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 sponsorship reasons,
is a professional
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
league, located at the top of the
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 ...
. Contested by 16 teams, it operates on a system of
promotion and relegation
In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between multiple divisions based on their performance for the completed season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are often called open leagues ...
with the
Second Professional Football League
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 ...
.
The Bulgarian football championship was inaugurated in
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...
as the ''
Bulgarian State Football Championship'' and has been played in a league format since
1948, when the A Group was established. The champions of the First League have the right to participate in the qualifying rounds of the
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...
based on the
league's European coefficient. Additionally, two
UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. ...
spots are allocated to the second team in the final standings and the winner of the European playoffs. A further fourth spot may also be granted to the fourth placed team in the final league ranking, given that the
Bulgarian Cup
The Bulgarian Cup ( bg, Купа на България, Kupa na Bulgaria) 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 tournamen ...
holder has finished among the top three teams at the end of the season.
A total of 74 clubs have competed in the Bulgarian top-tier since its establishment. Since
1948, eleven different teams have been crowned champions of Bulgaria. The three most successful clubs are
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 ...
with 31 titles,
Levski Sofia
Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 ...
with 26 titles and
Ludogorets Razgrad with 11 titles. The current champions
Ludogorets Razgrad won their eleventh consecutive title in their eleventh First League season in
2021–22. Historically, the competition has been
dominated by
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 ...
-based teams. Together they have won a total number of 70 titles.
History
Foundation
The first football championship in Bulgaria was held in
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...
as a
knockout tournament
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, a ...
. It was organised by the Bulgarian National Sports Federation (BNSF). The six inaugural teams were
Vladislav Varna
Cherno More ( bg, Черно Море) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in the city of Varna, which currently competes in Bulgaria's primary football competition, the First League. Founded on March 3, 1913, as an asso ...
,
Orel Vratsa,
Levski Sofia
Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 ...
,
Krakra Pernik, Pobeda Plovdiv and
Chernomorets Burgas, each having won and representing its regional sports federation, called ''sportna federatsiya''. The championship was abandoned, because of a dispute between Vladislav and Levski over the replay of the final game. In the following
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Itali ...
season, SK Vladislav became the first champion of Bulgaria. The championship was reorganised for three seasons, from season 1937–38 to 1939–40, ten teams participated in a
round-robin tournament, called the ''National Football Division''.
A Republican Football Group
The inaugural season of the ''A Republican Football Group'' began in the autumn of
1948. The ten teams participating in the league were
Levski,
Septemvri,
Lokomotiv,
Slavia and
Spartak from the capital city
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 ...
, and
Botev Varna,
Botev Burgas,
Slavia Plovdiv,
Marek Stanke Dimitrov,
Benkovski in a spring-autumn cycle like in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
. In the autumn of 1949, qualification tournaments were played to determine the teams that would play in the next
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ...
season. In the next two seasons the number of teams in the league was increased to 12, and for the
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yug ...
season there were 15 teams (the 16th team was the
Bulgarian National Football Team
The Bulgaria national football team ( bg, Български национален отбор по футбол, Bǎlgarski natsionalen otbor po futbol) represents Bulgaria in men's international football and is administered by the Bulgarian F ...
). In seasons
1954 and
1955 there were 14 teams in the league, and in seasons
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...
and
1957
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there were 10.
In
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
, the championship was again stopped after the spring half-season, as had happened in
1948. New re-organizations were accepted and the league was again going to be played in the ''autumn-spring format''. Despite the fact that the teams had played just 1 match,
CDNA was crowned as the champion of Bulgaria.
The frequent changes in the number of teams in A Group continued in the 1960s. In the first two seasons after the reforms in 1958, the number of teams in the league was 12, in the period 1960–1962 – 14, until season
1967/68, when the teams were 16.
There were new reforms at the end of the 1960s. There were many mergers between Bulgarian clubs. The most-famous are between ''CSKA Red Flag'' and ''
Septemvri Sofia
Septemvri ( bg, Септември) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the First League, the first tier of Bulgarian football. Its home ground is the Septemvri Stadium, but due to i ...
