Ekstraklasa Awards

Ekstraklasa Awards
Sport	Association football
Competition	Ekstraklasa
Awarded for	Best players of each Ekstraklasa season
Country	Poland
History
First award	2009
Editions	15
First winner	Robert Lewandowski (POL); (2010);
Most wins	14 players; (1 time each);
Most recent	Kamil Grosicki (POL); (2023);

The Ekstraklasa Awards are awarded every year to the best footballers of Ekstraklasa at a special event named Ekstraklasa Gala.

History and regulations[edit]

Awards for the best player and the biggest discovery of Ekstraklasa season were first introduced in 2010. An award for the best coach was introduced one year later. In 2013, positional awards were given for the first time. The ‘Discovery of the Season’ award was discontinued after 2018 and then replaced with ‘Young Player of the Season’ award.

While award for the best Player of the Season is given on the basis of a vote by footballers playing in Ekstraklasa, the Young Player of the Season is chosen by the sponsor of the league (currently PKO Bank Polski) while positional/ best coach awards winners are chosen by journalists.^[1]

An award for the top scorer of Ekstraklasa is awarded on the gala since 2006-07 season.^[2]

Awards[edit]


Season	Best Player	Best Young Player	Best Striker	Best Midfielder	Best Defender	Best Goalkeeper	Best Coach	Best Goal	Discovery of the Season	Best Save	Ref
2008-09	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Robert Lewandowski (Lech)	–	–	^[3]
2009-10	Robert Lewandowski (Lech)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Artur Sobiech (Ruch)	–	^[4]
2010-11	Adrian Mierzejewski (Polonia Warsaw)	–	–	–	–	–	Orest Lenczyk (Śląsk)	–	Maor Melikson (Wisła Kraków)	–	^[5]
2011-12	Arkadiusz Piech (Ruch)	–	–	–	–	–	Waldemar Fornalik (Ruch)	–	Rafał Wolski (Legia)	–	^[6]
2012-13	Róbert Demjan (Podbeskidzie)	–	Róbert Demjan (Podbeskidzie)	Sebastian Mila (Śląsk)	Artur Jędrzejczyk (Legia)	Emilijus Zubas (Bełchatów)	Jan Urban (Legia)	Przemysław Kaźmierczak (Śląsk)	Bartosz Bereszyński (Lech) (Legia)	–	^[7]
2013-14	Miroslav Radović (Legia)	–	Marcin Robak (Pogoń)	Miroslav Radović (Legia)	Arkadiusz Głowacki (Wisła Kraków)	Dušan Kuciak (Legia)	Jan Kocian (Ruch)	Marcin Malinowski (Ruch)	Michał Masłowski (Zawisza)	Krzysztof Baran (Jagiellonia)	^[8]
2014-15	Kamil Wilczek (Piast)	–	Kamil Wilczek (Piast)	Semir Štilić (Wisła Kraków)	Michał Pazdan (Jagiellonia)	Bartłomiej Drągowski (Jagiellonia)	Michał Probierz (Jagiellonia)	–	Bartłomiej Drągowski (Jagiellonia)	–	^[9]
2015-16	Nemanja Nikolić (Legia)	–	Nemanja Nikolić (Legia)	Rafał Murawski (Pogoń)	Patrik Mráz (Piast)	Jakub Szmatuła (Piast)	Radoslav Látal (Piast)	Jarosław Fojut (Pogoń)	Bartosz Kapustka (Cracovia)	Radosław Cierzniak (Wisła Kraków)	^[10]
2016-17	Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe (Legia)	–	Marcin Robak (Lech)	Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe (Legia)	Maciej Dąbrowski (Legia)	Matúš Putnocký (Lech)	Maciej Bartoszek (Korona)	–	Jarosław Niezgoda (Legia) (Ruch)	–	^[11]
2017-18	Carlitos López (Wisła Kraków)	–	Carlitos López (Wisła Kraków)	Rafał Kurzawa (Górnik)	Michał Helik (Cracovia)	Arkadiusz Malarz (Legia)	Marcin Brosz (Górnik)	–	Szymon Żurkowski (Górnik)	–	^[12]
2018-19	Joel Valencia (Piast)	Patryk Dziczek (Piast)	Igor Angulo (Górnik)	Joel Valencia (Piast)	Aleksandar Sedlar (Piast)	František Plach (Piast)	Waldemar Fornalik (Piast)	–	–	–	^[12]
2019-20	Jorge Félix (Piast)	Michał Karbownik (Legia)	Christian Gytkjaer (Lech)	Domagoj Antolić (Legia)	Artur Jędrzejczyk (Legia)	Dušan Kuciak (Lechia)	Aleksandar Vuković (Legia)	–	–	–	^[12]
2020-21	Filip Mladenović (Legia)	Kamil Piątkowski (Raków)	Tomáš Pekhart (Legia)	Luquinhas (Legia)	Filip Mladenović (Legia)	Dante Stipica (Pogoń)	Marek Papszun (Raków)	Jesus Imaz (Jagiellonia)	–	–	^[12]
2021-22	Ivi López (Raków)	Jakub Kamiński (Lech)	Mikael Ishak (Lech)	Ivi López (Raków)	Bartosz Salamon (Lech)	Vladan Kovačević (Raków)	Maciej Skorża (Lech)	Fabian Piasecki (Śląsk)	–	–	^[12]
2022-23	Kamil Grosicki (Pogoń)	Ariel Mosór (Piast)	Marc Gual (Jagiellonia)	Josué Pesqueira (Legia)	Fran Tudor (Raków)	Vladan Kovačević (Raków)	Marek Papszun (Raków)	Fabian Piasecki (Raków)	–	–	^[13]