football
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club based in
Lyubimets
Lyubimets ( ) is a small town in Haskovo Province, southern-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Lyubimets Municipality. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 7,670.A RFG Haskovo.
The club's biggest achievement came in 2013, when Lyubimets managed to promote to the A Group for the first time in club history for the 2013–14 season. Lyubimets was relegated, however, and has since slipped into the amateur levels of Bulgarian football.
The club's home ground is the local Municipal Stadium in
Lyubimets
Lyubimets ( ) is a small town in Haskovo Province, southern-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Lyubimets Municipality. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 7,670.second division
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. In its first season in professional football, the club finished in 7th place.
On 9 January 2013, club's former player
Veselin Velikov
Veselin Mihaylov Velikov (; born 19 March 1977) is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player.
Career
Velikov was the manager of Dunav Ruse from June 2014 till October 2017, when he left the club by mutual consent.
On 3 Janu ...
was announced as the new manager. Four months later he led Lyubimets to promotion to the
A PFG
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for first time in the club's history, finishing in 2nd place in the
B PFG
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 Professional Football League (Bulgaria), First League and above the Third ...
.
The maiden season in the professional top-flight began with a 1–0 win over defending champions
Ludogorets Razgrad
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, a big surprise in Bulgarian football. Lyubimets went on to earn 9 points from their first four games, including wins against Lokomotiv Sofia and
Europa League
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participants Botev Plovdiv (2–1 away in Plovdiv). The team's form dropped after the fifth round, however, as it managed to win only one of their next 18 games in the first phase. This placed them in the relegation group for the remainder of the season. In the relegation round, they won only one of twelve possible matches, and were relegated to the
B PFG
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, after finishing last.
In the summer of 2014, the BFU decided to refuse to give FC Lyubimets a license for the second league, similarly to the other teams relegated that year from the first tier, Neftochimic and Pirin Gotse Delchev. This was done mainly because of financial reasons, as Lyubimets could not provide enough financial resources to sustain themselves in professional football. Lyubimets was subsequently relegated to the fourth tier, the regional league of Haskovo. The team returned to the third tier after two seasons in the fourth division, but was relegated immediately.
Regional
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Regional
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2012–13
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Current squad
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Managerial history
;After restored
Notable stats
;After the club was restored in 2007
Notes:
*Bold ''signals active players''
*''Correct as of 2013-06-10''