'' in CSKA September Flag, the capital teams ''
Levski'' and ''
Spartak'' in Levski-Spartak, ''
Lokomotiv'' and ''
Slavia'' in Slavia, the
Plovdiv teams ''
Botev'', ''
Spartak'' and ''Academic'' in Trakiya. Mergers happened between other Bulgarian clubs too. These mergers between clubs and reforms in A Group were made at the winter break of the
1968/69 season.
After the winter reforms in 1968 until 2000, A Group remained with 16 teams, except in seasons
1971/72 and
1972/73, when 18 teams competed in the league.
Premier Professional Football League
The
Bulgarian Football Union decided to make reforms. The Premier Professional Football League, created in the autumn of 2000, had 14 teams participating in it. At the end of the
2000/01 season, the last two teams were directly relegated to the lower division and the team that finished 12th had the chance to compete in the promotion/relegation play-off for the remaining place in the league.
Levski Sofia
Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 ...
became champions in the first season of the Premier League.
In the
2001/02 season there was experimentation with the regulations. The championship was divided into two phases. In the first phase the teams played a regular season, each team playing twice against all the others, once home and once away. The second phase was a play-off phase.
In the following season,
2002/03, the championship returned to the regulations of
2000/01 – 14 teams playing in a home and away format. For the first time in
6 years
''6 Years'' is a 2015 American romantic drama film written and directed by Hannah Fidell and starring Taissa Farmiga, Ben Rosenfield, Lindsay Burdge, Joshua Leonard, Peter Vack, and Dana Wheeler-Nicholson. Filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass se ...
,
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 ...
became champions.
A Group
![BG Champ cup](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/BG_Champ_cup.png)
The ''Bulgarian A Professional Football Group'' was created in 2003. The group was formed by 16 teams, each playing twice against all the others, once home and once away. In the first season of the newly created A Group, the
2003–04 season, for the first time in history,
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 ...
became champions, finishing with 75 points. In
2004–05,
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 ...
won A Group for the 30th time.
For the next two seasons,
Levski Sofia
Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 ...
were champions under manager
Stanimir Stoilov. From
2005–06 the league's name has been A Football Group. In
2007–08, CSKA became champions of A Group for a record-breaking 31st time without a loss out of 30 matches. But in the summer, UEFA didn't give a licence for the club to play in the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds and Levski Sofia entered to play in the tournament instead of CSKA. In the following season Levski Sofia won their last A Group title, finishing one point ahead of CSKA. Later on, two years in a row
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 ...
won another two titles like in
1997–98 and
1998–99. In
2011–12, after winning promotion from
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 ...
,
Ludogorets Razgrad became the second team after Litex to win the A Group in their first season.
The
Bulgarian Football Union made some changes in the format of A Group prior to season
2013–14 with the reduction of the number of the teams participating in the top league from 16 to 14 and the reintroduction of the two phase league with a regular season and a playoff/play out phase. For the
2014–15 season, the league was once more decreased, this time to 12 teams, keeping the two phase format. This season was memorable since two of the most popular and successful clubs, CSKA Sofia and Lokomotiv Sofia, were both excluded from the league, despite finishing in the top 5 places. Both teams had accumulated debts and did not have the financial resources to pay them, so the BFU decided to take away their professional licenses. This was the first time in the history of the A Group that CSKA was relegated. For the
2015–16 season, the BFU decided to further decrease the number of teams competing, this time to just 10, with a quadruple round robin format introduced, a format used in the
Croatian First Football League and Albanian
Kategoria Superiore
The Kategoria Superiore, officially known as Abissnet Superiore for sponsorship reasons, is a professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Albanian football league system, it is the country's primary football compet ...
.
First Professional Football League
On 7 June 2016 the league's name was changed to First Professional Football League, following approval of new licensing criteria for the clubs.
