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 o ...

, 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

n football. 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

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 ...

, Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa and Etar Veliko Tarnovo. Four of the children – Rosen Banov, Vladislav Simeonov,

Milen Tonev Milen Tonev ( bg, Милен Тонев; born 8 June 1988 in Lukovit) is a Bulgarian footballer who currently plays for Botev Lukovit as a forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People ...

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.

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 The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions— north, east, south, and west—eac ...

in 2013-14 * Botev Lukovit –

Spartak Pleven OFK Spartak ( bg, ОФК Спартак) is a Bulgarian municipal association football club from the city of Pleven founded on 10 September 1919. It currently competes in the Second League, the second tier of Bulgarian football. The team's gr ...

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 League, the second level of Bulgarian football. Etar is the official successor of Etar 1924, which was dissolved for financial reasons ...

2:0 – 23 May 2014

Current squad

''As of 11 August 2017''

History

Successes

Current squad

See also