2015–16 Polish Cup
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The 2015–16 Polish Cup was the sixty-second season of the annual Polish football knockout tournament. It began on 18 July 2015 with the first matches of the preliminary round and ended on 2 May 2016 with the final at the National Stadium in Warsaw. Winners of the competition qualified for the qualifying tournament of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League.
Puchar Polski | |
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Tournament details | |
Country | Poland |
Venue(s) | National Stadium, Warsaw |
Teams | 68 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Legia Warsaw |
Runner-up | Lech Poznań |
Tournament statistics | |
Top goal scorer(s) | Nemanja Nikolić (6 goals) |
The 2015–16 season brought several changes into the competition format determined by the 2014 reform of II liga (3rd tier), which decreased the number of teams playing in the league from 36 to 18 and the number of teams participating in the Polish Cup from 86 to 68. The tournament had one preliminary round (instead of two in previous seasons), in which also the 6 lowest-ranked I liga (2nd tier) teams entered.
Legia Warsaw successfully defended the Polish Cup champion title, winning the final game 1–0 against Lech Poznań and secured their eighteenth title.