Competition format
Starting from the 2016–17 season, a new league format was approved by the
Bulgarian Football Union, in an attempt to improve each participating club's competitiveness, match attendance and performance in the league. It involves 14 teams playing in two phases, a regular season and playoffs. The first phase includes each club competing against every other team twice in a double round-robin system, on a home-away basis at a total of 26 games per team and played in 26 fixtures. Seven matches are played in every fixture at a total of 182 games played during the first phase. In the second phase, the top six teams form a European qualifying table, while the bottom eight teams participate in a relegation group. The winner of the top group is declared as Champions of Bulgaria and is awarded with the title.
International qualification
The six top teams compete against each other on a home-away basis. Three matches are played in every fixture of the top six, with the results and points after the regular season also included. At the end of the stage, every team will have played a total of 36 games. The winner of the group is declared as Champions of Bulgaria and automatically secures participation in the
2017–18 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round. The team that ranks second is awarded with a place in the
UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. ...
qualifying rounds. The third team in the final standings would participate in a play-off match against a representative team from the bottom eight. Depending on the winner of the
Bulgarian Cup
The Bulgarian Cup ( bg, Купа на България, Kupa na Bulgaria) 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 tournamen ...
final, a possible fourth team from the first six may compete in a play-off match for an UEFA Europa League spot instead of the third ranked team.
Note: If the Bulgarian Cup
The Bulgarian Cup ( bg, Купа на България, Kupa na Bulgaria) 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 tournamen ...
winner has secured its qualification for the European tournaments for the next season through results from Parva Liga, then the place in the UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. ...
play-off is awarded to the fourth ranked team in the final standings.
Relegation
The teams in the bottom eight are split in two sub-groups of four teams, Group A and Group B, depending on their final position after the regular season standings. The teams that enter Group A are the 7th, 10th, 11th and the 14th, and the teams that participate in Group B are the 8th, 9th, 12th and the 13th. Every participant plays twice against the other three teams in their group on a home-away basis. The teams from the bottom eight also compete with the results from the regular season. After the group stages, every team will have played a total number of 32 games. Depending on their final position in Group A and Group B, two sections will be formed, one for a play-off spot in next season's European competitions and one to avoid relegation. The first two teams from each group continue in the semi-finals, and the last two teams of each group continue to the semi-finals for a relegation match. After this phase, one team is directly relegated to the
Second League and the remaining two teams will compete in two relegation matches against the second and the third ranked clubs from the Second League.
Tiebreakers
In case of a tie on points between two or more clubs, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
#Number of wins;
#Goal difference;
#Goals for;
#Goals against;
#Fewest red cards;
#Fewest yellow cards;
#Draw
Current clubs
The following clubs are competing in the First League during the
2022–23
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season.
List of champions
Performance by club
Bold indicates clubs which play in the
2022–23 First League.
Notes:
*
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 ...
titles include those won as ''Septemvri pri CDNV'', ''CDNA'', and ''CFKA Sredets''.
*
Levski Sofia
Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 ...
titles include those won as ''Levski-Spartak'' and ''Vitosha'', as well as the re-awarded 1984–85 title.
*
Botev Plovdiv total does not include 1984–85 title originally awarded to ''Trakia''.
All-time ranking (since 1948)
The all-time Parva Liga table is an overall record of all match results, points and goals for each team that has participated in the league since its inception in 1948. It also shows every team's number of top three finishes, their best classification, debut season and current spell in Parva Liga, or the season they were last part of the championship.
;Key
:a. Never relegated.
:b. Never relegated, withdrawn with political decision during the
1950 season, due to league reogranisation.
:c. Club dissolved in 2006, successor clubs
PSFC Chernomorets Burgas
PSFC Chernomorets Burgas ( bg, ПСФК Черноморец Бургас) or simply Chernomorets ( bg, Черноморец) was a Bulgarian football club from the city of Burgas. The club never won any major competition, its most notable achi ...
and
FC Chernomorets 1919 Burgas
FC Chernomorets 1919 ( bg, ФК Черноморец 1919) is a Bulgarian football club from the city of Burgas, which currently competes in Bulgaria's 2nd football league, the Second League. Chernomorets plays its home matches at the local S ...
were founded in 2005 and 2015.
:d. Won the championship each season they've been in Parva Liga.
