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Football hooliganism in Poland

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and Legia Warszawa which was shown live on Polish television, when Legia fans invaded the pitch. As it was transmitted live on television, the government was unable to cover up the incident. The number of incidents during games grew in the 1980s. Although the statistics in this period are incomplete,
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It was stated in 2006 that the current football hooliganism in Poland is far worse than the dark days of English football hooliganism in the 1980s, with nearly every Polish professional football club having a fan base rooted in hooliganism. This is especially true now as English football hooliganism
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Football violence is still present even in city centres. In May 2006 over 50 police functionaries were injured, with over 30 hospitalised and 230 hooligans detained after disturbances in Warsaw following a match between Legia Warsaw and Wisła Kraków. Thousands of Legia fans had converged in the city
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fans from entering the stadium, including women, the elderly and children, causing one fan to lose their eye. Following the incident, the fans asked to see the security footage, however, the footage was claimed to be lost due to an alleged "technical fault". The club chairman, Radosław Osuch, and a
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fail to control 3,000 fans. Instead of keeping the two sets of fans apart, the police shepherded them all into the city centre where running battles ensued. A common feature of Polish hooligans is also ambushing rival fans then stealing their scarves and flags, before tying them to railings in the
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Until the late 1980s the football clubs required state sponsorship to exist. The revenues from ticket sales and merchandising were irrelevant at that time. Before entering a free-market economy, the bargaining power of supporters thus played a relatively marginal role in the Polish football scene.
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at fans from a close distance after several home fans jumped onto the pitch and ran towards the visiting fans. A 27-year-old fan of Concordia, Dawid Dziedzic, was shot, and despite attempts to resuscitate him he died shortly in hospital hours later. He was a single father, described as a caring
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forced the game to be abandoned. With Vetra Vilnius winning 2–0 at half time, several hundred Legia fans, out of the 2,500 Polish fans present, wrecked the stand they were in and invaded the pitch, where they attacked 200 police officers, throwing concrete, bottles and flares at them. They then
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has become a rare and harshly punished occurrence, with few firms still running, the most prevalent being "The Soul Crew", the firm of Welsh football club Cardiff City FC, who have more fan bans than any other team in the English leagues. A match between local Warsaw rivals,
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These relationships can be complicated and change over time. Although hooligans of two neutral teams may sometime fight each other, they would usually focus on fighting with their "enemy" clubs and supporting their "allies" in fighting their "friends" "enemies".
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and Cracovia date back to the late 1970s. Usually, alliances were (and still are) created by firms of clubs that are located a considerable distance from each other. Firms of neighbouring clubs, especially in the same city, are in most cases enemies.
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As the modernisation of stadiums and further repression of fans increases, incidents in the public eye remained sporadic, with now majority of incidents involving police. Hooliganism remains popular, but has been pushed further underground.
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Even though the Polish government tried to erase hooliganism, incidents were still common in Polish stadiums. However, like hooligans in Western Europe, Polish firms now pre-arrange their fights, which in Poland are known as
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subculture. Some skinhead members of firms are described as "official hooligans", and their role is to take part in disturbances at the stadiums. They often use weapons, such as wooden sticks, bats, baseball bats and knives.
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in Germany, German authorities and some of the European media were concerned that Polish hooligans would try to disrupt the tournament. Reports stated that Polish hooligans were ready to do battle with fans from
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fans marched through the capital Warsaw for their match against Poland and were attacked by Polish hooligans. The only other incident at the tournament held in Poland (and Ukraine) was the fight between
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in May 2013, the Lech fans successfully stole a Wisła flag from the away stand, causing unrest among Wisła fans. Despite this, no actual fights broke out, however the away stand was demolished.
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banned Legia Warsaw from European competition for one season and also for one more season should they qualify for any European competition in the following five years, following riots during an
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between 1984 and 1988, 99 cases of disorder were reported, most of them in big cities. Two football fans were officially reported to have been killed in the 1980s due to football hooliganism.
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started to be published, which included details of incidents and what was described as the "Polish hooligan league". From the early 1990s, Polish hooligans were heavily influenced by the
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supporters. Zbyszek Rybak introduced martial arts enthusiasts to hooligan underworld in Poland. Hooligan incidents in Poland gained more media attention in the 1990s, at a time when
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centre celebrating the club winning the Polish League title, where they broke into shops, damaged cafes and restaurants and attacked the police with stones. The police had to use
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showed a steady increase from 1991 to 1997, although there was then a decrease in the subsequent years. Fights became more organized, and started moving away from the stadiums -
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Also in the 1990s, Polish hooligan violence spread through the lower leagues and into more urban areas of the country. In May 1997, fans of Fourth Division club,
