Silesia national football team


Silesia football team is an informal regional football team made up of players from football clubs located in Silesia, under the auspices of the Silesian Football Association. It is not affiliated to FIFA, and does not play in official international matches.

Matches Silesia vs PolandPaweł Czado, "Jak Górny Śląsk grał z reprezentacją Polski" (''How Upper Silesia played against the Polish national team''), Gazeta Wyborcza, 2006-12-06, http://katowice.gazeta.pl/katowice/1,35024,3775976.html (in Polish)

No.DateStadiumMatchResultTurnout
1October 4, 1933KS Police Stadium, Katowice Silesia vs. Poland 1–25,000
2April 26, 1953Ruch Stadium, Chorzów Silesia vs. Poland 2–312,000
3September 13, 1953Polonia Stadium, Bytom Silesia vs. Poland 3–33,000
4December 9, 2006Ruch Stadium, Chorzów Silesia vs. Poland 1–15,000

Matches Silesia vs other national football teams

Although Silesia was never independently affiliated with FIFA, it is a place of origin of many notable football players playing mostly for the Germany, Poland and Czech Republic national teams. In 2010, the following hypothetical "dream" Silesian team was presented of the current players of Silesian background: Raphael Schäfer, Marek Jankulovski, Kamil Glik, Tomas Ujfalusi, Łukasz Piszczek, Adam Matuszczyk, Libor Sionko, Sebastian Tyrała, Lukas Podolski, Ireneusz Jeleń, Miroslav Klose.
Since then, other prominent Silesian players who have appeared for the full Poland team include Łukasz Skorupski, Tomasz Jodłowiec, Jakub Błaszczykowski, Piotr Ćwielong, Arkadiusz Milik and Artur Sobiech. Mario Lička, Tomáš Vaclík and Michal Papadopoulos have been capped by the Czech Republic.