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The Europa League win has given us a nice financial windfall.

I had totally missed that Lech Poznan had their own great European run, and they won the Europa Conference League. I guess it wasn't just us pulling up the coefficient.

This shot Poland up the Coefficient table and if I'm reading it correctly should move Poland up to 10th and give us 2 CL spots next season.

A few more things from our EL winning run.

Polonia Warszawa Season 4 - 2026/27 - Review Truly a season to remember. Three trophies, including becoming the first Polish team to ever win an European trophy after an amazing win in the Europa League. In the Ekstraklasa Raków couldn't keep up their early season winning run while we went on our own 23 unbeaten run in the league. This meant that we won the league with 4 games to spare, which allowed us to rotate the squad for EL games. We had some absolutely amazing results in the Europa League. As expected it was very close against Rangers and I was happy to have reached the QF. But I was also sure that would be the end of the road. But the lads put in the performances of their lives for some great wins against Valencia and Aston Villa. Reaching the final was beyond our wildest dreams. I thought, no way we're beating Newcastle too. They scored first and I was sure we were going to get hammered. But we got back into and they just fell apart in the second half. Europa League Champions! We actually ended Newcastle's 29 game unbeaten run in the competition. In the end we scored 52 goals in the competition for the record. Still a long way to go to the top teams.

I took a bit of an extended break from FM, but now I'm back and continuing this save. I'll post a full update of the current season soon, but here is a teaser. Somehow we made it to the Europa League final. Not only that, but it happens to be hosted at the stadium where we've had to play our home games!

Polonia Warszawa Season 4 - 2026/27 - November November was busy, even with a long international break in the middle. Results were great and we have secured a play-off spot in the Europa League. Decided to ask for another training facilities upgrade and the board approved it with out blinking an eye. That European football money is quite nice.

This is interesting, the day before we are to face Dunajska Streda in the Europa League, their manager is hired by Legia.

Polonia Warszawa Season 4 - 2026/27 - October This must go down as a truly excellent month, even though the last two games were much closer than I would have liked. Especially against Piast, where we were very lucky to win. But even if we had lost that, the result against Villarreal was absolutely amazing! We must be quite close to qualifying to the next stage in this weird new format. In the Ekstraklasa Raków finally lost a game, but it was one in which they had 3 players sent-off. As you can see from the table, their defensive solidity is what is key to their success this season. Only 5 goals against in 13 games!

@Rikulec no worries! Always great to get some perspective on what is going on in real life in Polish football. I only get to see things from afar (by looking at results and watching the occasional highlights).

Polonia Warszawa Season 4 - 2026/27 - September Raków are having an amazing season in the league (no European football for them), and they proved too much for us too. It seems like they will run away with the title and it will be a fight to finish 2nd. Our Europa League results have been amazing so far.

Thanks, we're getting there. The team will truly be a powerhouse when we can combine dominance in Poland with good results in Europe.

Have to post this before I finish the month. An absolutely unbelievable result for us! We took the game to OGC Nice, who are currently sitting in 3rd place in Ligue 1. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, our lads all had amazing performances against players who are all paid vast sums more than we could ever afford.

Polonia Warszawa Season 4 - 2026/27 - Summer Transfers For players leaving the club, the biggest news was Saudi club Al-Wehda triggering the release clause for Alvis Jaunzems. I didn't mind letting him go since he was rarely better than average for us. The others were all players that would have struggled to make it into the team, so I decided to cash in. At first I thought I would try to minimize the business I did and give more chances to the young prospects that I brought in last season. But early season results made me think that we did need some re-enforcement. I was also playing around with changing my tactic from 4-2-4 to 4-2-3-1. This led me to bringing in a couple players to play in the AM(C) position, but I wasn't satisfied with the results. Thankfully those guys are able to play in other positions. Sebastiano Esposito is our big money signing (in terms of salary), hopefully he lives up to his promise because so far he hasn't been very impressive. Danilo Veiga has been brought in to replace Jaunzems and so far has been the most impressive of our signings.

Because our stadium is just under the 8000 capacity limit for Europa League (league phase), our home games are being played in the National stadium. Even with over 11,000 it looked quite empty. Hopefully when we host Villarreal we'll get a good crowd.