PFC Slavia Sofia

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PFC Slavia Sofia

Full name

Professional Football Club Slavia Sofia

Nickname(s)

The Whites/ White Avalanche

Founded

10 April 1913

Ground

Slavia Stadium, Sofia
(Capacity 32,000)

Chairman

Ventsislav Stefanov

Manager

Stevica Kuzmanovski

League

TBI A Football Group

2006/07

Bulgarian A PFG, 5th





Home colours





Away colours

PFC Slavia Sofia (Bulgarian: ПФК Славия София) is a Bulgarian football club founded on 10 April 1913 in Sofia.

Slavia's ground is Ovcha Kupel Stadium with a capacity of 32,000. The team's colours are white and black.

The club has won the Bulgarian Championship 7 times and the Bulgarian Cup 8 times coming 9 times second in the championship and reaching the cup final 5 times without winning.

Among the team's international successes are a Cup Winners' Cup semifinal in 1967 and a quarterfinal in 1981, as well as two consecutive Balkans Cup trophies (1986 and 1988).

1 Honours
2 History
3 Records
4 Current squad 2007/08
- 4.1 Squad changes winter'2008
5 Notable players
6 Coaches
7 External links

[edit] Honours

Champion of Bulgaria – 7 times 1928,1930,1936,1939,1941,1943,1996
Vice-champion of Bulgaria – 9 times 1932,1934,1950,1954,1955,

1959,1967,1980, 1990

Third place - bronze medals – 12 times 1940, 1942, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1973, 1975, 1982, 1986, 1991 и 1997
Holder of National Cup – 12 times 1926, 1928, 1930, 1936, 1943, 1952, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1980 и 1996
Participations – UEFA Cup – 7 times

Semi finals – 1967, won “Swansea” (Wales), “Racing” (Strassbourg – France), “Servette” (Geneva-Switzerland); eliminated by Glasgow Rangers (Scotland) 0:1 – Sofia, 0:1 – Glasgow Participant in ? finals – 1981

Holder of Balkan's Cup – 1986, 1988

[edit] History

Birth date – 10.04.1913. On this day a group of young people living near a Russian Monument in Sofia and representatives of the local capital clubs “Botev” and “Razvitie” in a coffee-house – Alabin str. in Sofia, have made a decision to establish an incorporated sport club – the fist organized sport club in Sofia and in Bulgaria. The new incorporated club has named SLAVIA.

Dimitar Blagoev – Palio, a 21 year-old student, was elected as the first president of the club. As members of the first club administrative council were elected Emanuil Geshev, Ferdinand Michailov, Zviatko Velichkov, Georgi Grigorov, Todor Kalkanjiev. On 19.04 1913 was elected the first football team of the club - Stefan Lalov, Ilia Georgiev, Emanuil Geshev, Todor Kalkandzhiev, Stefan Chumpalov, Dimitar Blagoev – Palio ( all of them from “Botev”) and Pavel Grozdanov, Ferdinand Mihaylov, Boris Sharankov, Asen Bramchev, Dimitar Cvetkov (all of them from “Razvitie”). The first sport dresses of the club were white shirts and black shorts. Since 1924 the team plays with white shirts and white shorts and up to present days it is popular as the “White pride”. Slavia plays its first match on 11.08.1913 versus the local team “Savata” and wins by 1:0. Until now Slavia has played in all championships of Bulgaria , starting from 1924 to 2003 – 2004. In its 90-year history Slavia has achieved the “double” once – winning in 1996 the championship and the cup of Buigaria, as well.

05.06.1928 Slavia won its first champion title – in the final match - Slavia – Vladislav ( Varna ) 4:0. Players in this match: Nikola Spirov, Arico Levy, Petar Kartevsky, Nikola Kalkandzhiev, Stefan Chumpalov, Hristo Minkovsky, Nikola Stoykov, Velcho Stoianov, Boris Romanov, Dimitar Manolov, Vladimir Cvetkov.

[edit] Records

Atanas Aleksandrov - the great number of matches in Slavia – 338
Andrey Zhelyazkov – the great number of goals for Slavia – 134
Aleksandar Shalamanov player № 1 in Bulgaria – 1963, 1966
Simeon Simeonov player № 1 in Bulgaria – 1968
Bozhidar Grigorov player № 1 in Bulgaria – 1976
Andrey Zhelyazkov player № 1 in Bulgaria – 1980

[edit] Current squad 2007/08

1. GOSPODINOV

2. V.IVANOV

35. PETKOV

5. KAVDANSKI

3. SAMOKISHEV

77. KOPRIVAROV

17. KERCHEV

10. SIMONOVIC

7. ILIEV

22. ELTON

11. ORTEGA

Slavia Sofia'2008

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Emil Petrov
2	DF	Vladimir Ivanov
3	DF	Zoran Belošević
4	DF	Simeon Mechev
5	DF	Martin Kavdanski
6	DF	Georgi Samokishev
7	MF	Iliya Iliev
8	MF	Radoslav Rangelov
9	FW	Zoran Zlatkovski
10	MF	Saša Simonović
11	FW	Deniran Ortega
12	GK	Mario Kichev
14	FW	Galin Ivanov

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Nikolay Dyulgerov
17	MF	Martin Kerchev
18	MF	Radoslav Anev
19	MF	Srdjan Novković
20	MF	Orlin Orlinov
21	DF	Bogomil Dyakov
22	FW	Elton
23	GK	Yordan Gospodinov
24	MF	Borislav Pavlov
30	FW	Nikolay Petrov
35	DF	Yordan Petkov
77	MF	Milan Koprivarov
99	FW	Enco Malindi