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based in

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, which currently competes in the First League, the top level of

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. Spartak plays its home matches at the local Stadion Spartak. Founded in 1918, Spartak Varna established itself as one of the early pioneering clubs in

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. Spartak won the Bulgarian league in

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, and was runner up in 1931 and 1933. Spartak has spent the majority of its existence in the first tier of Bulgarian football, with the club’s most recent top flight participation being season 2022–2023. Spartak's nickname is the "Falcons", and the club has a very heated rivalry with fellow Varna-based club,

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. Matches between the two sides are known as the "Derby of Varna". The two sides even used to share the

Yuri Gagarin Stadium Yuri Gagarin Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Varna, Bulgaria. It was initially used as the stadium of Cherno More Varna and Spartak Varna. It was named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's firs ...

before it was demolished.

History

1918–1945: Foundation of SC Sokol

Spartak Varna was founded on 28 August 1918 by a group of young people, who were playing football together for two years. At the initial meeting, regarding the establishment of the club, the name was decided to be SC Sokol. Niagol Kolev was elected as the first chairman of the club. A few days later, the members of the board registered the Football Club to the government under the name "Bulgarski Sokol". The colors of the team were blue and white. "Bulgarski Sokol," one of the poor suburban teams in Varna, is poorly circumstanced in comparison to the leading teams at that time such as ''Ticha'' and "Vladislav." Nonetheless, the football team quickly became stronger, and improved their style of play. On 30 January 1924 "Bulgarski Sokol" merged with the sport club "Shipka". These days the team proved itself as one of the strongest teams in Varna. Among all the players called with a lot of love from the fans "Falcons" with most successful plays was the forward Mihail Tunchev. In 1924 he was invited in the national team and that way he became the first national player of the team. A few years later started the rise of the team. In the season 1928/29 the team won for the first time the championship of Varna, and joined the State Championship where they reached third place. Two years later 1930/31 the falcons were again champions of Varna. For the State Championship they reached the final with the Sofia's AS-23. Next year "Shipchenski Sokol" again reached the final, where the rival was the capitol's team Slavia. On 18.09.1932 in front of 10 000 audience on the football field of AS-23 the falcons won with 2:1 and became State Champion and Winner of the Cup of the King. In the next season "Shipchenski sokol" were again champion of Varna, and for the State Championship they reach for the third consecutive time the final. On 03.10.1933 in

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rival of the "falcons" was

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. Varna's team lost with 3:1 and took the second place in the State Championship.

1945–2010: Merge and Spartak naming

In 1945 the club merged with other two Varna's football clubs "Levski" and "Radetski". This happened on 18 October 1945, and the team accepted a new name - Spartak Varna (the name ''Spartak'' means "

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). In the years between 1945–1948, three times Spartak reached the semi-finals of the State Championship. In 1950, the team took the fifth place in the newly created "A" Republican Football League. Spartak Stalin relegated to B League in 1952 but returned to A League at next year. Spartak again relegated to second level in 1963–64 season but returned in 1964–65 season. However, this return was short-lived and relegated in 1965–66. In 1955, Spartak won the third place and bronze medals in the championship of "A" League. In 1959 the forward of Spartak Georgi Arnaudov-"Alaha" became a shooter of the championship with nine goals. Two years later, Spartak again had a winner in the shooters list: Liuben Kostov with 12 goals. In 1960/61, Spartak had very good matches in the tournament of the Soviet Army which then was playing the role of the

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. They reached the final where and meet the strongest team in Bulgaria at that time- CSKA. Spartak lost the final 3:0. As a finalist, Spartak won the right to play in the tournament of the National Cup Winners. In 1969 another sport club merged with Spartak – it was the "Lokomotiv" sport club. The merge became a fact on 06.03.1969 and the club took the name "JSK-Spartak". JSK-Spartak returned to first level in 1970–71 but relegated in 1973–74 and returned to first level in 1974–75. JSK-Spartak relegated again in 1977–78. In 1982 the "Falcons" reached the final of the Cup of Bulgaria as they won the semi-final against Levski-Spartak in

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in front of a crowd of 20,000. In

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, Spartak lost the final 4:0 to CSKA-Septemvriisko Zname, but as a finalist they obtained the right to play in the Cup of the National Cup Winners. In the same year, JSK-Spartak returned to the A League. In the season 1983/84, after mighty and successful games, Spartak reached third place. The goalkeeper

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was declared the best goalkeeper in the championship. Since 1985 the football was separated from the other sports in JSK-Spartak, and that way the FC Spartak Varna is differentiated as well. The 80's will be remembered and with the regular participation of the team in the tournaments for the Varna Summer Cup. Rivals of the "falcons" were the teams of

