2015–16 Polish Cup

Country

Poland

Teams

Champions

Legia Warsaw

Runners-up

Lech Poznań

Top goal scorer(s)

Nemanja Nikolić
(6 goals)

← 2014–15

2016–17 →

The 2015–16 Polish Cup is the sixty-second season of the annual Polish football knockout tournament. It began on 18 July 2015 with the first matches of the Preliminary Round and ended on 2 May 2016 with the final. Winners of the competition qualify for the qualifying tournament of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League.

Legia Warsaw are the defending champions.

The 2015–16 season brought several changes into the competition format determined by the 2014 reform of II Liga, which decreased the number of teams playing in the third tier from 36 to 18 and the number of teams participating in the Polish Cup from 86 to 68. The tournament will have just one preliminary round (instead of two in previous seasons), in which also the 6 lowest ranked I Liga teams will enter.

Legia Warsaw won the final against Lech Poznań 1–0 to win their eighteenth title.

Source: 90minut.pl

The draw for this round was conducted at the headquarters of the Polish FA on 17 June 2015. Participating in this round were 16 regional cup winners, 18 teams from the 2014–15 II Liga and 6 lowest ranked teams from the 2014–15 I Liga. The matches were played on 18, 19 and 22 July 2015.

16 of the 24 I Liga and II Liga teams participating in the preliminary round were drawn against the 16 regional cup winners, and the remaining 8 were drawn against each other. Games were hosted by teams playing in the lower division in the 2015–16 season. The host of Znicz Pruszków vs. Nadwiślan Góra (both playing in II Liga) game was determined by the order in which the teams were drawn.

The draw for this round was conducted at the headquarters of the Polish FA on 17 June 2015. The matches were played on 25, 26, 28 and 29 July 2015. Participating in this round were the 20 winners from the previous round and 12 highest ranked teams from the 2014–15 I Liga.

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