
Olimpia	Marcin Kaczmarek	End of contract	15 June 2012	Pre-season	Tomasz Asensky	15 June 2011
Polonia	Dariusz Fornalak	End of contract	30 June 2012	Pre-season	Piotr Pierścionek	2 July 2012
Flota	Ryszard Kłusek	Failed to renew his coaching licence	26 July 2012	Pre-season	Dominik Nowak	26 July 2012
Polonia	Piotr Pierścionek	Sacked	2 October 2012	18th	Dominik Nowak	2 October 2012
Sandecja	Jarosław Araszkiewicz	Sacked	2 October 2012	11th	Janusz Świerad	2 October 2012
Polonia	Piotr Pierścionek		2 October 2012	18th	Jacek Trzeciak	2 October 2012
Arka	Petr Němec	Sacked	14 November 2012	10th	Paweł Sikora	14 November 2012
ŁKS	Marek Chojnacki	Mutual consent	13 December 2012	16th	Piotr Zajączkowski	15 January 2013
Warta	Czesław Owczarek	Mutual consent	21 December 2012	10th	Maciej Borowski	15 January 2013
Sandecja	Janusz Świerad		18 January 2013	14th	Mirosław Hajdo	18 January 2013
Warta	Maciej Borowski	Appointed goalkeeping coach	2 April 2013	14th	Krzysztof Pawlak	2 April 2013
Flota	Dominik Nowak	Mutual consent	10 April 2013	2nd	Tomasz Kafarski	11 April 2013
Okocimski KS	Krzysztof Łętocha		11 April 2013	17th	Czesław Palik	11 April 2013
Zawisza	Yuri Shatalov	Mutual consent	26 April 2013	7th	Ryszard Tarasiewicz	27 April 2013

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Zawisza Bydgoszcz (P)	34	19	9	6	69	26	+43	66	Promotion to the 2013–14 Ekstraklasa
2	Cracovia (P)	34	19	7	8	48	35	+13	64
3	Nieciecza	34	19	6	9	54	28	+26	63		NIE 4–0 FLO FLO 4–1 NIE
4	Flota Świnoujście	34	19	6	9	57	33	+24	63
5	Arka Gdynia	34	17	6	11	46	29	+17	57
6	GKS Tychy	34	15	10	9	44	28	+16	55
7	Dolcan Ząbki	34	16	6	12	52	41	+11	54
8	Miedź Legnica	34	15	8	11	49	42	+7	53
9	Olimpia Grudziądz	34	13	12	9	39	34	+5	51
10	GKS Katowice	34	14	8	12	43	36	+7	50		KAT 2–0 KOL KOL 2–2 KAT
11	Kolejarz Stróże	34	14	8	12	47	45	+2	50
12	GKS Bogdanka	34	11	13	10	37	42	−5	46
13	Stomil Olsztyn	34	8	14	12	37	45	−8	38
14	Sandecja Nowy Sącz	34	10	7	17	35	54	−19	37
15	Okocimski KS Brzesko	34	7	11	16	38	54	−16	032^2
16	Warta Poznań (R)	34	7	7	20	34	57	−23	28	Relegation to the 2013–14 II Liga
17	Polonia Bytom (R)	34	5	7	22	29	64	−35	22
18	ŁKS Łódź (R)	34	3	5	26	17	82	−65	014^1

Updated to games played on 8 June 2013.
Source: 90minut.pl (Polish)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
¹ ŁKS withdrew from the competition after 22nd round.
² Although Okocimski KS originally finished the season in the relegation zone, they stayed in I liga, since Polonia Warsaw (who were demoted from 2012–13 Ekstraklasa) failed to meet the financial requirements set by the Polish FA for 2013–14 I Liga teams.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away

