2016–17 I liga

The 2016–17 I liga (currently named Nice I liga due to sponsorship reasons)^[5] was the 9th season of the Polish I liga under its current title, and the 69th season of the second highest division in the Polish football league system since its establishment in 1949. The league is operated by the Polish Football Association (PZPN). The league is contested by 18 teams. The regular season was played in a round-robin tournament. The season began on 29 July 2016, and concluded on 4 June 2017. After the 19th matchday the league will be on winter break between 28 November 2016 and 2 March 2017.^[6]

I liga

Season	2016–17
Dates	29 July 2016 – 4 June 2017
Champions	Sandecja Nowy Sącz
Promoted	Sandecja Nowy Sącz Górnik Zabrze
Relegated	Wisła Puławy Znicz Pruszków MKS Kluczbork
Matches played	306
Goals scored	799 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer	Igor Angulo (17 goals)
Biggest home win	Wigry 6–0 Stal (28 August 2016)
Biggest away win	Wisła 1–5 Miedź (8 październik 2016) Pogoń 0–4 Miedź (5 November 2016) Kluczbork 0–4 Zagłębie (8 April 2017) Stomil 0–4 Stal (15 April 2017)
Highest scoring	Chojniczanka 5–4 Stomil (6 August 2016) Podbeskidzie 4–5 Zagłębie (16 September 2016) Znicz 4–5 Wigry (25 November 2016)
Longest winning run	8 matches Sandecja
Longest unbeaten run	18 matches Chojniczanka
Longest winless run	14 matches Kluczbork
Longest losing run	6 matches Tychy
Highest attendance	20,987[1] Górnik 1–0 Katowice (16 May 2017)
Lowest attendance	250[2] Znicz 1–3 Sandecja (21 October 2016)
Total attendance	790,237[3]
Average attendance	2,583 52.1%[4]
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

According to the competition rules, all clubs are required to field at least one youth player (born in 1996 or later and Polish or trained in Poland) in every game (except for the times when the only youth player on the roster is sent off or unable to continue playing).^[7]

Changes from last season

The following teams have changed division since the 2015–16 season.

To I liga Relegated from Ekstraklasa Górnik Zabrze Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała Promoted from II liga Stal Mielec Znicz Pruszków GKS Tychy Wisła Puławy

From I liga Promoted to Ekstraklasa Arka Gdynia Wisła Płock Relegated to II liga GKS Bełchatów Rozwój Katowice Dissolved Zawisza Bydgoszcz Withdrew Dolcan Ząbki

Team overview

Bytów

Chojnice

Głogów

Katowice

Tychy

Zabrze

Legnica

Kluczbork

Grudziądz

Bielsko-Biała

Siedlce

Nowy Sącz

Mielec

Olsztyn

Suwałki

Puławy

Sosnowiec

Pruszków

Location of teams and stadiums in 2016–17 I liga

GKS Tychy

Zagłębie Sosnowiec

Górnik Zabrze

GKS Katowice

Location of teams in the Katowice urban area in 2022-23 I liga.

Stadiums and locations

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Bytovia Bytów	Stadion MOSiR	1,500
Chojniczanka Chojnice	Stadion Miejski Chojniczanka 1930	3,000
Chrobry Głogów	Stadion GOS	2,817
GKS Katowice	Stadion GKS Katowice	6,710
GKS Tychy	Stadion Tychy	15,300
Górnik Zabrze	Ernest Pohl Stadium	24,4131
Miedź Legnica	Stadion Orła Białego	6,244
MKS Kluczbork	Stadion Miejski	2,776
Olimpia Grudziądz	Stadion im. Bronisława Malinowskiego	5,000
Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała	Stadion BBOSiR	15,316
Pogoń Siedlce	Stadion ROSRRiT	2,901
Sandecja Nowy Sącz	Stadion im. Ojca Władysława Augustynka	2,850
Stal Mielec	Stadion MOSiR	6,800
Stomil Olsztyn	OSiR Stadium	3,500
Wigry Suwałki	Stadion OSiR	3,060
Wisła Puławy	Stadion MOSiR	4,418
Zagłębie Sosnowiec	Stadium Ludowy	7,500
Znicz Pruszków	Stadion MZOS Znicz	1,977

