Legia Warsaw

Legia Warszawa /ˈlɛɡjə/ (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlɛɡʲja varˈʂava]), known in English as Legia Warsaw, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is one of the most successful Polish football clubs in history winning ten Ekstraklasa Champions titles, a record 16 Polish Cup trophies and a record four Polish SuperCup matches. The club's home venue is the Polish Army Stadium.

The club was founded in March 1916 during military operations in World War I on the Eastern Front in the Maniewicze area in Volhynia, as the football club of the Polish Legions. After World War I, it became the main official football club of the Polish Army – Wojskowy Klub Sportowy Legia Warszawa (Military Sports Club Legia Warsaw). From 1949 to 1957, Legia was known as CWKS Warszawa (Central Military Sports Club Warsaw).

Before 8 April 2004 it was owned by Pol-Mot and from 8 April 2004 (sold for 3 million złoty) up until 9 January 2014, it was owned by media conglomerate ITI Group. Currently the club is owned by Dariusz Mioduski (60%), Bogusław Leśnodorski (20%) and Maciej Wandzel (20%) – who serves as the club's chairman. First two of them have acquired the club for unpublished sum, which also included paying off debts made by previous ownership. Maciej Wandzel has joined them in September 2014.

1261 Legia

1261 Legia (1933 FB) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 23, 1933, by E. Delporte at Uccle.

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