The 2006-07 Ekstraklasa season started on 28 July 2006 and finished on 26 May 2007. Zagłębie Lubin were crowned champions with 62 points.
For the second time league was sponsored by cell phone operator Orange and official name for championship was Orange Ekstraklasa 2006/2007.
[edit] Corruption
On 12 April 2007 PZPN decided about degradation of Górnik Łęczna (two class degradation and 270,000PLN fine) and Arka Gdynia (one class degradation and 200,000PLN fine and minus 5 points on the start of next season) due to their involvement in corruption scandal[1].
Location of teams in Ekstraklasa 2006-07
16 clubs competed in the 2006-07 season:
[edit] Final league table
Source: 90minut.pl (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.
1Dyskobolia Grodzisk won Puchar Polski, therefore giving them the second UEFA Cup spot. 2 Arka Gdynia was relegated to 2nd division due to a corruption scandal3 Górnik Łęczna was relegated to 3rd division due to a corruption scandal
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Head-to-Head: used when two or more teams need the head-to-head rules to break a tie.
[edit] Results
| Home \ Away1 | ARK | CRA | GKS | 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 Kraków | 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: www.90minut.pl
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
[edit] Top goal scorers
As of May 26, 2007
[edit] Most Assists
As of April 30, 2007
[edit] Annual awards
These were given out by the weekly magazine Piłka Nożna
[edit] Coach of the Year
Orest Lenczyk (GKS Bełchatów)
[edit] Discovery of the Year
Radosław Matusiak (GKS Bełchatów)
[edit] League player of the year
Piotr Reiss (Lech Poznań)
[edit] Best Foreign Players
- Goalkeeper: Emilian Dolha (Wisła Kraków)
- Defender (football): Edson (Legia Warszawa), Cléber (Wisła Kraków), Dickson Choto (Legia Warszawa), Veselin Đoković (Korona Kielce)
- Midfielder: Roger (Legia Warszawa), Henry Quinteros (Lech Poznań), Hermes (Korona Kielce), Miroslav Radović (Legia Warszawa)
- Striker: Ensar Arifović (ŁKS), Edi Andradina (Pogoń).
[edit] 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), Cleber(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(Legia Warszawa)
- Striker: Piotr Reiss(Lech Poznań), Adrian Sikora(Dyskobolia Grodzisk), Michał Chałbiński(Zagłębie Lubin), Łukasz Piszczek(Zagłębie Lubin).
[edit] References
- ^ Corruption scandal
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