Warsaw soared to victory over rivals Fort Nysa on Saturday, scoring 52(8.4)-32(5.2) in the first match of the day, held at the OSiR Bemowo recreation and sports centre.
The Warsaw Bisons then lost to the Wrocław Lions 46(6.10)-50(8.2), and Fort Nysa conquered the Lions 76(6.3)-76(12.4).
Determining a winner in the three-way tie came down to statistics, with only a fraction of a percentage point between the top two spots.
The three Polish teams meet again on May 15 in the Nysa International Cup, to be held in the southern Polish town of Nysa, with teams from the Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary also scheduled to take part in the event.
The Nysa International Cup will be Polish players’ final opportunity to showcase their best for the coaches of the Polish Devils, Poland’s representative team, which will be selected in May ahead of the Euro Cup in Scotland later this year.
Ellipsoidal red ball
AFL Polska was founded after five friends met in Warsaw’s Pole Mokotowskie park for a casual kick-around in November 2018.
Since then, more than 150 people have come in contact with the ellipsoidal red ball.
Poland has about 80 regular players representing four fully-fledged teams, which have played in Berlin, Tallinn, Prague and at the Euro Cup in Sweden in 2019.
Australian football is traditionally played on a cricket pitch by 18 players. In Poland, nine-a-side teams play on a rugby field, kicking and hand-balling—which mostly looks like punching—an ellipsoidal ball.
Each end of the field has four goal posts. Kicking the ball through the middle posts is a goal worth six points, while getting it through the outer posts is called a behind and is worth one point.
It is a contact sport and a player moving with the ball can be tackled but the sport is known and loved for marks—spectacular catches of the ball kicked from great distances.
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Source: AFL Polska