Bulgaria1

The table has been assembled using material mainly contributed by Todor Krastev and Wikipedia. You are free to copy this document in a non-commercial capacity but please state the source, i.e. Clas Glenning. The table was completely overhauled and corrected in May 2020.

Notes

Skopje and Bitolya are now situated in North Macedonia  1924-37: Championship decided in cupformat. 1938-40: League format. 1941-48: Cupformat. 1949 - present: Leagueformat. 1924: Championship not decided. 1925: The game Vladislav Varna - Asenovez Sliven w.o. to Vladislav, score set  to 3-0. 1927: Championship not held. 1931: The final between AS 23 Sofia and Shipchenski Sokol Varna was a walkover  to AS 23, the score was set to 3-0. 1937: The following games were set to 3-0 to the hometeam following walkovers:  Vladislav Varna – Volov Shumen, Levski Ruse - Vladislav Varna (2nd game) &  Levski Sofia - Levski Ruse (2nd game). 1941: FK 13 Sofia - Vladislav Varna (2nd game) was a walkover by Vladislav,  result set to 3-0 to FK 13.   1943: Chardonfon Gabrovo left a walkover to Tzar Simeon Pavlikeni and the  result was set to 3-0 to Tzar Simeon.  1944: The championship was not completed. 1953: The Bulgarian national team played hors-concours in the league. As their results were not officially counted I disregard them as well. 1968/69: Lokomotiv Sofia and Slavia Sofia merged during the season creating the new team ZhSK Sofia-Slavia. The latter overtook Slavia’s record and Lokomotiv had their remaining games to 0-3 losses. The complete record of Slavia/ZhSK-Slavia is written on Slavia. The merger was dissolved in 1971. 1971/72: Chornomorets Burgas had two (three with three points for a win) deducted and Yantra Gabrovo had six (nine) points deducted. 1972/73: The matches Slavia Sofia vs Spartak Varna and Spartak Pleven vs Tundzha were stricken altogether because of attempted bribery. 1982/83: Botev Vratsa had two (three) points deducted.  1984/85 - 1986/87: No points for 0-0 games was in effect. However, all drawn  games are counted in my tables.  1993/94 - present: 3 points for a win in place. 1993/94: All games of Yantra Gabrovo were declared null and void following  allegations of matchfixing. Season is not counted on Yantras seasontotals as  now games were played officially. 1998/99: Litex Lovetch and Levski Sofia each had three points deducted for match fixing. 1998/99: Levski Kyustendil and CSKA Sofia were deducted one point each for walking the off-pith prematurely in one of their head-to-head encounters. 2002/03: Lokomotiv Plovdiv had three points deducted for failing to show up in  a game. 2004/05: Lokomotiv Sofia had three points deducted for failure to pay salaries to former players. 2005/06: Pirin (Blagoevgrad), not to be confused with Pirin 1922 Blagoevgrad) withdrew after two games after failing to settle their debts. Their results were declared null and void. 2006/07: Chernomorets Burgas (Sofia) had three points deducted for failing to register enough youth players in their first game resulting in the game being cancelled by the federation. Note that this team were called Koneliano (German) when they were promoted 2005/06. 2009/10: Botev Plovdiv had six points deducted and then withdrew from the league after round 15. However, the games they had already played were counted. 2015/16: Litex Lovech were thrown out and had all games stricken after an incident wherebye the players left the field of play in a game in December. 

Namechanges

Please note that the names below refer to names used when at first level only! • CSKA Sofia prev. Septemvri pri CDV, Narodna Voiska, CDNV, Otbor na Sofiyskaya Garnizon, CDNA, CSKA ”Cherveno zname”, CSKA ”Septemvrijsko zname”, CFKA ”Sredetz”. • Lokomotiv Sofia have also played under the name JSK Sofia. • Levski Sofia have also played under the names Dinamo Sofia, Levski 1914 & Vitosha Sofia. • Cherno More Varna have also played under the names Vladislav Varna &  Ticha Varna. • Minyor Pernik have also played under the name Krakra Pernik • Spartak Pleven have also played under the names Pobeda Pleven, JSK-Botev Pleven, Levski Pleven and Belite Orli Pleven. • Botev Vratsa have also played under the names Orel Vratsa & Orel-Chegan  Vratsa. • Chernomorets Burgas have also played under the names Levski-Botev 45 Burgas & Liubislav Burgas • Sliven have also played under the name Asenovaz Sliven • Marek Dupnica have also played under the names Botev Stanke Dimitrov. The townname was changed 1992. • Spartak Sofia have also played under the name FK-13 Sofia. • Dobrudja Dobrich have also played under the names Dobrich & Levski Dobrich. • Neftokhimik Burgas have also played under the name Naftex Burgas. • Litex Lovech have also played under the names Kirkov-Yunak Lovech & Lovech. • Haskovo have also played under the names Orli Haskovo, Botev Khaskovo & Rodina Haskovo. • Lokomotiv Gorna Orjahovitsa have also played under the names Levski Gorna Orjahovitsa. • Velbazhd Kiustendil have also played under the names Borislav Kyustendil & Levski Kyustendil. • Yantra Gabrovo have also played under the names Chardafon Gabrovo, Orlobez Gabrovo & Aprilov Gabrovo. • Shumen have also played under the names Han Omurtag Shumen & Volov Shumen • Belasica Petric have also played under the name Illinden Petric • Levski Ruse have also played under the names Napredak Ruse, Rakovski Ruse (old club, the present club called Rakovski Ruse came into being    1992) & Angel Kanchev Levski Ruse. • Montana have also played under the names Botev Montana, Pobeda Montana, Hristo Mihailov Montana. • Hebur Pazardjik have also played under the name Botev Pazardjik. • Red Flag Pavlikeni have also played under the names Hristo Slavchev Pavlikeni & Tzar Simeon Pavlikeni • Slavia Burgas have also played under the names Chegan Burgas, Levski Burgas, Pobeda Buras & Botev Burgas. • Benkovski Vidin have also played under the names Bdin Vidin, Viktoria’23 Vidin & Sportis Vidin. • Rozova Dolina Kazanlak have also played under the name DVO Kazanlak. • TVP Varna have also played under the name TV 45 Varna. • Rilski sportist Samokov have also played under the name Levski Samokov.   Regarding Pirin Blagoevgrad teams: The original Pirin which was created in 1922 and folded in 2011 and OFC Pirin which is a merger of Pirin and Perun Kresna  done in 2011. The Pirin which existed 2008-11 is counted on the original Pirin team as Pirin swallowed another Pirin team called Pirin 1922 in 2008.   

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