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Bulgarian Football Union

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Български футболен съюз
UEFA
Bulgarian Football Union logo.svg
Founded1923; 100 years ago (1923)
HeadquartersSofia
FIFA affiliation1924
UEFA affiliation1954
PresidentBorislav Mihaylov
Websitebfunion.bg
The old BFU headquarters in Sofia
The old BFU headquarters in Sofia

The Bulgarian Football Union (Bulgarian: Български футболен съюз, romanized: Bǎlgarski futbolen sǎyuz; BFS) is a football association based in Bulgaria and a member of UEFA. It organizes a football league, Bulgarian Parva Liga, and fields its Bulgaria national football team in UEFA and FIFA-authorised competitions.

A legal entity that it claims descent from was founded in 1923 as the football department of the Bulgarian National Sports Federation, which existed until the Soviet invasion of 1944. The football governing body was then known as the Central Football Committee until 1948, the Republican Section for Football from 1948 until 1962 and the Bulgarian Football Federation from 1962 until 1985. On 27 June 1985, the organization was renamed the Bulgarian Football Union, the name that it carries today.

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Bulgarian language

Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeast Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians.

Romanization of Bulgarian

Romanization of Bulgarian

Romanization of Bulgarian is the practice of transliteration of text in Bulgarian from its conventional Cyrillic orthography into the Latin alphabet. Romanization can be used for various purposes, such as rendering of proper names and place names in foreign-language contexts, or for informal writing of Bulgarian in environments where Cyrillic is not easily available. Official use of romanization by Bulgarian authorities is found, for instance, in identity documents and in road signage. Several different standards of transliteration exist, one of which was chosen and made mandatory for common use by the Bulgarian authorities in a law of 2009.

Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. Bulgaria covers a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), and is the sixteenth-largest country in Europe. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas.

UEFA

UEFA

Union of European Football Associations is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach football in Europe and the transcontinental countries of Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan, as well as some Asian countries such as Israel, Cyprus and Armenia. UEFA consists of 55 national association members. Because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian national teams and clubs from any FIFA and UEFA competitions.

Bulgaria national football team

Bulgaria national football team

The Bulgaria national football team represents Bulgaria in men's international football and is administered by the Bulgarian Football Union, a member association of UEFA.

FIFA

FIFA

The Fédération internationale de football association is the international governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises 211 national associations. These national associations must each also be members of one of the six regional confederations into which the world is divided: CAF (Africa), AFC, UEFA (Europe), CONCACAF, OFC (Oceania) and CONMEBOL.

Presidents

President Years in power
Pavel Grozdanov 1923–1933
Tsvetan Genov 1933–1934
Ivan Batandzhiev 1934–1939
Lyubomir Sokerov 1940–1942
Docho Hristov 1942–1944
Georgi Stoyanov 1946–1948
Isaac Catalan 1948
Ivan Nikolov 1948–1949
Mladen Nikolov 1949–1951
Petar Kolarov 1951–1952
Stefan Petrov 1952–1959
Lachezar Avramov 1959–1961
Kiril Nesterov 1961–1962
Nedyalko Donski 1962–1970
Danail Nikolov 1970–1975
Ivan Nikolov 1975–1979
Krum Vasilchev 1979–1982
Dimitar Nikolov 1982–1984
Ivan Shpatov 1984–1986
Andon Traykov 1986–1990
Slavcho Tapavicharov 1990–1991
Dimitar Largov 1991–1993
Valentin Mihov 1993–1994
Hristo Danov 1994–1995
Ivan Slavkov 1995–2005
Borislav Mihaylov 2005–2019
Mihail Kasabov 2019–2021
Borislav Mihaylov 2021–present[1]

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Dimitar Largov

Dimitar Largov

Dimitar Simeonov Largov was a Bulgarian football midfielder who played for Bulgaria in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Septemvri Sofia and Slavia Sofia. He also competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Valentin Mihov

Valentin Mihov

Valentin Mihov is a former Bulgarian football player. He is a former president of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) and the Bulgarian Professional Football League (PFL).

Ivan Slavkov

Ivan Slavkov

Ivan Slavkov was a Bulgarian sports boss linked to the Communist-era nomenklatura. He served as the President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC) between 1982 and 2005 and was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) between 1987 and 2005.

Borislav Mihaylov

Borislav Mihaylov

Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a Bulgarian former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper, and President of the Bulgarian Football Union. He is also a former member of the executive committee of UEFA.

Competitions

See also: Bulgarian football league system

It organizes the following competitions:

Men's football
Youth football
  • Elite League; First league for academy sides, with three age categories, Under 19, Under 17s and Under 15s sides
Women's football

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Bulgarian football league system

Bulgarian football league system

The Bulgarian football league system or the Bulgarian football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Bulgaria. The system has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels, and allows even the smallest club to dream of rising to the very top of the system.

First Professional Football League (Bulgaria)

First Professional Football League (Bulgaria)

The First Professional Football League, also known as the Bulgarian First League or Parva Liga, currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league, located at the top of the Bulgarian football league system. Contested by 16 teams, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Second Professional Football League.

Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria)

Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria)

The Bulgarian Second Professional Football League, also known as Second League or Vtora liga, is the second level of the Bulgarian football league system, below First League and above the Third League. Sixteen teams take part in the league, each playing twice against all the other, once home and once away. Most matches are played on Saturdays and Sundays. The league is administered by the Bulgarian Professional Football League.

Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria)

Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria)

The Bulgarian Third Amateur Football League, commonly referred to as Third League or Treta liga, is the third level of the Bulgarian football league system. Third League operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the second and the fourth tier of the Bulgarian football league pyramid – respectively being Second League and the A Oblast Groups. Currently Third League consists of four divisions that are formed by separating the country into four regions: North-West, South-West, North-East and South-East. The divisions run in parallel during the season, but since the number of teams in each division may vary, the number of rounds in each of them may vary. Each team must play at least two times against every other team on a home-away basis.

Regional Amateur Football Groups (Bulgaria)

Regional Amateur Football Groups (Bulgaria)

The Bulgarian Regional Amateur Football Groups are the 4th and 5th level of the Bulgarian football league system. There are 41 groups called A Regional Football Groups and 19 B Regional Football Groups. Teams from B RFG are promoted to A RFG and A RFG teams are promoted to Third League.

Bulgarian Cup

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.

Bulgarian Supercup

Bulgarian Supercup

The Bulgarian Supercup is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and the holder of the Bulgarian Cup at that time. In case the champion of Bulgaria has also won the cup, the Bulgarian Cup finalist competes with the champion in the match for the trophy.

Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League

Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League

The Cup of the Bulgarian Amateur Football League is a Bulgarian annual football competition established by the BFU in 1994.

Bulgarian Women's League

Bulgarian Women's League

The Bulgarian women's league also known as Swiss Capital League for sponsorship reasons, is Bulgarian's top level league of women's football in Bulgaria.

Bulgarian Women's Cup

Bulgarian Women's Cup

The Bulgarian Women's Cup is the national women's football cup competition in Bulgaria. It was first contested in 1985/86.

National teams

The Bulgarian Football Union also organizes national football teams representing Bulgaria at all age levels:

Men's
Women's
Futsal

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Bulgaria national football team

Bulgaria national football team

The Bulgaria national football team represents Bulgaria in men's international football and is administered by the Bulgarian Football Union, a member association of UEFA.

Mladen Krstajić

Mladen Krstajić

Mladen Krstajić is a Serbian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back.

Bulgaria national under-21 football team

Bulgaria national under-21 football team

The Bulgaria national under-21 football team is considered to be the feeder team for the Bulgaria national football team. This team is for Bulgarian players aged under 21 at the start of the calendar year in which a two-year UEFA European Under-21 Championship campaign begins, so some players can remain with the squad until the age of 23.

Aleksandar Dimitrov

Aleksandar Dimitrov

Aleksandar Dimitrov is a Bulgarian football manager and former footballer.

Bulgaria national under-19 football team

Bulgaria national under-19 football team

The Bulgaria national under-19 football team is the national under-19 football team of Bulgaria and is controlled by the Bulgarian Football Union. The team competes in the European Under-19 Football Championship, held every year.

Angel Stoykov

Angel Stoykov

Angel Georgiev Stoykov is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as a midfielder.

Bulgaria national under-18 football team

Bulgaria national under-18 football team

The Bulgaria national under-18 football team are a feeder team for the main Bulgaria national football team.

Bulgaria national under-17 football team

Bulgaria national under-17 football team

The Bulgaria national under-17 football team represents Bulgaria in football at an under-17 age level and is controlled by the Bulgarian Football Union, the governing body for football in Bulgaria.

Marcho Dafchev

Marcho Dafchev

Marcho Dafchev is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is currently working as a youth team coach at Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

Bulgaria women's national football team

Bulgaria women's national football team

The Bulgaria women's national football team represents Bulgaria in international women's football, and is controlled by the Bulgarian Football Union. The team's major success came in 2008 when they won the Balkan Championship and the Albena Cup in the same year. These major tournament victories brought them up to their all-time highest FIFA world ranking of 33rd.

Silvia Radoyska

Silvia Radoyska

Silvia Stefanova Radoyska is a Bulgarian football midfielder, currently playing for NSA Sofia in the Bulgarian Championship. She has also played for Sporting Huelva in the Spanish Superleague. She first played the European Cup in 2004 with Supersport Sofia.

Bulgaria national futsal team

Bulgaria national futsal team

The Bulgaria national futsal team represents Bulgaria in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Bulgarian Football Union and represents the country in international futsal competitions, such as the FIFA Futsal World Cup and the European Championships.

Source: "Bulgarian Football Union", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 19th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_Football_Union.

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References
  1. ^ www.dariknews.bg
  • Paytashev, Rumen (2001). World Football Encyclopedia, 1st edition. Trud. ISBN 954-528-500-1.
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