Country Poland Champions Legia Warsaw Matches played 86 Dates 18 Jul 2012 – 8 May 2013 | Teams 83 Runners-up Śląsk Wrocław Goals scored 274 (3.19 per match) Location Poland | |
The 2012–13 Polish Cup is the fifty-ninth season of the annual Polish football knockout tournament. It began on 18 July 2012 with the first matches of the Extra Preliminary Round and end on 3 May 2013 with the Final. The winners will qualify for the second qualifying round of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. Legia Warsaw are the defending champions, having won their record breaking 15th title in the previous season.
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Participating teams
Notes:
- The winner of Opole region preliminaries Start Bogdanowice changed its name to Odra Wodzisław. The two clubs merged in January 2012.
Extra Preliminary Round
The draw for this round was conducted at the headquarters of the Polish FA on 18 June 2012. Participating in this round are 16 regional cup winners and 35 teams from the 2011–12 II Liga. The matches were played on 18 July 2012. Pelikan Łowicz received a bye to the Preliminary round.
Notes:
- Calisia withdrew from the competition.
- KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski withdrew from the competition.
- Stal Stalowa Wola withdrew from the competition.
- Czarni Żagań withdrew from the competition.
Preliminary Round
The draw for this round was conducted at the headquarters of the Polish FA on 18 June 2012. The matches were played on 24 and 25 July 2012. Stomil Olsztyn and Sokół Aleksandrów Łódzki received a bye to the First Round.
First Round
The draw for this round was conducted at the headquarters of the Polish FA on 26 July 2012. Participating in this round are the 12 winners of the preliminary round along with Stomil Olsztyn and Sokół Aleksandrów Łódzki and the 18 teams from 2011–12 I Liga (Poland). The matches will be played on 31 July–1 August 2012.
Notes:
- Ruch Radzionków withdrew from the competition.
Round of 32
The draw for this round was conducted at the headquarters of the Polish FA on 26 July 2012. Participating in this round are the 16 winners of the first round along with and the 16 teams from 2011–12 Ekstraklasa. The matches will be played on 11–12 August 2012 with the exception of matches involving Legia Warsaw and Śląsk Wrocław.
Round of 16
The 16 winners from Round of 32 compete in this round. The matches will be played on 25–27 September and 2–3 October.
Quarterfinals
The 8 winners from Round of 16 competed in this round.
The matches will be played in two legs. The first leg took place on 26 and 28 February 2013, while the second legs were played on 12 and 13 March 2013.
Pairs were determined on 24 October 2012.
Two second legs were moved to 26–27 March 2013 due to bad weather conditions. This is an official UEFA date and matches will be played without players called to the National Teams, what was agreed by interested teams.
Semi-finals
The 4 winners from the Quarterfinals will compete in this round.
The matches will be played in two legs. The first legs will take place on 10 April 2013, while the second legs will be played on 17 April 2013.
The two winners will move on to this year's Final.
Second Legs
Legia Warsaw won 2–1 on aggregate.
Śląsk Wrocław won 5–3 on aggregate.
Final
Legia Warsaw won 2–1 on aggregate.