Bulgarian A Football Group
The A Grupa ( Bulgarian А Група ) is the highest professional football league in Bulgaria. They, together with the underlying settled division, the B Grupa, organized by the Bulgarian Football Federation.
History
In 1913, the first unofficial Football Championship was held, the winners Slawia Sofia was. After the First World War, the competition was held in 1921 under the name Sofia league. In 1924 was the FIFA accession of Bulgaria, and immediately a national championship was started. Until 1937 they played in the Cup mode to the one returned again 1941-1948.
The Bulgarian Cup was played from the season 1937/38, but kept for the time being only for four years. It was not until 1980, that competition was again held regularly. From 1946 to 1991, there was also a Cup of the Soviet Army.
In the summer of 2012, the Bulgarian Football Federation to reduce the A Grupa 12 teams decided. In order to achieve the desired number, four teams are relegated to the second league and only two ascend to the seasons 2012/13 and 2013/14. In the season 2012/13 the four last-place team finish the season table are fixed relegated in the 2013/14 season a Relegation Playoff played at the teams participating in the stands 8 to 14, to determine the relegated.
Sponsors of the League
- August 1998 - June 2001 Kamenitza
- August 2001 - June 2003 M-tel
- August 2003 - June 2005: Zagorka
- Since August 2005: TBI Bulgaria
Teams 2012/13
Bulgarian Football Champion
Number of championship
Development
Bulgarian champions by cities
Records
- Record champions: CSKA Sofia - 31 times
- Most years in the League: Levski Sofia - all 85 seasons
- Few years in the league: Chernomorets Burgas ( Sofia), PFK Nesebar, Olimpik Teteven, Akademik Varna, Vidin Benkowski, Tscherweno Sname Pawlikeni and Rosowa Dolina Kazanlak played only one year in the A Grupa
- Most wins in a season: Levski Sofia - 26 victories in 36 matches (2001/ 02)
- The most defeats in a season: Torpedo Ruse, Ruse and Chernomorets Burgas Rakowski (Sofia ) lost 30 of 36 games played
- Most goals in a season: Levski Sofia - 96 goals (2006/ 07)
- The fewest goals in a season: Cherno More Varna, Ruse Rakowski, Chernomorets Burgas ( Sofia) and Torpedo Ruse shot just 8 goals in a season
- Most goals conceded in a season: Chernomorets Burgas ( Sofia) - 131 (2006/ 07)
- Least goals conceded in a season: CSKA Sofia and Spartak Sofia got only 7 goals in one season
- The highest victory: CSKA Sofia - Torpedo Ruse 12:0 (1951 )
Player Records
- Giants of Players: Manol Manolow - 12 times with CSKA Sofia
- Most goals in a season: Christo Stoichkov - 38 goals for CSKA Sofia in the 1989/90 season
- Most goals in a game: Petar Mihailov ( CSKA Sofia against Torpedo Ruse in 1951 ), Iwo Georgiev ( Spartak Varna against Spartak Plovdiv in the 1995/96 season ), Todor Pramatarow ( for Slawia Sofia to Ruse Rakowski in the season 1996/97) and Tsvetan Genkow ( Lokomotiv Sofia Chernomorets Burgas against (Sofia ) in the season 2006/ 07) - shot per 6 goals in one match
Most goals scored in the A Grupa Petar Schekow - 253 goals of which 8 are for Dimitrovgrad, 101 for Beroe Stara Zagora and 144 for CSKA Sofia.
Most of the games in the A Grupa graduated from Marin Bakalov - 454 Games Botev Plovdiv for, CSKA Sofia, Spartak Plovdiv, Maritsa Plovdiv and Olimpik Teteven.
Scorers
UEFA five year ranking
Position in the UEFA five year ranking (in brackets the previous year placement). The abbreviation CL and EL countries behind the coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2014/15 season of the Champions League and the Europa League.
- 26 (25 ) Slovakia Slovakia (league, cup ) - Coefficient: 14.208 - CL: 1, EL: 3
- 27 (26 ) Norway Norway (league, cup ) - Coefficient: 14.175 - CL: 1, EL: 3
- 28 (28 ) Bulgaria (league, cup ) - coefficient: 12,250 - CL: 1, EL: 3
- 29 (29 ) Hungary Hungary (league, cup ) - coefficient: 11,750 - CL: 1, EL: 3
- 30 (34 ) Slovenia (league, cup ) - coefficient: 9.708 - CL: 1, EL: 3
As of the end of the European campaign of 2012/13