:e. Club dissolved in 2003, successor clubs
FC Etar 1924 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, the ...
and later
SFC Etar Veliko Tarnovo
Etar ( bg, Етър) is a Bulgarian sports football club based in Veliko Tarnovo, that plays in the Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football.
Etar is the official successor of Etar 1924, which was dissolved for financial reasons ...
were founded in 2002 and 2013.
:f. Club dissolved in 2014 and refounded in 2018. successor club
FC Shumen 1929
FC Shumen 1929 ( bg, ФК Шумен 1929) was a Bulgarian football club from the city of Shumen, which last competed in the North-Eastern section of Bulgaria's 3rd football league. Shumen 1929 played its home matches at the local Panayot Vol ...
was founded 2013 and dissolved in 2016.
:g. Club only supports a youth academy.
:h. Club dissolved in 2012, successor clubs
FC Lokomotiv 1929 Mezdra
Lokomotiv 1929 Mezdra ( bg, Локомотив 1929 Мездра) was a Bulgarian football club
A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to pla ...
and
OFC Lokomotiv Mezdra
Lokomotiv 2012 Mezdra ( bg, Локомотив 2012 Мездра) was a Bulgarian football club
A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to pla ...
were founded in 2011 and 2012.
Bulgarian derbies
The Eternal Derby
The
Eternal Derby of Bulgarian football
The Eternal derby of Bulgarian football or simply The Eternal derby ( bg, Вечното дерби) is the name of the local derby football match between the two most popular and successful football clubs in Sofia and Bulgaria: Levski Sofia and ...
is contested between the two most successful and most popular football clubs in Bulgaria,
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 ...
and
Levski Sofia
Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 ...
.
Plovdiv derby
The
Plovdiv derby is contested between
Botev and
Lokomotiv.
Media coverage
For the start of the new
2012–13
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season, the football clubs rejected requests from four TV stations due to the low payments being offered –
Bulgarian National Television
The Bulgarian National Television ( Bulgarian: Българска национална телевизия, ''Balgarska natsionalna televizia'') or BNT (БНТ), stylized as ·Б·Н·Т· since 2018, is a public television broadcaster of Bulgari ...
,
Nova Television, TV7 and
TV+
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication Media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of Transmission (telecommunications), television tra ...
. Finally after the first set of fixtures, the satellite broadcaster
Bulsatcom with its channel TV+ bought the rights, along with
BNT
The Bulgarian National Television (Bulgarian: Българска национална телевизия, ''Balgarska natsionalna televizia'') or BNT (БНТ), stylized as ·Б·Н·Т· since 2018, is a public television broadcaster of Bulgaria. ...
. Before the start of the spring half-season the rights were bought by TV7 and
News7
News7 was a Bulgarian television channel, owned by Crown Media along with its sister channels TV7, Sport7 and Super7. It aired news and sports events, such as the Bulgarian Football Championship, and lifestyle bulletins. It was also the main sp ...
, who had rights for the first, third and fourth pick, and
BNT 1 along with the international channel
BNT World
BNT 4 (, previously BNT World and BNT Sat), is Bulgarian language, a Bulgarian-language Public television, public international television channel owned and operated by the Bulgarian National Television.
History
The first broadcast of the progra ...
broadcasting the second pick of a match.
The next seasons will also be broadcast on the Nova Broadcasting Group channels Diema,
Diema Sport
Diema Sport ( bg, Диема Спорт) is a Bulgarian paid sports television channel, part of Nova Broadcasting Group, owned by United Group. It is part of Diema Extra premium sport package, which also includes the channels Diema Sport 2, Diema ...
and
Diema Sport 2
Diema Sport ( bg, Диема Спорт) is a Bulgarian paid sports television channel, part of Nova Broadcasting Group, owned by United Group. It is part of Diema Extra premium sport package, which also includes the channels Diema Sport 2, Diema ...
, part of the
Diema Extra
Diema Sport ( bg, Диема Спорт) is a Bulgarian paid sports television channel, part of Nova Broadcasting Group, owned by United Group. It is part of Diema Extra premium sport package, which also includes the channels Diema Sport 2, Diema ...
paid pack, as their contract with the league was additionally extended.
