2025–26 Legia Warsaw season

Background

The 2024–25 season was a disappointing one for many Legia Warsaw fans. Despite winning the Polish Cup and reaching the quarterfinals of the Conference League, finishing only 5th in the league was seen as a major failure, as Legia had failed to win the Polish championship for the fourth consecutive season. Poor performance on the pitch led to significant changes at the club. Midway through the previous season, Jacek Zieliński ceased to serve as sporting director; after a few weeks, Michał Żewłakow, who had already held this position from 2015 to 2017, was appointed in his place.^[1] The club also hired Fredi Bobić as Head of Football Operations.^[2]

Despite the disappointing results, the new sporting director had planned to extend the contract of head coach Gonçalo Feio. However, disagreements over the scope of his responsibilities, as well as the situation in the last match against Stal Mielec—in which the coach did not field the talented Mateusz Szczepaniak, thereby preventing his contract from being automatically extended—led to the breakdown of talks, and Feio left the club.^[3] The club also parted ways with scouting director Radosław Mozyrko, whose position was taken over by Piotr Zasada, previously deputy director of the Legia Warsaw Football Academy for scouting, recruitment, and individual development.^[4] The scouting department was also left by Tomasz Kiełbowicz, Piotr Włodarczyk, and Mateusz Mazur.^[5]

Finally, on June 12, Legia's new coach was presented — the former head coach of the Romanian national team, Edward Iordănescu. On June 16, the team departed for a training camp in Austria, where they played two friendly matches: one ended in a draw against Ludogorets Razgrad, and the other was a win against FK Jablonec.

Super Cup victory

Prior to the league and European commitments, Legia secured the 2025 Polish Super Cup on 13 July 2025, defeating Lech Poznań 2–1 at the Enea Stadium in Poznań, thus claiming their sixth Super Cup title.^[6]

European campaign

Following their Polish Super Cup triumph, Legia Warsaw progressed through the early stages of the 2025–26 UEFA Europa League qualifiers with gathered momentum. The club navigated the first qualifying round, achieving a 1–0 victory at home and securing a decisive stoppage-time 1–0 win away against Kazakhstan's FC Aktobe, thus advancing 2–0 on aggregate.^[7] In the second qualifying round, Legia overcame Czech side Baník Ostrava with a 2–1 home win following a 2–2 draw away, progressing 4–3 on aggregate.^[8]

However, in a stunning turn of events during the third qualifying round, Legia suffered a heavy 4–1 defeat in the first leg away to AEK Larnaca, leaving them with a significant deficit to overcome.^[9] Despite mounting a spirited 2–1 home win in the return leg, Legia were eliminated 5–3 on aggregate.^[10]

Coaching staff

More information Position, Name ...

Position	Name
Head coach	Edward Iordănescu
Assistant coaches	Alexandru Radu, Inaki Astiz, Grzegorz Mokry, Daniel Wojtasz
Goalkeeping coaches	Arkadiusz Malarz, Krzysztof Dowhań
Fitness coaches	Bartosz Bibrowicz, Bogdan Merișanu, Sebastián López Bascón, Dawid Goliński,
Analysts	Michele Iannucci, Maciej Krzymień

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First-team squad

More information No., Player ...