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, the English

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, Hungarian

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and many others. In 1988/89, Spartak became the first Bulgarian team with private sponsor and president Atanas Atanasov-Kebie. From the autumn of 1994, president of the club was Nikolay Ishkov. Spartak relegated to B league in 1988–89 and returned to A League in 1991–92. However, Spartak relegated to second level in 1993–94. In the season 1994/95 after mighty games the falcons won the cup as the most progressive team in Bulgaria. In the same season the forward

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scores 21 goals and became shooter number one of Bulgaria. At this time Spartak was considered one of the strongest teams in Bulgaria. For the first time there was successful transfer policy and perspective selection. Many of the players has a profitable offers from capitol's and foreign clubs. In its 84 years of history Spartak went through many peaks and downfall moments, but it left a bright trace in the Bulgarian football. F.C. Spartak is one of the clubs with the greatest traditions, between the 10 clubs which have most participations in the

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, and between the 15 who reached the Champions title of Bulgaria. The same season Spartak returned to the first level.

2010–2015: Dark times

In May 2010, Spartak Varna was relegated to Bulgarian North East amateur division due to inability to comply with requirements for a professional license. Furthermore, under new ownership, it was founded Spartak 1918. A month later, fans of Spartak Varna (forming the majority of the ultras), not happy with the previous management and not seeing a change after the new registration, formed a new club taking over the same league FC Topolite license. However, although reaching an agreement with FC Topolite they have not been allowed to change the name of that club to Spartak. Their team has finished second after Spartak 1918 the first half of 2010/2011 season, but due to financial problems has stopped his participation. The group of fans who formed FC Topolite still boycotts the current management of Spartak 1918 and doesn't attend the team's games. For this 2010–11 season, the club is participating in the

Bulgarian North-East 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 ...

2015–present: Refounding of new Spartak

2015–2017: FC Spartak and Spartak 1918

A new team was founded on 17 May 2015 by founding board led by Spartak's legends Atanas Atanasov, Lyudmil Goranov, Dimitar Trendafilov, Ilko Stanchev and

Trayan Dyankov Trayan Kolev Dyankov ( bg, Траян Дянков; 21 June 1976 – 1 August 2016) was a Bulgarian football defender and manager of Spartak Varna. He was a right or central defender, and began his career in Spartak Varna's youth teams. Care ...

, after the original club (named Spartak 1918 at the time) had bad leadership in the last years. The team wanted to use Spartak Stadium in order to start from the 3rd league - the

Bulgarian 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 ...

, but this hasn't happened since the stadium was given to Spartak 1918, which withdrew from V Group and was dissolved. Some of the players who joined the team played also for the local futsal club Grand Pro Varna. On 11 October 2015 the team signed a sponsorship with UltraGas, which would guarantee them enough money to prepare a new strong team in the future.ФК Спартак Варна представи спонсор
/ref> On 6 May 2016 team applied to gain rights to play and operate at Spartak Stadium because they can't play at Lokomotiv Stadium in

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in 2016–17 season if they get promotion. Atanas Atanasov had a talk with the sports minister

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who promised to give these right to Spartak, if the stadium become municipal property, because Spartak 1918 is the current operator of the stadium, even after the condition of the stadium is critical. Atanasov also said, that the team is looking for sponsors and eventually a club owner. On 11 May 2016 the club gain the rights on Lokomotiv Stadium, which would give them the chance to start a complete youth academy from the 2016/17 season. On 3 July 2016

was appointed as the new manager of the team and would lead the team in Third Amateur League. On 1 August 2016 Dyankov died from a heart attack during training at Lokomotiv Stadium. Atanas Atanasov become the manager of the team for the beginning of the season. On 26 November 2016 the manager of Spartak, Atanas Atanasov, announced that the club will merge with Spartak 1918 to have one Spartak. On 1 February 2017 it was announced the official merge with Spartak 1918 manager, Ivan Naydenov, taking the team. The complete merge would be after the season end.

2017–Present: Merge of Spartak teams

On 25 June 2017 FC Spartak and Spartak 1918 finally merged. Three days earlier the new logo of the team was announced. On 29 December 2017 Engibar Engibarov was announced as the new manager of the team. On 6 July 2018 Spartak returned the rights over to Spartak Stadium. On 12 May 2019 Spartak secured their return to professional football, winning their group two rounds before its end and managing to be promoted to the Second League. However, Spartak endured a difficult season back into the second tier, finishing second to last, suffering an immediate relegation. For the 2020-21 season, Spartak finally returned to their renovated home stadium. On 16 May 2021 the team secured their first place in their Third League group and won the promotion to Second League once again. The team ended up on top of the standings before the winter break. On 5 May 2022, after a 2:1 home win against

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the team secured a top 3 place and their return to First League in the 2022–23 season, after 12 years of absence. The team missed the chance to win the last league match and ended up on 3rd place with having the same points with first and second team in group.

