From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Apr 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Piast can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Apr 2030
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Wiktor Kamiński will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Piast the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Apr 2030
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Sergio Lozano wants continental football; whether Jagiellonia can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Mar 2030
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 2 goals in 2 appearances for Jagiellonia.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2030
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Legia
Jan Bienduga was marked 6.00 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Mar 2030
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Korona, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Mar 2030
Jakub Myszor has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gornik Leczna they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Mar 2030
The deal that would have taken Alejo Cruz to Slask has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Legia with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2030
Nobody made more than František Plach this month
2 assists, 6.47, and a Ruch player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Mar 2030
Cracovia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lech did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2030
Highest marks in the league belong to a Piast man
Dominik Holec averaged 8.90 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2030
2 goals in 2 appearances for Wisla Krakow leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2030
2 in 2 for Wisla Krakow. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2030
Timotej Jambor up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Slask — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2030
2 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Feb 2030
Terry Yegbe tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 4 appearances for Lech.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2030
Marked 8.50 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Lech have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2030
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Cracovia
Kevin Courtois was marked 6.67 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Feb 2030
Juan Alano hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Korona can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2030
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2030
6 assists, 8.61, and a Lech player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2030
Highest marks in the league belong to a Lech man
Allahyar Sayyadmanesh averaged 8.61 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Feb 2030
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Slobodan Rubežić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Korona the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Feb 2030
Sergio Lozano wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Jagiellonia hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2030
3 in 4 for Lech. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2030
3 goals in 4 appearances for Zaglebie, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2030
Beno Selan up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Cracovia — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jan 2030
The month closes with Pablo Rodríguez out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and Lech have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2030
Marked 8.63 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Lech have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2030
Jarosław Czerwik is the month's best young player — 6.88
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.88 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Podbeskidzie player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Jan 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gornik Zabrze can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2030
Pedro López leads the division for assists — 7.13
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Jagiellonia player marked 7.13, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Jan 2030
Jorge Félix has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Piast they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2030
Highest marks in the league belong to a Lech man
Pablo Rodríguez averaged 8.63 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Jan 2030
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Lech hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market1 Jan 2030
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2030
Akor Adams up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Legia — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2030
José Pozo keeps the pressure on
3 goals in 4 appearances for Pogon leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2030
3 goals in 4 appearances for Zaglebie leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2029
The month closes with Allahyar Sayyadmanesh out in front — 7 goals in 3 games, and Lech have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2029
Marked 9.02 across it, 7 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Lech have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2029
Bruno Durdov is the month's best young player — 7.74
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.74 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Wisla Krakow player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Dec 2029
Nathan puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gornik Zabrze, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Dec 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ruch is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2029
Michał Rakoczy leads the division for assists — 8.52
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Gornik Zabrze player marked 8.52, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2029
Highest marks in the league belong to a Lech man
Allahyar Sayyadmanesh averaged 9.02 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Dec 2029
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market1 Dec 2029
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2029
3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2029
Amin Younes up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Gornik Zabrze — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2029
3 in 4 for Legia. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2029
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 3 appearances for Piast.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2029
Pablo Rodríguez is the division's player of the month — 7.89
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Lech man on 7.89 with 4 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2029
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Jagiellonia
Jakub Pira was marked 7.12 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Nov 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Korona can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2029
Nobody made more than Tomasz Loska this month
4 assists, 6.99, and a Gornik Zabrze player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Nov 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gornik Leczna they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2029
Highest marks in the league belong to a Cracovia man
Beno Selan averaged 8.32 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Nov 2029
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market1 Nov 2029
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2029
3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2029
2 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2029
3 in 4 for Lech. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
The month closes with Peter Federico out in front — 4 goals in 5 games, and Legia have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
Peter Federico is the division's player of the month — 8.14
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Legia man on 8.14 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
Bruno Durdov is the month's best young player — 7.11
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.11 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Wisla Krakow player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Oct 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
Nobody made more than Domen Gril this month
4 assists, 6.40, and a Legia player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Oct 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lechia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
Peter Federico is the division's best-marked player — 8.14
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.14 across 5 matches for Legia.
Market1 Oct 2029
The Piast deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Michał Litwa reports back to Gornik Leczna with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market1 Oct 2029
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2029
4 in 5 for Zaglebie. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
The month closes with Michalis Kosidis out in front — 4 goals in 3 games, and Zaglebie have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
Marked 8.42 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Zaglebie have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
Jakub Pira is the month's best young player — 7.26
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.26 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Jagiellonia player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Sep 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Legia can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
Valentin Cojocaru leads the division for assists — 6.92
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a Pogon player marked 6.92, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Sep 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tomasz Neugebauer will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lechia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Sep 2029
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Kashiwa Reysol moved on, Gabriel Charpentier reports back to Legia, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market1 Sep 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
Mihael Mlinarić is the division's best-marked player — 8.42
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.42 across 3 matches for Zaglebie.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
Lirim Qamili up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Ruch — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
3 goals in 3 appearances for Lech leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2029
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
The month closes with Tamar Svetlin out in front — 4 goals in 2 games, and Korona have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Jakub Pira is the month's best young player — 8.04
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.04 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Jagiellonia player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Aug 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Aug 2029
Only the photograph left for Lirim Qamili
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lirim Qamili will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ruch the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Aug 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Nobody made more than Yusuke Matsuo this month
4 assists, 8.48, and a Korona player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Tamar Svetlin is the division's best-marked player — 9.36
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 9.36 across 2 matches for Korona.
Market1 Aug 2029
Peter Federico wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Legia hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
A productive month at Korona — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
3 goals in 2 appearances for Ruch, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Beno Selan up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Cracovia — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2029
Jakub Pira up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Jagiellonia — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jul 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Jul 2029
Lech come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cracovia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Jul 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Korona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jun 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ruch, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jun 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gornik Leczna is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Jun 2029
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Lech hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 May 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gornik Leczna can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 May 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bartosz Śpiączka will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gornik Leczna the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 May 2029
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.