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Bulgaria National Under-21 Team
The Bulgaria national under-21 football team ( bg, Mладежки национален отбор на България по футбол) is considered to be the feeder team for the Bulgaria national football team. This team is for Bulgarian players aged under 21 at the start of the calendar year in which a two-year UEFA European Under-21 Championship campaign begins, so some players can remain with the squad until the age of 23. Competition results Champions Runners-Up Semi-Finals Other Top Results Balkan Youth Championship UEFA U-21 European Championship UEFA Euro 2023 Qualifier Recent fixtures Coaching staff Current coaching staff Manager history Current squad Players *The following players were called up for the friendly matches against and on 21 and 25 November 2022. *''All caps and goals as of 25 November 2022 after match against .'' *''Players in bold have been called up or ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Football Union
The Bulgarian Football Union ( bg, Български футболен съюз, Bǎlgarski futbolen sǎyuz; BFS) is a football association based in Bulgaria and a member of UEFA. It organizes a football league, Bulgarian Parva Liga, and fields its Bulgaria national football team in UEFA and FIFA-authorised competitions. A legal entity that it claims descent from was founded in 1923 as the football department of the Bulgarian National Sports Federation, which existed until the Soviet invasion of 1944. The football governing body was then known as the Central Football Committee until 1948, the Republican Section for Football from 1948 until 1962 and the Bulgarian Football Federation from 1962 until 1985. On 27 June 1985, the organization was renamed the Bulgarian Football Union, the name that it carries today. Presidents Competitions It organizes the following competitions: ;Men's football: * First League, 1st level * Second League, 2nd level * Third League (4 divisions) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitar Tonev
Dimitar Dimitrov Tonev ( bg, Димитър Тонев; born 15 October 2001) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for First Professional Football League club Pirin Blagoevgrad on loan from Botev Plovdiv. Club career On 19 October 2019, four days after his 18th birthday, Tonev made his senior debut for Botev Plovdiv, during their league defeat against Ludogorets, featuring 77 minutes in a 1–0 loss. On 13 January 2020, he signed his first professional contract with the club. On 4 March 2020, Tonev scored his first competitive goal for Botev in a 1–0 Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup ( bg, Купа на България, Kupa na Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. The tourname ... third round victory over Botev Galabovo. Career statistics References External links * 2001 births Living people Bulgarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chișinău
Chișinău ( , , ), also known as Kishinev (russian: Кишинёв, r=Kishinjóv ), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial center, and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bâc, a tributary of the Dniester. According to the results of the 2014 census, the city proper had a population of 532,513, while the population of the Municipality of Chișinău (which includes the city itself and other nearby communities) was 700,000. Chișinău is the most economically prosperous locality in Moldova and its largest transportation hub. Nearly a third of Moldova's population lives in the metro area. Etymology The origin of the city's name is unclear. A theory suggests that the name may come from the archaic Romanian word ''chișla'' (meaning "spring", "source of water") and ''nouă'' ("new"), because it was built around a small spring, at the corner of Pușkin and Albișoara streets. The other v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zimbru Stadium
The Zimbru Stadium () is a football-specific stadium in Chișinău, Moldova, completed in May 2006 with a capacity of 10,400 people, corresponds to all norms required by UEFA and FIFA for national and international matches. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Zimbru Chișinău and the Moldova national football team. Architecture The construction of the stadium took 27 months to complete at a cost of almost US$11 million. Conditions The VIP box is reserved for 250 people. Sports journalists have 44 places at their disposal. The arena meets all the requirements for holding official international matches. References FC Zimbru Chișinău Football venues in Moldova Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistri ... Sport in Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitko Mitkov
Mitko Mitkov ( Bulgarian: Митко Митков; born 28 August 2000) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Septemvri Sofia. Career CSKA Sofia On 31 May 2017 he made his debut for CSKA Sofia in а match against Dunav Ruse. Bерое After making only a few official appearances for CSKA Sofia, in September 2022 Mitkov was loaned out to Beroe. Career statistics Club References Honours ;CSKA Sofia * Bulgarian Cup: 2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ... External links * 2000 births Living people Bulgarian footballers Bulgaria youth international footballers PFC CSKA Sofia players PFC Litex Lovech players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Association football midfielders {{Bulgaria-footy-midfiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Minchev
