2007–08 Ekstraklasa

Ekstraklasa

Season	2007–08
Champions	Wisła Kraków 11th Ekstraklasa title
Relegated	Widzew Łódź Zagłębie Sosnowiec Zagłębie Lubin Korona Kielce
Champions League	Wisła Kraków (2nd qualifying round)
UEFA Cup	Legia Warsaw (1st qualifying round) Lech Poznań (1st qualifying round)
Intertoto Cup	Cracovia (1st round)
Top goalscorer	Paweł Brożek (23)
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 Ekstraklasa started in July 2007 and ended in mid-May 2008. It was run by the Polish Football Association.

The Polish Champion will qualify for the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round. The runner-up and winner of the Polish Cup will qualify for the UEFA Cup first qualifying round. The third placed team will qualify for the second round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. The bottom two teams will be relegated to Poland League Two for 2008-09 season, with the 3rd bottom team playing off against the 4th-placed team in Poland League Two to decide the final positions for next season(the winner will be either promoted or stay in the top league).

2007/2008 teams

WIS

LEG

DSK

LPO

ZLU

KOR

CRA

GÓR

GKS

RUC

ŁKS

ODR

PBY

JAG

WID

ZSO

Location of teams in Ekstraklasa 2007-08

The following teams played in the Ekstraklasa:

• Cracovia
• GKS Bełchatów
• Górnik Zabrze
• Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski (2007 Polish Cup winner)
• Korona Kielce
• Lech Poznań
• Legia Warsaw
• ŁKS Łódź
• Odra Wodzisław
• Widzew Łódź
• Wisła Kraków
• Zagłębie Lubin (2007 Polish Champion)
• Ruch Chorzów (promoted from Polish Second League)
• Jagiellonia Białystok (promoted from Polish Second League)
• Polonia Bytom (promoted from Polish Second League)
• Zagłębie Sosnowiec (promoted from Polish Second League)

Relegated teams

• Zagłębie Lubin^[1]
• Korona Kielce^[2]
• Widzew Łódź
• Zagłębie Sosnowiec^[3]

League standing

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Wisła Kraków (C)	30	24	5	1	68	18	+50	77	2008–09 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Legia Warsaw (Q)	30	20	3	7	48	17	+31	0631	2008–09 UEFA Cup First round
3	Dyskobolia	30	18	6	6	52	24	+28	0602
4	Lech Poznań (Q)	30	17	6	7	55	32	+23	0573	2008–09 UEFA Cup First round
5	Zagłębie Lubin (R)	30	15	7	8	43	30	+13	0524	Relegation to the First League 2008-09
6	Korona Kielce (R)	30	15	6	9	38	32	+6	0514
7	Cracovia (Q)	30	11	6	13	30	32	−2	39	UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008	CRA 3 pts, 1-0-1, 3-1; GÓR 3 pts, 1-0-1, 1-3
8	Górnik Zabrze	30	11	6	13	34	39	−5	39
9	GKS Bełchatów	30	9	11	10	26	32	−6	38
10	Ruch Chorzów	30	8	10	12	35	41	−6	34
11	ŁKS Łódź	30	7	9	14	25	31	−6	30
12	Odra Wodzisław	30	8	5	17	28	47	−19	29
13	Polonia Bytom	30	7	7	16	22	45	−23	28
14	Jagiellonia Białystok	30	7	6	17	27	57	−30	27
15	Widzew Łódź (R)	30	5	11	14	27	42	−15	26	Relegation to the First League 2008-09
16	Zagłębie Sosnowiec (R)	30	4	4	22	19	58	−39	0165	Relegation to the Polish Third League

Source: 90minut.pl (Polish)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th goals scored.
¹Legia Warsaw automatically qualify for the UEFA Cup as they reached the Puchar Polski final. ² Dyskobolia merged with Polonia Warsaw and lost own qualification for UEFA Cup³ Lech Poznań took Dyskobolia place due to their resignation of playing in the UEFA Cup ⁴ automatically relegated at end of season due to involvement in corruption scandal. See here ⁵ automatically relegated at end of season to third league due to involvement in corruption scandal and also taking one of two last standings.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (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; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Results

