2010–11 A Group

A Group
Season 2010–11
Champions Litex Lovech
(4th title)
Relegated Akademik Sofia
Sliven
Champions League Litex Lovech
Europa League Levski Sofia
CSKA Sofia
Lokomotiv Sofia
Matches played 240
Goals scored 577 (2.4 per match)
Top goalscorer Garra Dembélé
(26 goals)
Biggest home win Pirin 6–0 Akademik
(14 May 2011)
Biggest away win Akademik 0–4 Slavia
(11 September 2010)
Chernomorets 0–4 CSKA Sofia
(5 March 2011)
Highest scoring Sliven 6–1 Vidima-Rakovski
(18 September 2010)
Lokomotiv Sofia 4–3 Slavia
(27 November 2010)

The 2010–11 A Group was the 87th season of the Bulgarian national top football division, and the 63rd of A Group as the top tier football league in the country. The season commenced on 31 July 2010 and ended with the last games on 28 May 2011. The winter break was between the weekends around 29 November 2010 and 26 February 2011.[1] Litex Lovech had defended their 2009/10 A Group title and became champions for 2 years in a row.

Team information

Lokomotiv Mezdra, Sportist Svoge and Botev Plovdiv were directly relegated after finishing in the bottom three places. Lokomotiv ended a two-year tenure, Sportist were relegated after a year in A Group and Botev were excluded from A Group due to financial difficulties at the winter brake.

The relegated teams were replaced by Vidima-Rakovski, champions of West B Group and Kaliakra Kavarna, champions of the East B Group. Vidima-Rakovski returned to A Group after two years, while Kaliakra entered the top division for their first time.

A further place in the league was decided through a play-off match between the runners-up teams from the both B Group's. The game was played on 23 May 2010 between Nesebar and Akademik Sofia. Akademik won the match with result of 2-1 and returned to the top division after 28 years. The last time the club have played in A Group was during season 1981–82.

Stadia and locations

As in the previous year, the league will comprise the best thirteen teams of season 2009/10, the 2 champions of the West and East B Group's and the winners of the promotion play-off between the runners-up from the West and East B Group's.

The following teams have ensured their participation in A Group for season 2010/11 (listed in alphabetical order):

Team City Stadium Stadium capacity
Akademik Sofia Ovcha Kupel1 18,000
Beroe Stara Zagora Beroe 17,800
Cherno More Varna Ticha 8,250
Chernomorets Burgas Lazur 18,037
CSKA Sofia Vasil Levski2 43,632
Kaliakra Kavarna Kavarna 5,000
Levski Sofia Georgi Asparuhov 29,986
Litex Lovech Lovech 7,050
Lokomotiv Plovdiv Lokomotiv 13,800
Lokomotiv Sofia Vasil Levski3 43,632
Minyor Pernik Minyor 8,000
Montana Montana Ogosta 8,000
Pirin Blagoevgrad Hristo Botev 7,500
Slavia Sofia Ovcha Kupel 18,000
Sliven 2000 Sliven Hadzhi Dimitar 10,000
Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo Rakovski 8,816
Notes
  1. Akademik Sofia will play their league home games at Ovcha Kupel Stadium in Sofia because their Akademik Stadium had not received approval from the BFU license committee.
  2. CSKA Sofia will play their league home games at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia because their Balgarska Armiya had not received approval from the BFU license committee.
  3. Lokomotiv Sofia will play their league home games at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia because their Lokomotiv Stadium had not received approval from the BFU license committee.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team Manager Captain Kit Manufacturer Shirt Sponsor
Akademik Sofia Bulgaria Boris Angelov Bulgaria Nikola Asenov Saller Bench Mark Group
Beroe Stara Zagora Bulgaria Ilian Iliev Bulgaria Slavi Zhekov GUPA Bulsatcom
Cherno More Varna Bulgaria Stefan Genov Bulgaria Georgi Iliev Misho Armeets
Chernomorets Burgas Bulgaria Georgi Vasilev Bulgaria Trayan Dyankov Puma QUARTO
CSKA Sofia Bulgaria Milen Radukanov Bulgaria Todor Yanchev Uhlsport GLOBUL
Kaliakra Bulgaria Anton Zdravkov Bulgaria Ivan Raychev Uhlsport Municipality of Kavarna
Levski Sofia Bulgaria Yasen Petrov Bulgaria Hristo Yovov Nike M-Tel
Litex Lovech Bulgaria Lyuboslav Penev Serbia Nebojša Jelenković Adidas b-connect
Lokomotiv Plovdiv Serbia Saša Nikolić Bulgaria Zdravko Lazarov Uhlsport
Lokomotiv Sofia Bulgaria Dian Petkov Bulgaria Kristian Dobrev Puma
Minyor Pernik Bulgaria Stoycho Stoev Bulgaria Kostadin Markov Jumper Municipal Insurance Company
Montana Bulgaria Atanas Dzhambazki Bulgaria Daniel Gadzhev ASICS GM Capital
Pirin Blagoevgrad Bulgaria Kostadin Angelov Bulgaria Veselin Stoykov Joma Beer Pirinsko
Slavia Sofia Bulgaria Emil Velev Bulgaria Bogomil Dyakov Puma
Sliven Bulgaria Dimcho Nenov Bulgaria Evgeni Karamanov Tomy
Vidima-Rakovski Bulgaria Dimitar Todorov Bulgaria Georgi Stoychev ASICS VIDEXIM

