The fully-independent federation was established on 20 December 1919 subsuming the autonomous
Polish Football Union (PFU) that was part of the disintegrated Austrian Football Union. The PFU was established on 25 June 1911 in
Lwów,
Austria-Hungary. When the
Wehrmacht invaded Poland in September 1939, all Polish institutions and associations were dissolved, including the PZPN. The German occupying forces forbade Poles to organise football matches. In September 2008, the leadership of the Polish Football Association was suspended by the Polish Olympic Committee for "[violating] its statutes in a continuous and flagrant fashion". One year earlier, the Polish sports ministry also made an attempt to address corruption within the Polish Football Association, but was threatened with suspension by
FIFA, which forbids any form of government intervention. On 30 October 2008,
Grzegorz Lato became the president of the Polish Football Association. On 26 October 2012,
Zbigniew Boniek was elected president after winning 61 votes from 118 delegates. The football association turned 100 years with the
2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup during its centennial year. In 2019,
Józef Klotz, who had played for the Poland national football team and was killed in the
Warsaw Ghetto during
the Holocaust, was honored by the Association. On 28 August 2021,
Cezary Kulesza was elected president. == Provincial associations ==