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63-479: The club was founded in 2005, following the folding of the historical FC Chernomorets Burgas , which played numerous seasons in the first tier of Bulgarian football. The new Chernomorets quickly ascended to the first tier and remained there until the 2013-14 season . Financial problems followed, which led to instability and relegations to lower leagues, ultimately to the fifth tier, where the team played last in 2018-19, before being dissolved. Fans and former players from

126-477: A famous Bulgarian oil magnate and owner of the rival football club in the city Naftex Burgas , bought the club from the municipality and renamed it to PSFC Chernomorets Burgas . (the club is registered in the Bulgarian Football Union as PFC Chernomorets Burgas and is known by that name to the people.) The football club was used as a reserve team for Naftex Burgas . And the owner appointed for manager

189-532: A football department was created to the sports society, named FC Chernomorets . Between 1919 and 1944, the football club participated in the Bulgarian State Championship, regularly promoting and relegating from the different divisions of the league. In the following years several changes were made. In 1944, the club was bought by the Municipality of Burgas, its name was changed to FC Lyuboslav and

252-402: A home-away basis at a total of 30 games per team and played in 30 fixtures. Eight matches are played in every fixture at a total of 240 games played during the first phase. In the second phase, the top six teams form a European qualifying table, while between the 7th and 10th places will battle European Conference League play-off and bottom six teams participate in a relegation group. The winner of

315-449: A multi-use stadium in Burgas , Bulgaria . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 18,037 people and it is 3 star rated by UEFA. The stadium was opened in 1967 and was renovated in 1997 and 2009. Chernomorets Arena is a future modern stadium in Burgas , which is going to be the new home ground of Chernomorets Burgas. The new venue will be built in the place of

378-500: A new manager was hired – the prominent Hungarian coach Kramer Lipot. However the results were not good and soon he was sacked from his job. Years later, the bad results were the reason to bring FC Lyuboslav to a dissolve. When the Bulgarian A Group became the new top-tier league format of Bulgaria in 1948, Chernomorets was selected to be one of the ten teams to compete in the new league. Chernomorets finished in last place, however, and

441-460: A total number of 32 games. Depending on their final position in Group A and Group B, two sections will be formed, one for a play-off spot in next season's European competitions and one to avoid relegation. The first two teams from each group continue in the semi-finals, and the last two teams of each group continue to the semi-finals for a relegation match. After this phase, one team is directly relegated to

504-460: Is an overall record of all match results, points and goals for each team that has participated in the league since its inception in 1948. It also shows every team's number of top three finishes, their best classification, debut season and current spell in Parva Liga, or the season they were last part of the championship. The table is accurate as of the end of the 2022–23 season. In order to put

567-473: Is contested between the two most successful and most popular football clubs in Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia and Levski Sofia . The Plovdiv derby is contested between Botev and Lokomotiv . For the start of the new 2012–13 season, the football clubs rejected requests from four TV stations due to the low payments being offered – Bulgarian National Television , Nova Television , TV7 and TV+ . Finally after

630-445: Is listed in bold represented their countries. Bulgarian A Professional Football Group The First Professional Football League ( Bulgarian : Първа професионална футболна лига , romanized :  Parva Profesionalna Futbolna Liga ), commonly known as Parva Liga or Bulgarian First League (currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons), is a professional association football league, being

693-425: The 2022–23 season . The three phases were kept identical though, with the exception being that six teams would compete in the relegation group instead of four. For the 2024–25 season, the format was modified yet again. After the regular season concludes, the league would split into a top four group to determine the champion and European competition places, a second group for teams ranked fifth through eight to determine

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756-572: The Second League and the remaining two teams will compete in two relegation matches against the second and the third ranked clubs from the Second League. In case of a tie on points between two or more clubs, tiebreakers are applied in the following order: Bold indicates clubs which play in the 2024–25 First League . [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Notes : The all-time Parva Liga table

819-627: The UEFA Champions League second qualifying round. The team that ranks second is awarded with a place in the UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds. The third team in the final standings would participate in a play-off match against a representative team from the bottom eight. Depending on the winner of the Bulgarian Cup final, a possible fourth team from the first six may compete in a play-off match for an UEFA Europa League spot instead of

882-740: The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup . The club's first participation in European club tournaments was not long-lived, however. The team faced Dinamo Tirana from Albania . The first game in Burgas , in the presence of 17,000 spectators at the Chernomorets Stadium , ended with a 3–1 win. But the second game in Tirana finished with a shameful 0–4 loss and Chernomorets were out of the cup winners cup tournament. A few years later, in 1994 Chernomorets were relegated to Southern "B" Group and its return to A PFG in 1999