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and other countries in Germany. However, no major incidents were reported, with isolated clashes taking place such as drunken German and Polish fans clashing in
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scene. All these groups in Poland have 4 types of relationships between each other which are subject to change over time. They extend to normal fans as well.
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activists. Usual displays and chants centre around nationalist themes, and stadiums can also serve as a recruiting grounds for the nationalist organizations.
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hooligans. The Poles won the battle, after which they were arrested by German police. It was feared that the fight was a warm up for more fights during the
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In March 2006 a Wisła Kraków fan was dragged from a car and stabbed to death, the eighth stabbing murder in twelve months of football hooligans in Poland.
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by the police. A total of 26 Legia fans were arrested, with ten later released. Seven fans were later jailed for between five and fifteen days and fined.
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and Legia Warszawa fought each other before, during and after the match. Other hooligan disturbances followed the Polish national team, with incidents in
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interrupted the game and started fighting which spread onto the streets of the Ludwinow district in Kraków. The fighting lasted for several hours.
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There is no official information about football related violence in the 1970s as any incidents that happened were not reported by the
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The first reports of clashes between fans during football games date back as far as the 1930s. On 2 June 1935 after a game between
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fans after Legia fans displayed several previously stolen Jagiellonia flags. The match was abandoned. There were several arrests.
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In the mid-1970s, friendships between some groups began. Probably the oldest still active alliance is the one between fans of
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The early 1980s saw a rise in the number of hooligan firms and in the number of hooligans. On 9 May 1980 Legia Warsaw faced
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concealed all the facts about the incident. Since that game, fans of both sides have regarded each other as enemies.
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In Poland, the 1990s saw a gradual increase in football-related violence and development of the football hooligan
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fans were attacked by security guards with tear gas after they refused to remove the flag "Down with Communism".
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and large-scale fights. Until 1997, the number of related incidents rose, according to Przemysław Piotrowski of
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first developed as a recognised phenomenon in the 1970s, and has continued since then with numerous recognised
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banned all sports. However, "illegal" games were played on regular basis. During one of these matches in
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Most sports teams in Poland have organised supporter groups who are actively in involved in either the
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initiated the so-called "Fan Clubs", but this idea disappeared at the beginning of the 1980s, due to
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large portion of the media and public opinion, attributed the incident to football hooliganism.
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fans turned up and tried to attack the visiting fans, although they only clashed with police.
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Since then Hooligan firms in Poland have organised themselves and are often influenced by the
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was later fined for failing to adequately secure the venue and poor organisation was cited.
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and overall Polish society's social conservatism, Polish football supporters are on the
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In March 2014, in the first incident inside a top-level stadium in years occurred when
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fans in April 2013. The fight broke out due ideological differences and arguments over
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in the 1980s. Hooliganism in Poland is considered to be on a larger scale than
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Often hooligans would join forces to attack the police, as happened during a
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The first reported incident of football hooliganism by the media happened in
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which was compliant with the policies of the Communist authorities in the
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neutral – there is no specific antipathy or sympathy towards each other.
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tried to curb these groups. The renowned referee and journalist
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daily sports newspaper published an appeal by the management of
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clubs. Few Polish football fans travelled to away matches.
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ripped up advertising boards in an attempt to prevent the
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The common name for Polish football fans is scarfers (
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fans began to boycott matches after a match against
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resulting in 300 arrests, half of whom were Polish.
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On 3 May 2004 Ruch Chorzów was playing a match with
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clashed with the police, and 54 fans were detained.
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Index

Football hooliganism
Poland
hooligan firms
Jagiellonian University
Eastern Europe
hooliganism in Britain
Polish football clubs
hooligan firms
Cracovia
Ruch Chorzów
Przegląd Sportowy
Śląsk Świętochłowice
occupation of Poland
World War II
Nazi German occupiers
Kraków
Wisła Kraków
Sosnowiec
RKU Sosnowiec
AKS Chorzów
Milicja Obywatelska
Polish media
People's Republic of Poland
Polish First Division
Polish
Polish Football Association
Grzegorz Aleksandrowicz
martial law in Poland
Śląsk Wrocław
Lechia Gdańsk

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