FC Dorostol Silistra

FC Dorostol ( bg, ФК Доростол) is a Bulgarian football club based in Silistra, who currently plays at the North-East Third League, the third division of Bulgarian football. Its home stadium "Louis Ayer" has a capacity of 12 000 seats. Club colors are blue and white. The club was officially founded in 1945. However it exists informally from 1902, which makes it the oldest Bulgarian football club.

History

The original founding year of Dorostol is considered to be the year 1902. The club was originally affiliated with the Bulgarian school in Silistra, whose students founded the sports society "Strela", meaning arrow in Bulgarian. Their first kit was black, which was also the color of the uniforms of the students from the school. From 1903 to 1909, the gymnastics teacher at the school was Louis Eyer, a Swiss gymnasist. In 1920, a Romanian team was founded in the area, called Dristor, later renamed Venus. This was, because at the time, Dobruja was part of Romania. After 1941, when Dobruja was given back to Bulgaria, the team is renamed to "Dorostol".

In 1949, there is a major reorganization of sports activities and clubs in the country. New sports societies emerge in the city of Silistra, such as "Cherveno Zname", "Torpedo" and "Stroitel". There is a tournament held between the teams to be decided which one will play professional football. "Cherveno Zname" wins the tournament, and is promoted to the B PFG, the second tier of Bulgarian football.

In 1958, there is another major reorganization of sports activities in the country, which unites all the teams from Silistra into one - "Dorostol". Club colors were decided to be blue and white.

In 1984, Dorostol managed to achieve something very unexpected, by reaching the final of the Cup of the Soviet Army. However, Dorostol lost 4-0 to Levski Sofia in the final.

The club was reformed in 2014, starting from V AFG, because of financial problems. In 2019, the club was disqualified from the third league, due to not having the financial availability to compete.

League positions

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Colors =
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id:Second_tier value:white legend:Second_tier
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id:Does_not_exist value:black legend:Does_not_exist

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from:01/07/2008 till:01/07/2009 shift:(0,-4) text:3
from:01/07/2009 till:01/07/2010 shift:(0,-4) text:1
from:01/07/2008 till:01/07/2010 color:red shift:(0,14) text: " V Group"
from:01/07/2010 till:01/07/2011 shift:(0,-4) text:7
from:01/07/2011 till:01/07/2012 shift:(0,-4) text:10
from:01/07/2010 till:01/07/2012 color:white shift:(0,14) text: "B Group"
from:01/07/2012 till:01/07/2014 color:black shift:(0,14) text: Dissolved
from:01/07/2014 till:01/07/2015 shift:(0,-4) text:16
from:01/07/2014 till:01/07/2015 color:red shift:(0,14) text: " V Group"
from:01/07/2015 till:01/07/2016 shift:(0,-4) text:1
from:01/07/2015 till:01/07/2016 color:yellow shift:(0,14) text: Regional
from:01/07/2016 till:01/07/2017 shift:(0,-4) text:11
from:01/07/2016 till:01/07/2017 color:red shift:(0,14) text: " 3rd"
from:01/07/2017 till:01/07/2020 color:black shift:(0,14) text: Dissolved
from:01/07/2020 till:01/07/2021 shift:(0,-4) text:10
from:01/07/2021 till:01/07/2022 shift:(0,-4) text:13
from:01/07/2022 till:01/07/2023 shift:(0,-4) text:
from:01/07/2020 till:01/07/2023 color:red shift:(0,14) text: " 3rd"

External links

Official site

Dorostol 2003
Association football clubs established in 1945
Association football clubs disestablished in 2012
1945 establishments in Bulgaria
2012 disestablishments in Bulgaria
Silistra

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