PFC Ludogorets Razgrad
PFC Ludogorez Razgrad ( Bulgarian ПФК Лудогорец Разград ) is a Bulgarian football club from the northeastern Bulgarian town of Razgrad, the first time since 2011, plays in the A Grupa, major league in the country.
The club is the successor to the 1945 and 2006 founded the association wound Ludogorez Razgrad. In the 2010/11 season, the Bulgarian pharmaceutical entrepreneurs and oligarch Kyril Domustschiew bought the club. With its financial assistance, a new team was to buy the winter break. At the end of the season they finished in the second division of the Eastern Group ( Grupa B ) the first place and was promoted to the first division, directly after the climb was the team of Bulgarian champions. The success was repeated a season later.
Venue is the arena Ludogorez that offers 6,000 spectators.
The sporty rise of Ludogorez
Ludogorez became after his rapid rise to become one of the leading clubs in Bulgaria and plays in the 2013/14 season successfully in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League. In the second qualifying round of the 2012/13 season Ludogorez met the Croatian participants Dinamo Zagreb. The first game ended with 1:1 in Razgrad, during the second leg of the club dramatically lost 3-2 and had thereby end his debut in Europe early. After winning the championship in 2012/13 the team for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League 2013/14 qualified. There, the club lost away against the Slovakian champions Slovan Bratislava ŠK, sat down, however, in the second leg 3-0. In the next round against FK Partizan Belgrade Ludogorez won both games, 2-1 in the first leg and 1-0 in the second leg. Since the club in the next round FC Basel defeated, the club competed in the UEFA Europa League.
Ludogorez in the UEFA Europa League
In his debut in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League 2013/14 against PSV Eindhoven in Eindhoven Ludogorez won 2-0. Ludogorez also won the following match against Dinamo Zagreb 3-0, so the club could fade into the background his resignation against the Croatian traditional club of 2012 in front of the fans and media in Bulgaria. The next round of the Bulgarian champions celebrated their third win against the Ukrainian team Chernomorets Odessa in the third game. Ludogorez Razgrad earned an away win against Lazio in the first game of the sixteenth finals of the UEFA Europa League 2013/14. With this success the club was next to the FC Salzburg and Valencia the only team that had won this season with a total of four games all away games. In the return match at the Vasil Levski National Stadium on February 27, 2014 with a 3-3 draw against Lazio Ludogorez celebrated his promotion to the knockout stages of the Europa League. The game attracted over 20,000 spectators from all over Bulgaria and started with a clean sheet by Keita Baldé Diao - the second-fastest goal in the Europa League history, already after 16 seconds of game time. Beginning of the second half was even Lazio a 2-0 lead. The team of Ludogorez came with a goal the striker Roman Bezjak, who had six goals, to February 27, 2014 second top scorer in the competition, back in the game back. Ten minutes later by a shot from Christo Slatinski from 25 meters of compensation. The game was hard fought and Lazio could briefly go back in the lead. Thanks to a goal by Juninho Quixadá two minutes before the match, the PFC Ludogorez Razgrad secured a place in the knockout stages of the UEFA Europa League - with a narrow 4-3 on aggregate. The Valencia was the opponent of the second round games. The Spanish team won, despite an early sending off against Seydou Keita 3-0 Ludogorez Razgrad in Sofia. The return match took place on March 20, 2014 held in Valencia and Valencia won 1-0. " Ludogorets sold in the final phase expensive and pressed for an equalizer, but failed again and again in the fast- parierenden Alves. "
Squad 2013/14
As of January 5, 2014
Sporting successes
- Bulgarian champion: 2012, 2013
- Bulgarian Cup Winners: 2011/12
- Bulgarian Supercup: 2012
Records
- Ludogorez is after FC Levadia Tallinn, the second club in the world, which, after a promotion to the first division in his country equal to a triple succeed by winning all three trophies (league, cup and Super Cup).
- In the 2011/12 season the club won with 73 goals scored and only 16 conceded goals, the price for the club with the best offense and defense of the Bulgarian A Grupa