Football Club Chepinets ( bg, Футболен клуб Чепинец) is a

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 ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club based in

Velingrad Velingrad ( bg, Велинград ) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, located at the western end of Chepino Valley, part of the Rhodope Mountains. It is the administrative center of the homonymous Velingrad Municipality an ...

, currently playing in the A RFG Pazardzhik. The club colours are red and blue, and their home ground since 1961 has been Chepinets Stadium.

History

Chepinets was founded in 1926. At the end of the 1956 season Chepinets reached the second tier of Bulgarian football for the first time in their history. In 1977–78 season Chepinets reached 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 tournament ...

semi-finals, their best run in the competition, eliminating

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 ...

sides

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 ...

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 b ...

along the way. In the following season they finished 3rd in the

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 ...

, their highest ever league finish.

Current squad

''As of August 2, 2017''

League positions

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V Group V, or v, is the twenty-second and fifth-to-last letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''vee'' (pronounced ), plural ...

" from:01/07/2016 till:01/07/2017 shift:(0,-4) text:18 from:01/07/2016 till:01/07/2017 color:red shift:(0,14) text: " Third League" from:01/07/2017 till:01/07/2018 shift:(0,-4) text:5 from:01/07/2018 till:01/07/2019 shift:(0,-4) text:2 from:01/07/2019 till:01/07/2020 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/07/2017 till:01/07/2020 color:yellow shift:(0,14) text: " A Regional Group"

References

External links

Club profile
at bgclubs.eu Chepinets 1926 establishments in Bulgaria Association football clubs established in 1926 {{Bulgaria-footyclub-stub