Martin Yankov Minchev ( bg, Мартин Янков Минчев; born 22 April 2001) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Czech First League club Sparta Prague and the Bulgarian national team. Career Cherno More Born in Varna, Minchev joined Cherno More's youth academy at the age of seven in 2008 and progressed through the age groups. On 23 April 2017, a day after his 16th birthday, Minchev was given his professional debut by manager Georgi Ivanov in a 3–2 league victory over Lokomotiv Plovdiv, replacing Ivan Kokonov in the 76th minute. In doing so, he became Cherno More's youngest-ever first team player in the Bulgarian league, aged 16 years and one day. In the beginning of June 2017 he spent five days on trial at Serie A club Torino, where he trained with the U17 team and took part in one friendly match, scoring a hat-trick. Minchev began to establish himself in the Cherno More first team during the 2017–18 season. On 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualification Group E
Group E of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consists of six teams: Netherlands, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Wales, Moldova, and Gibraltar. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 28 January 2021, 12:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking. Standings Matches Times are CET/ CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses). ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Goalscorers Notes References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualification Group D Group D Group D may refer to: * FIA Group D - International Formula racing cars: ** Formula Two ** Formula Three ** Formula 3000 * One of six or eight groups of four teams competing at the FIFA World Cup ** 2022 FIFA World Cup Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilia Gruev (footballer, Born 2000)
Ilia Iliev Gruev ( bg, Илия Илиев Груев; born 6 May 2000) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Werder Bremen. He has represented Bulgaria internationally at various youth levels. Club career Gruev made his professional debut for Werder Bremen in the second round of the 2020–21 DFB-Pokal on 23 December 2020, coming on as a substitute in the 87th minute for Jean-Manuel Mbom against Hannover 96. The away match finished as a 3–0 win for Bremen. International career Gruev has appeared for the Bulgaria under-17, under-18, under-19 and under-21 national teams. He received his first call-up for the senior national team on 5 September 2022, for the games of the UEFA Nations League games against Gibraltar and North Macedonia on 23 and 26 September 2022. He made his debut in the match against Gibraltar on 23 September, won 5–1 by Bulgaria. Personal life Gruev was born in Sofia, but also holds German citizenship. He is the son of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simeon Petrov
Simeon Petrov ( bg, Симеон Петров; born 12 January 2000) is a French-born Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a defender for CSKA 1948 Sofia. Career Born in Limoges, France, in a family of Bulgarian emigrants, Petrov started his football career in the local academy of Limoges. In 2018 he joined Gazélec Ajaccio, before moving to Bulgaria in 2019 and joining the second-level team of Strumska Slava. On 24 May 2020 he joined the newly promoted to First League team of CSKA 1948. International career Petrov was born in France to Bulgarian parents, which makes him eligible for both France and Bulgaria national teams. He received his first call up for the Bulgaria U21 team in November 2020 for the 2021 European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Estonia U21, but was recalled 2 days before the match due to a positive COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respirat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislav Shopov
Stanislav Tihomirov Shopov ( bg, Станислав Тихомиров Шопов; born 23 February 2002) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for CSKA Sofia. Career Club Shopov began his youth career at Botev Plovdiv, at age seven. On 10 May 2018, Shopov signed his first professional contract with the club. He made his first-team debut on 15 May 2018 in a 2–0 win over Vereya Stara Zagora, coming on as a substitute in the latter minutes of the game. On 6 October 2020, Shopov signed a two-year contract with the option of another season with Dutch Eredivisie club SC Heerenveen. In June 2022, Shopov joined CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia ( bg, ЦСКА София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sport .... International In March 2023, Shopov was called up to the Bulgaria nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea. Known as Serdica in Antiquity and Sredets in the Middle Ages, Sofia has been an area of human habitation since at least 7000 BC. The recorded history of the city begins with the attestation of the conquest of Serdica by the Roman Republic in 29 BC from the Celtic tribe Serdi. During the decline of the Roman Empire, the city was raided by Huns, Visigoths, Avars and Slavs. In 809, Serdica was incorporated into the Bulgarian Empire by Khan Krum and became known as Sredets. In 1018, the Byzantines ended Bulgarian r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadion Slavia
Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov ( bg, Стадион „Александър Шаламанов“) is a multi-purpose stadium in the Slavia district of Sofia, Bulgaria named after the football legend Aleksandar Shalamanov. It is currently used for football matches and is the home ground of the local football club PFC Slavia Sofia. The stadium has a seating capacity of 25,556 and is one of the biggest sport facilities in Bulgaria. *The stadium is part of a multifunctional sport complex, which includes two football training grounds, one multi-purpose indoor hall and an ice-hockey arena with a capacity of 2,000 spectators. *Also, as of 2009, the Bulgaria national under-21 football team plays some of its home matches at this stadium. In April 2014, a contract for building a new stadium to replace the old one was signed between PFC Slavia and the German company IFS. The capacity shall be expanded to 24,000, with an option for 33,000 spectators for major events. The deal was co-signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