Sponsorship
Until 2011 the official sponsor of the championship was TBI Credit and the league was officially known as TBI A Football Group.
In
2011–12, A Group had a new sponsor, the Victoria FATA Insurance, and therefore the league name in that season was rebranded to Victoria A Football Championship.
In early 2013, for a short period of time the naming rights of A Group were bought from the news television network
News7
News7 was a Bulgarian television channel, owned by Crown Media along with its sister channels TV7, Sport7 and Super7. It aired news and sports events, such as the Bulgarian Football Championship, and lifestyle bulletins. It was also the main sp ...
, eventually renaming the competition's name to NEWS7 Football Championship.
On 11 July 2019, the Bulgarian Football Union announced that the football division's name had been changed to efbet League, following a two-year sponsorship deal with a betting company of the same name.
Statistics
UEFA coefficients
The following data indicates
Bulgarian
Bulgarian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
coefficient rankings between European football leagues.
;Country ranking:
UEFA League Ranking as of 29 May 2021:
* 22. (''22'')
Eliteserien
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(21.000)
* 23. (''21'')
Allsvenskan (20.500)
* 24. (''27'') First Professional Football League (20.375)
* 25. (''28'')
Liga I
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(18.200)
* 26. (''26'')
Azerbaijan Premier League (16.875)
;Club ranking:
UEFA 5-year Club Ranking as of 29 May 2021:
* 57. (''60'')
Ludogorets Razgrad (28.000)
* 137. (''256'')
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 ...
(''8.000'')
* 278. (''287'')
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 ...
(''4.075'')
* 278. (''287'')
Slavia Sofia
PFC Slavia Sofia ( bg, ПФК Славия София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home groun ...
(''4.075'')
* 278. (''284'')
Levski Sofia
Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 ...
(''4.075'')
* 278. (''287'')
Botev Plovdiv (''4.075'')
* 278. (''287'')
Dunav Ruse
FC Dunav ( bg, Дунав, officially named ''"Дунав от Русе"'') is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Ruse, which currently competes in the Second League, the second tier of the Bulgarian football league system.
Part o ...
(''4.075'')
* 278. (''287'')
Beroe Stara Zagora
Beroe ( bg, Берое) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Stara Zagora, that competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded in 1916 under the name ''Vere ...
(''4.075'')
Managers
The following is a table of all current Parva Liga head coaches and managers, and the time they've spent working with their respective clubs.
Records
All-time league appearances
All-time top scorers
Other records
*Youngest player to appear in the league –
Radoslav Uzunov
Radoslav Uzunov ( bg, Радослав Узунов; born 25 March 2006) is a Bulgarian Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, left-back for FC Arda Kardzhali, Arda Kardzhali.
Career Arda Kardz ...
(aged 15 years and 1 month)
*Oldest player to appear in the league –
Georgi Petkov (aged 45 years and 11 months)
*Foreign player with the most appearances in the league –
Vančo Trajanov (328)
*Foreign player with the most goals in the league –
Claudiu Keșerü
Claudiu Andrei Keșerü (; born 2 December 1986) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays mainly as a striker for Liga I club UTA Arad.
After starting out at hometown side FC Oradea, he soon moved to Nantes in 2003. Over the course of ...
(113)
*Fastest goal scored in the league –
Miroslav Manolov
Miroslav Manolov ( bg, Мирослав Манолов; born 20 May 1985 in Sopot) is a former Bulgarian association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. He retired in early 2016 at age of 30.
Manolov has ...
(6 seconds)
*Fastest red card in the league –
Nenad Filipović (20 seconds)
*Tallest player to appear in the league –
Alessandro Coppola
Alessandro Coppola (born 13 March 2000) is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Maltese club Birkirkara, on loan from Triestina. With a 2.05 m height, he is the second tallest football player in the world, after Kristof Van Hout.
...
(2.05 m)
Top scorers by season
Bold indicates all-time highest.
See also
*
List of foreign football players in A PFG
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby uni ...
*
Second Professional Football League
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 ...
(Bulgaria)
References
External links
Official websiteat UEFA
RSSSF.com
Table at xscores.com
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