Home \ Away1

CRA

DSK

GKS

GÓR

JAG

KOR

LPO

LEG

ŁKS

PBY

RUC

ODR

WID

WIS

ZLU

ZSO

Cracovia

3–1

0–2

3–0

2–0

1–1

3–2

0–2

0–0

1–1

1–0

3–0

1–0

1–2

1–2

1–0

Dyskobolia

0–0

0–0

3–1

3–1

4–0

1–0

1–0

2–0

3–1

1–4

0–0

3–0

0–0

2–0

3–0

GKS Bełchatów

0–4

1–1

0–0

2–0

2–0

0–3

2–2

1–0

0–3

2–0

3–1

3–1

0–0

0–1

2–0

Górnik Zabrze

1–0

0–0

2–0

3–0

0–3

0–1

0–3

1–1

4–0

1–0

1–0

1–1

1–3

0–1

4–2

Jagiellonia Białystok

0–2

1–3

0–1

1–1

0–0

4–2

1–2

1–0

2–1

1–1

2–3

2–1

1–2

0–0

2–1

Korona Kielce

2–0

1–1

2–2

3–2

1–0

1–0

1–0

2–0

4–0

0–2

2–0

1–1

1–1

1–4

2–0

Lech Poznań

3–1

2–1

1–1

4–1

6–1

1–0

1–0

1–2

1–0

6–2

2–0

1–0

1–2

0–0

4–2

Legia Warsaw

1–0

1–0

4–1

2–0

0–0

2–0

0–1

2–1

3–1

2–0

0–1

3–1

2–1

3–0

5–0

ŁKS Łódź

0–0

0–1

2–0

0–1

0–0

0–1

1–2

0–1

0–0

1–1

0–1

2–0

0–1

2–1

3–0

Polonia Bytom

1–0

0–2

0–0

0–4

0–1

0–2

2–2

1–2

0–1

1–1

1–0

1–1

1–2

1–0

1–0

Ruch Chorzów

2–0

1–2

1–1

3–2

4–0

1–2

0–2

0–0

0–0

2–0

3–2

1–1

0–3

2–2

1–0

Odra Wodzisław

0–1

1–2

1–0

0–2

1–3

1–0

1–2

0–2

2–2

0–2

2–0

1–1

2–2

1–3

1–0

Widzew Łódź

2–0

1–0

0–0

2–1

2–0

0–2

0–1

0–1

0–0

2–4

2–2

4–3

1–3

1–1

0–1

Wisła Kraków

2–1

3–0

2–0

2–0

5–0

4–0

4–2

1–0

5–2

5–0

2–0

0–0

1–0

2–1

4–0

Zagłębie Lubin

3–1

1–2

1–0

1–1

5–2

1–0

1–1

0–2

2–1

0–0

2–1

3–0

2–1

0–1

2–1

Zagłębie Sosnowiec

1–2

1–3

0–0

0–2

1–3

2–3

0–0

2–1

1–3

1–0

0–0

0–2

1–3

0–0

0–3

Source: 90minut.pl
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

23 goals

• Paweł Brożek (Wisła Kraków)

16 goals

• Adrian Sikora (Dyskobolia Grodzisk)
• Marek Zieńczuk (Wisła Kraków)

15 goals

• Takesure Chinyama (Legia Warsaw)

12 goals

• Hernan Rengifo (Lech Poznań)

11 goals

• Dawid Jarka (Górnik Zabrze)

10 goals

• Edi Andradina (Korona Kielce)
• Maciej Iwański (Zagłębie Lubin)
• Marcin Robak (Korona Kielce)
• Tomasz Zahorski (Górnik Zabrze)
• Marcin Zając (Lech Poznań)

8 goals

• Vuk Sotirović (Jagiellonia Białystok)

7 goals

• Wojciech Grzyb (Ruch Chorzów)
• Stefano Napoleoni (Widzew Łódź)

Last updated: May 10, 2008; Source: 90minut.pl (Polish)

Awards

Piłka Nożna Magazines Awards

Award	Recipient	Team
Player of the year	Euzebiusz Smolarek	Borussia Dortmund/Racing Santander
Coach of the year	Maciej Skorża	Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski/Wisła Kraków
Discovery of the year	Radosław Majewski	Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Return of the year	Jan Urban	Legia Warszawa
Foreign player the year	Roger Guerreiro	Legia Warszawa
President of the year	Robert Pietryszyn	Zagłębie Lubin
League player of the year	Marek Zieńczuk	Wisła Kraków
Team of the year	Poland
Person of the year	Leo Beenhakker	Poland

Piłka Nożna's All-Star team of fall 2007/08

Position	PLayer	Team
Goalkeeper	Ján Mucha	Legia Warszawa
Defender	Marcin Baszczyński	Wisła Kraków
	Cléber	Wisła Kraków
	Manuel Arboleda	Zagłębie Lubin
	Dariusz Dudka	Wisła Kraków
Midfield	Marcin Zając	Lech Poznań
	Roger	Legia Warszawa
	Maciej Iwański	Zagłębie Lubin
	Marek Zieńczuk	Wisła Kraków
Forward	Paweł Brożek	Wisła Kraków
	Takesure Chinyama	Legia Warszawa

Runners Up:

Position	PLayer	Team
Goalkeeper	Mariusz Pawełek	Wisła Kraków
Defender	Grzegorz Bartczak	Zagłębie Lubin
	Dickson Choto	Legia Warszawa
	Inaki Astiz	Legia Warszawa
	Tomasz Kiełbowicz	Legia Warszawa
Midfield	Wojciech Łobodziński	Zagłębie Lubin
	Radosław Majewski	Groclin
	Rafał Murawski	Lech Poznań
	Edson	Legia Warszawa
Forward	Edi	Korona Kielce
	Adrian Sikora	Groclin

References

1. ^ This team was relegated to lower division by taking part in corruption scandal.
2. ^ This team was relegated to lower league by taking part in corruption scandal.
3. ^ This team was relegated to second league by taking part in corruption scandal.

See also

• Liga Site