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| Full name | Legia II Warszawa SA | ||
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| Nicknames | Wojskowi (The Militarians) Legioniści (The Legionaries) | ||
| Ground | Legia Training Center[1] | ||
| Capacity | 1,000 | ||
| Chairman | Dariusz Mioduski | ||
| Manager | Filip Raczkowski | ||
| League | III liga, group I | ||
| 2024–25 | III liga, group I, 2nd of 18[2] | ||
| Website | legia | ||
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Legia Warsaw II, in Poland known asLegia II Warszawa,[3] is a Polishfootball team, which serves as thereserve side ofLegia Warsaw. They compete in theIII liga, the fourth division ofPolish football, and play their home matches at theLegia Training Center inKsiążenice.
The team was established in the 1920s. After the World War II, the club resumed its activity. In 1952, the club surprisingly reached the final of thePolish Cup, previously eliminatingLechia Zielona Góra II (6–2),Naprzód Lipiny (2–1),ŁKS Łódź (7–1),Górnik Zabrze (2–1),Ruch Chorzów (2–1) andWisła Kraków (0–0, 1–0). In the final Legia II lost 0–1 toPolonia Warsaw.[4]
At the beginning of the 21st century, Legia Warsaw II played between theIII andIV liga. After the 2006–07 season, the reserve team was withdrawn from the league,[5] giving way to theMłoda Ekstraklasa team, which had its own separate competition.[6] In 2013, after the elimination of this competition, Legia II returned toIII liga.[6]
Despite the existence of the Młoda Ekstraklasa, Legia's reserves continued to compete in the Polish Cup at the regional level. In the 2007–08 season, Legia II reached the final of these games, losing 0–1 toHutnik Warsaw.[7] However, thanks to the participation in the finals, the reserve team got the right to start in the competition at the central level in the next season, where it ended its adventure in the first round.[8] In the 2011/2012 season, the reserves of the Warsaw club won the Polish Cup at the provincial level, defeatingBroń Radom 2–1 in the final.[9] In the next season, they started again in the central level competitions, also reaching the first round.[10]
In the 2019–20 season, Legia II reached the 1/8 finals of thePolish Cup (previously eliminating higher-ranked teams ofWigry Suwałki andOdra Opole), where they were defeated byPiast Gliwice (0–2).[11] All the games were held at theZąbki City Stadium (then the home for Legia II games).[11]
On 15 June 2022, Legia II defeatedLegionovia Legionowo 1–0 and won the Mazovian Polish Cup, thus qualifying for the central tier of the cup in the 2022–23 season.[12] On 30 August 2022, it lost in a home first round match againstWisła Kraków 0–5 and dropped out of the competition.[13] In the 2022–23 season, Legia II successfully defended the Polish Cup at the Mazovian level, winning 3–0 againstPogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki in the final.[14] In the first round of the central level competition of the 2023/2024 campaign, on 27 September 2023, it unexpectedly eliminated Ekstraklasa clubRuch Chorzów. In the next round, after overtime, it suffered a loss to another representative of Poland's top league,Korona Kielce, effectively dropping out of the competition in the 1/16 finals.[15]
Legia II play their games at theLegia Training Center inKsiążenice,Grodzisk Mazowiecki Commune,Masovian Voivodeship.[16] In 2020 they played their home games at theGrodzisk Mazowiecki City Stadium, and in 2016–2020 at theZąbki City Stadium.[17]
Players who have been capped in their national teams
Paweł Golański[29]Bartosz Kapustka[30]Michał Karbownik[31]Robert Lewandowski[32]
Dominik Nagy[33]
Ivan Obradović[34]
Hildeberto Pereira[35]
Chris Philipps[36]Sebastian Szymański[37]
Jasurbek Yakhshiboev[38]
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