Football: Legia Warsaw win Poland’s Super Cup

Poland’s football heavyweights Legia Warsaw have won the country’s 2023 Super Cup after beating league champions Raków Częstochowa 6-5 on penalties, following a goalless draw over 90 minutes of regular time.

Legia Warsaw players celebrate winning the 2023 Polish football Super Cup, after beating Raków Częstochowa 6-5 on penalties, following a goalles draw over 90 minutes, in Częstochowa, southern Poland, on Saturday, July 15, 2023.

PAP/Waldemar Deska

Defender Maik Nawrocki scored the decisive spot-kick as Legia won their fifth Super Cup in front of 5,500 spectators in the southern city of Czestochowa on Saturday night, news outlets reported.

Victory in penalties shootout! #RCZLEG pic.twitter.com/o00C7hR786

— Legia Warsaw (@LegiaWarsawEN) July 15, 2023

The Super Cup is traditionally contested between the league champions and the holders of the Polish Cup.

In May, Raków were crowned Polish league champions, for the first time in their history, while Legia won the 2023 Polish Cup earlier that month.

Thanks to their victory on Saturday, Legia, the most successful Polish club in history, secured their first Super Cup since 2008, Polish state news agency PAP reported.

Legia celebruje Superpuchar pic.twitter.com/xshhZhMEht

— Samuel Szczygielski (@SamSzczygielski) July 15, 2023

Raków won the trophy in 2021 and 2022, according to officials. 

Saturday’s game was officiated by Poland’s world-renowned referee Szymon Marciniak, while Poland coach Fernando Santos was in attendance, the sportowefakty.wp.pl website reported.  

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Source: PAP,  TVP Sport, sportowefakty.wp.pl