1. ^ Upgrading to 31,871.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or Relegation
1	Sandecja Nowy Sącz (C, P)	34	18	7	9	50	29	+21	61	Promotion to Ekstraklasa
2	Górnik Zabrze (P)	34	17	7	10	53	34	+19	58
3	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	34	16	9	9	53	44	+9	57[a]
4	Miedź Legnica	34	16	9	9	49	27	+22	57[a]
5	Chojniczanka Chojnice	34	13	17	4	54	48	+6	56[b]
6	Olimpia Grudziądz	34	17	5	12	48	35	+13	56[b]
7	GKS Katowice	34	15	9	10	47	32	+15	54
8	Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała	34	14	11	9	40	39	+1	53
9	Wigry Suwałki	34	15	7	12	51	45	+6	52
10	Stal Mielec	34	12	9	13	39	42	−3	45
11	Pogoń Siedlce	34	13	5	16	34	46	−12	44
12	Chrobry Głogów	34	12	7	15	50	50	0	43
13	Stomil Olsztyn[c]	34	9	13	12	48	50	−2	37[d]
14	GKS Tychy	34	10	7	17	42	52	−10	37[d]
15	Bytovia Bytów (O)	34	8	11	15	38	47	−9	35	Qualification to play-off
16	Wisła Puławy (R)	34	7	12	15	33	49	−16	33	Relegation to II liga
17	Znicz Pruszków (R)	34	8	6	20	35	64	−29	30
18	MKS Kluczbork (R)	34	4	13	17	35	66	−31	25

Source: 90minut.pl
Rules for classification: 1. points won; 2. points in head-to-head matches; 3. goal difference in hth matches; 4. goals scored in hth matches; 5. away goals in hth matches (only if two teams are tied); 6. total goal difference; 7. total goals scored; 8. fairplay ranking.^[9]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Head-to-head record: Zagłębie 1–0 Miedź, Miedź 2–1 Zagłębie.
2. Head-to-head record: Chojniczanka 3–1 Olimpia, Olimpia 0–1 Chojniczanka .
3. Stomil Olsztyn were punished with a deduction of three points for failing with licensing requirements.^[8]
4. Head-to-head record: Stomil 4–0 Tychy. Tychy 2–2 Stomil.

Positions by round

Team / Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Sandecja	8	10	6	7	5	3	3	4	2	4	5	5	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Górnik	14	13	17	11	14	15	14	10	11	11	10	8	6	6	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	8	9	8	8	8	9	9	9	6	4	2	2
Zagłębie	6	4	5	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	5	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	2	2	4	3
Miedź	3	5	7	10	10	12	10	7	7	8	8	7	10	10	7	4	7	6	5	6	6	5	6	7	7	6	5	7	8	6	8	6	5	4
Chojniczanka	6	3	4	5	4	4	5	5	4	2	2	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	3	2	3	4	7	3	5	3	5
Olimpia	17	17	18	13	12	9	12	15	16	13	15	13	11	13	12	15	12	10	9	7	9	8	5	4	6	5	3	5	5	2	5	3	7	6
Katowice	14	7	8	9	8	6	4	3	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	6	4	3	3	4	7	6	7
Podbeskidzie	1	1	1	2	2	5	7	6	6	7	9	10	9	9	10	9	10	12	10	10	10	10	11	11	10	9	9	8	7	8	9	8	8	8
Wigry	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	5	6	6	8	8	8	11	9	7	7	5	4	6	7	6	5	7	7	6	6	5	7	9	9	9
Stal	8	10	11	14	15	16	17	17	18	18	18	16	16	16	15	13	14	14	14	14	11	12	10	10	11	11	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	10
Pogoń	3	8	13	15	17	17	15	11	8	10	7	9	7	7	5	6	5	5	6	9	7	9	9	8	9	10	11	10	10	11	11	11	12	11
Chrobry	18	18	16	18	16	14	13	13	13	12	13	11	12	14	13	12	13	11	12	12	13	15	13	13	13	12	13	12	12	12	13	12	11	12
Stomil	12	15	14	16	13	8	8	12	12	9	12	12	13	12	11	7	11	13	13	13	12	11	12	12	12	13	12	13	13	13	12	13	13	13
Tychy	14	13	9	8	9	11	6	8	10	14	11	14	15	15	16	17	16	17	15	16	15	16	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Bytovia	2	9	12	6	7	10	11	9	9	6	4	4	4	5	6	10	6	9	11	11	14	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	17	16	16	15	15
Wisła	8	6	3	4	6	7	9	14	14	15	14	15	14	11	14	14	15	15	16	15	16	13	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16
Znicz	13	16	15	17	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	18	18	17	16	17	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	17	17	17	17
Kluczbork	8	12	10	11	11	13	16	16	15	16	16	18	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Results

