Legia Poznań is a defunct Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 football club from Poznań

Poznan

Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

. Founded in 1922, Legia was the second strongest team in the city of Poznań, behind Warta Poznań

Warta Poznan

Warta Poznań is a football club based in Poznań, Poland. Founded in 1912, the club are two-time winners of the Polish Football Championship, in 1929 and 1947, but currently reside in the Polish First League. The name means the Guard in Polish and also a name of river Warta on which Poznań is...

. Its team was nine times champion of Poznan’s A-Class Regional League (see: Lower Level Football Leagues in Interwar Poland

Lower Level Football Leagues in Interwar Poland

In interbellum Poland, there was not a national, Second Division, as we know it today . For example, on Sunday, September 26, 1937 in Częstochowa, a conference of A-Class teams took place, during which the possibility of creation of the Second League was discussed...

) - in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933,1934, 1934/1935, 1937/1938 and in 1938/1939. Despite these successes, Legia never managed to win promotion to the Ekstraklasa. It was closest in the 1939 qualifying games, when it faced three opponents - Śląsk Świętochłowice, Junak Drohobycz

Junak Drohobycz

Junak Drohobycz was a Polish soccer team, located in Drohobycz , on the historic territory of Kresy Wschodnie . It was disbanded by the Soviet occupying authorities in the fall of 1939, following Soviet attack on Eastern Poland...

 and Śmigły Wilno. However, the outbreak of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

  cut these games.

After the war, the new, Communist government of Poland did not favor prewar teams, and Legia, as well as Warta, were sidelined, and replaced with Lech Poznan

Lech Poznan

Lech Poznań is a Polish football club based in Poznań, Poland. The club is named after Lech, the legendary founder of Polish nation.The club was established in 1922 as Lutnia Dębiec, later changing its name several times. From 1933 until 1994, the club was closely linked to Polish State Railways...

. Legia Poznan ceased to exist in 1949.