ARK

CRA

DOL

FLO

BOG

KAT

TYC

KOL

ŁKS

MLE

OKO

GRU

PBY

SNS

STO

NIE

WAP

ZAW

Arka Gdynia

1–1

1–2

0–1

2–0

1–2

2–1

3–1

3–0^2

1–0

3–1

0–1

3–1

3–0

0–1

0–1

2–0

0–1

Cracovia

1–0

0–2

1–1

2–0

1–0

0–1

2–2

4–2

1–1

1–0

0–0

2–0

1–0

1–0

2–1

2–1

3–1

Dolcan Ząbki

1–4

3–1

0–1

5–0

2–0

0–1

1–4

1–1

1–1

1–0

2–0

4–1

1–1

2–0

0–1

2–0

1–0

Flota Świnoujście

3–0

1–2

2–0

3–1

3–1

1–0

0–1

3–0^2

1–1

1–0

1–0

2–0

4–0

0–1

4–1

2–1

0–3

GKS Bogdanka

2–1

0–2

2–1

1–1

2–1

2–0

1–0

3–0^2

2–2

1–2

2–1

3–1

2–2

0–0

1–0

3–1

1–1

GKS Katowice

1–2

1–1

1–0

2–0

1–0

1–0

2–0

1–2

0–2

1–2

1–1

4–2

0–0

4–2

1–2

1–1

1–0

GKS Tychy

0–0

2–0

1–2

1–0

0–0

1–1

1–1

3–1

1–0

0–1

2–1

0–0

1–1

0–0

0–3

5–0

2–2

Kolejarz Stróże

1–1

0–1

2–3

1–2

3–0

2–2

2–1

2–1

2–1

3–0

0–0

1–3

1–0

2–2

0–1

1–0

2–1

ŁKS Łódź

0–2

0–3^2

0–3^2

1–7

1–1

0–1

0–3^2

0–3^2

0–1

0–3^2

0–3

0–3^2

3–2

0–2

0–3^2

0–2

1–1

Miedź Legnica

1–1

1–3

3–2

0–2

2–0

0–2

2–1

0–0

3–0^2

0–0

2–1

1–0

3–1

1–2

2–1

5–2

1–2

Okocimski KS Brzesko

1–1

0–2

1–2

2–2

1–1

1–4

1–3

1–1

0–1

2–2

0–0

1–1

0–1

3–3

1–2

2–0

1–4

Olimpia Grudziądz

0–1

2–0

0–0

2–1

1–1

2–1

1–3

2–1

3–1

2–0

0–0

2–2

2–2

2–1

0–0

4–2

1–0

Polonia Bytom

0–1

1–3

3–1

2–1

0–1

1–1

0–3

0–1

1–1

1–3

0–3

1–2

0–1

1–1

0–3

2–0

0–4

Sandecja Nowy Sącz

1–2

1–2

2–1

0–2

1–0

0–2

1–2

1–2

3–0^2

1–0

4–3

2–0

3–0

0–2

0–0

0–1

0–5

Stomil Olsztyn

0–2

3–0

1–2

1–1

2–2

0–0

1–1

2–3

0–0

1–2

0–4

1–1

0–0

4–0

0–0

0–2

0–5

Nieciecza

3–2

2–0

3–1

4–0

0–0

1–0

1–3

4–2

3–1

1–2

4–0

1–1

3–0

0–1

1–0

3–0

0–1

Warta Poznań

0–1

2–2

2–2

1–2

1–1

0–2

0–1

4–0

3–0^2

0–3^3

1–1

0–1

2–1

2–2

1–1

2–0

0–1

Zawisza Bydgoszcz

0–0

3–1

1–1

2–2

1–1

2–0

0–0

2–0

3–0^2

5–1

4–0

3–0

3–1

3–1

2–3

1–1

2–0

Updated to games played on 8 June 2013.
Source: 90minut.pl (Polish)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
² Match cancelled due to ŁKS withdrawing from the competition.
³ Match declared forfeited due to Warta fielding an ilegible player. The game ended in a 2–2 tie.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[11]
1	Maciej Kowalczyk	Kolejarz Stróże	22
2	Paweł Abbott	Zawisza Bydgoszcz	15
	Vladimir Boljević	Cracovia
	Marcus Vinicius	Arka Gdynia
5	Arkadiusz Aleksander	Sandecja / Flota	13
	Jakub Grzegorzewski	Miedź Legnica
	Dariusz Pawlusiński	Termalica Bruk-Bet Nieciecza
	Mateusz Piątkowski	Dolcan Ząbki
	Przemysław Pitry	GKS Katowice
10	Sebastian Olszar	Flota Świnoujście	11
	Deniss Rakels	GKS Katowice

Clean sheets (player)

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Sebastian Nowak	Termalica	16
2	Piotr Misztal	GKS Tychy	13
3	Grzegorz Kasprzik	Flota	11
	Krzysztof Pilarz	Cracovia
	Michał Wróbel	Olimpia Grudziądz
6	Łukasz Budziłek	GKS Katowice	9
	Marcin Cabaj	Sandecja
	Rafał Leszczyński	Dolcan
9	Wojciech Kaczmarek	Zawisza	8
	Piotr Skiba	Stomil

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Zbigniew Zakrzewski for Miedź against Bogdanka (4 August 2012)
• Largest winning margin: 6 goals
  • ŁKS 1–7 Flota (6 October 2012)
• Highest scoring game: 8 goals
  • ŁKS 1–7 Flota (6 October 2012)
• Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 7 goals
  • ŁKS 1–7 Flota (6 October 2012)
• Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 2 goals
  • Stomil 2–3 Kolejarz (13 April 2013)
  • Kolejarz 2–3 Dolcan (21 April 2013)

Clean sheets (club)

• Most clean sheets: 16
  • Termalica
• Fewest clean sheets: 2
  • ŁKS

Discipline

• Most yellow cards (club): 97^[12]
  • Sandecja Nowy Sącz

• Most yellow cards (player): 11^[12]
  • Tomáš Pešír (Bogdanka)

• Most red cards (club): 10^[12]
  • Stomil Olsztyn
  • Warta Poznań

• Most red cards (player): 2^[12]
  • Martin Baran (Polonia Bytom)
  • Paweł Baranowski (Stomil)
  • Michał Benkowski (Bogdanka)
  • Grzegorz Fonfara (Katowice)
  • Michał Masłowski (Zawisza)
  • Michał Nalepa (Termalica)
  • Marcin Pietroń (Katowice)
  • Dawid Sołdecki (Bogdanka)
  • Łukasz Skrzyński (Zawisza)
  • Dawid Szufryn (Kolejarz)
  • Maciej Wichtowski (Warta)
  • Konrad Wieczorek (Okocimski KS)

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