No.	Player	Nat.	Positions	Date of birth (age)	Signed in	Contract ends	Previous club	Transfer fee
Goalkeepers
1	Kacper Tobiasz		GK	4 November 2002 (age 22)	2020	2026	Legia Warsaw II	Free
23	Gabriel Kobylak		GK	20 February 2002 (age 23)	2020	2027	Legia Warsaw II	Free
31	Marcel Mendes-Dudziński		GK	14 May 2004 (age 21)	2024	2028	S.L. Benfica	Free
Defenders
3	Steve Kapuadi		CB	30 April 1998 (age 27)	2023	2026	Wisła Płock	Free
4	Marco Burch		CB	19 October 2000 (age 24)	2023	2029	FC Luzern	€0.55-0.8M[11]
12	Radovan Pankov		CB	5 August 1995 (age 29)	2023	2026	Red Star Belgrade	Free
13	Arkadiusz Reca		LB	17 June 1995 (age 30)	2025	2028	Spezia Calcio	Free[12]
19	Rúben Vinagre		LB / LW	9 April 1999 (age 26)	2024	2028	Sporting CP	€2.3-2.5M[13]
24	Jan Ziółkowski (U23)		CB	5 June 2005 (age 20)	2023	2025	Legia Warsaw II	Free
30	Petar Stojanović		RB	7 October 1995 (age 29)	2025	2028	US Salernitana 1919	Free[14]
33	Patryk Kun		LB / LW	20 April 1995 (age 30)	2023	2026	Raków Częstochowa	Free
55	Artur Jędrzejczyk		CB	4 November 1987 (age 37)	2017	2026	FC Krasnodar	€0.9M
91	Kamil Piątkowski		CB	21 June 2000 (age 25)	2025	2029	FC Red Bull Salzburg	Free[15]
Midfielders
5	Claude Gonçalves		DM	9 April 1994 (age 31)	2024	2027	PFC Ludogorets Razgrad	Free[16]
6	Henrique Arreiol		CM	26 February 2005 (age 20)	2025	2029	Sporting CP	Free[17]
7	Paweł Wszołek		RW	30 April 1992 (age 33)	2022	2025	1. FC Union Berlin	Free
8	Rafał Augustyniak		CB / DM	14 October 1993 (age 31)	2023	2025	FC Ural Yekaterinburg	Free
11	Kacper Chodyna		RW	24 May 1999 (age 26)	2024	2028	Zagłębie Lubin	€0.86M[18]
20	Jakub Żewłakow (U23)		AM	2 December 2006 (age 18)		2027	Legia Warsaw II	Free
21	Vahan Bichakhchyan		RW	9 July 1999 (age 25)	2025	2028	Pogoń Szczecin	€0.25M[19]
22	Juergen Elitim		CM	13 July 1999 (age 25)	2023	2026	Watford F.C.	Free
25	Ryōya Morishita		RW	11 April 1997 (age 28)	2023	2024	Nagoya Grampus	Loan
44	Damian Szymański		CM	16 June 1995 (age 30)	2025	2029	AEK Athens F.C.	Free[20]
53	Wojciech Urbański (U23)		AM	12 January 2005 (age 20)	2023	2025	Wisła Kraków U19	?
67	Bartosz Kapustka		CM	23 December 1996 (age 28)	2020	2026	Leicester City F.C.	Free
77	Ermal Krasniqi		LW	7 September 1996 (age 26)	2025	2026	AC Sparta Prague	Loan[21]
82	Kacper Urbański		AM	7 September 2004 (age 20)	2025	2028	Bologna FC 1909	€.2.5M[22]
99	Noah Weißhaupt		LW	20 September 2001 (age 23)	2025	2026	SC Freiburg	Loan[23]
	Aleksander Wyganowski (U23)		CM	11 June 2009 (age 16)	2023	2026	Escola Varsovia
Forwards
9	Migouel Alfarela		CF	15 February 1997 (age 28)	2024	2027	SC Bastia	€1.4M[24][25]
17	Illia Shkuryn		CF	17 August 1999 (age 25)	2025	2028	Stal Mielec	€1.5M[26]
28	Marc Gual		CF	13 March 1996 (age 29)	2023	2026	Jagiellonia Białystok	Free
29	Mileta Rajović		CF	17 July 1999 (age 25)	2025	2029	Watford F.C.	€3M[27]
77	Jean-Pierre Nsame		CF	1 May 1993 (age 32)	2024	2025	Como 1907	Loan[28]

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Notes:

• Player (U23) – Player who fulfils the PZPN's Młodzieżowiec 2.0 criteria, that is, Polish footballers who will be 21 years old or younger in the year the season ends (2026), so born in 2005 or later.
•   – Player who left before the end of the season, but played in at least one official match.
•   – Player who was loaned out before the end of the season, but played in at least one official match.

