2007–08 A Group

A Group
Season	2007–08
Champions	CSKA Sofia (31st title)
Relegated	Beroe Vidima-Rakovski Marek
Champions League	Levski Sofia
UEFA Cup	Lokomotiv Sofia Litex Cherno More
Intertoto Cup	Chernomorets
Matches played	240
Goals scored	558 (2.33 per match)
Top goalscorer	Georgi Hristov (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Cherno More 7–0 Vidima-Rakovski
Biggest away win	Belasitsa 1–6 Chernomorets
Highest scoring	Levski 6–2 Botev (8 goals)
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 A Group was the 60th season of the Bulgarian A Football Group since its establishment in 1948 and the 84th of a Bulgarian national top football division. The season began on 11 August 2007 and ended on 17 May 2008. CSKA Sofia won their 31st record league title.^[1] Last time they scooped the title was in 2004–05 season. CSKA managed to win the league without a single defeat, 16 points ahead of their arch rival Levski Sofia.

Despite the convincing results during the season, CSKA failed to get a UEFA license to participate in the Champions League due to unpaid debts. The guilt for the disaster in the club was taken by their chairman Aleksandar Tomov.^[2]^[3]

The league was contested by 16 teams, thirteen returning from the 2006-07 season and three promoted from the Bulgarian B Professional Football Group. The defending champion was Levski Sofia. Chernomorets Burgas and Pirin Blagoevgrad gained automatic promotion as winners of East and West B PFG. Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo gained promotion through the Promotion Play-Off beating Naftex Burgas 1–0 on 2 June 2007.

Stadia and locations

CSKA
Levski
Lokomotiv
Slavia

Location of teams in 2007-08 A PFG

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Belasitsa	Petrich	Tsar Samuil Stadium	9,500
Beroe	Stara Zagora	Beroe Stadium	13,512
Botev	Plovdiv	Hristo Botev Stadium	22,000
Cherno More	Varna	Ticha Stadium	8,250
Chernomorets	Burgas	Lazur Stadium	18,037
CSKA	Sofia	Balgarska Armiya Stadium	22,015
Levski	Sofia	Georgi Asparuhov Stadium	29,200
Litex	Lovech	Lovech Stadium	7,050
Lokomotiv	Plovdiv	Lokomotiv	13,800
Lokomotiv	Sofia	Lokomotiv Sofia	22,000
Marek	Dupnitsa	Bonchuk Stadium	16,050
Pirin	Blagoevgrad	Hristo Botev Stadium¹	11,000
Slavia	Sofia	Ovcha Kupel Stadium	18,000
Spartak	Varna	Spartak Stadium	7,500
Vidima-Rakovski	Sevlievo	Rakovski Stadium	8,816
Vihren	Sandanski	Sandanski Stadium	6,000

^{1^. Stadiums of Botev Plovdiv and Pirin Blagoevgrad have the same names, but they are placed in different cities.}

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Sofia !CSKA Sofia (C)	30	24	6	0	53	11	+42	78	Excluded from European competitions ¹
2	Levski Sofia !Levski Sofia	30	19	5	6	56	19	+37	62	2008–09 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	Lokomotiv Sofia !Lokomotiv Sofia	30	16	9	5	47	28	+19	57	2008–09 UEFA Cup Second qualifying round ²
4	Litex Lovech !Litex Lovech	30	16	8	6	51	26	+25	56	2008–09 UEFA Cup Second qualifying round ²
5	Cherno More Varna !Cherno More Varna	30	13	9	8	39	28	+11	48	2008–09 UEFA Cup First qualifying round
6	Chernomorets Burgas !Chernomorets Burgas	30	13	8	9	39	32	+7	47	2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
7	Slavia Sofia !Slavia Sofia	30	13	8	9	38	28	+10	47
8	Pirin Blagoevgrad !Pirin Blagoevgrad	30	13	7	10	33	29	+4	46
9	Lokomotiv Plovdiv !Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	12	7	11	37	28	+9	43
10	Vihren Sandanski !Vihren Sandanski	30	9	6	15	26	29	−3	33
11	Spartak Varna !Spartak Varna	30	8	7	15	21	34	−13	31
12	Botev Plovdiv !Botev Plovdiv	30	8	6	16	36	54	−18	30
13	Belasitsa Petrich !Belasitsa Petrich	30	7	5	18	23	43	−20	26
14	Beroe Stara Zagora !Beroe Stara Zagora (R)	30	6	8	16	23	39	−16	26	Relegation to 2008–09 B PFG
15	Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo !Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo (R)	30	4	6	20	17	61	−44	18
16	Marek Dupnitsa !Marek Dupnitsa (R)	30	5	3	22	16	66	−50	18