945-612: The Nova Broadcasting Group channels Diema, Diema Sport and Diema Sport 2 , part of the Diema Extra paid pack, as their contract with the league was additionally extended. Until 2011 the official sponsor of the championship was TBI Credit and the league was officially known as TBI A Football Group . In 2011–12 , A Group had a new sponsor, the Victoria FATA Insurance, and therefore the league name in that season

1008-424: The Second League. Starting from the 2022–23 season, a new league format was approved by the Bulgarian Football Union , in an attempt to improve each participating club's competitiveness, match attendance and performance in the league. It involves 16 teams playing in two phases, a regular season and playoffs. The first phase includes each club competing against every other team twice in a double round-robin system, on

1071-529: The assets of the clubs. The table below does not reflect the tables provided by official sources, including the Bulgarian Football Union. In general, the table presented below considers clubs bearing similar names and from the same city to be the same entity, and not separate clubs, whereas the Bulgarian Football Union considers the foundation of a new club to be a separate entity and records are kept separately. The Eternal Derby of Bulgarian football

1134-458: The autumn of 1948 . The ten teams participating in the league were Levski , Septemvri , Lokomotiv , Slavia and Spartak from the capital city Sofia , and Botev Varna , Botev Burgas , Slavia Plovdiv , Marek Stanke Dimitrov , Benkovski in a spring-autumn cycle like in the Soviet Union . In the autumn of 1949, qualification tournaments were played to determine the teams that would play in

1197-453: The club had played a total of 31 seasons in the Bulgarian top division . In 1989, Chernomorets surprisingly reached the final of the Bulgarian Cup and played against PFC CSKA Sofia , but the result of the match was a 0:3 loss for Chernomorets. In spite of the loss, the team led by Dian Petkov , Zlatko Yankov , Lyubomir Sheytanov and Vlado Stoyanov, managed to earn a position to participate in

1260-401: The clubs. The new league name also came with a new format change, the fourth such in the last four seasons. A total of 14 teams would compete, and the season would consist of two phases, a regular season phase, where each team plays each other team twice, followed by a playoff phase, where the top six teams from the regular season compete for the title as well as European competition spots, while

1323-603: The competition has been dominated by Sofia -based teams. Together they have won a total number of 70 titles. The first football championship in Bulgaria was held in 1924 as a knockout tournament . It was organised by the Bulgarian National Sports Federation (BNSF). The six inaugural teams were Vladislav Varna , Orel Vratsa , Levski Sofia , Krakra Pernik , Pobeda Plovdiv and Chernomorets Burgas , each having won and representing its regional sports federation, called sportna federatsiya . The championship

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1386-621: The famous Bulgarian manager Dimitar Dimitrov . In 2007, the Sharks won the East B PFG and were promoted to the A PFG . The next season Chernomorets finished 6th and qualified for the Intertoto Cup . In the second round, the Sharks defeated ND Gorica from Slovenia with 3–1 on aggregate to set up a third round clash with Swiss Grasshopper Zurich , but were eliminated with a 0–4 on aggregate. In December, 2008, Chernomorets's owner appointed for manager of

1449-401: The first president of the club. In the period between 1918 and 1919, SC Strela had a roster of 200 members, slowly growing into an association with a big importance to the city. Тherefore some changes had to be made and on August 1, 1919, the first president of the club was chosen to be Stefan Ilic. By his suggestion, the club's name was chosen to be changed to SC Chernomorets and the same year,

1512-409: The first set of fixtures, the satellite broadcaster Bulsatcom with its channel TV+ bought the rights, along with BNT . Before the start of the spring half-season the rights were bought by TV7 and News7 , who had rights for the first, third and fourth pick, and BNT 1 along with the international channel BNT World broadcasting the second pick of a match. The next seasons will also be broadcast on

1575-452: The football club the notable Bulgarian player Krassimir Balakov , after being sacked from FC St. Gallen . At the end of that season, Mitko Sabev dissolved Naftex Burgas and bought PFC Chernomorets Pomorie from Pomorie , making the new club from the nearby town a reserve team for the main football club. On January 14, 2010, Chernomorets Burgas was named as the most progressive club in 2009 in Bulgaria. In July 2010, after differences between

1638-469: The last two teams were directly relegated to the lower division and the team that finished 12th had the chance to compete in the promotion/relegation play-off for the remaining place in the league. Levski Sofia became champions in the first season of the Premier League. In the 2001/02 season there was experimentation with the regulations. The championship was divided into two phases. In the first phase

