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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cracovia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Cracovia that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brahim Traoré is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dominik Baumgartner was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Cracovia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pau Sans is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match3 Oct 2026
Legia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateusz Klich, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Upbeat
Match28 Sep 2026
Cracovia up to position 2
18 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Cracovia
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cracovia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.87 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ruch made Cracovia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Boško Šutalo, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Gabriel Charpentier's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A brace, and Gabriel Charpentier takes the afternoon — 8.58
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gabriel Charpentier provided it, and the 8.58 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Cracovia
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dominik Baumgartner was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Cracovia, 2‑0 the final word against Gornik Leczna in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Minchev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Gornik Leczna to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cracovia and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
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A defender's afternoon for Otar Kakabadze
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Lechia 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Cracovia
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cracovia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Pau Sans falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.11 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Cracovia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dominik Baumgartner was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Cracovia did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Pau Sans
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 7.96. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Upbeat
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Cracovia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cracovia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Cracovia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shots: 12. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Dominik Baumgartner's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mateusz Klich dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Henrich Ravas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cracovia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Cracovia?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Lechia? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Karol Knap obliged against Ruch. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Cracovia.
Match22 Aug 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Ajdin Hasić takes the afternoon — 9.11
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ajdin Hasić provided it, and the 9.11 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.40, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cracovia can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
Cracovia cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dominik Baumgartner was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ajdin Hasić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.98 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cracovia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
Lech made Cracovia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ajdin Hasić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.35. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Thiago Souza falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market17 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Maciej Klich has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Cracovia.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters make their feelings known about Gabriel Charpentier
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Cracovia would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
Cracovia say no — this time
The offer from Slask for Dijon Kameri was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Cracovia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dijon Kameri and Cracovia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cracovia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Cracovia supporters have found a favourite in Pau Sans
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Pau Sans has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for Cracovia, 2‑0 the final word against Pogon in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Minchev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.55, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dominik Baumgartner commits to Cracovia for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dominik Baumgartner was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ajdin Hasić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateusz Klich, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Mirosław Tabor has come up in conversations Cracovia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Otar Kakabadze’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Mateusz Praszelik has his answer from Cracovia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.