Zagłębie Lubin

Make The Case

Here is the argument for Zagłębie Lubin: Poland, Poland Ekstraklasa, and a ground called Zagłębie Lubin Stadium. A second team should give you something your first one cannot, and this is a different country's whole weather system.

• Worth the journey

  Nearest airport is Copernicus Wrocław Airport (WRO), roughly 59km out. This is not a casual away day, which is precisely why the people who do it take it seriously.

• 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

  1945 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.

• Loaded cabinet

  6 distinct honours on record, including Ekstraklasa. Adopt them and you inherit expectation, which is more fun than it sounds when the trophies keep coming.