Honours

First League: * Winners (1):

''(as Shipchenski Sokol)'' * Runners-up (2):

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1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...

''(as Shipchenski Sokol)'' * Third-place (6):

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1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...

''(as Shipchenski Sokol)''

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

''(as Spartak Varna)'' Second League: * Winners (7): 1953, 1964–65, 1970–71, 1974–75, 1981–82, 1994–95, 2005–06 Third League: * Winners (3):

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, 2018–19,

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A Regional Group: * Winners (1): 2015–16

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: * Runners-up (2):

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Crest, shirt and sponsors

Spartak Varna adopted blue, white and red, the main colours of the original Spartak Varna. On 11 October 2015 the team signed a sponsorship with UltraGas. For the first match in 2018 Spartak signed a contract with the reseller store iPhonePlace. After adopting a new logo in 2016, on 23 January 2018 Spartak managed to return the rights to their original logo.ФК "Спартак 1918" си върна старата емблема
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European tournaments history

Players

First-team squad

''For recent transfers, see Transfers summer 2022 and Transfers winter 2022–23.''

Out on loan

Foreign players

Up to five non-EU nationals can be registered and given a squad number for the first team in the

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however only three can be used in a match day. Those non-EU nationals with European ancestry can claim citizenship from the nation their ancestors came from. If a player does not have European ancestry he can claim Bulgarian citizenship after playing in Bulgaria for 5 years. EU Nationals EU Nationals (Dual citizenship) * Liandro Martis * Nathan Holder * Cristiano Figueiredo Non-EU Nationals * Romeesh Ivey *

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Denys Balanyuk Denys Serhiyovych Balanyuk ( ua, Денис Сергійович Баланюк; born 16 January 1997) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bulgarian club Spartak Varna. Career Balanyuk is a product of the sports s ...

Goalscoring and appearance records

*Players in bold are still playing for Spartak.

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries, or held any club record. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries. ;Bulgaria *

Stefan Aladzhov Stefan Atanasov Aladzhov ( bg, Стефан Атанасов Аладжов, born 18 October 1947) is a former Bulgarian football defender. In his career, he played mostly for Levski Sofia. In 1970 Aladzhov was named Bulgarian Footballer of the ...

Panteley Dimitrov Panteley Kostadinov Dimitrov ( bg, Пантелей Костадинов Димитров; 2 November 1940 – 23 June 2001) was a Bulgarian football midfielder who played for Bulgaria in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He also played for PFC CSKA So ...

* Zdravko Dimitrov * Diyan Donchev * Engibar Engibarov *

Stanislav Genchev Stanislav Genchev ( bg, Станислав Генчев; born 20 March 1981) is a Bulgarian former footballer and now manager, who is currently the manager of Lokomotiv Sofia. Career SC Vaslui SC Vaslui signed Genchev as a free player, on 14 J ...

* Milen Georgiev *

Plamen Getov Plamen Tsvetanov Getov ( bg, Пламен Цветанов Гетов; born 4 March 1959) is a Bulgarian retired Association footballer, footballer who played as either an Midfielder#Attacking midfielder, attacking midfielder or a Forward (associ ...

Zhivko Gospodinov Zhivko Gospodinov Hristov ( bg, Живко Господинов Христов; 6 September 1957 – 4 May 2015) was a Bulgarian footballer. Gospodinov was an attacking midfielder and playmaker. In his 18-year-long playing career, he played for ...

Mihail Gyonin Mihail Gyonin ( bg, Михаил Гьонин) (born 25 November 1941) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He was born in Vratsa. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; ...

* Ivo Ivanov * Plamen Kazakov * Lyuben Kostov * Iliya Kirchev *

Emil Kremenliev Emil Georgiev Kremenliev ( bg, Емил Георгиев Кременлиев; born 13 August 1969) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Career Kremenliev played club football for Slavia Sofia, Levski Sofia ...

Martin Kushev Martin Miroslavov Kushev ( bg, Мартин Мирославов Кушев, born 25 August 1973 in Troyan) is a Bulgarian football manager and former player who is currently an assistant coach at Slavia Sofia. During his football career, Kush ...

Ivan Minchev Ivan Minchev ( Bulgarian: Иван Минчев; born 28 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Slavia Sofia. Career Early career Minchev began his career in his local Rozova Dolina at age of 7 and moved ...

