The 2014 Bulgarian Cup final was the 74th final of the

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 matche ...

. The match, contested by

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and

Ludogorets Razgrad Professional Football Club Ludogorets 1945 (), commonly known as Ludogorets Razgrad or simply Ludogorets, is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Razgrad, which currently competes in the First Professional Football League ...

, took place on 15 May 2014 at

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. Ludogorets won the final 1–0, claiming their second ever Bulgarian Cup title.

Route to the final

Match

Details

Supporter disturbances

The match was affected by a number of disruptions due to unruly spectators. On the one-hour mark, shortly after Bezjak had opened the scoring, the advertisement boards near the stadium sector with the Botev ultras caught fire, necessitating the interruption of the match for 17 minutes until fire brigades could enter the pitch and extinguish the flames. On two occasions (around the 60th minute and following Vander Vieira's dismissal for a dangerous tackle on

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), small groups of Botev supporters attempted pitch invasions, but were successfully restrained by footballers

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and

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as well as the arriving police officers. A number of objects were also thrown by fans of the "canaries", with one of them hitting Ludogorets defender

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. Officials affiliated with the

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team have been critical of the general preparations prior to the match and the insufficient policing. Botev owner Tzvetan Vassilev promised to compensate

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in full for all the stadium damage inflicted.

References

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Route to the final

Match

Details

Supporter disturbances

See also

References