Berlin - Thirty-two teams have qualified for the 2006 World Cup finals which take place in Germany from June 9 - July 9.
POLAND
Honours:
World Cup appearances: 6 (1938, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 2002)
World Cup best: 3rd place (1974, 1982)
Fifa world ranking: 28
Odds: 80/1
Coach: Pawel Janas
One of the linchpins in the celebrated Poland side that finished third at the 1982 World Cup. Achieved great success with Legia Warsaw in the mid-1990s, when they won back-to-back doubles before reaching the Champions League quarter-finals in 1996.
Has been coach since December 2000 and remains broadly popular despite a desperate performance at the 2002 finals.
Player to watch: Maciej Zurawski
Nicknamed 'Magic' Zurawski by fans at his Scottish club Celtic, Zurawski has been a relatively late bloomer who will shoulder the goal-scoring responsibilities for Poland in Germany.
Found the net seven times during the Poles qualifying campaign, and enjoyed a prolific first season at Celtic where he finished with 19 goals and a league title winners medal.
Squad:
Goalkeepers:
Artur Boruc (Celtic/SCO), Lukasz Fabianski (Legia Warsaw), Tomasz Kuszczak (West Bromwich Albion/ENG)
Defenders:
Jacek Bak (Al Rayyan/QAT), Marcin Baszczynski (Wisla Cracow), Michal Zewlakow (Anderlech/BEL), Mariusz Jop (FC Moscow/RUS), Seweryn Gancarczyk (Metalist Kharkiv/UKR), Mariusz Lewandowski (Shakhtar Donetsk/UKR), Dariusz Dudka (Wisla Cracow)
Midfielders:
Euzebiusz Smolarek (Dortmund/GER), Kamil Kosowski (Kaiserslautern/GER), Jacek Krzynowek (Bayer Leverkusen/GER), Arkadiusz Radomski (Austria Vienna/AUT), Sebastian Mila (Austria Vienna/AUT), Miroslawa Szymkowiak (Trabzonspor/TUR), Piotr Giza (Cracow), Bartosz Bosacki (Lech Poznan), Radoslaw Sobolewski (Wisla Cracow)
Forwards:
Maciej Zurawski (Celtic/SCO), Grzegorz Rasiak (Southampton/ENG), Ireneusz Jelen (Wisla Plock), Pawel Brozek (Wisla Cracow)
