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FC Sayana Haskovo
OFC Haskovo () is a Bulgarian Association football, football club based in Haskovo, that currently plays in the V AFG, Third Amateur Football League, the third tier of Bulgarian football. Haskovo's home ground is the Haskovo Stadium, which has a capacity of 9 000 spectators. Founded as ''Izvor Gorski Izvor'' in 2012, the team was renamed to ''Sayana'' in 2021 and moved to Haskovo, keeping the name until 2025, when was renamed to ''OFC Haskovo''. History Foundation of Izvor In 2012 Izvor was founded in Gorski Izvor, Haskovo Province, Gorski Izvor, Haskovo Province. In 2020 the team was promoted to the V AFG, Third Amateur Football League. In their first season the team finished on 10th place. 2021–present: Sayana ownership In 2021, the team was renamed Sayana, under their owner's name, a dairy products company, and was moved to Haskovo. Their first game in the professional football was an away game against PFC Beroe Stara Zagora, Beroe II. In June 2025 the team was renamed to OF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haskovo Stadium
FC Haskovo 1957 () is a Bulgarian Association football, football club based in Haskovo, which currently competes in the Regional Amateur Football Groups (Bulgaria), A RFG Haskovo, the fourth tier of Bulgarian football. Haskovo's home ground is the Haskovo Stadium, which has a capacity of 9,000 spectators. Haskovo have spent a total of 7 seasons in the Bulgarian elite, most recently in the 2014-15 A Group, 2014-15 season. After the 2020–21 season, FC Haskovo's senior team was merged with FC Izvor Gorski Izvor, which itself was moved to Haskovo to form a new club, called FC Sayana Haskovo, Sayana Haskovo. Sayana took Haskovo's place in the Southeast Third League. The original club was reformed under the name OFC Haskovo. History FC Haskovo was founded in 1947 under the name Dinamo. Before that, there were several smaller football clubs, which decided to unite in 1947 to form a unified team representing the city. The team was an established one in the B PFG, the second division o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Cup
The Bulgarian Cup () 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 tournament's format is ''single-elimination'', with all matches being one-legged, except the semi-finals. The competition's winner gets the right to take part in the UEFA Europa League. If the winner has already secured a place through the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group, the team that has come ''fourth'' in the championship substitutes it. The competition has been dominated by Sofia-based clubs. They have won together a total number of 65 titles. The three most successful clubs are Levski Sofia (26 cups), CSKA Sofia (21 cups) and Slavia Sofia (8 cups). The current cup holders are Ludogorets Razgrad, who beat CSKA Sofia 1–0 in the 2025 final. Format The Bulgarian Cup tournament is divided in two phases - the ''qualification phase'' and the ''final phase''. Qualification phase In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Clubs In Bulgaria
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league, rugby league football; and rugby union, rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promotion And Relegation
Promotion and relegation is used by sports leagues as a process where teams can move up and down among divisions in a league system, based on their performance over a season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are sometimes called open leagues. In a system of promotion and relegation, the best-ranked team(s) in a lower division are ''promoted'' to a higher division for the next season, and the worst-ranked team(s) in the higher division are ''relegated'' to the lower division for the next season. During the season, teams that are high enough in the league table that they would qualify for promotion are sometimes said to be in the ''promotion zone'', and those at the bottom are in the ''relegation zone'' (colloquially the ''drop zone'' or ''facing the drop''). These can also involve being in zones where promotion and relegation is not automatic but subject to a playoff, such as in the EFL Championship where teams 3rd to 6th enter a playoff for promotion to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Bulgarian Cup
The 2023–24 Bulgarian Cup was the 42nd official edition of the Bulgarian annual football knockout tournament. It was sponsored by ''Sesame'' and known as the Sesame Kupa na Bulgaria for sponsorship purposes. The competition began on 9 August 2023 with the preliminary round and finished with the final on 15 May 2024. Ludogorets Razgrad were the defending cup winners and reached the final for the second consecutive year, but were defeated by Botev Plovdiv, who won their fourth cup in history. As winners, Botev qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round. Participating clubs The following 48 teams qualified for the competition: Matches Preliminary round The draw was conducted on 25 August 2023. The games were played between 5 and 13 September 2023. In this stage participated the 16 winners from the regional amateur competitions and 16 non-reserve teams from the Second League. Round of 32 The draw for this round was conducted on 3 Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria)
The 2023–24 Second League is the 68th season of the Second League, the second tier of the Bulgarian football league system, and the 8th season under this name and current league structure. Teams The following teams have changed divisions since the 2022–23 season. To Second League Promoted from Third League * Chernomorets Balchik * Bdin Vidin * Chernomorets Burgas * Marek Dupnitsa Relegated from First League * Spartak Varna * Septemvri Sofia From Second League Relegated to Third League * Botev Plovdiv II * Vitosha Bistritsa * Sozopol * Minyor Pernik Promoted to First League * Etar Veliko Tarnovo * Krumovgrad Stadium and locations Personnel and sponsorship Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hristo Hristov (footballer)
