2006–07 Ekstraklasa

The 2006–07 Ekstraklasa (also known as Orange Ekstraklasa due to its sponsorship by Orange Polska) started on 28 July 2006 and finished on 26 May 2007. Zagłębie Lubin were crowned champions.

Ekstraklasa

Season	2006–07
Champions	Zagłębie Lubin (2nd title)
Relegated	Wisła Płock Pogoń Szczecin Arka Gdynia Górnik Łęczna
Champions League	Zagłębie Lubin (2nd qualifying round)
UEFA Cup	GKS Bełchatów (1st qualifying round) Dyskobolia (1st qualifying round)
Intertoto Cup	Legia Warsaw (1st round)
Matches played	240
Goals scored	621 (2.59 per match)
Top goalscorer	Piotr Reiss (15 goals)
Highest attendance	26,000[1] Lech 3–1 Legia (19 May 2007)
Total attendance	1,609,680
Average attendance	6,707 21.5%[2]
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

For the second time league was sponsored by cell phone operator Orange Polska and official name for championship was Orange Ekstraklasa 2006–07.

Corruption

On 12 April 2007 PZPN decided about degradation of Górnik Łęczna (two class degradation and 270,000 PLN fine) and Arka Gdynia (one class degradation and 200,000 PLN fine and minus 5 points on the start of next season) due to their involvement in corruption scandal.^[3]

Clubs

Wisła K.

Legia

Dyskobolia

Lech

Zagłębie

Korona

Cracovia

Górnik Z.

Bełchatów

Arka

ŁKS

Odra

Górnik Ł.

Wisła P.

Widzew

Pogoń

Location of teams in Ekstraklasa 2006–07

16 clubs competed in the 2006–07 season:

• Teams that finished 1–13 in 2005–06 Ekstraklasa. In alphabetical order:
  • Cracovia
  • Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski
  • GKS Bełchatów
  • Górnik Łęczna
  • Górnik Zabrze
  • Korona Kielce
  • Lech Poznań
  • Legia Warszawa
  • Odra Wodzisław Śląski
  • Pogoń Szczecin
  • Wisła Kraków
  • Wisła Płock
  • Zagłębie Lubin
• Three teams promoted from Polish Second League. In alphabetical order:
  • Arka Gdynia (3rd place, won playoffs)
  • ŁKS Łódź
  • Widzew Łódź

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Zagłębie Lubin (C)	30	18	8	4	57	29	+28	62	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	GKS Bełchatów	30	19	4	7	63	32	+31	61	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Legia Warsaw	30	16	4	10	53	33	+20	52	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
4	Cracovia	30	14	7	9	48	41	+7	49
5	Dyskobolia[a]	30	11	15	4	40	26	+14	48	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
6	Lech Poznań	30	12	11	7	53	36	+17	47
7	Korona Kielce	30	14	5	11	41	34	+7	47[b]
8	Wisła Kraków	30	10	16	4	41	25	+16	46[b]
9	ŁKS Łódź	30	10	11	9	31	30	+1	41
10	Odra Wodzisław	30	10	10	10	29	36	−7	40
11	Arka Gdynia[c] (R)	30	10	10	10	43	39	+4	40	Relegation to II liga
12	Widzew Łódź	30	7	7	16	27	48	−21	28
13	Górnik Łęczna[d] (R)	30	7	5	18	24	64	−40	26	Relegation to III liga
14	Górnik Zabrze	30	6	7	17	30	51	−21	25
15	Wisła Płock (R)	30	4	11	15	20	47	−27	23	Relegation to II liga
16	Pogoń Szczecin[e] (R)	30	3	7	20	24	53	−29	16	Relegation to IV liga

Source: 90minut.pl (in Polish)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Dyskobolia Grodzisk won Puchar Polski, therefore giving them the second UEFA Cup spot.
2. KOR 4 pts, 1-1-0, 5-2; WIS 1 pts, 0-1-1, 2-5
3. Arka Gdynia was relegated to 2nd division due to a corruption scandal
4. Górnik Łęczna was dissolved after the season and started playing in the new fourth league.
5. Pogoń Szczecin was relegated to 4th division