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager(s) Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment
CSKA Sofia Bulgaria Adalbert Zafirov (interim) End of caretaker contract 16 May 2010 Pre-season Bulgaria Pavel Dochev 13 May 2010[2]
Slavia Sofia Bulgaria Velislav Vutsov Sacked 17 May 2010 Bulgaria Emil Velev 19 May 2010[3]
Levski Sofia Bulgaria Anton Zdravkov
Bulgaria Georgi Ivanov
End of caretaker contract 20 May 2010 Bulgaria Yasen Petrov 20 May 2010[4]
Pirin Blagoevgrad Bulgaria Stefan Grozdanov Leaves the club 8 June 2010[5] Bulgaria Yordan Bozdanski 21 June 2010
Litex Lovech Bulgaria Angel Chervenkov Sacked 5 August 2010 1st Bulgaria Petko Petkov (interim) 5 August 2010[6]
CSKA Sofia Bulgaria Pavel Dochev Sacked 16 August 2010[7] 13th Republic of Macedonia Gjore Jovanovski 16 August 2010[8]
Pirin Blagoevgrad Bulgaria Yordan Bozdanski Sacked 30 August 2010 14th Bulgaria Kostadin Angelov 1 September 2010[9]
Litex Lovech Bulgaria Petko Petkov (interim) End of caretaker contract 1 September 2010 4th Bulgaria Luboslav Penev 2 September 2010[10]
Minyor Pernik Bulgaria Anton Velkov Resigned 6 September 2010[11] 16th Bulgaria Stoycho Stoev 8 September 2010[12]
Kaliakra Kavarna Bulgaria Filip Filipov Sacked 6 October 2010[13] 13th Bulgaria Anton Zdravkov 7 October 2010
CSKA Sofia Republic of Macedonia Gjore Jovanovski Sacked 21 October 2010[14] 9th Bulgaria Milen Radukanov 21 October 2010[15]
Cherno More Varna Bulgaria Velizar Popov Resigned 23 October 2010[16] 10th Bulgaria Stefan Genov 23 October 2010
Lokomotiv Sofia Bulgaria Dimitar Vasev Sacked 22 November 2010[17] 5th Bulgaria Dian Petkov (interim) 22 November 2010
Sliven Serbia Dragoljub Simonović Resigned 4 December 2010[18] 15th Bulgaria Dimcho Nenov 10 January 2011[19]
Chernomorets Burgas Bulgaria Krasimir Balakov Resigned 7 December 2010[20] 3rd Bulgaria Anton Velkov 23 December 2010[21]
Chernomorets Burgas Bulgaria Anton Velkov Sacked 21 March 2011[22] 7th Bulgaria Georgi Vasilev 21 March 2011
Lokomotiv Plovdiv Bulgaria Nedelcho Matushev Sacked 26 April 2011[23] 5th Serbia Saša Nikolić 26 April 2011

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
Head-to-head
1 Litex Lovech (C) 30 23 6 1 56 13+43 75 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2 Levski Sofia 30 23 3 4 67 24+43 72 2011–12 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
3 CSKA Sofia 30 18 7 5 53 26+27 61 2011–12 UEFA Europa League Play-off round 1
4 Lokomotiv Sofia 30 16 4 10 47 33+14 52 2011–12 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round LSO 3–0 LPL
LPL 0–0 LSO
5 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 30 14 10 6 54 28+26 52
6 Cherno More Varna 30 15 6 9 36 28+8 51
7 Beroe Stara Zagora 30 13 7 10 33 341 46
8 Chernomorets Burgas 30 9 10 11 19 289 37
9 Minyor Pernik 30 10 6 14 33 4512 36
10 Montana 30 8 8 14 30 4616 32 SLA 3–2 MON
MON 1–0 SLA
11 Slavia Sofia 30 9 5 16 34 384 32
12 Kaliakra Kavarna 30 8 6 16 19 4021 30
13 Pirin Blagoevgrad (R) 30 6 9 15 32 39 7 27 Relegation to 2011–12 V AFG 2
14 Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo (O) 30 6 7 17 26 5226 25 Qualification to relegation playoff
15 Akademik Sofia (R) 30 5 5 20 16 5135 20 Relegation to 2011–12 B PFG
16 OFC Sliven (R) 30 4 7 19 22 5230 19

Source: Soccerway
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 Sofia have won the 2010–11 Bulgarian Cup competition and therefore qualified for the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.
2 The team did not receive a license for professional football for the next season.
(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.

