Georgi Georgiev Kostadinov ( bg, Георги Георгиев Костадинов; born 7 September 1990) 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 Macedo ...

n professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a

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for

Cypriot First Division The Cypriot First Division ( el, Πρωτάθλημα Α΄ Κατηγορίας) is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus, run by the Cyprus Football Association. Since February 2016, it is sponsored by Cyta and is thus officially ...

club

APOEL APOEL FC ( el, ΑΠΟΕΛ; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', literally "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") ...

and the Bulgarian national team.

Career

Early career

Born in

Tsarevo Tsarevo ( bg, Царево, , also transliterated as Carevo or Tzarevo) is a town and seaside resort in the Municipality of Tsarevo, Burgas Province, Bulgaria. Etymology In the past, it was known as Vasiliko ( el, Βασιλικόν), and betwe ...

, Kostadinov began his career with

Naftex Burgas ''For the new club claimed as the successor, see PFC Neftochimic Burgas.'' PFC Naftex Burgas ({{Lang-bg, ПФК Нафтекс) is a former football club from Burgas, Bulgaria. History The club was created in 1962 by a group of workers, laying t ...

. In 2007–08, he helped Naftex win the Bulgarian U19 Championship, scoring the only goal in the final against

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 ...

. In June 2009, Kostadinov joined

Pomorie Pomorie ( bg, Поморие ), historically known as Anchialos (Greek: Αγχίαλος), is a town and seaside resort in southeastern Bulgaria, located on a narrow rocky peninsula in Burgas Bay on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is ...

Ludogorets

On 16 January 2012, Kostadinov signed for Ludogorets Razgrad. His

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 ...

debut was on 18 March, as a substitute against Svetkavitsa, replacing Stanislav Genchev in the 78th minute. Six minutes later he scored his first goal, netting the fourth in a 5–0 victory. Kostadinov won two Bulgarian League titles, a

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 tournamen ...

and the

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup ( bg, Суперкупа на България) is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match an ...

for Ludogorets, but struggled to hold down a place in the first team, totalling 13 games and two goals.

Beroe

On 19 August 2013, Kostadinov joined

Beroe Stara Zagora Beroe ( bg, Берое) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Stara Zagora, that competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded in 1916 under the name ''Vere ...

as a free agent. He signed a two-year contract with the club and was given the number 70 shirt. Kostadinov made his debut in the same day in a 0–0 home draw against Cherno More, coming on as an 85th-minute substitute for

Élio Martins Élio Bruno Teixeira Martins (born 26 March 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for A.D. Machico as a winger or forward. Club career Martins was born in Machico, Madeira. After years of playing in the lower leagues, espec ...

. He scored his first Beroe goal on 9 March 2014, in a 3–1 away win over Chernomorets Burgas. Kostadinov spent two seasons with the club, where he scored 8 goals in 49 league matches.

Levski Sofia

After his contract with Beroe expired, Kostadinov joined

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 ...

. On 3 July 2015, he signed a two-year contract with Levski. His competitive debut came against Botev Plovdiv in the opening game of the Bulgarian League season on 18 July, and scored his first goal for the club in a 1–1 away draw. After two successful individual campaigns with Levski, he left the club at the end of his contract in May 2017.

Maccabi Haifa

On 22 June 2017, Kostadinov signed as a free agent for

Israeli Premier League The Israeli Premier League ( he, ליגת העל, ''Ligat Ha`Al'', ), is a professional association football league which operates as the highest division of the Israeli Football League – the state's league of Israel. The league is contested b ...

club

Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa ( he, מכבי חיפה) is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football ...

on a two-year contract. He made his competitive debut for the club on 29 July, playing full 90 minutes of a

2017–18 Toto Cup Al The 2017–18 Toto Cup Al was the 33rd season of the third-important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and the 12th tournament involving Israeli Premier League clubs only. The competition is held in two stages. First, fourteen ...

match against

Bnei Sakhnin Bnei Sakhnin F.C. ( ar, اتحاد أبناء سخنين, he, איחוד בני סכנין, ''Ihud Bnei Sakhnin''; ''Ittihad Abna Sakhnin'', ) is an Israeli football club based at the Doha Stadium in Sakhnin. They are the most successful clu ...

