Valentin Dartilov (; born 14 August 1967) is a former

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 ...

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who was deployed as a defender.

Career

Dartilov played 148

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 ...

matches and scored 1 goal for

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 ...

between 1990 and 1997, winning three consecutive league titles (1993–1995) and three

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 ...

s with the team. In European club tournaments, he has 10 matches and 1 goal under his belt. Considered one of the top defenders in the Balkans at the time, in 1992 he went close to being transferred to Fenerbahçe in neighbouring

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dartilov, Valentin 1967 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers Bulgaria men's youth international footballers Bulgaria men's international footballers Bulgarian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football defenders OFC Pirin Blagoevgrad players FC Hebar Pazardzhik players PFC Levski Sofia players Kayserispor footballers First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Süper Lig players Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen