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PFC Rodopa Smolyan
FC Rodopa (ФК Родопа) is a Bulgarian football club (association football), football club based in Smolyan, which currently plays in the Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria), South-East Third League, the third tier of Bulgarian football league system. The team was named after the Rhodope Mountains and plays its home matches at the local Stadion Septemvri (Smolyan), Stadion Septemvri. Rodopa's traditional home kit consists of green and white. Rodopa was founded in 1927. The club spent the majority of its history playing between the second and third tiers of Bulgarian football. In 2002–03 B Group, 2003, Rodopa managed to promote to the First Professional Football League (Bulgaria), A Group for the first time in its history. The team managed to remain four seasons in the top division, before suffering relegation at the end of the 2006–07 A Group, 2006–07 season. Since then, the club has returned to lower leagues. History The Beginning Smolyan has had various footbal ...
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Stadion Septemvri (Smolyan)
Septemvri Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Smolyan, Bulgaria. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home stadium of FC Rodopa Smolyan, Rodopa Smolyan. The stadium holds 6,100 people. Football venues in Bulgaria Smolyan Buildings and structures in Smolyan Province {{Bulgaria-sports-venue-stub ...
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Bulgarian V AFG
The Bulgarian Third Amateur Football League (), commonly known as Treta Liga or Bulgarian Third League (currently known as the ELITBET Third League for sponsorship reasons), is the third level of the Bulgarian football league system. Third League operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the second and the fourth tier of the Bulgarian football league pyramid – respectively being Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria), Second League and Bulgarian A Oblast Football Groups, the A Oblast Groups. Currently Third League consists of four divisions that are formed by separating the country into four regions: ''North-West'', ''South-West'', ''North-East'' and ''South-East''. The divisions run in parallel during the season, but since the number of teams in each division may vary, the number of rounds in each of them may vary. Each team must play at least two times against every other team on a home-away basis. The Third League was created in 1950, along with Bulgarian ...
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Daniel Peev
Daniel Peev (; born 6 October 1984) is a Bulgarian retired footballer who played as a left attacking midfielder. Daniel is also the younger brother of Georgi Peev. Career Daniel had short reigns at Lokomotiv Sofia and Levski Sofia. Later he joined Rodopa Smolyan where he played 4 years, making 83 appearances and scoring 14 goals. Peev signed a two years contract with Pirin Blagoevgrad in July 2008. On 29 April 2009, he scored the only goal for his team in the 1:0 win against Levski Sofia in a 1/2 final of the Bulgarian Cup. During 2008-09 season, Peev became the only footballer who was able to score against all metropolitan teams - Levski Sofia, CSKA Sofia, Lokomotiv Sofia and Slavia Sofia. In his first season in Pirin, Peev earned 33 appearances, netting seven goals. In the first half of season 2009-10 he earned 15 appearances, netting four goals. In December 2009, it was announced in the Bulgarian media that Slavia Sofia are having an interest in signing the midfielder to ...
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Yordan Minev
Yordan Milchev Minev ( Bulgarian Cyrillic: Йордан Минев; born 14 October 1980) is a Bulgarian professional footballer, who plays as a full-back. Club career Yordan Minev started his career in home town Pazardzhik for local team Hebar. Between 2001 and 2003, Minev played in PFC Belasitsa from Petrich. Then, from January 2004 until June 2004 he played in Rodopa from Smolyan. In 2005, he joined Botev Plovdiv. CSKA Sofia In January 2009, Minev signed with CSKA Sofia. He gradually established himself as the first choice right back in the team after Luboslav Penev's appointment as manager. On 23 May 2009, Minev received a second yellow card in the redmen's match against Lokomotiv Sofia. Minev was released from CSKA in March 2011, as he was unable to stake a claim to first choice defender status under head coach Milen Radukanov. Ludogorets Razgrad On 30 May 2011, Minev signed a contract with newly promoted Ludogorets Razgrad. He made his competitive debut for Ludogo ...
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Yordan Linkov
Yordan Linkov (; born 26 January 1978) is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as a goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i .... External links * * 1978 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers Bulgaria men's international footballers Botev Plovdiv players OFC Spartak Pleven players OFC Akademik Svishtov players OFC Nesebar players PFC Cherno More Varna players OFC Vihren Sandanski players FC Rodopa Smolyan players FC Lokomotiv Mezdra players Olympiakos Nicosia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Cypriot Second Division players Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Men's association football goalkeepers Footballers from Pazardzhik {{Bulgaria-footy-goalkeeper-stub ...
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Milan Koprivarov
Milan Koprivarov (; born 20 July 1983 in Ihtiman) is a Bulgarian retired footballer and now manager, currently working as academy coach for Levski-Rakovski. Koprivarov is a left attacking midfielder. Club career A product of the PFC Levski Sofia youth system, Koprivarov spent some years on loans at smaller teams and impressed during his stay at Rodopa Smolyan. In 2005, new Levski Sofia manager Stanimir Stoilov announced that he is going to rely more on youngsters from the club and brought Koprivarov back to the club. Milan soon became among the top players of the team and was even called up to the Bulgaria national football team. He scored the winning goal for Levski versus AJ Auxerre in 2005, when Levski knocked out the French Cup holders. 2008 On 8 January 2008 Koprivarov was bought by Slavia Sofia. He made his team debut for Slavia on 19 January 2008 in a friendly match against FC Chavdar Etropole, which Slavia lose in a result 0:1 as a home. Milan played in the first 45 ...
