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Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Piast
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Juande Rivas 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 Piast this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Grzegorz Tomasiewicz. 1‑0 against Zaglebie, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.62, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad14 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Piast have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Piast
Juande Rivas 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
6 unbeaten for Piast
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Piast did not have in the autumn.
Market7 Sep 2026
Cracovia pay $80.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Match5 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Piast
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dominik Holec named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Dominik Holec is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Quentin Boisgard. Piast will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
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Market31 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 Piast can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Piast
Dominik Holec 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 19, and nobody at Piast signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jakub Lewicki 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
The manager makes an example of Domen Gril
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Jagiellonia came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Piast, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market31 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Domen Gril may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ivan Lima runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Piast
A 1‑0 win over Wisla Krakow, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Oskar Leśniak, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81
A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
Jakub Kaduk 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 Piast can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Piast
Jorge Félix 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 21 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Tomasz Mokwa
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Piast man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Jorge Félix was the best thing in any of them.
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Triumph
Market17 Aug 2026
Slask come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Piast did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Jorge Félix, 35, rolls back the years — 7.84
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.84 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Piast
Dominik Holec 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jorge Félix. 1‑0 against Wisla Krakow, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Piast have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Quentin Boisgard for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Piast will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dominik Holec and Piast agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Piast get their man
The chase for Jan Biegański ended with $400.0K changing hands and Pogon out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Piast
Dominik Holec 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Juande Rivas's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ivan Lima
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Quentin Boisgard commits to Piast for another 4 years.
Squad3 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 Piast this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Adrián Dalmau’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Piast.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.72 on the card, and the Piast support went home talking about one name.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dominik Holec asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Piast, another week without a signature from Leandro Sanca.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Piast have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.