Acre Municipal Stadium Acre Municipal Stadium ( he, האצטדיון העירוני של עכו, ''Haitztadion Haironi Shel Akko''), also Toto Acre Stadium ( he, אצטדיון טוטו עכו, ''Itztadion Toto Akko''), is a Association football, soccer stadium in Acre, ...

; Maccabi won 4–1. Kostadinov played his first Israeli Premier League match on the opening day of the season during their 2–0 away defeat against Bnei Yehuda on 21 August. On 16 September 2017, Kostadinov scored his first goals in a 4–2 home win over

Hapoel Ra'anana Hapoel Ra'anana Association Football Club ( he, עמותת הפועל רעננה מחלקת כדורגל, ''Amutat Hapoel Ra'anana Mahleket Kaduregel'') is an Israeli football club based in the city of Ra'anana. They currently play in Liga Alef ...

. He scored his second Maccabi goal on 5 May 2018 in a 1–1 draw at

Arsenal Tula

On 1 July 2018, Kostadinov joined

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 ...

club Arsenal Tula on a 2+1-year contract, for an undisclosed fee reported to be €200,000. On 29 July, he made his competitive debut in their season opener against

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...

by replacing

Kantemir Berkhamov Kantemir Mikhailovich Berkhamov (russian: Кантемир Михайлович Берхамов; born 7 August 1988) is a Russian former footballer who played as a central midfielder. Club career He made his debut in the Russian Premier League ...

for the final 32 minutes of a 0–0 home draw. On 5 October 2018, he scored his first Russian Premier League goal in a 1–1 home draw against

FC Ufa FC Ufa (russian: ФК «Уфа», ba, Өфө, Öfö) is a Russian football club based in Ufa that will play in the second-tier Russian First League in the 2022–23 season. History During the summer of 2010, Rustem Khamitov, the second Presid ...

APOEL

On 26 July 2022, Kostadinov signed with

in Cyprus. He scored his first goal for the club on 17 September 2022, in a 0–2 win over

Olympiakos Nicosia Olympiakos Nicosia ( el, Ολυμπιακός Λευκωσίας, ''Olympiakos Lefkosias'') is a football club based in Nicosia, Cyprus and competes in the Cypriot First Division. The club was founded in 1931, and is a founding member of the C ...

International career

He was called up to the senior

squad by

Ivaylo Petev Ivaylo Bogdanov Petev ( bg, Ивайло Богданов Петев; born 9 July 1975) is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. He spent his whole caree ...

for a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

in September 2016. Kostadinov earned his first cap on 7 October under new manager

Petar Hubchev Petar Kanchev Hubchev ( bg, Петър Кънчев Хубчев; born 26 February 1964) is a Bulgarian football manager and former player who played for Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga. Considered one of the great ...

, playing the full 90 minutes in the 1–4 away loss against

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in another qualification match for the

2018 World Cup The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national Association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awa ...

. On 31 August 2017, Kostadinov scored his second international goal in a 3–2 home win against Sweden.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Bulgaria's goal tally first.''

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club

; Ludogorets *

(2): 2011–12,

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(1): 2011–12 *

(1):

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References

External links

*
Profile at Sportal.bg

Profile at Theplayersagent.com

Profile at LevskiSofia.info
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kostadinov, Georgi 1990 births Living people Bulgarian footballers Bulgaria men's international footballers Bulgaria men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football midfielders PFC Neftochimic Burgas (2009–2014) players OFC Pomorie players PFC Ludogorets Razgrad players PFC Beroe Stara Zagora players PFC Levski Sofia players Maccabi Haifa F.C. players FC Arsenal Tula players APOEL FC players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Israeli Premier League players Russian Premier League players Cypriot First Division players Bulgarian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Israel Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in Cyprus People from Burgas Province