Status as of 9.11.2026: no institution has approved, started or funded this proposal. It was submitted to the Polish Ministry of Sport (MSiT), the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and the Polish Football Association (PZPN) on 25 October 2026. All detailed pages are in Polish.
Summary
What the proposal is
- Goal: more children aged 6–13 training regularly with a paid, assessed coach close to home, stronger academies and public indicators, 2027–2034. Sporting ambitions are context, not a promised result.
- Scale: 5,000 paid coaches give about 150,000 places, i.e. about 4.8% of 3,154,284 children aged 6–13 (Statistics Poland, 2025). The programme complements the system; it does not cover every child.
- Operating budget: PLN 450 million a year at full scale (2030), including PLN 103.8 million of existing programmes. One-off investment, variant B: about PLN 566.7 million. Proposed pilot 2027: three regions, 100 Orlik pitches, about PLN 60 million.
- Audit: our own economic audit found that PLN 3,000 per coach per month (full employer cost, about PLN 1,996 net) is legal but covers the coaching standard only up to about PLN 72–73 gross per hour (depending on whether the coach has another job), against the PLN 80 per hour that PZPN refunds in academy certification. Costs outside the rate (pension scheme, sick pay, medical checks) and, depending on the employer, the social fund and disability levy add about PLN 4.4–14.9 million a year. A corrective variant K (PLN 486.7 million) is published separately; it needs further assessment and is not an approved budget. The baseline model 1.5.1 (PLN 450 million) remains in force.
Structure
Six pillars
| Pillar | Name | In short |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish Game Model | One shared coaching curriculum for children; PZPN has already dropped competitive league tables up to U-11, and the plan adds equal playing time and monitoring. |
| 2 | Coaching as a profession | Paid, licensed coaches for children near home, with mentoring and a career pathway. |
| 3 | Talent and infrastructure | Regional bases with open entry, a second window for late developers, winter access to halls. |
| 4 | Leagues and clubs | “Homegrown, Strong Club”: rewards for minutes of players trained in Poland, no nationality quotas. |
| 5 | Modern federation and programme office | Independent oversight, public indicators, aggregated data, independent evaluation. |
| 6 | Fans, women and schools | Girls’ football, school sport and community involvement. |
World Reform Model
Six innovations to assess
Each one is a proposal with stated limits. None assumes that institutions or clubs agree.
Football Opportunity Index
Coach Development Engine
Talent Development Pathway
Club Development Contract
Evidence-Based Pilot 2027
Public tools
Working tools on polska2038.pl
All tools run in the browser, use published assumptions and can be checked. Interfaces are in Polish.
Principles
What we do not claim
- No central database of children, no child rankings, no talent-prediction algorithm.
- No claim of uniqueness: each element has precedents abroad, documented in the benchmark.
- No fictional reviews, endorsements or approvals. Facts, goals, proposals and simulations are labelled separately.
- Content under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT. Open data: benchmark (CSV), economic audit (CSV), verification register (CSV).
Contact: polska2038@proton.me (Polska 2038 initiative team).