Stoyan Atsarov (; born 26 June 1969) is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

n former 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 lea ...

who played as a defender.

Career

Atsarov left his mark with

Slavia Sofia PFC Slavia Sofia 1913 () 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 is the Stadion Aleksandar Sh ...

, making 30 appearances (the most of any "whites"' footballer) and scoring one goal during their seventh championship-winning season, which is (as of 2020) the last time the team has won an

A PFG The First Professional Football League (), commonly known as Parva Liga or Bulgarian First League (currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons), is a professional association football league in Bulgaria and the highest level of t ...

title. In 1992 Atsarov also had a short spell with

Levski Sofia PFC Levski Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 by a group of high sc ...

, featuring in just one

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 ...

match for the "bluemen".

Honours

;Slavia Sofia * Bulgarian League: 1995–96 *

: 1995–96

References

External links

Profile at LevskiSofia.info
{{DEFAULTSORT:Atsarov, Stoyan 1969 births Living people Men's association football defenders Bulgarian men's footballers FC Yantra Gabrovo players PFC Levski Sofia players PFC Slavia Sofia players Wuhan Optics Valley F.C. players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Footballers from Gabrovo 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen