Full name: Legia Warsaw FC
From: Warsaw, Poland
Club colours: White shirt, black shorts, white socks
Home ground: Stadion WP, Warsaw (31,000)
Nickname: The Legionnaires
Last season: Fourth in Ekstraklasa (Polish top flight)
Manager: Maciej Skorza
Squad:
Goalkeepers:
Marijan Antolović, Jakub Szumski, Kostyantyn Makhnovskyy
Defenders:
Artur Jędrzejczyk, Dickson Choto, Tomasz Kiełbowicz, Inaki Astiz Ventura, Marcin Komorowski, Srdja Kneżević, Jakub Wawrzyniak, Jakub Rzeźniczak
Midfielders:
Piotr Giza, Maciej Iwański, Emanuel de Jesus Bonfim Evaristo, Ariel Borysiuk, Sebastian Szałachowski, Ivica Vrdoljak, Alejandro Ariel Cabral, Michał Żyro, Maciej Rybus, Miroslav Radović, Adam Banasiak
Strikers:
Michał Kucharczyk. Bruno Mezenga, Takesure Chinyama, Maciej Górski
Website: www.legia.com
10 FACTS ON... LEGIA WARSAW
- The game against Arsenal will mark the opening of Legia Warsaw's New Legion Stadium
- Legia Warsaw were formed by a group of soldiers who established a 'Legion team'
- The first match at their stadium was against a team from Barcelona called CD Europa. It took place in August 1930
- In 1957 a team from Warsaw, made up of mostly of Legia players, played the first match at the Nou Camp
- The team has had nine different names over the course of its history
- Legia Warsaw have won the Polish title eight times
- Their best performance in the Champions League came in the 1995/96 season when they reached the Quarter-Finals
- That performance made them the only Polish side to have reached the last eight of the Champions League
- They reached the Semi-Final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1990/91 season
- Legia were expelled from the 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup because of crowd trouble involving Polish supporters during a match against FK Vėtra in Lithuania on 8 July. They had a further one-season ban suspended for five years.
