#QUALIFYING ROUND

At 12 p.m. in Swiss Nyon Champions League play-off round draw took place. In the fourth qualifying round Legia Warsaw will play matches against Irish Dundalk Football Club. The first game will be played on 16th or 17th August in Ireland at Dublin Arena (Aviva Stadium) and the return game a week later at Łazienkowska.

In the third qualifying round (UEFA Champions League) Legia Warsaw will play matches against Slovak AS Trenčín, which won the promotion on away goals. In the second qualifying round AS Trenčín won 4-3 the first game against Slovenian NK Olimpija in Ljubljana.

Legia won 1-0 with Albanian FK Kukësi in the second leg of the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. The only goal was struck at the beginning of the second half by Michał Kucharczyk. Bartosz Bereszyński passed the ball to Ondrej Duda, who ran into the penalty area and put the football back to Kucharczyk, who eventually defeated Albanian goalkeeper with a low shot.

In the third qualifying round (UEFA Europa League) Legia Warsaw was playing the first leg against Albanian FK Kukësi in Tirana on Thursday evening. While Warsaw footballers were leading 2-1, the referee had to suspend the match. Everything due to the situation that happened on the pitch. One of FK Kukësi’s supporters threw something (probably a stone) from the stands towards the field. The object hit Ondrej Duda’s head, who got hurt.

In the second leg of the second qualifying round (UEFA Europa League) Legia defeated 3-0 Botoșani in Romania on Thursday evening and won the promotion to the third qualifying round of the tournament.

Due to Legia’s exclusion from the UEFA Champions League, Warsaw team still has a chance to play in the European games. In the UEFA Europa League fourth qualifying round draw that took place in Swiss Nyon on Friday afternoon, Legia came up against Kazakh FC Aktobe.

Due to the fact that Legia’s suspended player Bartosz Bereszyński (he received a red card during one of the matches of the UEFA Europa League in the season 2013/2014 and was suspended for the next three games) appeared on the pitch for the last three minutes in the second leg game of the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round against Celtic Glasgow in Edinburgh on Wednesday, the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body decided to change the 2-0 Legia’s victory in Scotland into 3-0 walkover for Celtic Glasgow. This means that the final result is 4-4 on aggregate and this is Celtic Glasgow which gets through to the fourth qualifying round on away goals.

In the second leg of the third qualifying round (UEFA Champions League) Legia Warsaw defeated 2-0 Celtic Glasgow in Edinburgh on Wednesday evening. Totally, the club from the capital of Poland won 6-1 on aggregate. In the first leg Legia outclassed 4-1 Celtic in Warsaw.

Legia Warsaw defeated 4-1 Celtic Football Club in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round on Wednesday evening. We encourage you to watch highlights from this game commented by Jacek Laskowski and Tomasz Sokołowski.

After an unbelievable and simultaneously tremendous evening Legia’s players thrashed 4-1 Celtic’s footballers in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round (first leg) at Łazienkowska on Wednesday. Moreover, the club from the capital of Poland could have won at least 6-1 but its captain Ivica Vrdoljak missed two penalties!

In the second leg of the second qualifying round (Champions League) Legia’s players demolished 5-0 Irish team Saint Patrick’s Athletic FC at Shamrock’s Tallaght Stadium on Wednesday evening and won the promotion to the third qualifying round.

If Legia Warsaw qualifies to the third round of the UEFA Champions League, it’ll play against either Scottish Celtic Football Club or Icelandic Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur (English: KR Reykjavík). Legia drew 1-1 its first match against Irish Saint Patrick’s Athletic FC in Warsaw, and Celtic won 1-0 away.

In the first leg of the second qualifying round (Champions League) Legia’s footballers disgraced themselves drawing 1-1 with Irish team Saint Patrick’s Athletic FC on Wednesday evening. Away club’s players, who are semi-professional footballers, showed much better attitude on the pitch than Legia. Warsaw team had problems with simplest situations. Nothing went well.

