The 2008–09 B Group was the 53rd season of the

Bulgarian B Football Group The Bulgarian Second Professional Football League (), also known as Second League () or Vtora liga, is the second level of the Bulgarian football league system, below First League and above the Third League. Twenty teams take part in the league ...

, the second tier of the

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. The season started on 16 August 2008 and finished on 17 June 2009 with the A Group promotion play-off between the runners-up from both divisions.

Stadia, Locations and Results

West B Group

Teams Competing

* Etar 1924 Veliko Tarnovo * Spartak Pleven *

PFC Chavdar Byala Slatina FC Chavdar (ФК Чавдар Бяла Слатина) was a Bulgarian football club from the town of Byala Slatina. Honours * Quarterfinalist - 5th in National Championship. * Third place in North "B" Group: 1957 and 1958. * Eightfinalist in Bu ...

* Akademik Sofia * Pirin Gotse Delchev *

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* Belite orli Pleven * Rilski Sportist Samokov * Sportist Svoge * Chavdar Etropole * Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo (relegated from A Group) *

Marek Dupnitsa FC Marek () is a Bulgarian football club based in Dupnitsa, currently playing in the Second League, the second level of the Bulgarian football league system. It was founded in 1947 following the unification of four local clubs. Home matches take ...

(relegated from A Group) * Botev Krivodol (winners of North-Western V group) *

Kom-Minyor OFC Kom () is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Berkovitsa, currently playing in the Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria), North-West Third League, the third level of Bulgarian football. The club's home ground is the Mramor Stadium ...

(runners-up of North-Western V group) * Balkan Botevgrad (runners-up of South-Western V group) *

Bansko Bansko ( ) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, located in Blagoevgrad Oblast near the city of Razlog. Once mainly a stockbreeding and travelling merchant community, the town is now an international centre for winter and summer tourism. More rec ...

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FC Bansko Bansko Team () is a Bulgarian professional association football club from the town of Bansko, currently playing in the South-West Third League, the third division of Bulgarian football. Its home matches take place at the Saint Petar Stadium. Th ...

replaced

FC Pirin Blagoevgrad Football club Pirin (), also known as Pirin Blagoevgrad is a Bulgarian football club based in Blagoevgrad, which currently competes in the Second League, the second division of Bulgarian football. The club was founded in 2008, after a merger ...

, last season's winners of the South-West group, when it merged with another club from

Blagoevgrad Blagoevgrad ( ) is List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, а town in Southwestern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Blagoevgrad Municipality and of Blagoevgrad Province. With a population of almost inhabitants, it is the economic and cultura ...

, which is playing the

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Table

East B Group

Teams Competing

* Naftex Burgas * Maritsa Plovdiv * Spartak Plovdiv *

Dunav Ruse FC Dunav (, officially named ''"Дунав от Русе"'') is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Ruse, which currently competes in the Second League, the second tier of the Bulgarian football league system. Part of a larger spor ...

Shumen Shumen (, also Romanization of Bulgarian, romanized as ''Shoumen'' or ''Šumen'', ) is the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, tenth-largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and economic capital of Shumen Province. Etymology The city ...

* Kaliakra Kavarna * Svetkavitsa * Minyor Radnevo *

Nesebar Nesebar (often transcribed as Nessebar and sometimes as Nesebur, , pronounced ) is an ancient city and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous ...

Rodopa Smolyan FC Rodopa (ФК Родопа) is a Bulgarian football club based in Smolyan, which currently plays in the South-East Third League, the third tier of Bulgarian football league system. The team was named after the Rhodope Mountains and plays its h ...

Svilengrad Svilengrad (; ; ) is a town in Haskovo Province, south-central Bulgaria, situated at the tripoint of Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Svilengrad Municipality. Geography Svilengrad is close to the ro ...

* Beroe Stara Zagora (relegated from A Group) * Chernomorets Balchik (runners-up of North-Eastern V group) *

Lyubimets 2007 FC Lyubimets () is a Bulgarian football club based in Lyubimets. The team was founded in 1921 and re-founded in 2007. The team currently competes in the fourth tier of Bulgarian football, the A RFG Haskovo. The club's biggest achievement came ...

(winners of South-Eastern V group) * Lokomotiv Stara Zagora (runners-up of South-Eastern V group) ¹No second team from North-Eastern V group was promoted because the winners, Dobrudzha Dobrich, and Ariston Ruse, team that should have replaced it, refused to participate and will play in this season's V Group.

Table

Promotion play-off

References

External links

Soccerway

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