President of Poland's Football Cup (1936 - 1939)

President of Poland's Football Cup (1936–1939) was an annual football competition, taking place in the Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland refers to Poland between the two world wars; a period in Polish history in which Poland was restored as an independent state. Officially known as the Republic of Poland or the Commonwealth of Poland , the Polish state was...

in the years 1936–1939. It was sponsored by President Ignacy Moscicki

Ignacy Moscicki

Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish chemist, politician, and President of Poland . He was the longest-serving President of Poland .-Life:...

, and unlike today's Polish Cup

Polish Cup

The Polish Cup in football or officially Remes Puchar Polski, is an elimination tournament for Polish football clubs, held continuously from 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title...

, it did not feature clubs. Instead, it was a competition of the local districts of the PZPN

Polish Football Association

The Polish Football Association is the governing body of football in Poland. It organizes the Polish football leagues , the Polish Cup, the Polish SuperCup, the Polish League Cup, and the Polish national football team...

(for example the team of Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

's district of the PZPN consisted of selected best players of such clubs, as Wisla Kraków

Wisla Kraków

Wisła Kraków is a football club based in Kraków, Poland. Wisła contends in Ekstraklasa, the top level of Polish professional football competition. Wisła Kraków is one of the oldest and most successful Polish football clubs. It ranks third in the number of national titles won behind Górnik Zabrze...

, Cracovia, and Garbarnia Kraków

Garbarnia Kraków

RKS Garbarnia Kraków is a Polish football and sports club from Ludwinow - a historical district of the city of Kraków. The club’s unusual name comes from the nearby tannery of the Dluzynski brothers, which was the original club sponsor...

).

First two editions of the Cup (1936–1937) did not feature top players of the Ekstraklasa (see: Polish Football League 1927-1939

Polish Football League 1927-1939

-Beginnings:In the years 1921–1926, the football championships were organized in a non-league way. Firstly, there were regional games, then 9 champions of those regions were divided into 3 groups - western, southern and northern and finally, there were champions of these groups playing each...

). In the 1938 and 1939 games, all best footballers participated in the competition.

First stage, May 24, 1936

Wilno, Wilno - The B Team of the Polish Football League 2-1 (att. 4000),
Bydgoszcz, Pomerania
Pomerania
Pomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...

- Upper Silesia
Upper Silesia
Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of Greater Moravia, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Piast Kingdom of Poland, again of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as of...

3-2,
Stanisławów
Ivano-Frankivsk
Ivano-Frankivsk is a historic city located in the western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, municipality....

, Stanisławów - Lwów 2-1 (att. 3500),
Lublin
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

, Lublin - Kraków
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

4-4,
Częstochowa
Czestochowa
Częstochowa is a city in south Poland on the Warta River with 240,027 inhabitants . It has been situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously the capital of Częstochowa Voivodeship...

, Kielce
Kielce
Kielce ) is a city in central Poland with 204,891 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship...

- Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

2-4,
Białystok, Białystok - Łódź 0-2,
Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, Warsaw - Polesie 9-0,
Lutsk
Lutsk
Lutsk is a city located by the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast and the administrative center of the surrounding Lutskyi Raion within the oblast...

, Volhynia
Volhynia
Volhynia, Volynia, or Volyn is a historic region in western Ukraine located between the rivers Prypiat and Southern Bug River, to the north of Galicia and Podolia; the region is named for the former city of Volyn or Velyn, said to have been located on the Southern Bug River, whose name may come...

- The A Team of the Polish Football League 3-6 (att. 8000).

Quarterfinals, August 2, 1936

Kraków
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

, Kraków - Warsaw 4-0,
Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

, Poznań - Wilno 6-1,
Bydgoszcz, Pomerania - Łódź 4-3,
Stanisławów, Stanisławów - The A Team of the Polish Football League 2-2. The game was repeated in Stanisławów on November 8, 1936. This time, the A Team of the League routed the home side 5-1. The winners featured such Polish National Team players, as Ernest Wilimowski
Ernest Wilimowski
Ernst Willimowski was a football player who played for both the Polish and German national teams....