Anatoli Nankov Anatoli Aleksandrov Nankov ( bg, Анатоли Александров Нанков; born 15 July 1969) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Nankov spent most of his career playing in the Bulgarian A P ...

* Stefan Naydenov * Valentin Naydenov * Hristo Nikolov-Choko *

Ivan Paskov Ivan Paskov ( bg, Иван Пасков; born 4 January 1973) is a former Bulgarian footballer who last played for Lokomotiv Sofia. In 2010, he retired from football and became a scout. His international career lasted a total of only a minute or ...

* Kiril Pandov *

Dimitar Popov Dimitar Nikolaev Popov ( bg, Димитър Николаев Попов; born 27 February 1970) is a former Bulgarian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career In his career Popov played for Levski Sofia, Botev Plovdiv, Sparta ...

Stoyko Sakaliev Stoyko Sakaliev ( bg, Стойко Маринов Сакалиев; born 25 March 1979) is a Bulgarian footballer. Career Sakaliev was born in Sofia. His first team was Naftex Burgas. He was first loaned to CSKA Sofia during 2004, but bought in t ...

Nasko Sirakov Nasko Petkov Sirakov ( bg, Наско Петков Сираков; born 26 April 1962) is a Bulgarian retired professional footballer who played mainly as a striker. He is the major shareholder of Levski Sofia. Part of the Bulgaria national t ...

Emil Spasov Emil Spasov ( bg, Емил Спасов; born 1 February 1956 in Sofia) is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as a midfielder or striker. Spasov started his career with Levski Sofia in 1974 and stayed in the club until 1988 with short br ...

Valentin Stanchev Valentin Stanchev ( bg, Валентин Станчев; born 25 October 1968) is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker. Career Born in Vratsa, Valentin Stanchev played in his career for Botev Vratsa, Chernomorets Burgas, Spar ...

Stefan Staykov Stefan Georgiev Staykov ( bg, Стефан Гeopгиeв Стайков; born 3 October 1949) is a former Bulgarian association football, football Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper who played for Bulgaria national football team, Bulg ...

Dobromir Tashkov Dobromir Tashkov ( bg, Добромир Ташков; 10 April 1925 – 26 May 2017) was a Bulgarian football player and manager who played as a forward. Tashkov was born in Varna. He spent his whole career at Spartak Varna and Slavia Sofia. ...

Georgi Tsvetkov Georgi Tsvetkov ( Bulgarian: Георги Цветков; born 10 September 1947) is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as a forward. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he won a silver medal with the Bulgarian t ...

* Kosta Yanev *

Stefan Yurukov Stefan Yurukov ( bg, Стефан Юруков; born 16 June 1972 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian former association football, football player. After his retirement Yurukov switched to police work. Honours ;Litex Lovech * First Professional Football L ...

;Europe * Razmik Grigoryan *

Zoran Banović Zoran Banović (; born 14 October 1977) is a former Montenegrins (ethnic group), Montenegrin Association football, football goalkeeper. Club career Banović started to play football in his home town Nikšić in local club FK Sutjeska Nikšić, ...

Valērijs Ivanovs Valērijs Ivanovs (russian: Валерий Иванович Иванов; born 23 February 1970 in Riga) is a former football midfielder from Latvia. He played 69 international matches and scored 1 goal for the Latvia national team between 1 ...

* Alexandr Belousov * Marko Simić ;North America * Liandro Martis ;South America * Romeesh Ivey ;Africa * Prosper Mendy

Personnel

Board of directors

Current technical body

Manager history

League positions

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Past seasons

Spartak II

Spartak II ( bg, Спартак II) or Spartak 2 is a

n football team based in

. Founded in 2021, it is the

reserve team In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players under contract to a club but who do not normally play in matches for the first team. Reserve teams often include back-up players from the first team, young players who need playing time to i ...

of Spartak Varna, and currently plays in Third League, the third level of Bulgarian football. Obliged to play one level below their main side, Spartak II is ineligible for promotion to First League and also can not compete in the

Players

Foreign players

Up to five non-EU nationals can be registered and given a squad number for the first team in the

Dakarai Truvillion Dakarai is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Dakarai Allen (born 1995), American basketball player *Dakarai Gwitira Dakari (born Dakarai Gwitira) also known as D.G., is a Zimbabwe-born music producer, audio engineer, and DJ. A ...

Laur Chitanu Laur, officially the Municipality of Laur ( tl, Bayan ng Laur), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon region of Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 38,263 people.. Laur is locat ...

Non-EU Nationals * Pavel Bachuriyski

Seasons

References

External links

Official websitebgclubs.eu
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