[1] The first professional clubs were founded in the early 1900s, and the Poland national football team played its first international match in 1921.

The park, along with the Sokół society founded in 1867, became the main centres to promote sports and healthy living in Poland.

[2] Other sources[3] mention Dr. Edmund Cenar as the one to bring the first ball and the one to translate The Cambridge Rules and parts of the International Football Association Board regulations to Polish language.

Despite being discouraged by many educational societies and the state authorities, the new sport gained extreme popularity among pupils of various gymnasiums in Galicia.

It is uncertain which of the clubs was created first as they were initially poorly organized; however, the Czarni Lwów are usually credited as being the first Polish professional football team.

The same summer the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show set up camp at Kraków's Błonia, right outside of the traditional playground area and Jordan's garden.

On 5 August 1906 the team of the Kraków-based Jan Sobieski Gymnasium played a match against the British and American members of Buffalo Bill's troupe, winning 1–0.

After the outbreak of World War I, most of the Galician football players, many of them members of either Strzelec or Sokół, joined Piłsudski's Polish Legions.

The league could not be formed due to the Polish-Bolshevik War, but in 1922 the PZPN published the rules of football[4] and the following year it joined FIFA.

On December 3, 2024, the Polish women's national team made history by defeating Austria 1-0 in Vienna via a 94th minute goal by captain Ewa Pajor, thereby defeating the Austrians 2-0 on aggregate in a home and away playoff tie, and qualifying for their first ever major international tournament, the 2025 UEFA Women's Euro.

This move displeased FIFA which announced that the principle of autonomy of football associations was of utmost importance.

On 15 April 2009, the total number of arrests reached 200, including referees, observers, coaches, players as well as some high-ranking officials of the PZPN.

[10] Poland national football team have qualified for the finals on nine occasions, most recently for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.