Wieczysta Kraków

Reasons To Adopt

Wieczysta Kraków are not a spare club. They are Poland Ekstraklasa, Kazimierza Chałupnika 16 Street Synerise Arena Kraków, and 84 years of people deciding this was theirs, pick them and the season has a second spine.

• Easy weekend

  Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK) is about 14km from the ground, and Kraków Olsza train station is 1km closer still. A home fixture is a genuinely doable two-night trip.

• The calendar you inherit

  Poland Ekstraklasa is cold-weather football: mud in February, breath visible under the lights, and a fixture list that rewards anyone who sticks it out. Poland does not do easy neutrals.

• Old enough to matter

  1942 is the founding date, old enough that the club has survived a war, a rebuild and at least one financial scare, young enough that the good years are still in living memory.

• Something to defend

  The cabinet is not empty: III liga, group IV and IV liga Lesser Poland West. Small enough to recite from memory, big enough to argue about in a pub.