Relegation play-off

8 June 2011
17:00 EEST
Sportist Svoge 1 – 2 Chernomorets Pomorie
Mladenov  82' (Report) Koparanov  38'
Kostadinov  41'
Hadzhi Dimitar Stadium, Sliven
Attendance: 600
Referee: Nikolay Yordanov (Sofia)

12 June 2011
17:00 EEST
Vidima-Rakovski 0 – 3 Chernomorets Pomorie
Report Atanasov  57'
Kaloyanov  60', 80'
Hadzhi Dimitar Stadium, Sliven
Attendance: 800
Referee: Stanislav Todorov (Shumen)

Chernomorets Pomorie wasn't allowed to compete in the next season, so there will be 2 play-offs. The first will be between the teams that lost against Chernomorets Pomorie, Vidima-Rakovski and Sportist Svoge. The other will be between Svetkavitsa and FC Etar Veliko Tarnovo (the 3rd teams in the West and East B Group) for the Pirin Blagoevgrad's place.

17 June 2011
17:00 EEST
Svetkavitsa 3 – 1 Etar
Genov  24'
Stoyanov  46'
Shokolarov  90+2'
Report Kanev  4'
Hadzhi Dimitar Stadium, Sliven
Attendance: 2500
Referee: Aleksandar Kostadinov (Sofia)

Positions by round

Team \ Round 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
Litex Lovech 1 3 2 5 4 6 5 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Levski Sofia 3 1 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
CSKA Sofia 14 16 13 11 9 9 9 9 8 9 8 7 6 4 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Lokomotiv Sofia 3 9 5 3 3 4 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4
Lokomotiv Plovdiv 6 2 1 4 7 7 7 6 6 6 7 5 5 7 6 4 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 4 5 5 6 6 5 5
Cherno More Varna 1 9 6 8 11 8 8 8 9 7 10 9 9 9 9 9 7 8 6 6 5 7 6 6 6 6 5 5 6 6
Beroe Stara Zagora 10 11 9 6 5 3 6 7 7 8 6 8 8 8 7 7 8 7 8 7 7 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Chernomorets Burgas 8 5 3 1 1 2 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 6 6 6 7 8 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
Minyor Pernik 12 15 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 15 16 15 15 13 13 13 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9
Montana 14 13 8 10 8 10 10 10 10 10 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10
Slavia Sofia 14 8 12 7 6 5 3 5 5 5 5 6 7 6 8 8 9 9 9 9 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 11 11
Kaliakra Kavarna 3 6 10 12 10 11 11 11 13 12 12 13 11 11 11 11 12 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 12 12 13 12 12
Pirin Blagoevgrad 12 7 11 13 13 12 13 12 11 11 11 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 16 15 15 15 13 12 12 13 13 12 13 13
Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo 6 3 7 9 12 13 14 14 14 16 16 15 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 16 16 16 16 15 15 14 14 14 14 14
Akademik Sofia 8 12 14 15 15 15 16 16 16 14 14 11 12 12 12 12 11 12 12 12 12 12 12 13 13 15 15 15 15 15
OFC Sliven 10 14 15 14 14 14 12 13 12 13 13 14 14 14 15 15 14 14 14 14 14 13 15 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

Source:

Results

Home ╲ Away AKD BSZ CHMCHBCSKKAVLEVLITLPLLSOMINMONPIRSLAOFCVRA
Akademik Sofia 13 00 11 11 01 03 03 12 23 20 10 10 04 01 12
Beroe Stara Zagora 10 00 00 02 20 23 11 10 10 20 21 00 21 10 11
Cherno More Varna 10 10 01 10 20 23 01 11 10 30 00 21 32 30 50
Chernomorets Burgas 00 02 12 04 01 21 01 12 21 00 01 10 21 00 10
CSKA Sofia 31 32 10 12 00 01 11 10 31 20 20 22 10 20 10
Kaliakra Kavarna 01 22 40 11 03 03 01 13 01 21 00 00 01 21 10
Levski Sofia 10 21 10 10 13 30 20 12 31 40 30 41 30 50 20
Litex Lovech 20 40 31 00 00 00 21 10 10 21 41 21 20 40 40
Lokomotiv Plovdiv 30 11 20 20 41 50 23 22 00 30 40 22 11 30 30
Lokomotiv Sofia 20 30 11 21 22 40 02 13 30 03 20 20 43 30 21
Minyor Pernik 10 20 11 01 24 10 00 03 22 13 10 10 12 41 21
Montana 22 21 40 00 14 32 03 02 11 01 31 30 10 22 11
Pirin Blagoevgrad 60 20 01 11 01 10 23 12 11 21 11 30 02 21 11
Slavia Sofia 20 12 01 01 10 01 22 01 21 01 12 32 11 00 20
OFC Sliven 30 01 13 00 13 01 11 01 01 02 03 11 10 11 61
Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo 01 12 01 30 22 10 12 03 11 11 22 01 21 21 21

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

Litex Lovech
Goalkeepers
1Serbia Uroš Golubović 2 (0)
30Bulgaria Evgeni Aleksandrov 1 (0)
31Brazil Vinícius Barrivieira 26 (0)
Defenders
2France Alexandre Barthe 21 (3)
3Bulgaria Petar Zanev 27 (1)
4Bosnia and Herzegovina Džemal Berberović 23 (0)
5Bulgaria Mihail Venkov 12 (0)
6Bulgaria Ivaylo Petkov 5 (1)
16Bulgaria Strahil Popov 3 (0)
18Bulgaria Iliya Milanov 6 (0)
22Bulgaria Plamen Nikolov 24 (0)
33Bulgaria Nikolay Bodurov 25 (2)
Midfielders
7Bulgaria Hristo Yanev 27 (5)
8Brazil Tom 18 (1)
10Brazil Sandrinho 10 (1)
15Brazil Doka Madureira 22 (12)
17Bulgaria Georgi Milanov 27 (4)
19Bulgaria Rumen Rumenov 6 (0)
20Brazil Neném 0 (0)
21Bulgaria Aleksandar Tsvetkov 14 (0)
22Bulgaria Simeon Slavchev 1 (0)
23Serbia Nebojša Jelenković 22 (0)
24Bulgaria Angel Zdravchev 1 (0)
27Bulgaria Momchil Tsvetanov 22 (3)
Forwards
9Bulgaria Svetoslav Todorov 25 (8)
11Senegal Papa Diouf 14 (2)
14Slovenia Dejan Djermanović 12 (3)
France Wilfried Niflore* 12 (6)
Bulgaria Ivelin Popov* 3 (0)
Romania Florin Bratu* 7 (2)
Manager
Bulgaria Lyuboslav Penev

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 28 May 2011[24]

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Mali Garra Dembélé Levski Sofia 26
2 Bulgaria Zdravko Lazarov Lokomotiv Plovdiv 14
3 Bulgaria Spas Delev CSKA Sofia 13
4 Brazil Doka Madureira Litex Lovech 12
5 Bulgaria Tsvetan Genkov Lokomotiv Sofia 11
Bulgaria Hristo Zlatinski Lokomotiv Plovdiv 11
7 Brazil Michel Platini CSKA Sofia 10
Bulgaria Nikolay Bozhov Slavia Sofia 10
Guinea-Bissau Basile de Carvalho Lokomotiv Plovdiv 10
Bulgaria Vladislav Zlatinov Beroe Stara Zagora 10

Top assistants

Including matches played on 28 May 2011[25]

Rank Player Club Assists
1 Republic of Macedonia Darko Tasevski Levski Sofia 9
2 Brazil Tom Litex Lovech 8
Bulgaria Zdravko Lazarov Lokomotiv Plovdiv 8
4 Brazil Joãozinho Levski Sofia 7
Bulgaria Hristo Yanev Litex Lovech 7
Bulgaria Spas Delev CSKA Sofia 7
7 Netherlands Gregory Nelson CSKA Sofia 6
Bulgaria Iskren Pisarov Lokomotiv Sofia 6
Bulgaria Marcho Dafchev Lokomotiv Sofia 6
10 Bulgaria Tsvetan Genkov Lokomotiv Sofia 5
Guinea-Bissau Basile de Carvalho Lokomotiv Plovdiv 5
Portugal Serginho Lokomotiv Plovdiv 5
Republic of Macedonia Dragi Kotsev Lokomotiv Plovdiv 5
Bulgaria Emil Gargorov CSKA Sofia 5
Bulgaria Todor Hristov Beroe 5
Brazil Doka Madureira Litex Lovech 5
Bulgaria Atanas Chipilov Montana 5

Scoring

Discipline

See also

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