In the second leg of the fourth qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League Legia’s footballers drew 2-2 with FC Steaua’s players at their own stadium on Tuesday evening. Due to Legia’s 1-1 draw in Bucharest a week earlier, these are FC Steaua’s players, who qualified to the group phase of the tournament. The team from Romania won on away goals (3-3 in two-legged tie).

In the first leg of the fourth qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League Legia Warsaw drew 1-1 with FC Steaua in Bucharest on Wednesday evening. Romanian footballers were prevailing in the first half and only due to Warsaw team’s goalkeeper’s great attitude they only were able to strike one goal.

- Frankly speaking, I didn’t want to play against Steaua. This Romanian club mostly consists of native footballers. They proved with last-season results that they had been demanding rivals. They managed to win the promotion to the 1/8 final of the UEFA Europa League and showed nice football – said Legia’s coach Jan Urban after UEFA Champions League 4th qualifying round draw.

At 11.45 a.m. in Swiss Nyon there was a draw of the Champions League fourth qualifying round. Legia Warsaw plays against Army Sports Club Steaua (Romanian: CSA Steaua București). The first leg takes place in Bucharest on 20th or 21st August and the return match will be played in Warsaw on 27th or 28th August.

Legia managed to defeat 1-0 Welsh The New Saints FC in the second leg of the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday evening and won the promotion to the third qualifying round.

In the first leg of the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League Legia’s footballers managed to defeat 3-1 their Welsh rivals on Wednesday evening. However, the first half of the game wasn’t too optimistic for the Polish team. Legia played poorly then.

Warsaw team’s coach Jan Urban has chosen eighteen players who have a chance to play in the match against Welsh club named The New Saints FC (the first leg of the second qualifying round of the Champions League) on Wednesday evening. Three footballers may debut during the game. These are: Dossa Junior, Helio Pinto and Mateusz Cichocki.

In the second leg of the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round Legia’s footballers defeated 3-1 their rivals from Austria and won the promotion to the final, play-off round. Warsaw players had to make up for the 1-2 defeat which they suffered in Ried im Innkreis a week ago.

In the first leg of the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round Legia Warsaw was defeated 2-1 in Austrian town Ried im Innkreis by footballers of the local team SV. In the first half of the game nothing interesting happened on the pitch. For several minutes Warsaw players seemed to have optical predominance on the field but systematically these were Austrian footballers who started playing better and better. Fairly, first 45 minutes finished with a 0-0 draw.

In the second leg of the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round Legia Warsaw managed to defeat 5-1 their Latvian rivals, FK Liepājas Metalurgs. Marek Saganowski, who has recently returned to Legia after several years, showed his best side scoring three goals! Janusz Gol and Michał Żyro scored single goals. The face-saving goal for Latvians was struck by Vladimirs Kamešs.

Marko Šuler debuted in Legia during its game against FK Liepājas Metalurgs in the second leg of the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round. When this was sure that nothing bad can happen with the result, Jan Urban decided to make a substitution and Šuler replaced Michał Żewłakow in the 80th minute of the match. 29-year-old footballer came to Warsaw from Belgian K.A.A. Gent.

The first leg of the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round between FK Liepājas Metalurgs (Latvia) and Legia Warsaw (Poland) will take place at 6 p.m. local time (4 p.m. British time). Originally, the game should have been played at 9 p.m. local time.

In the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League Legia’s footballers will play against FK Liepājas Metalurgs (Latvian: Futbola klubs "Liepājas metalurgs"). The first game takes place in Liepāja on 19th July 2012 at 9 p.m. local time (7 p.m. British time).

Warsaw footballers managed to defeat 1-0 Turkish Gaziantepspor in the first leg of the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. The only goal was scored by Miroslav Radović in the 51st minute of the game. There were over 200 supporters from Warsaw who decided to travel to Gaziantep to galvanise their players. We induce you to see two photo reports from the game prepared by Bodziach and GeoS.

In the Congress Hall (Polish: Sala Kongresowa) of Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science (Polish: Pałac Kultury i Nauki) the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying draw took place on Sunday. European teams will play their games at Polish and Ukrainian stadiums. Poland and Ukraine as host teams don’t have to participate in qualifications. You are able to see the qualifying groups of Euro 2012 here below: