1953 A Group

A Group
Season	1953
Champions	Levski Sofia (8th title)
Matches played	223
Goals scored	484 (2.17 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dimitar Minchev (15 goals)
← 1952 1954 →

Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1953 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.^[1]

League standings

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Levski Sofia	28	19	5	4	48	22	43
2	CSKA Sofia	28	18	6	4	64	23	42
3	Cherno More Varna	28	12	7	9	29	20	31
4	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	28	9	13	6	30	29	31
5	Slavia Sofia	28	9	12	7	42	33	30
6	Spartak Pleven	28	9	12	7	29	29	30
7	Lokomotiv Sofia	28	10	9	9	30	32	29
8	Minyor Pernik	28	11	6	11	33	35	28
9	Spartak Plovdiv	28	9	9	10	29	29	27
10	Akademik Varna	28	9	7	12	26	43	25
11	Botev Plovdiv	28	8	8	12	29	31	24
12	Spartak Sofia	28	5	14	9	24	34	24
13	Stroitel Sofia	28	5	12	11	22	29	22
14	VVS Sofia	28	6	9	13	26	35	21
15	Marek Dupnitsa	28	3	7	18	23	60	13
16	Unified team of VSO^{[nb 1]}	13	11	0	2	37	8	-

Notes

↑ "Unified team of volunteer's sport organisations" is the name of the national football team of Bulgaria witch participated in the league

Champions

Levski Sofia

Goalkeepers
Simeon Kostov	19	0(0)
Dimitar Elenkov	08	0(0)

Defenders
Metodi Angelovski	20	0(0)
Dimitar Dimitrov	01	0(0)
Dimitar Iliev	19	0(0)
Amedeo Kleva	24	0(0)
Dimitar Doychinov	08	0(0)
Ivan Dimchev	23	0(0)

Midfielders
Dragan Georgiev	11	0(1)
Aleksandar Krastev	17	0(0)
Lyubomir Hranov	17	0(3)
Aleksandar Bahchevandzhiev	01	0(0)
Dimitar Kontev	02	0(0)
Ivan Georgiev	14	0(1)
Stefan Abadzhiev	14	0(5)

Forwards
Dimitar Andonov	21	(12)
Arsen Dimitrov	04	0(1)
Vasil Spasov	24	(10)
Todor Stoyanov	04	0(0)
Todor Takev	25	0(6)
Dimitar Popdimitrov	01	0(0)
Georgi Kardashev	06	0(1)
Yordan Tomov	20	0(4)

Manager
	Dimitar Mutafchiev

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Dimitar Minchev	Spartak Pleven VVS Sofia	15
2	Dimitar Andonov	Levski Sofia	12
3	Kiril Nikolov	Marek Dupnitsa	11
4	Vasil Spasov	Levski Sofia	10

References

↑ "Сини „старци” крадат злато за червена сметка" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 9 September 2012.

External links

Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)
1953 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

1952–53 in European football

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