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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2014/15 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Amsterdam ArenA - Amsterdam Thursday 19 February 2015 21.05CET (21.05 local time) AFC Ajax Round of 32, First leg Legia Warszawa Last updated 09/06/2015 19:23CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 15 Legend 16 1 AFC Ajax - Legia Warszawa Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams AFC Ajax - Record versus clubs from opponents' country AFC Ajax have not played against a club from their opponents' country Legia Warszawa - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Żewłakow 32 (og), Legia Warszawa - PSV 30/11/2011 GS 0-3 Warsaw Mertens 59 (P), Eindhoven Labyad 68 PSV Eindhoven - Legia 15/09/2011 GS 1-0 Eindhoven Mertens 21 Warszawa UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-3 Kuyt 43; Kucharski 6, 03/10/2002 R1 FC Utrecht - Legia Warszawa Utrecht agg: 2-7 Svitlica 61, 69 (P) Zielinski 19, Vuković 19/09/2002 R1 Legia Warszawa - FC Utrecht 4-1 Warsaw 27, Svitlica 58, 70; van Mol 47 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Van Hanegem 3, 15/04/1970 SF Feyenoord - Legia Warszawa Rotterdam agg: 2-0 Hasil 31 01/04/1970 SF Legia Warszawa - Feyenoord 0-0 Warsaw Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AFC Ajax 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Legia Warszawa 3 1 1 1 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 6 2 1 3 7 8 2 AFC Ajax - Legia Warszawa Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Match background The champions of the Netherlands and Poland go head to head in the UEFA Europa League round of 32, with AFC Ajax coach Frank de Boer looking to enjoy his third encounter with Legia Warszawa. What they say Ajax coach Frank de Boer: "Legia are a good team with good players and a lot of experience, so we must do everything we possibly can to beat them. Legia have an international style. They have two controlling midfielders and one of them is a very good playmaker who likes to inject pace into the game. They certainly aren't a counterattacking team because they like to exert pressure higher up." Legia coach Henning Berg: "I don't think Frank de Boer needs to prove that he's a good coach. He has won the championship four times in a row and that has never happened before at Ajax. Of course it's difficult for him to win the league but it's not impossible. I'm sure they want to go further in the Europa League. They play in the Champions League more or less every year. I'm sure that Ajax wants to go as far as possible in this competition." Previous meetings • The sides are meeting for the first time in UEFA competition. This is Ajax's first experience of Polish opposition. • Legia's three previous games in the Netherlands ended W1 L2. • Ajax coach Frank de Boer took on Legia as an FC Barcelona player in the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League; he scored as his team won 3-0 at home and figured in a 1-0 victory in Warsaw too. Form guide • Ajax's 4-0 thrashing of APOEL FC on matchday six was their only win of this season's UEFA Champions League group stage. It was also their first success in four UEFA club competition home fixtures in 2014. • A 1-0 defeat at KSC Lokeren OV on matchday five ended a three-match winning streak on the road for Legia in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League, all those games having finished 1-0. Trivia and links • Ajax's Polish forward Arkadiusz Milik will be up against his compatriots; the 20-year-old, on loan from Bayer 04 Leverkusen, made his name as a teenager at Górnik Zabrze. • Legia's 36-year-old attacker Marek Saganowski has Dutch experience, having made his first move abroad to play for Feyenoord in 1997, though he failed to score in seven Eredivisie outings. • The final takes place at the National Stadium Warsaw on 27 May. Legia could thus feature in the final in their home city. Feyenoord won the 2001/02 UEFA Cup in a one-off game in Rotterdam, but Sporting Clube de Portugal lost the 2004/05 decider at their Lisbon home. • Legia and Celtic FC have had the longest European campaigns of the round of 32 contenders; having kicked off their seasons in the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round, they enter the round of 32 having already played 12 European matches in 2014/15. • Ajax (Netherlands) and Legia (Poland) are among seven reigning domestic champions in the last 32, along with Aalborg BK (Denmark), FC Salzburg (Austria), Celtic (Scotland), Olympiacos FC (Greece) and RSC Anderlecht (Belgium). • Ajax (1992) are among 11 former UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League winners in the round of 32, and one of six round of 32 contenders who have also lifted the European Cup or UEFA Champions League. The coaches • Ajax coach since 2010, Frank de Boer claimed five league titles, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League as a player with the Amsterdam club, with the defender and his twin brother Ronald then scooping a Spanish championship at Barcelona in 1998/99. He has now steered his old team to four straight Eredivisie crowns. • Henning Berg took charge of Legia at the start of 2014. The former Blackburn Rovers FC, Manchester United FC and Rangers FC defender was capped 100 times by Norway. As a coach, he has held the reins at FK Lyn, Lillestrøm SK and – for just 57 days – Blackburn. 3 AFC Ajax - Legia Warszawa Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Team facts AFC Ajax Formed: 1900 Nickname: Godenzonen (Sons of the Gods) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Cup (4): (1969), 1971, 1972, 1973, 1995, (1996) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1987, (1988) • UEFA Cup (1): 1992 • UEFA Super Cup (2): 1973, (1987), 1995 • European/South American Cup (2): 1972, 1995 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 33 (2014) Dutch Cup: 18 (2010) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2013/14: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2012/13: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2011/12: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2010/11: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2009/10: round of 32 2008/09: round of 16 2007/08: first round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2006/07: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2005/06: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2004/05: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 14-0: Ajax v FA Red Boys Differdange 03/10/84, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 1-8: HJK Helsinki v Ajax 19/09/79, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Ajax v Real Madrid CF 23/11/10, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: FC Bayern München v Ajax 22/10/80, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round first leg 4-0 on four occasions, most recently v FC Barcelona 18/09/13, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 14-0: Ajax v FA Red Boys Differdange (see above) • Biggest away win 0-6: KAA Gent v Ajax 12/09/00, first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Ajax v FC Salzburg 21/02/14, round of 32 first leg 0-3 (aet): Ajax v FK Austria Wien 27/09/1989, first round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-1: Budapest Honvéd FC v Ajax 22/11/78, third round first leg 4 AFC Ajax - Legia Warszawa Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam 3-0 on three occasions, most recently v FC Spartak Moskva 17/03/11, round of 16 second leg Legia Warszawa Formed: 1916 Nickname: Wojskowi (Army Men), Legionisci (Legionnaires) UEFA club competition honours • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) • League title: 10 (2014) • Polish Cup: 16 (2013) Ten-year record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa unless indicated otherwise) 2013/14: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2012/13: play-offs 2011/12: round of 32 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: third qualifying round 2008/09: second qualifying round 2007/08: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round 2006/07: first round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2005/06: second qualifying round 2004/05: first round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 9-0: Legia v Víkingur Reykjavík 27/09/72, European Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 1-6: IF Elfsborg v Legia 27/09/01, UEFA Cup first round second leg 0-5: Saint Patrick's Athletic FC v Legia 23/07/14, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round second leg 0-5: FK Vardar v Legia 12/08/99, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 3-7: Legia v FC Bayern München 05/10/88, UEFA Cup first round second leg 0-4: Legia v TSV 1860 München 03/03/65, European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Valencia CF v Legia 01/11/01, UEFA Cup second round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-0: Legia v FC Tbilisi 26/08/04, second qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 1-6: IF Elfsborg v Legia (see above) 0-5: FK Vardar v Legia (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 3-7: Legia v FC Bayern München (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Valencia CF v Legia (see above) 5 AFC Ajax - Legia Warszawa Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Squad list AFC Ajax Current season All-time UCL UEL League UEL UEFA No.