Vitomir Vutov () (born 22 November 1971) 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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and currently goalkeepers coach of

Lovech Lovech (, ) is a city in north-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech Municipality. The city is located about northeast from the capital city of Sofia. Near Lovech are the towns of ...

Career

During his career, Vutov played solely for

Lokomotiv Mezdra FC Lokomotiv Mezdra (ФК Локомотив Мездра) was a Bulgarian football club from the town of Mezdra, which last played in the A RFG Vratsa, the fourth tier of Bulgarian football. The club's home ground was the Lokomotiv Stadium i ...

and

Litex Lovech FC Lovech (; formerly Litex Lovech) is a Bulgarian professional association football, football club based in Lovech, that competes in the Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria), Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Spor ...

. A product of the Litex's famed youth system, he was loaned to Loko Mezdra in 1991. Some three years later Vutov returned to Litex Lovech, his last professional club. With Litex he won the Bulgarian league title in 1998 and 1999, and 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 ...

for 2001 and 2004. For the club he played 8 games in the qualifying rounds of Champions League, 35 games in

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, 40games in

, 246 games in

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and 60in

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Goalkeeping coach

2007 fc Litex\Lovech\In 2008-2017 Pfc Litex 20018-2019 Al Qadsiach /Saudy Arabiq/2021 Vutov moved from Lokomotiv GO to

Lokomotiv Plovdiv PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv (), commonly known as Loko Plovdiv, is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Plovdiv. Lokomotiv's home ground is the Stadion Lokomotiv (Plovdiv), Lokomotiv Stadium which is situated in Lauta Park and ha ...

. On 17 February 2022 it was announced that he would take the position as the new goalkeeping coach of Bulgaria national team, previously vacated by Georgi Sheytanov, and also retaining his position in Lokomotiv Plovdiv.Витомир Вутов ще е новият треньор на вратарите в националния отбор
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Honours

*Best goalkeeper in the

for the 1997-98 season *Ikar award for sporting longevity *Sportsman #1 of the city of

Statistics

* Up to the 2006 – 2007 season

References

1971 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players FC Lokomotiv Mezdra players FC Lovech players Men's association football goalkeepers 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen {{Bulgaria-footy-goalkeeper-stub