The coach of the Whites and Reds is also proud, Jacek Kołodziejczyk: “I know how much work it took from our players and the entire staff. I am immensely proud of them,” said the Lower Silesia team coach after the match. The final was incredible: the Poles hit the crossbar and also created more chances in the match. The game itself was exactly as expected: the best attacking team (Aragon) faced the best Polish defence.
“I think that, with time, we will assess this tournament positively, because it was an incredible experience. I have never played in extra time like that in my life,” summed up Paweł Niemienionek, captain of Lower Silesia and, on a daily basis, a defender for Karkonosze Jelenia Góra.
The match was not dictated by the Spaniards—Kamil Olek and Mikołaj Wawrzyniak created the better chances to score, while Jakub Jabłoński hit the crossbar with a long-range shot (all three from Ślęza Wrocław). When Tomasz Wroński (Polonia Środa Śląska), a substitute for the Whites and Reds, took a shot in the second half, it seemed that our players would finally break through. However, Mateo Lite, who plays as goalkeeper for the Spanish fourth-tier club CD Ebro, stretched fully across his goal and turned the shot heading inside the post away.
Our defensive performance deserves tremendous recognition. They kept in check Chegu, the incredible winger representing Aragon, who had scored the goals that decided the Spaniards’ progress to the final during the tournament.
“An incredible match, and enormous respect for the Poles’ performance,” said Aragon captain Karol Losin after the match. He holds dual Polish-Spanish citizenship.
It was a Pole who lifted the Regions’ Cup—but he did so for Spanish Aragon. This does not change the fact that the Poles are European runners-up and, as a region, remain unmatched in the finals they have played—it was their third final and, unfortunately, the first lost by Lower Silesia.
Aragon, meanwhile, claimed the trophy for the first time in its history. It is already the Spaniards’ fourth title, but representatives of the same region had never won it before.
“For us, the most difficult stage is the national qualifying phase, because at the final tournament we only faced Poles of our level,” said the captain of the Aragon team.
Both teams wished each other a meeting in the final in two years’ time.
The entire 2025 UEFA Regions’ Cup campaign by Jacek Kołodziejczyk’s team should be assessed positively: the team played ten matches, recording nine victories. It was only the Spaniards who proved better, in the grand final, several dozen seconds before the end of the second period of extra time.
Silver medals were placed around the necks of the Lower Silesians: Marcin Gąsiorowski, Piotr Gembara, Patryk Maciejewski, Mikołaj Łazarowicz, Marcin Franczak, Jakub Jabłoński, Kacper Bieńkowski, Adrian Niewiadomski, Paweł Niemienionek, Dawid Wasilewski, Mikołaj Wawrzyniak, Jakub Bohdanowicz, Adam Bońkowski, Dawid Bąk, Przemysław Marcjan, Tomasz Wroński, Konrad Korba, Marcel Ratajski, Kamil Olek and Rafał Woźniak.
This incredible adventure ended with a run of letters W for “win” and the final “L” for “lost” just seconds before the penalty shoot-out in the grand final. There may be an opportunity to make up for that last result in the next edition of the UEFA Regions’ Cup.