The 2010–11 A Group was the 87th season of the Bulgarian national top football division, and the 63rd of

A Group The First Professional Football League ( bg, Първа професионална футболна лига, Parva Profesionalna Futbolna Liga), also known as the Bulgarian First League or Parva Liga, currently known as the efbet League for spon ...

as the top-tier football league in the country. The season commenced on 31 July 2010 and ended with the last games on 28 May 2011. The winter break was between the weekends around 29 November 2010 and 26 February 2011.

Litex Lovech Litex ( bg, Литекс) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Lovech, which currently competes in the Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Sports Club. The club's home ground is the Gradski Stadion ...

had defended their 2009/10 A Group title and became champions for 2 years in a row.

Team information

Lokomotiv Mezdra FC Lokomotiv Mezdra (ФК Локомотив Мездра) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Mezdra, which currently playing in the Third League, the third tier of Bulgarian football. The club's home ground is the Lokomotiv Stadiu ...

, Sportist Svoge and Botev Plovdiv were directly relegated after finishing in the bottom three places. Lokomotiv ended a two-year tenure, Sportist were relegated after a year in

and Botev were excluded from

due to financial difficulties at the winter brake. The relegated teams were replaced by Vidima-Rakovski, champions of West

B Group The Bulgarian Second Professional Football League ( bg, Втора професионална футболна лига, Vtora Profesionalna Futbolna Liga), also known as Second League ( bg, Втора Лига) or Vtora liga, is the second level ...

and Kaliakra Kavarna, champions of the East

. Vidima-Rakovski returned to

after two years, while

Kaliakra Kaliakra ( bg, Калиакра; ro, Caliacra) is a cape in the Southern Dobruja region of the northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, which ends with a long and narrow headland east of Kavarna, northeast of Varna and southwest of Mangalia. Th ...

entered the top division for their first time. A further place in the league was decided by a play-off match between the runners-up teams from the two B Group's. The game was played on ''23 May 2010'' between

Nesebar Nesebar (often transcribed as Nessebar and sometimes as Nesebur, bg, Несебър, pronounced ) is an ancient city and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. It is the administrative cen ...

and Akademik Sofia. Akademik won the match by 2–1 and returned to the top division after 28 years. The last season the club had played in

was 1981–82.

Stadia and locations

As in the previous year, the league will comprise the best thirteen teams of season 2009/10, the 2 champions of the ''West'' and ''East'' B Group's and the winners of the ''promotion play-off'' between the runners-up from the ''West'' and ''East'' B Group's. The following teams have ensured their participation in

for season ''2010/11'' (listed in alphabetical order): ;Notes # Akademik Sofia will play their league home games at Ovcha Kupel Stadium in

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...

because their

Akademik Stadium Akademik Stadium is a football stadium located in Sofia, Bulgaria with a capacity of 8,000 sitting and 2,000 standing for sports and expandable to 22,000 for concerts. The stadium complex consists of 1 grass field, 2 additional fields, 4 changing r ...

had not received approval from the BFU license committee. #

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia ( bg, ЦСКА София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sport ...

will play their league home games at

Vasil Levski National Stadium Vasil Levski National Stadium ( bg, Национален стадион „Васил Левски“), named after Bulgarian national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski (1837–1873), is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 43 ...

because their Balgarska Armiya had not received approval from the BFU license committee. #

Lokomotiv Sofia Lokomotiv 1929 ( bg, Локомотив 1929) 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 refou ...

will play their league home games at

because their Lokomotiv Stadium had not received approval from the BFU license committee.

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Positions by round

Relegation playoff

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Chernomorets Pomorie Pomorie ( bg, Поморие) is a Bulgarian municipal ( bg, общински, pronounced obshtinski) association football club based in Pomorie, that competes in the A RFG Burgas, the fourth tier of Bulgarian football. The club plays its home ...

wasn't allowed to compete in the next season, so there will be 2 play-offs. The first will be between the teams that lost against Chernomorets Pomorie, Vidima-Rakovski and Sportist Svoge. The other will be between Svetkavitsa and

FC Etar Veliko Tarnovo FC Etar Veliko Tarnovo ( bg, ФК Етър Велико Търново) is a former Bulgarian professional football club based in Veliko Tarnovo. They were last competing in the 2012–13 season of the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group, th ...

(the 3rd teams in the West and East

) for the

Pirin Blagoevgrad Futbolen klub Pirin ( bg, Футболен клуб „Пирин“), also known as Pirin Blagoevgrad is a Bulgarian football club based in Blagoevgrad, which currently competes in the First League, the top division of Bulgarian football. Th ...