, Gerard Wodarz
Gerard Wodarz
Gerard Wodarz was one of the best soccer players of interwar Poland. He was a multiple champion of the country and also played 28 games on the Polish national football team, scoring 9 goals.He was born in 1913 in Wielkie Hajduki Gerard Wodarz (August 10, 1913 – November 8, 1982) was one of...

, Jan Wasiewicz
Jan Wasiewicz
Jan Karol Wasiewicz was an interwar Polish soccer player. Wasiewicz was a midfielder both in Pogoń Lwów , and the Polish National Team.His career started in 1926 in another Lwów team - RKS. Then he moved to Lechia Lwów and in 1933 to Pogoń...

, Spirydion Albanski
Spirydion Albanski
Spirydion Jan Albański , nicknamed "Spirytus" and "Romek", was a Polish football goalkeeper in the 1930s. He played for Pogoń Lwów and the Polish National Team.Albański was born in Lwów...

, Hubert Gad
Hubert Gad
Hubert Gad, also known as Hubert God was a Polish soccer player, a very skilled and aggressive forward, who for a while was the top scorer of Poland....

, Edmund Giemsa
Edmund Giemsa
Edmund Giemza was a Polish interwar soccer player, started career as a forward, then moved to midfield, regarded as an expert on free kicks. Born on October 16, 1912 in Upper Silesian city of Ruda Śląska, died on September 30, 1994 in Chinnor, England.Giemsa played for Ruch Chorzów as well as...

, and Ewald Dytko
Ewald Dytko
Edward Jan Dytko was a German-born Upper Silesian soccer player, who, when his home country became Poland by Treaty of Versailles represented the no longer existing team of Dąb Katowice, also in 1935-39 he played in the Polish National Team.He was born in Zalenze and since early childhood played...

.

Semifinals, November 15, 1936

Kraków, Kraków - The A Team of the Polish Football League 5-3 after extra time (att. 5000). The team of Kraków was based mostly on players of Cracovia (such as Jozef Korbas
Józef Korbas
Józef Franciszek Korbas was an interwar Polish football player, forward of Cracovia and Polish National Team. He played two games for Poland....

, and Wilhelm Gora
Wilhelm Góra
Wilhelm Antoni Góra was a Polish midfield soccer player.His career started in...

),
Poznań, Poznań - Pomerania 5-0 (att. 1000).

First stage, June 20, 1937

Lwów, Lwów - Stanisławów 1-2 (att. 3000)
Białystok, Białystok - Warsaw 3-5 (att. 2500),
Łódź, Łódź - Pomerania 2-1 (att. 1500),
Lutsk, Volhynia - Lublin 2-1,
Brzesc nad Bugiem, Polesie - Wilno 3-5,
Sosnowiec
Sosnowiec
Sosnowiec is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie in southern Poland, near Katowice. It is one of the central districts of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a combined population of over two million people located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river .It is situated in...

. Kielce - Upper Silesia 0-4 (att. 2000),

Quarterfinals, July 4, 1937

Katowice
Katowice
Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

. Upper Silesia - Poznań 3-0 (att. 1500),
Lutsk, Volhynia - Wilno 0-1 (att. 3000),
Stanisławów, Stanisławów - Kraków 1-4 (att. 3000),
Warsaw, Warsaw - Łódź 3-0.

