Stefan Velev ( bg, Стефан Велев; born 2 May 1989) is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Mac ...

n professional

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 ...

who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Cherno More Varna Cherno More ( bg, Черно Море) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in the city of Varna, which currently competes in Bulgaria's primary football competition, the First League. Founded on March 3, 1913, as an asso ...

Career

Born in

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. ...

, Velev played for Septemvri as a schoolboy, before joining

Slavia Sofia PFC Slavia Sofia ( bg, ПФК Славия София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home ground ...

. But he found it difficult to break into the first team due to the consistency of

Slavčo Georgievski Slavčo Georgievski ( mk, Славчо Георгиевски; born 30 March 1980 in Skopje, SR Macedonia, SFRY) is a retired footballer from Macedonia, who last played for Inter Baku as a midfielder. Career Club Georgievski started his caree ...

and

Pavle Popara Pavle Popara ( sr-Cyrl, Павлe Попара; born 20 May 1987) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Popara started his career with Partizan Belgrade but could not break his way into the first team. H ...

. In June 2008 Velev signed a two-year contract with Lokomotiv Stara Zagora. He made his

B PFG The Bulgarian Second Professional Football League ( bg, Втора професионална футболна лига, Vtora Profesionalna Futbolna Liga), also known as Second League ( bg, Втора Лига) or Vtora liga, is the second level ...

and Lokomotiv debut on 9 August in a home 1–0 against

Shumen Shumen ( bg, Шумен, also romanized as ''Shoumen'' or ''Šumen'', ) is the tenth largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and economic capital of Shumen Province. Etymology The city was first mentioned as ''Šimeonis'' in 1153 by ...

, scoring the goal of the win. On 13 March 2017, Velev signed a -year contract with

. He left the club at the end of the 2017–18 season when his contract expired. On 15 June 2018, Velev signed with

Sepsi OSK Sepsi may refer to: *László Sepsi (born 1986), Romanian footballer of Hungarian descent *Sepsi-78, a football club from Seinäjoki, Finland *ACS Sepsi SIC ACS Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe or commonly Sepsi SIC is a women's basketball professional ...

International career

Velev earned his first cap for

on 29 May 2012, after coming on as a second-half substitute in the 0–2 loss against

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in an

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National team

Honours

;Slavia Sofia *

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup ( bg, Купа на България, Kupa na Bulgaria) 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 tourname ...

(1): 2017–18

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Velev, Stefan 1989 births Living people Footballers from Sofia Bulgarian footballers Bulgaria youth international footballers Bulgaria under-21 international footballers Bulgaria international footballers Bulgarian expatriate footballers First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Erovnuli Liga players Liga I players FC Lyubimets players PFC Beroe Stara Zagora players PFC Levski Sofia players PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv players FC Dinamo Tbilisi players PFC Slavia Sofia players Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe players PFC Cherno More Varna players Expatriate footballers in Georgia (country) Expatriate footballers in Romania Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Association football midfielders Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Georgia (country)