Home \ Away	BYT	CCH	GŁO	KAT	TYC	GÓR	MLE	KLU	GRU	PBB	PSI	SNS	STA	STO	WIG	WPU	ZSO	ZNI
Bytovia Bytów		0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–3	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–1
Chojniczanka Chojnice	1–1		2–2	2–2	1–4	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	5–4	3–2	3–3	2–2	1–1
Chrobry Głogów	3–3	1–3		0–2	2–2	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–3	0–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–1
GKS Katowice	1–1	1–1	2–1		3–0	1–1	0–2	2–3	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–0
GKS Tychy	1–0	0–2	0–2	1–0		2–1	0–2	4–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–4	2–2	2–1	2–0	3–0	4–1
Górnik Zabrze	0–0	6–1	2–1	1–0	1–0		0–2	4–2	2–1	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	4–0	1–2	0–1
Miedź Legnica	2–1	2–0	1–2	2–2	3–2	1–0		2–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–0
MKS Kluczbork	2–2	1–1	3–2	0–2	1–1	2–1	2–2		3–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	0–1	1–2	0–0	2–2	0–4	2–2
Olimpia Grudziądz	2–3	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–0		0–2	1–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–0
Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała	2–1	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–2	3–3	2–1	3–1	0–3		0–0	2–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	4–5	2–0
Pogoń Siedlce	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–4	1–1	1–4	3–0		0–3	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–2	1–0
Sandecja Nowy Sącz	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	4–1	3–1	0–0	4–0		1–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	5–0	5–2
Stal Mielec	2–2	0–1	1–4	3–3	3–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–0		0–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	3–1
Stomil Olsztyn	3–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	4–0	2–4	0–1	1–0	1–3	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–4		1–4	3–2	0–0	5–1
Wigry Suwałki	3–2	2–3	2–2	3–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–2	2–0	1–4	0–1	6–0	2–1		3–2	0–3	2–1
Wisła Puławy	2–1	0–0	3–4	0–3	2–1	0–1	1–5	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–1		1–1	1–2
Zagłębie Sosnowiec	3–3	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	4–0	3–5	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–1		0–3
Znicz Pruszków	1–2	3–3	0–0	1–4	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–0	0–3	4–5	0–3	1–4

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

I liga play-off

The 15th place team from the regular season will compete in a play-off with the 4th place team from II liga. Matches will be played on 11 and 18 June 2017.^[10] The winner will compete in the 2017–18 I liga season.^[9]

11 June 2017

17:00

Bytovia Bytów	4–0	Radomiak Radom
González 11' Klichowicz 33' Surdykowski 44', 68'	Report

MOSiR Stadium, Bytów

Attendance: 1,150

Referee: Piotr Lasyk (Bytom)

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18 June 2017

16:00

Radomiak Radom	0–2	Bytovia Bytów
	Report	Rzuchowski 51', 75'

Stadion Miejski, Radom

Attendance: 2,655

Referee: Paweł Pskit (Łódź)

Bytovia won 6–0 on aggregate and stayed in I liga for next season.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[11]
1	Igor Angulo	Górnik Zabrze	17
2	Jakub Świerczok	GKS Tychy	16
3	Karol Angielski	Olimpia Grudziądz	14
	Damian Kądzior	Wigry Suwałki
5	Petteri Forsell	Miedź Legnica	13
6	Kamil Zapolnik	Wigry Suwałki	12
7	Sylwester Patejuk	Wisła Puławy	11
	Martin Pribula	Zagłębie Sosnowiec
9	Adrian Paluchowski	Znicz Pruszków	10
	Paweł Zawistowski	Chojniczanka Chojnice

Awards

Annual awards

Award	Winner	Club	Ref.
Goalkeeper of the Season	Tomasz Loska	Górnik Zabrze	[12]
Left-back of the Season	Jarosław Ratajczak	Stomil Olsztyn
Centre-back of the Season	Lukas Klemenz	Olimpia Grudziądz
Right-back of the Season	Jacek Podgórski	Chojniczanka Chojnice
Left Midfielder of the Season	Sylwester Patejuk	Wisła Puławy
Central Midfielder of the Season	Szymon Matuszek	Górnik Zabrze
Right Midfielder of the Season	Łukasz Wolsztyński	Górnik Zabrze
Forward of the Season	Andrzej Rybski	Chojniczanka Chojnice
Player of the Season	Lukas Klemenz	Olimpia Grudziądz

Team of the season

Pos.	Player	Club	Ref.
GK	Tomasz Loska	Górnik Zabrze	[12]
DF	Jarosław Ratajczak	Stomil Olsztyn
	Mateusz Wieteska	Chrobry Głogów
	Lukas Klemenz	Olimpia Grudziądz
	Jacek Podgórski	Chojniczanka Chojnice
MF	Sylwester Patejuk	Wisła Puławy
	Wojciech Trochim	Sandecja Nowy Sącz
	Szymon Matuszek	Górnik Zabrze
	Łukasz Wolsztyński	Górnik Zabrze
FW	Igor Angulo	Górnik Zabrze
	Andrzej Rybski	Chojniczanka Chojnice

See also

• 2016–17 Ekstraklasa