[2][3][4] A temporary English-style football pitch was set up in Stryiskyi Park to accommodate several sport performances during the General National Exhibition.

[3] As first official football game for what's now Poland and Ukraine, it was played with "local rules" rather than something more formal, with several modern journalists speculating that the players knew just as much about soccer as the spectators.

[7][5][3] The number of spectators varies widely between 1,000 and 10,000 and there is speculation that figures such as Franz Joseph I of Austria, Eustachy Stanisław Sanguszko, Adam Stefan Sapieha, and Count Kasimir Felix Badeni were among the audience.

[5] Kraków's referee, Zygmunt Wyrobek, attempted to convince others to allow the game to continue but was refused, as football's slot was up and another sport, sometimes identified as gymnastics, was set to perform.

[6][8][3] Following the exhibition game, Chomicki played for Pogoń Lwów and the Poland national football team but eventually retired from sport and became a physical education teacher.