Lechia U20

23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process
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The Lechia Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Lechia

A 0‑4 beating by Gornik Zabrze was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

7 saves: Szymon Weirauch was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

An offer of $140.0K for Tristan Andrew

Lechia have gone to Pogon with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Vladislav Blănuţă in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lechia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Lechia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matej Rodin 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.

Transfer targets

Piast tell Lechia: Jakub Czerwiński is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Anton Tsarenko gets it from the manager

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Lechia dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

14 new faces, and Lechia are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

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The Lechia Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Kevin Dodaj, 20, steals the show — 7.65

Marked 7.65 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Vladislav Blănuţă signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladislav Blănuţă commits to Lechia for another 4 years.

Squad

Matej Rodin in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lechia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Lechia and Slask in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

A bad afternoon for Lechia against Slask

2‑4 to Slask, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A move Filip Karbowy would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Filip Karbowy is living that version at Lechia, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Lechia rebuffed over Kauã Elias

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Lechia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Lechia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Gaspar 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mario Gaspar

“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.

In brief

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The Lechia Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Szymon Weirauch keeps Lechia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Cracovia come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Lechia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Rifet Kapić signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rifet Kapić and Lechia agree another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Lechia

Vladislav Blănuţă and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Matej Rodin 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.

Transfer targets

Lechia rebuffed over Kajetan Szmyt

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Jagiellonia have kept their man, and Lechia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

Lechia supporters have found a favourite in Szymon Weirauch

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Szymon Weirauch 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.

Match

Lechia see off Lech

Three points for Lechia, 1‑0 the final word against Lech in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

36 months and counting on Rifet Kapić

Still no offer on the table, and Rifet Kapić’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief