Sandecja Nowy Sącz

When Sandecja meet Podhale Nowy Targ the fixture is billed as the Derby Małopolski. Kraków and Rzeszów supply the other grudge matches, though those carry weight only when the table puts the clubs within reach of each other.

The season that mattered was 2016/17, when Sandecja won I liga and reached the Ekstraklasa for the first time. Aleksandar Kolev scored the club's first goal in the top flight.

Piotr Świerczewski came through the club's own ranks, won 70 caps for Poland and took Olympic silver in 1992, and later returned to Nowy Sącz as coach. Two records from the older era have not been touched — 671 appearances by Tadeusz Konieczny , and 371 goals by Stefan Baran .

The recent years have been spent climbing back.