# 2016–17 Legia Warsaw season

The 2016–17 season was Legia Warsaw's 80th season in the Ekstraklasa and 100th year in existence as a football club. In addition to the domestic league, Legia Warsaw participated in this season's editions of the Polish Cup, the Polish Super Cup, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.

## Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | POL | Arkadiusz Malarz |
| 2 | DF | POL | Michał Pazdan |
| 3 | MF | POL | Tomasz Jodłowiec |
| 4 | DF | POL | Jakub Czerwiński |
| 5 | DF | POL | Maciej Dąbrowski |
| 6 | MF | BRA | Guilherme |
| 8 | MF | BEL | Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe |
| 9 | MF | GEO | Valeri Qazaishvili |
| 14 | DF | CZE | Adam Hloušek |
| 15 | MF | POL | Michał Kopczyński |
| 18 | MF | POL | Michał Kucharczyk |
| 21 | MF | HUN | Dominik Nagy |
| 22 | MF | FIN | Kasper Hämäläinen |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | DF | POL | Mateusz Hołownia |
| 24 | FW | CZE | Tomáš Necid |
| 25 | DF | POL | Jakub Rzeźniczak |
| 26 | FW | CRO | Sandro Kulenović |
| 27 | FW | NGA | Daniel Chima Chukwu |
| 28 | DF | POL | Łukasz Broź |
| 30 | GK | POL | Radosław Majecki |
| 32 | MF | SRB | Miroslav Radović |
| 33 | GK | POL | Radosław Cierzniak |
| 42 | MF | POL | Bartłomiej Urbański |
| 53 | MF | POL | Sebastian Szymański |
| 55 | DF | POL | Artur Jędrzejczyk |
| 75 | MF | FRA | Thibault Moulin |
Source:

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Ekstraklasa | 16 July 2016 | 4 June 2017 | Matchday 1 | Winners | 37 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 70 | 31 | +39 | 056.76 |
| Polish Cup | 10 August 2016 | 10 August 2016 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Polish Super Cup | 7 July 2016 | 7 July 2016 | Final | Runners-up | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 000.00 |
| UEFA Champions League | 12 July 2016 | 7 December 2016 | Second qualifying round | Group stage | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 26 | −10 | 033.33 |
| UEFA Europa League | 16 February 2017 | 23 February 2017 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 53 | 25 | 15 | 13 | 89 | 65 | +24 | 047.17 |
Source: Competitions

### Polish Super Cup

As the previous season's Ekstraklasa and Polish Cup winners, Legia Warsaw faced cup runners-up Lech Poznań in the 2016 Polish Super Cup.

### Ekstraklasa
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Competitions

#### Regular season
##### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Jagiellonia Białystok | 30 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 56 | 31 | +25 | 59 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 2 | Legia Warsaw | 30 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 58 | 30 | +28 | 58 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 3 | Lech Poznań | 30 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 50 | 22 | +28 | 55 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 4 | Lechia Gdańsk | 30 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 46 | 37 | +9 | 53 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 5 | Wisła Kraków | 30 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 45 | 46 | −1 | 44 | Qualification for the championship round |

##### Matches
#### Championship round
##### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Legia Warsaw (C) | 37 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 70 | 31 | +39 | 44 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | Jagiellonia Białystok | 37 | 21 | 8 | 8 | 64 | 39 | +25 | 42 | Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round |
| 3 | Lech Poznań | 37 | 20 | 9 | 8 | 62 | 29 | +33 | 42 | Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round |
| 4 | Lechia Gdańsk | 37 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 57 | 37 | +20 | 42 | |
| 5 | Korona Kielce | 37 | 14 | 5 | 18 | 47 | 65 | −18 | 28 | |
* 1 2 3 Regular season record: Jagiellonia 59 pts, Lech 55 pts, Lechia 53 pts.

##### Matches
### UEFA Champions League
#### Qualifying rounds
##### Third qualifying round
#### Play-off round
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | DOR | RMA | LEG | SPO |
| 1 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 9 | +12 | 14 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 2–2 | 8–4 | 1–0 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 10 | +6 | 12 | Advance to knockout phase | 2–2 | — | 5–1 | 2–1 |
| 3 | Legia Warsaw | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 24 | −15 | 4 | Transfer to Europa League | 0–6 | 3–3 | — | 1–0 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 3 | | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | — |