The Polish team will be playing in the football European Championship for the third time, having got through the qualifiers for only the second time, as in 2012 they automatically qualified as co-hosts. Before the start of the tournament most Polish people (55%) were sure that the team would get through the group stage to the knockout stage, while 6% even saw them in the Euro 2016 final.

People are more optimistic now than before Euro 2012, when almost a third of those asked believed that the Polish team would fail to get through the group stage, thus ending their appearances at the first stage of the tournament. Hopes for getting through the group stage are also higher now than in 2008.

More on this subject in the CBOS report.