Poland national football team (Polish: Reprezentacja Polski w piłce nożnej) is the national football team of Poland, under the auspices of the Polish Football Association.

It played its first international match on 18 December 1921 in Budapest against Hungary and was defeated 0:1. Poland won the Gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the Silver medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the World Cup, Poland finished third twice: in 1974 and 1982.

Euro 2008 will be the first European Cup of Poland.Euro 2008 Qalifications ,Poland was in Group A with Portugal.Poland finished group in the first place.

Now in the tournament,they will be in group B and they will fight with Austria, Croatia and Germany.Their first match will be 8 June 2008 at 20:45 against Germany, in Klagenfurt - Wörthersee stadium.

Poland Team Squad :

Goalkeepers : Artur Boruc ,Jerzy Dudek ,Łukasz Fabiański ,Wojciech Kowalewski ,Tomasz Kuszczak

Defenders : Jacek Bąk ,Marcin Baszczyński ,Dariusz Dudka ,Arkadiusz Głowacki ,Pawel Golański ,Mariusz Jop, Tomasz Kiełbowicz ,Adam Kokoszka ,Krzysztof Lagiewka ,Marcin Wasilewski ,Jakub Wawrzyniak ,Michał Żewłakow

Midfielders: Jakub Błaszczykowski ,Grzegorz Bronowicki ,Lukasz Gargula ,Piotr Giza ,Konrad Gołoś ,Rafal Grzelak ,Przemysław Kaźmierczak ,Kamil Kosowski ,Jacek Krzynówek ,Mariusz Lewandowski ,Wojciech Łobodziński ,Rafał Murawski ,Arkadiusz Radomski ,Euzebiusz Smolarek ,Radosław Sobolewski ,Sebastian Szalachowski ,Mirosław Szymkowiak

Forwards: Tomasz Frankowski ,Ireneusz Jeleń, Radoslaw Matusiak ,Grzegorz Rasiak ,Marek Saganowski , Tomasz Zahorski ,Maciej Żurawski

Leo Beenhakker (born August 2, 1942 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is an international Dutch football coach, currently the coach of the Polish national team. He is considered one of the best and the most experienced coaches in the world.

He has been the coach of several prestigious clubs including Ajax, Feyenoord, Real Madrid, Real Zaragoza and Club América. He has also coached the Saudi Arabian and Dutch national teams. He coached the national team of Trinidad and Tobago in the year leading up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Under Beenhakker’s guidance the team managed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup, where the team secured a (goalless) draw against Sweden in its first match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and gave England cause for concern in the second match.

From 2000 to 2003 Beenhakker was Director of Technical Affairs with Ajax. In that period he fired coach Co Adriaanse and replaced him with Ronald Koeman.

Because he has been active in Spanish football he has the nickname “Don Leo”. He is famous for his fondness of cigars and his dry humor.

On 11 July 2006 Leo Beenhakker was appointed as the manager of the Polish national football team. Originally he was appointed to manage Poland until the end of Euro 2008, however his contract was prolonged until November 2009 and the end of World Cup 2010 qualifiers.

Feyenoord hired him on 5 May 2007 to coach the team through the 2006/2007 play-offs.

On 17 November 2007, beating Belgium 2-0, he managed to qualify with Polish national team to 2008 European Football Championship - the first coach ever to do so; even in its golden years, the seventies and eighties, Poland never qualified to play in the European Football Championship.