1701-415: The league was again going to be played in the autumn-spring format . Despite the fact that the teams had played just 1 match, CDNA was crowned as the champion of Bulgaria. The frequent changes in the number of teams in A Group continued in the 1960s. In the first two seasons after the reforms in 1958, the number of teams in the league was 12, in the period 1960–1962 – 14, until season 1967/68 , when

1764-694: The league's name has been A Football Group . In 2007–08 , CSKA became champions of A Group for a record-breaking 31st time without a loss out of 30 matches. But in the summer, UEFA didn't give a licence for the club to play in the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds and Levski Sofia entered to play in the tournament instead of CSKA. In the following season Levski Sofia won their last A Group title, finishing one point ahead of CSKA. Later on, two consecutive seasons Litex Lovech won another two titles like in 1997–98 and 1998–99 . In 2011–12 , after winning promotion from B Group , Ludogorets Razgrad became

1827-416: The most consistent teams in Bulgaria, spending most of its history in the top tier A Group. Financial problems started in the early 2000s however, and the club eventually folded after the 2005–06 season. An unofficial successor, PSFC Chernomorets Burgas was soon founded. The new club played in the top tier between 2007 and 2014, but also encountered financial problems, folding in 2019. A third club from Burgas

1890-677: The name PFC Chernomorets Burgas Sofia which only lasted one season and reached many anti-records. After a one-season stay in the amateur division, the club easily won the Bulgarian South-East V AFG with Dian Petkov as a head coach, finishing in the 1st place. In June, 2006, OFC Chernomorets 919 won the Bulgarian Amateur Cup. In the final at the Vasil Levski National Stadium , Chernomorets won with 4–0 against Benkovski Kostinbrod . The same summer, Mitko Sabev ,

1953-505: The next 1950 season. In the next two seasons the number of teams in the league was increased to 12, and for the 1953 season there were 15 teams (the 16th team was the Bulgaria national team ). In seasons 1954 and 1955 there were 14 teams in the league, and in seasons 1956 and 1957 there were 10. In 1958 , the championship was again stopped after the spring half-season, as had happened in 1948 . New re-organizations were accepted and

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2016-651: The old home ground of FC Chernomorets, the Chernomorets Stadium , and will have a capacity of 30,000 spectators and a possible expansion to 55,000. It is scheduled to be opened in 2017. The construction will start in the summer of 2013, because of the current demolishing process of the old stadium and the global financial crisis, and will cost 500 million euros, making it one of the most expensive stadiums in Europe. The stadium will be probably rated with an elite ranking by UEFA and will host Champions League and Europa League matches in Burgas and Eastern Bulgaria . In July 2009,

2079-413: The original club founded FC Chernomorets 1919 Burgas as the successor of the club. In the summer of 2005, the club was founded by the mayor of Burgas . Despite the protests of the owner of FC Chernomorets Ivaylo Drazhev, the new club was named OFC Chernomorets 919 and was named as a successor of the current then FC Chernomorets. At the same time, Drazhev formed another club in the capital Sofia under

2142-461: The owner of the club announced an ambitious plan to build a modern sports complex for the club in the Sarafovo neighborhood of Burgas. The sports complex will be named Sharks Nest and will include two training pitches and one training pitch with artificial turf, an administrative building for the team and one building for the management of the football club. The construction of the sports complex started

2205-496: The owners of Petrol AD the club's budget was severely reduced and many employees from the staff were released. However, on 6 December 2010, Krassimir Balakov was released from Chernomorets Burgas after mutual consent. Second half of the 2010-11 A PFG season was a nightmare for Chernomorets Burgas and the team collapsed to eighth place in the standings while being managed by two more coaches - Anton Velkov and Georgi Vasilev . On 30 May 2011, Mitko Sabev appointed as manager for

2268-411: The regular season standings. The teams that enter Group A are the 7th, 10th, 11th and the 14th, and the teams that participate in Group B are the 8th, 9th, 12th and the 13th. Every participant plays twice against the other three teams in their group on a home-away basis. The teams from the bottom eight also compete with the results from the regular season. After the group stages, every team will have played

2331-458: The remaining eight teams would compete for avoiding relegation to the Second League. This format was used from 2016 up until 2021. In 2021, the BFU decided to once more change the format of the league. This time, the league would still consist of a regular season stage where teams compete against each other twice, but then the league would split into three phases. The top six clubs would again compete for

2394-433: The right to participate in the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League based on the league's European coefficient . Additionally, two UEFA Europa Conference League spots are allocated to the second team in the final standings and the winner of the European playoffs. A further fourth spot may also be granted to the fourth placed team in the final league ranking, given that the Bulgarian Cup holder has finished among

