The Bulgarian Football Union ( bg, Български футболен съюз, Bǎlgarski futbolen sǎyuz; BFS) is the governing body of

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Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), 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 Macedon ...

, and a member of

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since 1954. It organizes a football league, Bulgarian Parva Liga, and fields its

Bulgaria 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 Association football, football and is administere ...

in UEFA and

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-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.

Presidents

Competitions

It organizes the following competitions: ;Men's football: * First League, 1st level * Second League, 2nd level * Third League (4 divisions), 3rd level * Regional Groups, 4th and 5th level *

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 tournament ...

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup ( bg, Суперкупа на България) 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 ...

* Cup of AFL (amateur cup) ;Youth football: * Elite League; First league for academy sides, with three age categories, Under 19, Under 17s and Under 15s sides ;Women's football: * Bulgarian Women's League (or ''Swiss Capital League''); First Women's Division *

Bulgarian Women's Cup The Bulgarian Women's Cup (Bulgarian: Купа на България - жени) is the national women's football cup competition in Bulgaria. It was first contested in 1985/86. Record champion is FC NSA Sofia with 12 titles. The 2011 cup final ...

National teams

The Bulgarian Football Union also organizes national football teams representing Bulgaria at all age levels: ;Men's: *

(currently managed by

Mladen Krstajić Mladen Krstajić ( sr-cyr, Младен Крстајић, ; born 4 March 1974) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. From Janua ...

) * Bulgaria U21 national football team (currently managed by Aleksandar Dimitrov) * Bulgaria U19 national football team (currently managed by Angel Stoykov) * Bulgaria U18 national football team (currently managed by Angel Stoykov) * Bulgaria U17 national football team (currently managed by Yordan Petkov) * Bulgaria U16 national football team (currently managed by

Marcho Dafchev Marcho Dafchev ( bg, Марчо Дафчев; born 12 May 1978 in Plovdiv) is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is currently working as a youth team coach at Lokomotiv Plovdiv. He has been capped by Bulgar ...

) * Bulgaria U15 national football team (currently managed by

Stefan Kolev Stefan Kolev ( bg, Стефан Колев; born 11 October 1966) is a Bulgarian football manager and former footballer, who played as a defender and now is manager of Bulgaria U15. He is the only player to have won five A Group titles with four ...

) ;Women's: * Bulgaria women's national football team (currently managed by

Silvia Radoyska Silvia Stefanova Radoyska (Bulgarian: Силвия Стефанова Радойска) is a Bulgarian football midfielder, currently playing for NSA Sofia in the Bulgarian Championship. She has also played for Sporting Huelva in the Spanish Su ...

) ;Futsal: * Bulgaria national futsal team (currently managed by

Bogomil Marev Bogomilism (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian and Macedonian language, Macedonian: ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", bogumilstvo, богумилство) was a Christian Gnosticism, Christian neo-Gnostic or Dualistic cosmology, dualist sect founded ...

)

References

External links

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