Yordan Ivanov Stoykov (; born 6 November 1951) is a

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n professional

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and

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Career

Yordan Stoykov played as a defender in

Lokomotiv Sofia FC Lokomotiv Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently plays in the First League, the top tier of Bulgarian football. Founded as Railway Sports Club in 1929, and refounded in 2015, following ...

from 1970 to 1983, as record 336 appearances for his home club. With it he became champion in 1978 and has won the Bulgarian Cup in 1982. He played in UEFA tournaments. For the youth national team has 27 games and for the

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- 9 matches. In 1979, he graduated the National Sports Academy "Vassil Levski" and began his coaching career as an assistant coach in

PFC Lokomotiv Sofia FC Lokomotiv Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently plays in the First Professional Football League (Bulgaria), First League, the top tier of Bulgarian football. Founded as Railway Sports C ...

from 1983 to 1985. In season 1985/1986 he was a senior coach of the

PFC Balkan Botevgrad FC Balkan Botevgrad () is a Bulgarian football club based in the city of Botevgrad. The stadium of the club is " Hristo Botev" in Botevgrad with capacity of 8,000 people. History The club was established in 1929 with the name "Stamen Panchev". ...

. From 1986 to 1991 he was scary coach of the youth national team. Lead the team of

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in 1991/1992 and he was a senior coach of the

PFC Pirin Gotse Delchev Football Club Pirin () is a Bulgarian association football, football club, based in Gotse Delchev (town), Gotse Delchev. The club currently plays in the Regional Amateur Football Groups (Bulgaria), A RFG Blagoevgrad, the regional fourth tier of B ...

in 1992/1993, and then for two years in Tanzania (1993-1995), where local Malindi F.C. won the Tanzanian Cup and Super Cup and led the team at the seventh place at the African Club Tournaments. He was head coach of the

PFC Shumen 2010 Football Club Volov Shumen 2007 () is a Bulgarian football club, playing in the city of Shumen, which currently competes in Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria), Third League, third tier of Bulgarian football. The club was established in 1929 ...

(1995/1996) and of the Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. (China) in 1996-1997 and Kremikovtsi Sofia in 1997–1998. In 1999, he became of the head coach of the

Maldives national football team The Maldives national football team (Maldivian language, Dhivehi: ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭ ގައުމީ ފުޓްބޯލް ޓީމް) represents the Maldives in international association football, football and is controlled by the Football Associat ...

. In 2004, he worked at the

New Radiant SC New Radiant Sports Club is a Maldivian professional football club based in Henveiru – Malé, Maldives. The club was founded on 19 August 1979 by Ahmed Waheed and his friend Ahammadhanik. New Radiant has won all domestic competitions bein ...

Since January 2005 until October 2007 he again coached the Maldives national team. Since July until September 2010 he trained

PFC Chavdar Byala Slatina FC Chavdar (ФК Чавдар Бяла Слатина) was a Bulgarian football club from the town of Byala Slatina. Honours * Quarterfinalist - 5th in National Championship. * Third place in North "B" Group: 1957 and 1958. * Eightfinalist in Bu ...

. On September 15, 2010, he named of the EEPCO F.C. head coach.EEPCo FC names Yordan Stoikov of Bulgaria as Head Coach , Ethiosports
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Honours

Bulgarian A Football Group 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 ...

: ::1978 *

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 ...

: ::1982

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Yordan Stoykov
!--name as spelled at this link--> at Soccerpunter.com * 1951 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers Bulgaria men's international footballers Men's association football defenders FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Bulgarian football managers Maldives national football team managers Place of birth missing (living people) DPMM FC managers 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen {{Bulgaria-footy-defender-stub