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The Polish Cup in football ( ), known as the STS Polish Cup () for sponsorship reasons, is an annual knockout football competition for Polish football clubs, held continuously since 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title. Due to mass participation of teams, the tournament is often called The Cup of the Thousand Teams ( ).
Participation is open to any club registered with the PZPN, regardless of whether it competes in any league in the national pyramid or not. Reserve and veteran teams are also eligible, with reserve teams reaching the final on two occasions (and winning it once). The Cup is popular among lower-level teams, as it gives them a chance to play better known sides. In some cases, the underdogs have even reached the final, with the most famous example being Czarni Żagań, who were playing in the third division, when they reached the 1964–65 final, eventually won by Górnik Zabrze.
Lower league clubs have to enter regional qualification rounds and the winners of these join the teams from the first and second division in the competition proper. The regional qualifications are played in the preceding season, so that one edition of Polish Cup for lower ranked clubs can last two seasons. Each tie is decided by a single game which is held at the lower league side's stadium. The final used to be a single match, but 2002–2006 it was contested over two legs. Since 2007, the Cup has returned to the single-game final.
The first edition of the Polish Cup took place in 1926, but it was quickly abandoned. In the late 1930s, the President of Poland's Football Cup was organized, which featured teams of the Polish Football Association's regional districts.
The reigning champions, and the competition's most successful club with 21 wins, are Legia Warsaw, who defeated Pogoń Szczecin 4–3 in the final of the 2024–25 edition. Raków Częstochowa hold the record for most consecutive tournament game wins (16) between 2020 and 2023, winning the cup in 2021 and 2022.
| 2000 | Amica Wronki | 2–2 | Wisła Kraków | Stadion Miejski, Kraków | 8,000 |
| 3–0 | Stadion Amici, Wronki | 5,500 | |||
| 2001 | Polonia Warsaw | 2–1 | Górnik Zabrze | Arena Zabrze, Zabrze | 2,216 |
| 2–2 | Stadion Polonii, Warsaw | 3,500 | |||
| 2002 | Wisła Kraków | 4–2 | Amica Wronki | Stadion Amici, Wronki | 2,500 |
| 4–0 | Stadion Miejski, Kraków | 7,000 | |||
| 2003 | Wisła Kraków | 0–1 | Wisła Płock | Stadion Miejski, Kraków | 4,000 |
| 3–0 | Stadion Miejski, Płock | 10,000 | |||
| 2004 | Lech Poznań | 2–0 | Legia Warsaw | Stadion Miejski, Poznań | 26,000 |
| 0–1 | Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw | 15,000 | |||
| 2005 | 2–0 | Zagłębie Lubin | Stadion Dyskobolii, Grodzisk Wielkopolski | 4,000 | |
| 0–1 | Stadion Zagłębia, Lubin | 8,000 | |||
| 2006 | Wisła Płock | 3–2 | Zagłębie Lubin | Stadion Zagłębia, Lubin | 8,000 |
| 3–1 | Stadion Miejski, Płock | 8,520 | |||
| 2007 | Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski | 2–0 | Korona Kielce | GIEKSA Arena, Bełchatów | 5,500 |
| 2008 | Legia Warsaw | 0–0 | Wisła Kraków | GIEKSA Arena, Bełchatów | 5,000 |
| 2009 | Lech Poznań | 1–0 | Ruch Chorzów | Silesian Stadium, Chorzów | 25,000 |
| 2010 | Jagiellonia Białystok | 1–0 | Pogoń Szczecin | Stadion Miejski, Bydgoszcz | 13,300 |
| 2011 | Legia Warsaw | 1–1 | Lech Poznań | Stadion Miejski, Bydgoszcz | 18,200 |
| 2012 | Legia Warsaw | 3–0 | Ruch Chorzów | Stadion Miejski, Kielce | 10,100 |
| 2013 | Legia Warsaw | 2–0 | Śląsk Wrocław | Stadion Miejski, Wrocław | 35,000 |
| 0–1 | Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw | 29,416 | |||
| 2014 | Zawisza Bydgoszcz | 0–0 | Zagłębie Lubin | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 37,120 |
| 2015 | Legia Warsaw | 2–1 | Lech Poznań | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 45,322 |
| 2016 | Legia Warsaw | 1–0 | Lech Poznań | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 48,563 |
| 2017 | Arka Gdynia | 2–1 | Lech Poznań | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 43,760 |
| 2018 | Legia Warsaw | 2–1 | Arka Gdynia | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 47,037 |
| 2019 | Lechia Gdańsk | 1–0 | Jagiellonia Białystok | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 44,158 |
| 2020 | KS Cracovia | 3–2 | Lechia Gdańsk | Arena Lublin, Lublin | 3,478 |
| 2021 | Raków Częstochowa | 2–1 | Arka Gdynia | Arena Lublin, Lublin | 0 |
| 2022 | Raków Częstochowa | 3–1 | Lech Poznań | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 35,694 |
| 2023 | Legia Warsaw | 0–0 | Raków Częstochowa | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 44,701 |
| 2024 | Wisła Kraków | 2–1 | Pogoń Szczecin | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 47,506 |
| 2025 | Legia Warsaw | 4–3 | Pogoń Szczecin | Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw | 51,233 |
| Legia Warsaw | 21 | 6 | 1955, 1956, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2025 |
| Górnik Zabrze | 6 | 7 | 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 |
| Lech Poznań | 5 | 6 | 1982, 1984, 1988, 2004, 2009 |
| Wisła Kraków | 5 | 6 | 1926, 1967, 2002, 2003, 2024 |
| Zagłębie Sosnowiec | 4 | 1 | 1962, 1963, 1977, 1978 |
| Ruch Chorzów | 3 | 6 | 1951, 1974, 1996 |
| GKS Katowice | 3 | 5 | 1986, 1991, 1993 |
| Amica Wronki | 3 | 1 | 1998, 1999, 2000 |
| Arka Gdynia | 2 | 2 | 1979, 2017 |
| Lechia Gdańsk | 2 | 2 | 1983, 2019 |
| Raków Częstochowa | 2 | 2 | 2021, 2022 |
| Śląsk Wrocław | 2 | 1 | 1976, 1987 |
| Polonia Warsaw | 2 | – | 1952, 2001 |
| Jagiellonia Białystok | 1 | 2 | 2010 |
| Wisła Płock | 1 | 1 | 2006 |
| ŁKS Łódź | 1 | 1 | 1957 |
| Gwardia Warsaw | 1 | 1 | 1954 |
| KS Cracovia | 1 | – | 2020 |
| Dyskobolia Grodzisk | 1 | – | 2007 |
| Zawisza Bydgoszcz | 1 | – | 2014 |
| Miedź Legnica | 1 | – | 1992 |
| Widzew Łódź | 1 | – | 1985 |
| Stal Rzeszów | 1 | – | 1975 |
| Pogoń Szczecin | – | 5 | – |
| Polonia Bytom | – | 3 | – |
| Zagłębie Lubin | – | 3 | – |
| GKS Bełchatów | – | 2 | – |
| Piast Gliwice | – | 2 | – |
| Aluminium Konin | – | 1 | – |
| Czarni Żagań | – | 1 | – |
| Korona Kielce | – | 1 | – |
| ROW Rybnik | – | 1 | – |
| Sparta Lwów | – | 1 | – |
| Stal Mielec | – | 1 | – |
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