In

More information Date, Position ...

Date	Position	Player	From	Fee	Ref
16 May 2025	FW	Migouel Alfarela	Athens Kallithea F.C.	End of loan
27 May 2025	DM	Jakub Adkonis	Ruch Chorzów	End of loan
30 May 2025	FW	Jordan Majchrzak	Arka Gdynia	End of loan
9 June 2025	FW	Jean-Pierre Nsame	FC St. Gallen	End of loan
16 June 2025	FW	Marco Burch	Radomiak Radom	End of loan
26 June 2025	RB	Petar Stojanović	US Salernitana 1919	Free	[14]
15 July 2025	CF	Mileta Rajović	Watford F.C.	€3M	[27]
18 July 2025	LB	Arkadiusz Reca	Spezia Calcio	Free	[12]
14 August 2025	CM	Damian Szymański	AEK Athens F.C.	Free	[20]
15 August 2025	CM	Henrique Arreiol	Sporting CP	Free	[17]
30 August 2025	CB	Kamil Piątkowski	FC Red Bull Salzburg	Free	[15]
2 September 2025	AM	Kacper Urbański	Bologna FC 1909	€2.5M	[22]

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Out

More information Date, Position ...

Date	Position	Player	Next club	Fee	Ref
23 May 2025	RW	Luquinhas	Fortaleza Esporte Clube	End of loan
23 May 2025	FW	Tomáš Pekhart	free agent	End of contract
3 June 2025	GK	Vladan Kovačević	Sporting CP	End of loan
16 June 2025	GK	Maciej Kikolski	Widzew Łódź	€0.3M	[29]
16 July 2025	DM	Maxi Oyedele	RC Strasbourg Alsace	€6M (€3.6M)[a]	[30]
18 July 2025	RF	Jakub Jędrasik	Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki	Released	[31]
8 August 2025	CF	Jordan Majchrzak	VfB Stuttgart	€0.15M	[32]
9 August 2025	CF	Marc Gual	Rio Ave F.C.	€0.25M	[33]
25 August 2025	RW	Ryōya Morishita	Blackburn Rovers F.C.	€2.00M	[34]
29 August 2025	CB	Jan Ziółkowski	AS Roma	€6.60M	[35]

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Loaned in

More information Date, Position ...

Date	Position	Player	From	Date until	Ref
25 August 2025	LW	Ermal Krasniqi	AC Sparta Prague	End of season	[21]
1 September 2025	LW	Noah Weißhaupt	SC Freiburg	End of season	[23]

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Loaned out

More information Date, Position ...

Date	Position	Player	To	Date until	Ref
25 June 2025	AM	Igor Strzałek	Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza	End of season
9 July 2025	CB	Sergio Barcia	UD Las Palmas	End of season	[36]
18 July 2025	DM	Jakub Adkonis	Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki	End of season	[31]
18 July 2025	CF	Stanisław Gieroba		End of season	[31]
18 July 2025	RB	Oliwier Olewiński		End of season	[31]
18 July 2025	RW	Mateusz Szczepaniak		End of season	[31]
18 July 2025	CB	Bartosz Dembek	Pogoń Siedlce	End of season	[31]

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Overall transfer activity

Pre-season friendlies

Overview

Polish Super Cup

As the reigning Polish Cup winners Legia Warsaw faced Lech Poznań, Ekstraklasa champion, in the traditional season opener.