Semifinals, September 12, 1937 and October 10, 1937

Wilno, Wilno - Kraków 1-2 (att. 2000),
Warsaw, Warsaw - Upper Silesia 1-4,

First stage, May 22, 1938

Białystok, Białystok - Wilno 0-1,
Brzesc nad Bugiem, Polesie - Warsaw 1-7,
Lutsk, Volhynia - Stanisławów 2-3,
Sosnowiec, Zagłębie Dąbrowskie - Łódź 3-4,
Bydgoszcz, Pomorze - Poznań 4-2,
Lublin, Lublin - Lwów 3-4,

Quarterfinals, July 17, 1938

Wilno, Wilno - Warsaw 0-3. The home team was entirely made of players of Smigly Wilno
Smigly Wilno
Śmigły Wilno was a former Polish soccer team. Founded in 1933 in Wilno . Śmigły's full name was Wojskowy Klub Sportowy "Śmigły" Wilno...

, while Warsaw featured such footballers, as Henryk Martyna
Henryk Martyna
Henryk Julian Martyna was a Polish football player, defender, key member of Polish National Team in the early 1930s....

, Erwin Nyc
Erwin Nyc
Erwin Peter Nytz or Edward Piotr Nyc was an interwar Polish soccer midfield player of Upper Silesian origin. Born Erwin Nytz his Silesian homeland became Poland after Treaty of Versailles and he changed his last name to its Polonized version in 1934...

, and Stanislaw Baran
Stanislaw Baran
Stanisław Franciszek Baran was an interwar Polish football player, who started his career in Resovia Rzeszów, then, sometime in 1938 moved to Warszawianka Warszawa...

),
Lwów, Lwów - Upper Silesia 7-1. The home team was based on players of Pogon Lwów
Pogon Lwów
LKS Pogoń Lwów is a former Polish professional sports club which was located in Lwów , and existed from 1904 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939. It was the second oldest Polish football club behind other teams from Lwów - Czarni and Lechia...

. Upper Silesia fielded, among others, Ewald Cebula
Ewald Cebula
Edward Cebula was a Polish football player and defender...

, Teodor Peterek
Teodor Peterek
Teodor Peterek , a Polish soccer player from interwar period, forward, represented Ruch Chorzów and Polish National Team...

, and Ryszard Piec
Ryszard Piec
Ryszard Leon Piec - Polish soccer player, born Richard Leon Pietz on August 17, 1913 in Schwientochlowitz , Germany,died on January 24, 1979 in his hometown....

(att. 4000),
Łódź, Łódź - Pomerania 2-1 (att. 2500),
Stanisławów, Stanisławów - Kraków 0-2.

Final, November 27, 1938

Lwów, Lwów - Kraków 5-1. Lwów fielded six players of Pogon Lwów, while Kraków featured Edward Madejski
Edward Madejski
Edward Dominik Jerzy Madejski was a Polish football goalkeeper and chemistry engineer, who was a graduate of Mining-Metallurgic Academy in Kraków....

, Wilhelm Gora
Wilhelm Góra
Wilhelm Antoni Góra was a Polish midfield soccer player.His career started in...

, and Jan Kotlarczyk.

First round, May 3, 1939

Łódź, Łódź - Upper Silesia 2-4. The home team fielded Antoni Galecki
Antoni Galecki
Antoni Gałecki was a Polish football player and defender who represented ŁKS Łódź. He also played on the Polish National Team during the 1936 Berlin Olympics and Poland's 1938 FIFA World Cup lone match against Brazil....

, and the Silesians brought a score of top-class players, such as Ernest Wilimowski
Ernest Wilimowski
Ernst Willimowski was a football player who played for both the Polish and German national teams....

, Ryszard Piec
Ryszard Piec
Ryszard Leon Piec - Polish soccer player, born Richard Leon Pietz on August 17, 1913 in Schwientochlowitz , Germany,died on January 24, 1979 in his hometown....

, Wilhelm Piec
Wilhelm Piec
Wilhelm Piec - Polish soccer forward player.Wilhelm was one of best players of interwar Poland...

