Ekstraklasa 2008–09

Ekstraklasa 2008-09 is the seventy-fifth season of top-tier football in Poland. It began on August 8, 2009 and will end in May 2009. The season was originally scheduled to start on July 26, 2008. However, the first two rounds of games were postponed because of legal uncertainties about the number of teams in the competition following an association-wide corruption scandal.

Team changes from last season

Due to the corruption scandal several teams from last season have been punished with relegation. Those teams include last season's teams Zagłębie Lubin, Korona Kielce, Widzew Łódź and Zagłębie Sosnowiec. Widzew and Zagłębie would also have been regularly demoted for finishing 15th and 16th, respectively. Jagiellonia Białystok, who originally lost their relegation play-off match-up against Arka Gdynia by an aggregated score of 4-1, were eventually spared from relegation because of the punishments.

Promotion to this year's Ekstraklasa was earned by Polish First League champions Lechia Gdańsk, runners-up Śląsk Wrocław, 3rd placed Piast Gliwice and 4th placed Arka Gdynia, the latter by winning their play-off games against Jagiellonia (see above).

Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski has been sold to an owner of First League club Polonia Warsaw. The two clubs will merge, with Grodzisk's players and Ekstraklasa license transferred to Polonia. [http://sport.onet.pl/0,1248675,1787296,,,polonia_polaczyla_sie_z_groclinem,wiadomosc.html Dwa kluby z Warszawy w piłkarskiej ekstraklasie. (Polish)] Retrieved on July 11, 2008.] The merger concludes a series of negotiations between Grodzisk and other clubs. The initially planned merger with Śląsk Wrocław was eventually denied by the latter after several months of discussions. Grodzisk chairman Zbigniew Drzymała then started conversations with Pogoń Szczecin, which were quickly stopped without an agreement as well, before eventually coming to an agreement with Polonia.

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Relegation play-offs

The 14th placed team will compete against the 3rd placed team of the Polish First League 2008-09 in a two-legged play-off for a spot in Ekstraklasa 2009-10.

References

ee also

* [http://ekstraklasa.org/ Official Site]