Lech Poznań v Legia Warsaw

13 July 2025 Final	Lech Poznań	1–2	Legia Warsaw	Poznań
18:00 CEST	Szymczak 81'	Report	Wszołek 33' Shkurin 43'	Stadium: Poznań Stadium Attendance: 40,368 Referee: Łukasz Kuźma

Ekstraklasa

Polish Cup

UEFA Europa League

First qualifying round

Legia Warsaw v Aktobe

10 July 2025 First leg	Legia Warsaw	1–0	Aktobe	Warsaw, Poland
21:00 CEST	Bichakhchyan 25'	Report		Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 12,239 Referee: Dalibor Černý

Aktobe v Legia Warsaw

17 July 2025 Second leg	Aktobe	0–1 (0–2 agg.)	Legia Warsaw	Actobe, Kazakhstan
18:00 CEST		Report	Elitim 90+1'	Stadium: Koblandy Batyr Stadium Referee: Granit Maqedonci

Second qualifying round

Banik Ostrava v Legia Warsaw

24 July 2025 First leg	Banik Ostrava	2–2	Legia Warsaw	Ostrava, Czechia
19:00 CEST	Šín 12' Frydrych 64'	Report	Kapustka 32' Nsame 88'	Stadium: Ostrava Stadium Attendance: 15,047 Referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca

Legia Warsaw v Banik Ostrava

31 July 2025 Second leg	Legia Warsaw	2–1 (4–3 agg.)	Banik Ostrava	Warsaw, Poland
21:00 CEST	Nsame 54' Pojezný 15' (o.g.)	Report	Prekop 15'	Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 20,226 Referee: Novak Simović

Third qualifying round

AEK Larnaca v Legia Warsaw

7 August 2025 First leg	AEK Larnaca	4–1	Legia Warsaw	Larnaca, Cyprus
18:30 CEST	Pons 16' Angielski 48' Chacon 78' Rajović , 85' (o.g.)	Report	Nsame 18'	Stadium: AEK Arena Attendance: 4,102 Referee: Horațiu Feșnic

Legia Warsaw v AEK Larnaca

14 August 2025 Second leg	Legia Warsaw	2–1 (3–5 agg.)	AEK Larnaca	Warsaw, Poland
21:00 CEST	Nsame 11' Rajović 16'	Report	Ivanović 53'	Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 23,673 Referee: Andris Treimanis

UEFA Conference League

Fourth qualifying round

Hibernian v Legia Warsaw

21 August 2025 First leg	Hibernian	1–2	Legia Warsaw	Edinburgh, Scotland
21:00 CEST	Mulligan 86'	Report	Nsame 35' Wszołek 45+3'	Stadium: Easter Road Referee: Mohammad Al-Emara

Legia Warsaw v Hibernian

28 August 2025 Second leg	Legia Warsaw	3–3	Hibernian	Warsaw, Poland
21:00 CEST	Bichakhchyan 13' Elitim 90+3' Rajović 98'	Report	Bushiri 50' Boyle 59' Chaiwa 61'	Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 27,659 Referee: Lawrence Visser

League phase

Table

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
26	Lincoln Red Imps	6	2	1	3	7	15	−8	7
27	Dynamo Kyiv	6	2	0	4	9	9	0	6
28	Legia Warsaw	6	2	0	4	8	8	0	6
29	Slovan Bratislava	6	2	0	4	5	9	−4	6
30	Breiðablik	6	1	2	3	6	11	−5	5

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Source: UEFA^[38]
Rules for classification: League phase tiebreakers

Result by round

More information Round, Ground ...

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ground	H	A	A	H	A	H
Result	L	W	L	L	L	W
Position	23	18	25	28	30	28
Points	0	3	3	3	3	6

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Updated to match(es) played on 23 October 2025. Source: UEFA
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

Matches

Legia Warsaw v Samsunspor

2 October 2025 1	Legia Warsaw	0–1	Samsunspor	Warsaw, Poland
21:00 CEST		Report	Musaba 10'	Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 18,712[39] Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)

Shakhtar Donetsk v Legia Warsaw

23 October 2025 2	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–2	Legia Warsaw	Kraków, Poland
18:45 CEST	Marlon  33' Meirelles 61' Konoplya  82' Nazaryna  90+3'	Report	Augustyniak 16', 90+4' Rajović  43'	Stadium: Henryk Reyman Stadium Attendance: 13,936 Referee: Gustavo Correia (Portugal)
Note: Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian teams were required to play their home matches at neutral venues until further notice.[40]

