{"id":9627,"date":"2018-02-13T12:26:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.it.tarnow.pl\/how-a-village-of-750-people-qualified-for-polish-footballs-top-flight-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:15:31","slug":"how-a-village-of-750-people-qualified-for-polish-footballs-top-flight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.it.tarnow.pl\/en\/how-a-village-of-750-people-qualified-for-polish-footballs-top-flight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Village of 750 People Qualified for Polish Football&#8217;s Top Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football fans, have you heard of Bruk-Bet? <i>No?<\/i> OK, maybe you\u2019ve heard of Termalica? <i>Still no?<\/i> OK how about the village of Nieciecza?<i> No?<\/i>\u00a0Welcome to the world of <i>\u201cTermalica\u201d<\/i>, (full name Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza Klub Sportowy) who play their matches in the smallest-ever village to boast a top flight football club in Europe. Read on to understand this fairytale.<\/p>\n<h3>Record Breakers<\/h3>\n<p>With a population of only 750, Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza is a football club from Nieciecza in Poland, the smallest village in history to qualify for the top level of a European football league (the former record was held by Czech team\u00a0FK Chmel Bl\u0161any). They achieved this feat in 2015 when they reached the Polish Ekstraklasa after a continued series of promotions.\u00a0Not just that, but Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza beat the mighty Legia Warsaw 1-0 in 2017, here in this tiny village of Nieciecza. What\u2019s their story?<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story by Jonny Blair at <a href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/europe\/poland\/articles\/how-a-village-of-750-people-qualified-for-polish-footballs-top-flight\/\" class=\"target_blank\">https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/europe\/poland\/articles\/how-a-village-of-750-people-qualified-for-polish-footballs-top-flight\/<\/a>\n\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football fans, have you heard of Bruk-Bet? No? OK, maybe you\u2019ve heard of Termalica? Still no? OK how about the village of Nieciecza? 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