Results

Home \ Away	ARK	CRA	BEŁ	GKŁ	GÓR	DSK	KOR	LPO	LEG	ŁKS	ODR	POG	WID	WIS	WPK	ZLU
Arka Gdynia		4–2	1–3	5–1	3–0	2–4	0–3	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	4–1	3–0
Cracovia	1–1		2–1	5–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–4
GKS Bełchatów	2–2	2–1		6–0	3–1	1–0	3–2	0–0	3–1	1–2	5–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	3–1
Górnik Łęczna	1–0	1–0	1–3		0–2	1–3	1–3	0–3	1–2	0–1	2–0	3–2	1–5	1–1	0–0	2–1
Górnik Zabrze	2–0	1–5	0–4	2–0		2–3	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–3	0–3	0–4	2–0	0–3
Dyskobolia	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0		1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–0
Korona Kielce	1–0	1–2	5–3	2–0	4–2	2–0		2–2	3–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–2
Lech Poznań	1–1	3–4	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	3–0		3–1	4–0	0–0	3–0	6–1	3–3	3–2	0–2
Legia Warsaw	3–0	3–1	1–2	5–0	3–2	0–1	3–0	3–2		2–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	5–0	1–2
ŁKS Łódź	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–1		1–1	4–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–2
Odra Wodzisław	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–2		2–2	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–0
Pogoń Szczecin	0–0	0–2	0–2	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–1	0–1	1–3		0–1	1–1	1–2	1–3
Widzew Łódź	1–1	1–3	0–3	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–1	3–2	0–1	2–1	1–2	0–1		0–0	0–0	0–2
Wisła Kraków	2–2	3–0	2–4	2–1	1–0	0–4	2–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	6–0	0–0	2–0		2–0	0–0
Wisła Płock	1–0	0–2	0–4	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–0		0–2
Zagłębie Lubin	6–0	4–3	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	6–2	4–2	0–0	2–1

Source: 90minut.pl (in Polish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[4]
1	Piotr Reiss	Lech Poznań	15
2	Michał Chałbiński	Zagłębie Lubin	12
	Adrian Sikora	Dyskobolia Grodzisk	12
4	Łukasz Piszczek	Zagłębie Lubin	11
5	Tomasz Moskała	Cracovia	10
	Piotr Włodarczyk	Legia Warsaw	10
	Zbigniew Zakrzewski	Lech Poznań	10
8	Janusz Dziedzic	Arka Gdynia	9
	Radosław Matusiak	GKS Bełchatów	9
	Mariusz Ujek	GKS Bełchatów	9

Annual awards

These were given out by the weekly magazine Piłka Nożna

Coach of the Year

Orest Lenczyk (GKS Bełchatów)

Discovery of the Year

Radosław Matusiak (GKS Bełchatów)

League player of the year

Piotr Reiss (Lech Poznań)

Best Foreign Players

• 2006:

Goalkeeper: Emilian Dolha (Wisła Kraków)

Defender (football): Edson (Legia Warszawa), Cléber (Wisła Kraków), Dickson Choto (Legia Warszawa), Veselin Đoković (Korona Kielce)

Midfielder: Roger Guerreiro (Legia Warszawa), Henry Quinteros (Lech Poznań), Hermes (Korona Kielce), Miroslav Radović (Legia Warszawa)

Striker: Ensar Arifović (ŁKS), Edi Andradina (Pogoń).

Piłka Nożna's Ekstraklasa All star team

Goalkeeper: Emilian Dolha(Wisła Kraków), Micahl Vaclavik (Zagłębie Lubin)

Right Defender: Paweł Golański(Korona Kielce), Grzegorz Bartczak(Zagłębie Lubin)

Center Defender: Dickson Choto(Legia Warszawa), Dariusz Pietrasiak(GKS Bełchatów), Cléber Guedes de Lima (Wisła Kraków), Michał Stasiak(Zagłębie Lubin)

Left Defender: Manuel Arboleda(Zagłębie Lubin), Grzegorz Bronowicki(Legia Warszawa)

Right Midfield: Jakub Błaszczykowski(Wisła Kraków), Miroslav Radović(Legia Warszawa)

CenterMidfield: Maciej Iwański(Zagłębie Lubin), Tomasz Jarzębowski(GKS Bełchatów), Rafał Murawski(Lech Poznań), Dariusz Dudka(Wisła Kraków)

Left Midfield: Łukasz Garguła(GKS Bełchatów), Roger Guerreiro(Legia Warszawa)

Striker: Piotr Reiss(Lech Poznań), Adrian Sikora(Dyskobolia Grodzisk), Michał Chałbiński(Zagłębie Lubin), Łukasz Piszczek(Zagłębie Lubin).