Maciej Skorża (Polish pronunciation::; born 10 January 1972) is a Polish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań.

Contents

• 1 Club career
• 2 Managerial career
• 3 Honours
  • 3.1 Manager
    • 3.1.1 Amica Wronki youth
    • 3.1.2 Dyskobolia
    • 3.1.3 Wisła Kraków
    • 3.1.4 Legia Warsaw
    • 3.1.5 Lech Poznań
• 4 References

Club career

He was as a defender for Radomiak Radom and AZS-AWF Warsaw.

Managerial career

In 1994, he began his coaching career as a youth coach for Legia Warsaw. He managed SMS Piaseczno during the 1998–99 season. From 1999 to 2003, he coached the Amica Wronki youth team and was successful in winning a league *le in 2002. He also was an *istant to Mirosław Jabłoński while at Wisła Płock.

In May 2003, Paweł Janas appointed Skorża as an *istant coach for the Poland national football team. However, following Poland's elimination from the 2006 FIFA World Cup group stage, the entire staff, including Skorża, was sacked by the Polish Football *ociation.

He had a short spell at Wisła Płock as an *istant manager before returning to Amica Wronki as manager in 2004. In the 2004–05 season, Skorża became the first Polish coach to manage to qualify a Polish football club to the group stage of the UEFA Cup. In the 2006–2007 season, he joined Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski and won the Polish Cup and Ekstraklasa Cup. On 13 June 2007 Skorża was appointed as the manager of Wisła Kraków which he led twice to league *le, winning Ekstraklasa in seasons 2007–08 and 2008–09. He worked with Wisła Kraków until 15 March 2010, when the Wisła's board of directors fired him after a series of three games without a win, in spite of the club holding the lead of the league.

On 1 June he was announced as the new manager of Legia Warsaw. On 30 May 2012, Skorża's two-year spell as the Legia manager came to an end.

On 1 September 2014, Skorża began his tenure as manager of Lech Poznań, signing a three-year contract with the club. In his first season in charge Lech Poznań won Polish Ekstraklasa with a 0-0 draw with Wisła Kraków. This was the third Polish *le in his managerial career. This game was watched by 42000 of fans from the stand, the highest attendance of whole 2014/2015 season in Poland. Starting the next 2015/2016 games Skorża played in Poznań (because the host was the Champion – Lech) with Legia Warsaw for the Polish SuperCup. His Lech won the trophy after great victory 3:1 over most dangerous rival. This game watched 40000 of viewers and was beaten record of the SuperCup's compe*ion audience size.

From 19 March 2018 to 28 February 2020 Skorża led United Arab Emirates national under-23 team.

On 10 April 2021 he was announced as the manager of Lech Poznań. He officially took over this position on 12 April.

Honours

Manager

Amica Wronki youth

• Football Junior Championships of Poland: 2002

Dyskobolia

• Polish Cup: 2006–07
• Ekstraklasa Cup: 2007

Wisła Kraków

• Ekstraklasa: 2007–08, 2008–09

Legia Warsaw

• Polish Cup: 2010–11, 2011–12

Lech Poznań

• Ekstraklasa: 2014–15, 2021–22
• Polish Super Cup: 2015

References