Todor Dimitrov Yanchev ( bg, Тодор Янчев; born 19 May 1976) is a former

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 ...

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, who played as a midfielder.

Career

Playing career

Born in

Kazanlak Kazanlak ( bg, Казанлък , Thracian and Greek Σευθόπολις (''Seuthopolis''), tr, Kazanlık) is a Bulgarian town in Stara Zagora Province, located in the middle of the plain of the same name, at the foot of the Balkan mountain ...

, Yanchev's first club was local club F.C. Rozova Dolina, before he moved to the squads of

PFC Neftochimic Burgas Neftochimic ( bg, Нефтохимик) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Burgas, which currently competes in B RFG Burgas, the fifth tier of the Bulgarian football league system, after being disqualified for financi ...

. In the summer break of 2000

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia ( bg, ЦСКА София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sport ...

signed Yanchev. With CSKA he became a champion of Bulgaria for 2003 and 2005. After the end of 2004–05 season, Yanchev transferred to Greek side

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. Year later, as a free agent he signed with

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. In 2007, Todor returned to Bulgaria, to join

for the second time. In 2008, he became a champion of Bulgaria for third time and won

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. In the summer of 2009 he, as well as

Kiril Kotev Kiril Kotev ( bg, Кирил Котев; born 18 April 1982) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Club career In his youth years, Kotev started to play football at Vihar Gorublyane. At the age of 16 he moved ...

and

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, stayed in the club although the club was facing a big financial crisis, showing very stable level of play proving why he has been the team captain. In 2012 Yanchev was suspended for 3 months after he failed a

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for

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doping. The defensive midfielder, was one of eight players who was fired by

on 27 July 2012 and he was appointed for assistant coach, but on 6 August 2012 he was brought back in the first team, because of problem with the registering of the new players. On 20 October 2012 he played for 22nd time in the Eternal derby, wherein CSKA won 1–0. On 7 January 2013, after leading the team of CSKA to the first official winter training session, Toshko gave his resignation to the Bulgarian Football Union and is no longer a player for CSKA. He decided to leave

as a show of support for manager

Stoycho Mladenov Stoycho Dimitrov Mladenov ( bg, Стойчо Димитpoв Младенов; born 12 April 1957 in Ploski, Blagoevgrad Province) is a Bulgarian former football player and manager. Career Mladenov started from small teams like Dimitrovgrad an ...

who had been sacked. On 21 January, it was announced that Yanchev will join Slavia Sofia on a free transfer. In July of the same year he returned to

for the third time, after the club changed its ownership.

Managing career

Yanchev was also assistant manager of

when he played for the team in 2012–13 season and later in 2014–15 season. After he retired in the summer of 2015, he became manager of the newly founded team Tsarsko Selo in the A Regional Group. The team had only wins and one draw in the league, but in the end of December 2015 Tsarsko Selo's owner Stoyne Manolov bought V Group team FC Sofia and from 1 January 2016 Yanchev was appointed as manager in order to save the team from relegation and is looking to manage team in professional football. On 29 October 2016, following two successive defeats, Yanchev resigned.

Manager statistics

Honours

; CSKA Sofia *

Bulgarian A PFG 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 ...

(3) :* 2002–03, 2004–05, 2007–08 *

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 ...

(1) :*

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(2) :*

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* * {{FC CSKA 1948 Sofia squad 1976 births Living people Bulgarian footballers People from Kazanlak Bulgarian expatriate footballers Neftochimic Burgas players PFC CSKA Sofia players Trabzonspor footballers Kallithea F.C. players Randers FC players PFC Slavia Sofia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Süper Lig players Super League Greece players Danish Superliga players Association football midfielders Expatriate footballers in Greece Expatriate footballers in Turkey Expatriate footballers in Denmark Doping cases in association football Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark