Daniel Nedyalkov Genov (; born 12 May 1989) is a

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n professional

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who currently plays as a winger for

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Career

Genov played youth football with

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia () 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 Sports Club of the Army'' ...

Septemvri Sofia Septemvri () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the Second League, the second tier of Bulgarian football. Its home ground is the Septemvri Stadium, but due to its poor condition the ...

and

Slavia Sofia PFC Slavia Sofia 1913 () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home ground is the Stadion Aleksandar Sh ...

. In January 2009, Genov joined

Kom-Minyor OFC Kom () is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Berkovitsa, currently playing in the Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria), North-West Third League, the third level of Bulgarian football. The club's home ground is the Mramor Stadium ...

. He made his debut on 14 March in a match against

Rilski Sportist FC Rilski Sportist (ФК Рилски спортист Самоков) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Samokov founded in 1947 and currently playing in the South-West Third League. Their home stadium is Iskar Stadium. Throughout ...

as a 48th-minute substitute.

Inter Baku

In July 2010, Genov signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Azerbaijani side

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. He made his debut in a 2–0 home loss against Neftchi on 28 August. In his first season, Genov earned only 7 appearances in the

Azerbaijan Premier League The Azerbaijan Premier League (), also known as Misli Premyer Liqası for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Azerbaijan and the highest level of the Azerbaijani football league system. It is contested by twelve ...

. In June 2011, Simurq signed Genov on a season-long loan deal. On 25 March 2012, he opened the scoring in a 2–1 away win over

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. Genov was released by Inter in December 2013.

Lokomotiv Sofia

On 31 January 2014, Genov signed one-and-a-half-year contract with

Lokomotiv Sofia FC Lokomotiv Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently plays in the First League, the top tier of Bulgarian football. Founded as Railway Sports Club in 1929, and refounded in 2015, following ...

. On 22 February, he made his debut, replacing

Petar Dimitrov Petar Dimitrov (; born 28 February 1982) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Kostenets. Career Dimitrov played for a few clubs, including CSKA Sofia, Belasitsa Petrich, Vihren Sandanski and Beroe Stara ...

for the last 35 minutes of a 5–0 home win over Neftochimic Burgas. Genov scored his first Lokomotiv goal on 13 April in a 2–0 away win to

Lyubimets 2007 FC Lyubimets () is a Bulgarian football club based in Lyubimets. The team was founded in 1921 and re-founded in 2007. The team currently competes in the fourth tier of Bulgarian football, the A RFG Haskovo. The club's biggest achievement came ...

. On 7 January 2015, Genov signed a one-year contract extension, keeping him at Lokomotiv until 30 June 2016.

finished season 2014–15 on 3rd place but was related to amateur football league due to financial difficulties. The contract of Daniel Genov, who scored 8 goals in 31 games in

A Grupa The First Professional Football League (), commonly known as Parva Liga or Bulgarian First League (currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons), is a professional association football league in Bulgaria and the highest level of t ...

that season, as well as the contracts of all other players were terminated.

Botev Plovdiv

On 29 June Daniel Genov and Valentin Galev, his ex-teammate from

, joined

Botev Plovdiv Profesionalen Futbolen Klub Botev AD, commonly referred to as Botev Plovdiv (, ), or simply Botev (within its associated city), is a Bulgarian professional Association football, football club based in Plovdiv. It competes in the First Professiona ...

on free transfer. On 18 July Genov made an exciting official debut for

in the match against

Levski Sofia PFC Levski Sofia () 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 by a group of high sc ...

when he came on as a substitute and scored the equalizer in a 1–1 draw. On 23 September Daniel Genov scored during the 0–4 away win over

FC Septemvri Simitli FC Septemvri () is a Bulgarian football club based in Simitli, which currently plays in the Third League, the third tier of the Bulgarian football league system. History The club was founded in 1942. From 1961 to 1975, it was called "Pirin miner ...

in a game for the

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup () 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's format is ''single-elimination'', with all matche ...

. At the end of 2015

Nikolay Kostov Nikolay Nikolov Kostov (; born 2 July 1963) is a Bulgarian former footballer and current manager. Career Much of his coaching career has taken place in Cyprus. His first coaching role in the country was at Anorthosis, where he won the Cyprio ...

, the new manager of

, decided to release Daniel Genov on a free transfer. On 14 January 2016 the contract of Genov was terminated on a mutual agreement. Genov played in 22 games for

and scored 2 goals.

Pirin Blagoevgrad

On 14 January 2016 Daniel terminated his contract with

by mutual agreement and signed with

Pirin Blagoevgrad Football club Pirin (), also known as Pirin Blagoevgrad is a Bulgarian football club based in Blagoevgrad, which currently competes in the Second League, the second division of Bulgarian football. The club was founded in 2008, after a merger ...

Botev Vratsa

In June 2022 Genov joined

for a second spell with the club.

Career statistics

References

External links

Profile at Sportal.bg
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Genov, Daniel 1989 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers Shamakhi FK players Simurq PIK players FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players Botev Plovdiv players OFC Pirin Blagoevgrad players FC Montana players Enosis Neon Paralimni FC players POFC Botev Vratsa players PFC Beroe Stara Zagora players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Cypriot Second Division players Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Men's association football midfielders Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan 21st-century Bulgarian sportsmen