FC Botev Lukovit ( bg, Ботев (Луковит)) is a

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n football club from

Lukovit Lukovit ( bg, Луковит ) is a town in northern Bulgaria, part of Lovech Province. It is situated on both banks of the Zlatna Panega between the Danubian Plain and the foot of Stara Planina. As of December 2009, the town has a population ...

, currently playing in the Bulgarian "A" RFG

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. The stadium of the club is The City Stadium in Lukovit with capacity of 3,000 people.

History

Botev Lukovit Football Club was founded in 1933, but in 1995 due to lack of funds the club wound up. Is restored again on 1 September 1999 and included in the

Regional championship or the Fourth level of the

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. Management Board decided to direct their activities to the generation of adolescents and directs its activities to work with children. In the club are recorded 50 children divided into two groups: training group – (from 9 to 11 years), children (12–14 years) and adolescents aged senior (15–19) in the Regional Championship. Children's age group for the season 2000–2001 finished in the first place in their league. One of the big successes achieved in children participating was in the International tournament "Danone", when the children of Botev Lukovit reached the final in Sofia. By the way they eliminated teams like

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and Etar Veliko Tarnovo. Four of the children – Rosen Banov, Vladislav Simeonov, Milen Tonev and Plamen Stanev were included in the national team "

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" – 2000, for the international finals of the tournament on stadium "Park de Prince" in

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. For season 2013/2014 the team won the right to play in the

Bulgarian North-West V AFG The Bulgarian Third Amateur Football League ( bg, Трета аматьорска футболна лига, Treta Amat'orska Futbolna Liga), commonly referred to as Third League ( bg, Трета лига) or Treta liga, is the third level of the ...

Successes

* 2nd in Central "V" Group in 1982 * 1st in "A" RFG

in 1987, 1988, 2004 * 1st in the Christmas football tournament for children in

– 2007, 2008 * 1/32 Final of the

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– 1978 * Botev Lukovit –

3:0 – 1999 * 3rd in North-West V AFG in 2013-14 * Botev Lukovit –

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1:0 – 15 September 2013 * Botev Lukovit –

SFC Etar Veliko Tarnovo Etar ( bg, Етър) is a Bulgarian sports football club based in Veliko Tarnovo, that plays in the Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria), Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football. Etar is the official successor of FC Eta ...

2:0 – 23 May 2014

Current squad

''As of 11 August 2017''

History

Successes

Current squad

See also