, Edmund Giemsa
Edmund Giemsa
Edmund Giemza was a Polish interwar soccer player, started career as a forward, then moved to midfield, regarded as an expert on free kicks. Born on October 16, 1912 in Upper Silesian city of Ruda Śląska, died on September 30, 1994 in Chinnor, England.Giemsa played for Ruch Chorzów as well as...

, Hubert Gad
Hubert Gad
Hubert Gad, also known as Hubert God was a Polish soccer player, a very skilled and aggressive forward, who for a while was the top scorer of Poland....

, Gerard Wodarz
Gerard Wodarz
Gerard Wodarz was one of the best soccer players of interwar Poland. He was a multiple champion of the country and also played 28 games on the Polish national football team, scoring 9 goals.He was born in 1913 in Wielkie Hajduki Gerard Wodarz (August 10, 1913 – November 8, 1982) was one of...

, and Ewald Cebula
Ewald Cebula
Edward Cebula was a Polish football player and defender...

(att. 600),
Brzesc nad Bugiem, Polesie - Wilno 1-5 (att. 3000),
Toruń, Pomerania - Białystok 9-0 (att. 1000),
Sosnowiec. Zagłębie Dąbrowskie - Poznań 3-4 (att. 4000),
Lutsk. Volhynia - Warsaw 1-5 (att. 3000),
Stanisławów. Stanisławów - Lublin 3-1 (att. 2000).

Quarterfinals, June 29, 1939

Stanisławów. Stanisławów - Lwów 5-2. The visitors fielded a selection of the best players of the city, including eight footballers of Pogon Lwów, and Aleksandr Skocen
Aleksandr Skocen
Aleksandr Skocen was a Ukrainian footballer, he played for Tryzub Lwów, Ukraina Lwów, Dynamo Kyiv, Olympique Charleroi and OGC Nice...

of Ukraina Lwów
Ukraina Lwów
Ukraina Lwów was an ethnic Ukrainian sports club, located in the city of Lwów, which in the interbellum period belonged to the Second Polish Republic ....

(att. 3000),
Warsaw. Warsaw - Wilno 1-2. Among home team players, there were Wladyslaw Szczepaniak
Wladyslaw Szczepaniak
Władysław Szczepaniak was a Polish football player. A defender for his entire career, he played for Polonia Warsaw, where he was the captain...

, and Henryk Jaznicki
Henryk Jaznicki
Henryk Jaźnicki was a Polish football player, forward representing Polonia Warsaw and Polish National Team. Jaźnicki played in only one international friendly, without scoring a goal. His lone match occurred on August 27, 1939 in Warsaw, versus Hungary...

(att. 1000),
Bydgoszcz. Pomerania - Upper Silesia 3-4. The Silesians fielded eight starters of the Polish National Team,
Poznań. Poznań - Kraków 3-0. Home team fielded Kazimierz Lis
Kazimierz Lis
Kazimierz Lis was a football player of the Polish team Warta Poznań as well as Polish International Team. He played in the 1930s and late 1940s, back then Warta was one of top teams of Poland...

and Edmund Bialas
Edmund Bialas
Edmund Białas was a Polish football player who played and coached Lech Poznań. He first started playing for Lech Poznań in 1931, and continued through to play for the Polish national team for eight years...

, the visitors brought Edward Jabłoński, Wilhelm Gora
Wilhelm Góra
Wilhelm Antoni Góra was a Polish midfield soccer player.His career started in...

, and Pawel Cyganek
Pawel Cyganek
Paweł Cyganek was a soccer forward player of interwar Poland, who in one game played on the Polish National Team. Cyganek was born in Wirek, a district of the Upper Silesian city of Ruda Śląska...

.

Semifinals, August, 6 and 15, 1939

Wilno. Wilno - Stanisławów 0-1 (att. 1000),
Katowice. Upper Silesia - Poznań 0-2 (att. 2000).

Final, November 5, 1939

Stanisławów - Poznań. The game did not take place due to the Nazi and Soviet attack on Poland, which marked the outbreak of World War II.