2457-536: The same month and was finished in July, 2010 at a cost of €20 million. FC Chernomorets Burgas FC Chernomorets Burgas ( Bulgarian : ФК Черноморец Бургас ) or simply Chernomorets ( Bulgarian : Черноморец ) were a Bulgarian football club from the city of Burgas . Chernomorets played its home matches at the local Chernomorets Stadium . The team was a runner-up in the Bulgarian Cup and Bulgarian Supercup competitions. Chernomorets established itself as one of

2520-399: The second team after Litex to win the A Group in their first season. The Bulgarian Football Union made some changes in the format of A Group prior to season 2013–14 with the reduction of the number of the teams participating in the top league from 16 to 14 and the reintroduction of the two phase league with a regular season and a playoff/play out phase. For the 2014–15 season , the league

2583-514: The second time Dimitar Dimitrov – Hero . He founded high quality players for free like Jugurtha Hamroun , Lourival Assis , Aatif Chahechouche , and Yannick Boli , with Chernomorets Burgas having his best season in club history in the Bulgarian A PFG  – a 4th place with real chances to reach the Europa League until the end. However, little was not enough and the club eventually didn't qualify. After 2013/2014 season Chernomorets Burgas

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2646-401: The team that would compete in the playoffs for UEFA Conference League (team that finished fourth in the top group would play against the fifth-placed team), as well as a bottom eight group consisting of teams competing to avoid relegation, with the last two teams being directly relegated, while the 14th and 15th placed teams would compete in a playoff against the third and fourth placed teams from

2709-433: The teams on equal terms, 3 points are awarded for a win and 1 for a tie, although the regulation of the various championships was different. The points are calculated according to the results achieved on the field. Administrative withdrawal of points is not taken into account. Canceled matches, as well as playoffs for promotion/remaining or participation in European tournaments, are not taken into account and are not included in

2772-404: The teams played a regular season, each team playing twice against all the others, once home and once away. The second phase was a play-off phase. In the following season, 2002/03 , the championship returned to the regulations of 2000/01  – 14 teams playing in a home and away format. For the first time in 6 years , CSKA Sofia became champions. The Bulgarian A Professional Football Group

2835-766: The teams were 16. There were new reforms at the end of the 1960s. There were many mergers between Bulgarian clubs. The most-famous are between CSKA Red Flag and Septemvri Sofia in CSKA September Flag, the capital teams Levski and Spartak in Levski-Spartak, Lokomotiv and Slavia in Slavia, the Plovdiv teams Botev , Spartak and Academic in Trakiya. Mergers happened between other Bulgarian clubs too. These mergers between clubs and reforms in A Group were made at

2898-427: The third ranked team. Note: If the Bulgarian Cup winner has secured its qualification for the European tournaments for the next season through results from Parva Liga, then the place in the UEFA Europa League play-off is awarded to the fourth ranked team in the final standings. The teams in the bottom eight are split in two sub-groups of four teams, Group A and Group B, depending on their final position after

2961-530: The title and European spots, while teams ranked 7-10 at the end of the regular season would play in the Europa Conference Group, with the 7th placed team competing against the 4th placed team from the Championship group for a UEFA Europa Conference League spot. The bottom four teams would compete to avoid relegation. This format lasted only one season, however, as the league was expanded to 16 teams for

3024-422: The top flight following the relegation in 1949. Chernomorets spent eight seasons in the A Group, from 1965 until 1973. The Sharks were relegated in 1973, and the next four seasons were spent in the B Group. In 1977, another promotion to the A Group followed. FC Chernomorets's best seasons in the Bulgarian top division were in the 1981–82 and 1983–84 seasons, finishing in the 5th place. Since its establishment,

3087-454: The top group is declared as Champions of Bulgaria and is awarded with the title. The six top teams compete against each other on a home-away basis. Three matches are played in every fixture of the top six, with the results and points after the regular season also included. At the end of the stage, every team will have played a total of 36 games. The winner of the group is declared as Champions of Bulgaria and automatically secures participation in

3150-577: The top three teams at the end of the season. A total of 75 clubs have competed in the Bulgarian top-tier since its establishment, with FC Krumovgrad being the newest member of the top tier, after promotion in 2023. Since 1948 , eleven different teams have been crowned champions of Bulgaria. The three most successful clubs are CSKA Sofia with 31 titles, Levski Sofia with 26 titles and Ludogorets Razgrad with 13 titles. The current champions Ludogorets Razgrad won their twelfth consecutive title in their twelfth First League season in 2022–23 . Historically,

