Latest Events
The 2005/2006 season would be their last as Amica Wronki announced that they would merge with Lech Poznań to form a new team called KKS Lech Poznań for the 2006/2007 season. They played their last game in the Ekstraklasa on May 13, 2006 with a 2-1 win over GKS Bełchatów and finished in 4th place in the final league standings.
Amica will still function as a lower league team next season but the bulk of players and staff has either joined new clubs or transferred to Lech Poznań which will be representing the new merged team in the Ekstraklasa. The new players are mainly youth players, the oldest player in the new squad is 22 years old. This will give them an opportunity to showcase their talents before they are either transferred to Lech Poznań, who have the right of first refusal, or to other clubs.
Apparently the main reason that the merger was finalised was that the Amica company wanted to invest in a team with a larger fanbase. Wronki has a population of 12,000 while Poznań has over 578,900 inhabitants. Another reason was the fact that Lech Poznań were looking for a new sponsor to inject funds into the team and Amica fit the bill perfectly since they were so close. Both cities are in the Greater Poland province of Poland and are barely 50 km apart. Amica get to advertise to more people while Lech Poznań have the financial clout to challenge for the league title.
The start of the 2006/2007 season didn't start well for the new look Lech Poznań as they lost their chance to get into Europe, a benefit that Amica Wronki fought for last season by finishing 4th while Lech Poznań finished 6th. They lost 4-1 on aggregate against Moldovan team FC Tiraspol in the UEFA Intertoto cup and have to contend with a season without European football in Poznań.
Read more about this topic: Amica Wronki
Famous quotes containing the words latest and/or events:
“The point is that nationalism, even in its latest madhouse frenzies under Mussolini and Hitler, is still, like advertising, an arm of big business. Nations as we know them today, were the invention of business and it is natural that business should still consider itself slightly above patriotism and that the strongest international should still be the international of profits.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“On the most profitable lie, the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)