Source: soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th goals scored
¹ CSKA failed to get a license for the competition due to unpaid debts
² Litex qualify via 2007–08 Bulgarian Cup
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away	Belasitsa Petrich !BEL	Beroe Stara Zagora !BSZ	Botev Plovdiv !BOT	Cherno More Varna !CHM	Chernomorets Burgas !CHB	CSKA Sofia !CSK	Levski Sofia !LEV	Litex Lovech !LIT	Lokomotiv Plovdiv !LPL	Lokomotiv Sofia !LSO	Marek Dupnitsa !MAR	Pirin Blagoevgrad !PIR	Slavia Sofia !SLA	Spartak Varna !SPV	Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo !VRA	Vihren Sandanski !VIH
Belasitsa Petrich !Belasitsa Petrich		3–1	3–1	1–1	1–6	1–3	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0
Beroe Stara Zagora !Beroe Stara Zagora	2–1		3–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	2–0	2–0
Botev Plovdiv !Botev Plovdiv	2–0	1–0		1–1	0–0	1–3	0–3	1–2	1–2	2–2	4–0	0–0	3–0	2–0	5–0	1–0
Cherno More Varna !Cherno More Varna	1–1	1–0	2–0		2–1	0–2	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	7–0	1–0
Chernomorets Burgas !Chernomorets Burgas	0–0	2–0	3–1	0–1		1–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–4	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0
CSKA Sofia !CSKA Sofia	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–0		1–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	4–0	3–0	2–0	3–2	3–1	1–0
Levski Sofia !Levski Sofia	4–0	1–0	6–2	4–0	2–1	0–1		0–1	3–1	0–1	4–2	4–0	2–1	3–0	3–0	1–0
Litex Lovech !Litex Lovech	2–0	1–1	6–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1		3–1	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	4–1	2–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv !Lokomotiv Plovdiv	1–0	2–0	4–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0		1–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	6–1	2–1
Lokomotiv Sofia !Lokomotiv Sofia	1–0	3–0	2–2	4–3	4–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	2–1		2–0	0–3	1–2	1–0	2–0	3–2
Marek Dupnitsa !Marek Dupnitsa	0–3	0–1	1–0	1–4	1–4	1–3	0–4	0–3	2–1	1–4		0–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–3
Pirin Blagoevgrad !Pirin Blagoevgrad	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–3	4–0		1–0	1–2	3–1	0–0
Slavia Sofia !Slavia Sofia	3–1	2–0	4–2	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0		5–0	2–0	0–0
Spartak Varna !Spartak Varna	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–1		0–0	0–1
Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo !Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo	1–0	3–1	0–1	0–3	1–1	0–0	1–3	3–2	0–3	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–1		0–1
Vihren Sandanski !Vihren Sandanski	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1

Updated to games played on 17 May 2008.
Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Champions

CSKA Sofia

Goalkeepers
01	Daniel Bekono	00	0(0)
12	Ivaylo Petrov	28	0(0)
22	Ilko Pirgov	02	0(0)

Defenders
02	Nenad Nastić	07	0(0)
03	Aleksandar Tunchev	26	0(3)
06	Kiril Kotev	18	0(0)
13	Nikola Vujadinović	24	0(1)
14	Valentin Iliev*	14	0(1)
15	Robert Petrov	00	0(0)
27	Quido Lanzaat	08	0(0)
30	Yordan Todorov	26	0(1)
84	Filipe Machado	15	0(2)

Midfielders
05	Todor Yanchev	28	0(2)
10	Georgi Iliev	16	0(1)
11	Emil Gargorov	13	0(0)
16	Ivaylo Dimitrov	01	0(0)
17	Zé Rui	13	0(0)
18	Florentin Petre	24	(11)
20	Yordan Yurukov	08	0(1)
21	Chigozie Udoji	23	0(1)
23	Abderrahman Kabous*	08	0(0)
24	Aleksandar Tonev	02	0(0)
28	Marquinhos	25	0(1)

Forwards
08	Velizar Dimitrov	24	0(4)
09	José Luis Garcés	14	0(3)
19	Evgeni Yordanov	08	0(1)
99	Nei	29	(14)
	Kevin Amuneke*	10	0(2)
	Georgi Chilikov*	12	0(3)

Manager
	Stoycho Mladenov

Iliev, Kabous, Amuneke and Chilikov left the club during a season.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Georgi Hristov	Botev Plovdiv	19
2	Nei	CSKA Sofia	14
3	Marcho Dafchev	Lokomotiv Sofia	13
3	Zoran Baldovaliev	Lokomotiv Sofia	13
5	Aleksandar Aleksandrov	Cherno More Varna	12
6	Plamen Krumov	Chernomorets Burgas	11
	Florentin Petre	CSKA Sofia
	Ivelin Popov	Litex Lovech
9	Germán Pietrobon	Pirin Blagoevgrad	10
10	Anatoli Todorov	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	9
	Miroslav Manolov	Cherno More Varna
	Ivan Naydenov	Spartak Varna

References

↑ "Сезон 2007-08 „Лицензгейт” пука розовите балони на Сашо Томов" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 12 October 2013.
↑ CSKA without UEFA license, Tomov takes the guilt
↑ Part of Aleksandar Tomov's book: How they took the license of CSKA

External links

2007–08 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com

Bulgarian football championship seasons

State Championship (National Football Division)	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1941 1942 1943 1944

Republic Championship	1945 1946 1947 1948

A Group	1948–49 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

2007–08 in European football (UEFA)

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Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '07 '08 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '07 '08 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '07 '08 Faroe Islands '07 '08 Finland '07 '08 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '07 '08 Latvia '07 '08 Lithuania '07 '08 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '07 '08 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Romania Russia '07 '08 San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '07 '08 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '07 '08 Finland '07 '08 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '07 '08 Latvia '07 '08 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '07 '08 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '07 '08 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

League cups	England Finland '07 '08 France Germany Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Scotland Wales

UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, Knockout stage, Final) UEFA Cup (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, Knockout stage, Final) Intertoto Cup '07 '08 Super Cup '07 '08

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