3213-625: The top tier of Bulgarian football league system . Contested by 16 teams, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Second Professional Football League . The Bulgarian football championship was inaugurated in 1924 as the Bulgarian State Football Championship and has been played in a league format since 1948 , when the A Group was established. The champions of the First League have

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3276-402: The winter break of the 1968/69 season. After the winter reforms in 1968 until 2000, A Group remained with 16 teams, except in seasons 1971/72 and 1972/73 , when 18 teams competed in the league. The Bulgarian Football Union decided to make reforms. The Premier Professional Football League, created in the autumn of 2000, had 14 teams participating in it. At the end of the 2000/01 season,

3339-500: Was abandoned, because of a dispute between Vladislav and Levski over the replay of the final game. In the following 1925 season, SK Vladislav became the first champion of Bulgaria. The championship was reorganised for three seasons, from season 1937–38 to 1939–40, ten teams participated in a round-robin tournament , called the National Football Division . The inaugural season of the A Republican Football Group began in

3402-451: Was created in 2003. The group was formed by 16 teams, each playing twice against all the others, once home and once away. In the first season of the newly created A Group, the 2003–04 season, for the first time in history, Lokomotiv Plovdiv became champions, finishing with 75 points. In 2004–05 , CSKA Sofia won A Group for the 30th time. For the next two seasons, Levski Sofia were champions under manager Stanimir Stoilov . From 2005–06

3465-520: Was created in the wake of PSFC Chernomorets’ problems, named FC Chernomorets 1919 Burgas , which began playing in the amateur levels. In 1905, a group of Bulgarian students from the Robert College of Istanbul created a new sports club in Burgas with the name SC Strela . Several years later, SC Strela was officially licensed as an association and in May 1912, the local municipality chose the first staff and

3528-406: Was established while the old club was suffering from financial problems. The new club quickly progressed through the lower leagues and promoted to the A Group in 2007. Intertoto Cup and UEFA Cup Bulgarian A PFG : Bulgarian Cup Bulgarian Supercup Had international caps for their respective countries, held any club record, or had more than 100 league appearances. Players whose name

3591-415: Was once more decreased, this time to 12 teams, keeping the two phase format. This season was memorable since two of the most popular and successful clubs, CSKA Sofia and Lokomotiv Sofia, were both excluded from the league, despite finishing in the top 5 places. Both teams had accumulated debts and did not have the financial resources to pay them, so the BFU decided to take away their professional licenses. This

3654-429: Was rebranded to Victoria A Football Championship . In early 2013, for a short period of time the naming rights of A Group were bought from the news television network News7 , eventually renaming the competition's name to NEWS7 Football Championship . On 11 July 2019, the Bulgarian Football Union announced that the football division's name had been changed to efbet League , following a two-year sponsorship deal with

3717-413: Was relegated after 7 years in the A PFG . In the next season, they were unable to bounce back and lost their professional status after suffering another relegation - to the V group. The team was relegated again in A Regional Group and again finished on the last place, but was administratively saved from relegate, even finishing on negative points. The next season was nevertheless better and the team finished

3780-455: Was relegated to the B RFG after a last-place finish, marking 4 relegations in a row and moving from the top football level to the lowest. They finished the 2018-19 season in the B Regional League in 7th place and on 5 July 2019 the team declared bankruptcy, which was followed by the team dissolving. Intertoto Cup Chernomorets plays its home games at the Lazur Stadium . Lazur Stadium is

3843-505: Was relegated to the B Group. In 1958, the communist authorities in Burgas decided to reestablish the sports club, which is considered a successor of the achievements of the former FC Chernomorets. The sports club was named SC Botev in honour of the Bulgarian national hero – Hristo Botev . Several years later, the authorities however decided to rename the club to its former name, FC Chernomorets. It took Chernomorets 16 years to return to

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3906-536: Was the first time in the history of the A Group that CSKA was relegated. For the 2015–16 season , the BFU decided to further decrease the number of teams competing, this time to just 10, with a quadruple round robin format introduced, a format used in the Croatian First Football League and Albanian Kategoria Superiore . On 7 June 2016 the league's name was changed to First Professional Football League , following approval of new licensing criteria for

3969-527: Was with his new owner Ivaylo Drazhev, who had bought the club in 1997. In 2004, the club with president Ivaylo Drazhev went bankrupt and in the following two seasons Chernomorets was relegated from the top division of the Bulgarian football. The future of the club was unknown and in late 2006 FC Chernomorets withdrew from the South-East V AFG because of financial difficulties and was dissolved shortly thereafter. A successor club, named PSFC Chernomorets Burgas ,

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