Hristo Bristov Iliev (; 11 May 1936 – 24 March 1974) was a Bulgarian footballer. He played as a forward and spent the majority of his career with Levski Sofia. Iliev also represented Bulgaria at international level in the 1962 World Cup and in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where Bulgaria did reach the 5th place in the final ranking. Iliev died in a car crash on 24 March 1974. Honours Club ;Levski Sofia * Bulgarian A Group (2): 1964–65, 1967–68 * Bulgarian Cup (4): 1956, 1957, 1958–59, 1966–67 Individual * Bulgarian A Group top scorer (14 goals): 1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ... References External linksIliev's statisticsat levskisofia.info {{DEFAULTSORT:Iliev, Hristo Bulgarian men's footballers Bulgaria m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 Bulgarian Cup
The 2022–23 Bulgarian Cup was the 41st official edition of the Bulgarian annual football knockout tournament. It is sponsored by ''Sesame'' and known as the Sesame Kupa na Bulgaria for sponsorship purposes. The competition began on 21 September 2022 with the preliminary round and finished with the final on 24 May 2023. Levski Sofia were the defending cup winners, but were eliminated by Ludogorets Razgrad in the round of 16, who went on to win the cup for their 3rd overall. As Ludogorets were already assured of a place in the UEFA Europa Conference League via their league performance, the cup's European berth was passed to the third-placed team in the 2022–23 First League. Participating clubs The following 47 teams qualified for the competition: Matches Preliminary round The draw was conducted on 2 September 2022. The games were played on 22 September 2022. In this stage participated the 16 winners from the regional amateur competitions and 15 non-reserve teams from the Seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria)
The 2022–23 Third Amateur Football League season was the 73rd of the Bulgarian Third Amateur League. The group is equivalent to the third level of the Bulgarian football pyramid, comprising four divisions based on geographical areas. These divisions are the North-West, North-East, South-East, and South-West. The number of teams in each division varies, similarly to previous seasons. Team Changes ; To Third League Promoted from Regional Leagues * Boruna Tsareva Livada * Spartak Plovdiv * Vereya * Sliven * Levski-Rakovski * Levski Sofia II * Slavia Sofia II * CSKA Sofia II * CSKA 1948 III Relegated from Second League * Marek Dupnitsa * Septemvri Simitli ; From Third League Promoted to Second League * Dunav Ruse * Krumovgrad * Spartak Pleven * Belasitsa Petrich * Vitosha Vitosha ( ), the ancient ''Scomius'' or ''Scombrus'', is a mountain massif, on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Vitosha is one of the symbols of Sofia and the closest site for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valchan Chanev
Valchan Chanev (; born 15 July 1992) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Sayana Haskovo OFC Haskovo () is a Bulgarian Association football, football club based in Haskovo, that currently plays in the V AFG, Third Amateur Football League, the third tier of Bulgarian football. Haskovo's home ground is the Haskovo Stadium, which has a .... Career In June 2017, Chanev was released by Botev Galabovo and joined Third League club Arda Kardzhali. References External links * 1992 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers FC Sliven players FC Haskovo players PFC Neftochimic Burgas players FC Botev Galabovo players FC Arda Kardzhali players FC Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa players FC Sayana Haskovo players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Haskovo 21st-century Bulgarian sportsmen {{Bulgaria-footy- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel Zdravchev
Angel Zdravchev (; born 10 July 1994) is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing as a midfielder for Sayana Haskovo. Career Litex Lovech Zdravchev joined Litex academy in 2007 from Maritsa Plovdiv academy. In 2011, he made his professional debut for Litex at age of 16. In 2013, he was loaned out to Vidima-Rakovski until end of the season. Two years later, he was loaned out to Vereya for the remainder of the season. In 2015, he was released from the team. Dunav Ruse On 29 December 2015 he signed for Dunav Ruse after coming as a free agent In professional sports, a free agent is a player or manager who is eligible to sign with other clubs or franchises; i.e., not under contract to any specific team. The term is also used in reference to a player who is under a contract at present .... Levski Karlovo In February 2017, Zdravchev joined Levski Karlovo. Borislav In July 2017, Zdravchev joined Third League club Borislav Parvomay. Club statistics Club References {{D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cup Of Bulgarian Amateur Football League
The Cup of the Bulgarian Amateur Football League ( Bulgarian: Купа на Аматьорската Футболна Лига) is a Bulgarian annual football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... competition established by the BFU in 1994. Structure All officially registered amateur football clubs in the country can participate. The tournament is held in three stages: regional qualifiers in September and October, play-offs involving regional leaders between November and March, and semi-finals and final in April and May. The matches from the final four stage of the competition are played on a neutral ground. Winners Multiple finalists Winners by region External links * AFL Cup Statistics - Bulgarian-football.com Bulgarian Cup news from Topsport Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
