Football Junior Championships of Poland

Football Junior Championships of Poland Under-19 () is a competition with a long, 71-year old history, which started in the summer of 1936.

1936

The first, historic Under-19 tournament for the title of the Football Junior Championships of Poland took place in the town of Sieraków, in mid-August 1936. Invited were junior champions of all 12 regional districts of Polish Football Association (PZPN), but for unknown reasons three teams did not show up. These were champions of Wilno, Volhynia and Lublin.

Thus, there were 9 teams, but this uneven number was further reduced to 8, after Gryf Toruń (champion of Pomerania) beat Brygada Częstochowa (champion of Zagłębie Dąbrowskie) 5-1 (3-0). Finally, in Sieraków there were these teams:

• Warta Poznań (junior champion of Poznań),

• Lechia Lwów (originally, Pogoń Lwów had won regional junior championships, but it turned out that one of Pogon's players was too old, thus the whole team was disqualified and replaced by Lechia),

• HKS Szopienice (original champions of Upper Silesia, the junior team of Ruch Chorzów, was disqualified for unknown reasons),

• Polonia Warszawa (junior champion of Warsaw),

• Wisła Kraków (junior champion of Kraków),

• Rewera Stanisławów (junior champion of Stanisławów),

• Widzew Łódź (junior champion of Łódź),

• Gryf Toruń (junior champion of Pomerania).

First Round

• Warta Poznań - Lechia Lwów 2-0,

• HKS Szopienice - Polonia Warszawa 3-0,

• Wisła......
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