Celje v Legia Warsaw

6 November 2025 (2025-11-06) 3	Celje	2–1	Legia Warsaw	Stadion Z'dežele, Celje
18:45	Iosifov 72' Karničnik 77'	Report[41]	Urbański 17'	Attendance: 8,000[42] Referee: Javier Alberola Rojas (Spain)

Legia Warsaw v Sparta Prague

27 November 2025 (2025-11-27) 4	Legia Warsaw	0–1	Sparta Prague	Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw
21:00		Report[43]	Preciado 41'	Attendance: 17,743[44] Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

Noah v Legia Warsaw

11 December 2025 (2025-12-11) 5	Noah	2–1	Legia Warsaw	Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan
18:45 (21:45 UTC+4)	Aiás 57' Mulahusejnović 84'	Report[45]	Rajović 3'	Attendance: 8,500[46] Referee: Bulat Sariyev (Kazakhstan)

Legia Warsaw v Lincoln Red Imps

18 December 2025 (2025-12-18) 6	Legia Warsaw	4–1	Lincoln Red Imps	Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw
21:00	Čolak 21' Kapustka 62' Rajović 70' Bichakhchyan 83'	Report[47]	De Barr 89'	Attendance: 9,429[48] Referee: Danilo Nikolić (Serbia)

Goalscorers

More information Rank, Number ...

Rank	Number	Position	Nation	Name	Supercup	Ekstraklasa	Polish Cup	UEFA Europa League	UEFA Conference League	Total	Career club total
1	18	CF		Jean-Pierre Nsame	0	1	0	4	1	6	8
3	29	CF		Mileta Rajović	0	3	0	1	1	5	5
2	13	RW		Paweł Wszołek	1	2	0	0	1	4	41
4	22	CM		Juergen Elitim	0	1	0	1	1	3	5
5	21	RW		Vahan Bichakhchyan	0	0	0	1	1	2	2
6	17	CF		Ilya Shkurin	1	0	0	0	0	1	5
7	67	CM		Bartosz Kapustka	0	0	0	1	0	1	22
8	17	CF		Migouel Alfarela	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
9	55	CB		Artur Jędrzejczyk	0	1	0	0	0	1	11
10	25	RW		Ryōya Morishita	0	1	0	0	0	1	15
11	44	DM		Damian Szymański	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
12	30	RB		Petar Stojanović	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
Own goals								1	0	1
TOTALS					2	12	0	9	5	28

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Assists

More information Place, Number ...

Place	Number	Position	Nation	Name	Supercup	Ekstraklasa	Polish Cup	UEFA Europa League	UEFA Conference League	Total
1	7	RW		Paweł Wszołek	0	1	0	3	0	4
2	22	CM		Juergen Elitim	1	1	0	1	0	3
3	67	AM		Bartosz Kapustka	0	1	0	1	1	3
4	21	RW		Vahan Bichakhchyan	0	1	0	1	0	2
5	33	RB		Patryk Kun	1	0	0	0	0	1
6	11	RW		Kacper Chodyna	0	0	0	1	0	1
7	17	CF		Migouel Alfarela	0	1	0	0	0	1
8	55	CB		Artur Jędrzejczyk	0	1	0	0	0	1
9	30	RB		Petar Stojanović	0	1	0	0	0	1
10	18	CF		Jean-Pierre Nsame	0	0	0	0	1	1
11	19	LB		Rúben Vinagre	0	0	0	0	1	1
12	24	CB		Jan Ziółkowski	0	0	0	0	1	1
TOTALS					2	5	0	6	4	20

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Home attendances

Matches played behind closed doors for which tickets could not be sold are not counted.

Ekstraklasa Player of the Month

Ekstraklasa Young Player of the Month

Games

The following players made their competitive debuts for Legia's first team during the season.^[49]