Poland
Coach Patryk Rombel and his team are on two missions at the EHF EURO 2022 - first to forget the weak results of previous editions, and secondly to promote the 2023 World Championship, jointly hosted with Sweden.
Poland missed EHF EURO 2018 and finished 21st at EHF EURO 2020; they missed direct qualification for the IHF Men’s World Championship 2021, but received an IHF wildcard to participate.
In Egypt, they showed their progression. Players such as Szymon Sicko, Michal Olejniczak and Arkadiusz Moryto have developed in the right way and the full transition from the former golden generation – World Championship 2007 silver medallists, and World Championship 2009 and 2015 bronze medallists – to the new generation was coming to fruition.
Rombel has integrated many young players, many of them from 2016 EHF Champions League winners Kielce or the 2021 EHF European League semi-finalists Orlen Wisla Plock. Some experienced stars, such as PSG line player Kamil Syprzak, who missed the World Championship 2021, or left wing Przemyslav Krajewski, are still part of the squad, but the future has begun for Poland.
The team booked their EHF EURO 2022 ticket as one of the four best third-ranked teams after finishing their group below Slovenia and the Netherlands. A 27:26 win against Slovenia was crucial to make it to Bratislava, where they will face Belarus, Germany and Austria in the preliminary round.
Poland’s best EHF EURO result so far was fourth in 2010, when they lost the bronze final against Iceland. On home ground in 2016, they missed out on qualifying for the semi-finals after a defeat by Croatia in the final main round match.
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28
29
29
18
28
31
42
23
30
20
29
31
36
32
30
27
26
26
27
32
29
35
24
24
29
EHF competition history
Netherlands
25
Poland
24
Poland
27
Netherlands
21
Poland
26
Sweden
24
Poland
23
Croatia
37
Poland
32
Belarus
27
Poland
28
Norway
30
France
25
Poland
31
Fyr Macedonia
23
Poland
24
Poland
29
Serbia
28
Hungary
31
Poland
28
Croatia
28
Poland
24
Poland
27
Serbia
26
Denmark
28
Poland
27
Poland
21
Sweden
24
Korea
20
Poland
25
Poland
38
Chile
23
Argentina
23
Poland
24
Poland
35
Slovakia
33
Poland
26
Iceland
29
Croatia
24
Poland
21
Poland
24
France
29
Poland
35
Czech Republic
34
Poland
32
Spain
26
Poland
30
Slovenia
30
Poland
27
Sweden
24
Germany
25
Poland
27
Poland
34
Romania
22
Montenegro
23
Poland
31
Poland
32
Sweden
32
Poland
32
Turkey
21
Turkey
20
Poland
30
Sweden
27
Poland
24
Romania
33
Poland
29
Poland
30
Montenegro
20
Key Players
Left back
Szymon Sicko was Poland’s top scorer at the EHF EURO with 15 goals, and second-best scorer at the IHF Men’s World Championship 2021 with 29 strikes. He made his debut in the national team in 2017 and is a classical shooter, the successor of legendary left back Karol Bielecki. Sicko was signed by Kielce in 2017, but was on loan to Hüttenberg in Germany and Zabrze in Poland until he returned to Kielce in 2020. In the current EHF Champions League season, Sicko has scored 36 goals for Kielce.
Line player
With 144 international matches played and 282 goals, Kamil Syprzak is the most experienced and the tallest (2.07m) player in the Polish team. He was ruled out of the IHF Men’s World Championship 2021 in Egypt with Covid-19. Syprzak moved from Plock to Barça in 2015 and after four seasons transferred to Paris Saint-Germain, where he just extended his contract. He scored a personal best 51 goals in the EHF Champions League 2020/21 season, one more than in 2019/20.
Head Coach
Coach
Patryk Rombel became Poland’s head coach in January 2019 as successor to Piotr Przybecki, and immediately qualified the team for EHF EURO 2020. He was the youngest coach at that tournament at the age of 36. Rombel previously assisted Talant Dujshebaev in the Polish national team from 2016 to 2017. He was also the youngest-ever coach in the Polish Super League at the age of 31 in 2015 for his former club Kwidzyn, and coached HC Motor alongside the Polish national B team between 2017 and 2018.
