Dragoljub Simonović ( sr-cyr, Драгољуб Симоновић, ; born 30 October 1972) is a former

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 lea ...

. Born in Yugoslavia, he represented Bulgaria internationally.

Club career

Simonović began his club career at the local Hajduk Kula, before transferring to

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

Litex Lovech FC Lovech (; formerly Litex Lovech) is a Bulgarian professional association football, football club based in Lovech, that competes in the Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria), Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Spor ...

in 1997, where he won the 1998–99 Bulgarian Championship. In 2001, he transferred to

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. He also played one match for the Bulgaria national team.

Coaching career

He had been appointed on 16 January 2006 as a manager of

OFC Sliven 2000 FC Sliven (ФК Сливен) is a Bulgarian football club from the city of Sliven, currently playing in the Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria), Third League, the third level of Bulgarian football. The club's home ground is the Hadzhi Dimit ...

. Simonović won the Bulgarian second division thus qualified the club in top division for 2008–09 season. In January 2009 he became manager of

Spartak Varna FC Spartak Varna () is a Bulgarian association football club based in Varna, which currently competes in the First League, the top level of Bulgarian football league system. Spartak plays its home matches at the local Stadion Spartak. Founded ...

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