Abstract
ABSTRACT Following the conclusion of the First World War, a number of new states arose from the ruins of Central Europe’s empires such as the Second Polish Republic. The state was designed to correspond to ethnically Polish interests, despite forging postwar borders that saw the inheritance of national minorities. This article follows the rise of the Polish Football League’s (PLPN) inaugural season which concluded under a shroud of scandal, after a controversial match where the ’Polish’ Wisła Kraków defeated the ‘German’ 1. FC Katowice. It examines the press coverage of both teams leading up to and in the wake of the match’s final whistle. Taking the Interwar period’s geopolitical climate into account, the infamous match reveals the inherent politicization of football by nationalizing tools such as newspapers and their framing of the popular culture form of sport in ethnic rhetoric for purposes of differentiation, legitimacy, and or even nation-state building.
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