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Kamen Hadzhiev
Kamen Galabov Hadzhiev (; born 22 September 1991) is a Bulgarian international footballer who currently plays as a defender or defensive midfielder for Dunav Ruse. Career Born in Kochan, Hadzhiev began his football career playing for club Rodopa. He was included in the 18-man squad to face CSKA Sofia in an A Group match on 19 May 2007. Hadzhiev, subsequently, made his professional debut in the match, at the age of 15 years and 8 months, coming on as a substitute in the 88th minute. In 2008 Hadzhiev joined the Wattenscheid 09 Academy in Germany. In the 2008–09 season, he made 18 appearances for the U-19 squad, scoring 5 goals. In 2009, he joined Schalke 04's youth academy. In July 2010, Hadzhiev signed with Pirin Gotse Delchev. He made his league debut against Botev Krivodol on 31 July, playing the full 90 minutes. Hadzhiev has been a regular starter during the season in the second division, playing 30 matches. On 18 September 2010, he netted Pirin's only goal in th ...
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Boko Dimitrov
Borislav Georgiev Dimitrov (; 11 November 1951 – 28 March 2013), commonly known as Boko Dimitrov (), was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a defender. He made 31 appearances for the Bulgaria national team. Career Dimitrov made his debut for Bulgaria on 25 September 1974 in a friendly match against Romania, which finished as a 0–0 draw. He went on to make 31 appearances, scoring 2 goals, before making his last appearance on 14 April 1982 in a friendly match against Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ..., which finished as a 1–2 loss. Career statistics International International goals Honours ;Lokomotiv Sofia * Bulgarian League: 1977–78 References External links * * 1951 births 2013 deaths Bulgarian men's footballers 20th-centur ...
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Danail Bachkov
Danail Bachkov ( Bulgarian: Данаил Бачков; born 21 December 1976) is a former Bulgarian professional footballer who played as a right-back and a football manager who currently manages Levski Karlovo. Bachkov was capped two times for the Bulgarian national team. Coaching career On 16 June 2017, Bachkov was appointed as manager of Third League club Minyor Pernik He was sacked in November following a streak of poor results. Honours * Levski Sofia **Bulgarian Cup (1): 2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ... References External links * Profile at Levskisofia.info 1976 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers Bulgaria men's international footballers PFC Spartak Plovdiv players PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv players PFC Levski Sofia players ...
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Nikolay Manchev
Nikolay Manchev ( Bulgarian Cyrillic: Николай Манчев; born 4 January 1985 in Plovdiv) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bratsigovo. Career Nikolay Manchev started his career in his home town of Plovdiv, with local team Maritsa. In June 2007, he joined Botev Plovdiv. He had a contract with Botev to 30 June 2010. Manchev made his official debut with Botev in a match against Spartak Varna on 11 August 2007. He played for 90 minutes. The result of the match was 2-2. On 24 November 2007, he scored his first goal for Botev against Vihren Sandanski. He netted in the 63rd minute. The result of the match was 1-0. He joined CSKA Sofia as a free agent with his teammate Todor Timonov on 15 July 2009. He terminated his contract with CSKA by mutual consent in October 2010 and returned to Botev Plovdiv Profesionalen Futbolen Klub Botev AD, commonly referred to as Botev Plovdiv (, ), or simply Botev (within its associated city), is a Bulgarian professiona ...
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Zdravko Chavdarov
Zdravko Chavdarov ( Bulgarian: Здравко Чавдаров; born 24 January 1981) is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing as a goalkeeper for Rakovski. Career Zdravko started his career in Maritsa. In 2004, he moved to Rodopa on a free transfer and spent 4 years there. After the promotion of Sliven 2000 to the Bulgarian top division, he joined them and was first-choice goalkeeper for the whole 2008/09 season. CSKA Sofia On 24 June 2009, Chavdarov signed with CSKA Sofia along with his teammates Ivan Stoyanov, Kostadin Stoyanov and Kosta Yanev. On 30 July 2009, he managed a clean sheet in his official debut for the Armymen in a 1–0 home win against Northern Irish side Derry City. However, his debut for CSKA in the league was postponed after he sustained a head injury in the return leg against the Northern Irish team. Chavdarov subsequently lost his place in the first team in favour of Ivan Karadzhov, following the latter's convincing displays. However, after Ka ...
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Stefan Kikov
Stefan Kikov ( Bulgarian: Стефан Киков) (born 2 April 1982 in Plovdiv) is a Bulgarian footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ... currently playing for Rakovski. Kikov usually plays as central defender or central midfielder. References External links * 1982 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers Botev Plovdiv players PFC Cherno More Varna players FC Sliven players PFC Slavia Sofia players FC Lyubimets players PFK Svetkavitsa 1922 players Doxa Drama F.C. players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Expatriate men's footballers in Greece People from Rakovski Footballers from Plovdiv Province Men's association football defenders 21st-century Bulgarian sportsmen {{Bulgaria-footy-defender-stub ...
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