's place. ----

Champions

;Litex Lovech *Niflore, Popov and Bratu left the club during a season.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 28 May 2011

Top assistants

Including matches played on 28 May 2011

Scoring

*First goal of the season: 18:06, 31 July 2010 – Georgi Filipov for

against Slavia (6th minute) *Fastest goal in a match: 19 seconds –

Rumen Trifonov Rumen Trifonov ( bg, Румен Трифонов; born 21 February 1985) is a former Bulgarian professional footballer who played as a defender. He is currently working as a youth coach for CSKA Sofia. Career Trifonov earned his first call-up to ...

for CSKA against

Chernomorets Chernomorets ( bg, Черноморец ) is a town on the Black Sea coast of southeastern Bulgaria. Administratively part of Sozopol Municipality, Burgas Province, Chernomorets is a popular seaside resort. Chernomorets lies some southeast of ...

(8 August 2010) *First own goal of the season:

Yordan Petkov Yordan Petkov ( bg, Йордан Петков) (born 11 March 1976 in Veliko Tarnovo) is a former Bulgarian football defender who also used to be assistant coach of Slavia Sofia under Martin Kushev. As a player, he spent most of his career at S ...

( Slavia) for Beroe, 3rd round (15 August 2010) *First hat-trick of the season: Garra Dembélé ( Levski) against

Loko Sofia Lokomotiv 1929 ( bg, Локомотив 1929) 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 refou ...

(9 August 2010) * Quickest hat-trick: 25 minutes – Garra Dembélé ( Levski) against Minyor (12 September 2010) *Widest winning margin: 5 goals ** Sliven 2000 6–1 Vidima-Rakovski (18 September 2010) **

Lokomotiv Plovdiv PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv ( bg, ПФК Локомотив Пловдив), commonly known as Loko Plovdiv, is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Plovdiv. Lokomotiv's home ground is the Lokomotiv Stadium which is situated in Lauta Park ...

5–0

(25 September 2010) ** Cherno More 5–0 Vidima-Rakovski (9 April 2011) *Most goals in one half: 6 goals ** Sliven 2000 6–1 Vidima-Rakovski (5–1 at half time) (18 September 2010) *Most goals scored by losing team: 3 goals **

4–3 Slavia (27 November 2010) * Highest scoring draw: 4 goals ** Vidima-Rakovski 2–2 CSKA (14 August 2010) **

2–2

Litex Litex ( bg, Литекс) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Lovech, which currently competes in the Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Sports Club. The club's home ground is the Gradski Stadion ...

(22 August 2010) **

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2–2 Akademik (18 September 2010) ** Minyor 2–2

(2 October 2010) **

2–2 CSKA (4 October 2010) ** Slavia 2–2 Levski (7 November 2010)

Discipline

* First yellow card of the season: Radoslav Mitrevski for

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against Cherno More, 17 minutes and 25 seconds (31 July 2010) * First red card of the season: Anton Dimitrov for

against Slavia, 87 minutes and 14 seconds (31 July 2010) * Most yellow cards in a single match: 10 ** Akademik 0–1

Sliven Sliven ( bg, Сливен ) is the eighth-largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and industrial centre of Sliven Province and municipality in Northern Thrace. Sliven is famous for its heroic Haiduts who fought against the Ottoman Turk ...

– 6 for Akademik ( Pieter Mbemba, Asparuh Vasilev,

Ivan Redovski Ivan Vasilev Redovski ( bg, Иван Редовски; born 10 September 1981) is a Bulgarian footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are ass ...

, Nikola Asenov, Marcos Bonfim and Yulian Petkov) and 4 for Sliven (

Petar Stoyanov Petar Stefanov Stojanov ( bg, Петър Стефанов Стоянов ; born 25 May 1952) is a Bulgarian politician who was President of Bulgaria from 1997 to 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF). He di ...

, Nikolay Dimitrov, Miroslav Mindev and

Dimo Bakalov Dimo Naydenov Bakalov ( bg, Димо Найденов Бакалов; born 19 December 1988) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a winger. Career In 2006 the Youth Academy midfielder Dimo Bakalov agreed the conditions of his fi ...

) (21 August 2010) * Most red cards in a single match: 3 ** Cherno More 3–2 Slavia – 1 for Cherno More ( Ademar Júnior) and 2 for Slavia ( Galin Ivanov, Victor Deniran) (17 October 2010)

References

External links

Official website
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