INSANE scenes in the last round of the Bulgarian league! Relegation candidates Tsarsko selo got a last-minute penalty, then the club owner entered the pitch because he didn’t want a particular player to take the pen! In the end another player took it, missed it, the team is out!
Leeds midfielder Ilia Gruev, who’s having a fantastic season with
#LUFC
so far, finished 2nd in Bulgaria’s 2023 Player of the Year ranking. ‘I hope that next season I’ll be playing in the world’s best league, the Premier League,’ Gruev said while receiving his award
🤝 DEAL! CSKA-Sofia have reached an agreement with
#LUFC
legend Liam Cooper, according to the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency! Cooper will reportedly land in Sofia in the next few hours to have his medical and sign a contract with the Reds
After Polish midfielder Jakub Piotrowski has been omitted from Poland’s World Cup squad, the Bulgarian league won’t be represented on the biggest football stage for the first time since 1990
GREAT STORY: You might’ve watched this video of a Boca Juniors fan whose father sold his PlayStation so that they could afford the trip to the Copa Libertadores final
Well now the fans of CSKA-Sofia have contacted Boca willing to pay for a new PlayStation for the boy 👏👏
The great Trifon Ivanov would have been 59 today. He was a larger-than-life character who once bought a tank from the Bulgarian army just for the sake of having some fun…
🆕🏟️ Today CSKA-Sofia unveiled their plans for building a new stadium. The venue will...
💺 have 16,000 seats
💰 cost around €45m
🏗️ take 18 months to be built
Ex-Plymouth Argyle midfielder Graham Carey gave CSKA-Sofia their 2-0 league win over Beroe, scoring a brace. His first one was an absolute free kick masterpiece!
#pafc
Video: Diema Sport
Today Levski fans put up banners at the club stadium protesting against their team’s upcoming friendlies vs Russian sides during their mid-season camp in Dubai. ‘Levski means freedom and not tyranny!’, read part of the banners related to the war in Ukraine
On this day in 2016 Trifon Ivanov, one of Bulgaria’s best ever defenders, left this world. He was larger than life in so many ways; once even bought a tank from the Bulgarian army - just for the sake of having some fun… RIP, legend!
💣 TRANSFER BOMB: Bulgarian league side Lokomotiv Plovdiv are currently in talks with Peruvian club Universitario over the transfer of striker Alex Valera, who's part of Peru's Copa America squad (via )
🔥Bulgaria international Filip Krastev with the fastest debut goal in LAFC’s history! It took him just 8 mins to find the back of the net for his new team after coming on as a sub in the middle of the 2nd half against Real Salt Lake 🎯 Well done, Filip!
🐿️⛔️🎥 BRILLIANT STORY: The Bulgarian Cup semi between Lokomotiv Sofia and CSKA 1948 got stopped for 2 mins because a banner displaying a squirrel in a Loko shirt blocked the visibility of the VAR camera at the stadium and the ref stopped the game until the banner was removed 😃
💣 TRANSFER BOMB: Bulgarian champions Ludogorets are close to signing Serbian winger Nemanja Radonjić from Marseille, claims daily newspaper Match Telegraph. According to the information, Ludogorets and Marseille have already reached an agreement… 🤝
🇧🇬🤝🇺🇾 The fans of Lokomotiv Plovdiv have prepared two flags one of which will be sent to
@DanubioFC
. Among the founders of the Uruguayan club were the 2 Bulgarian brothers Lazaroff whose family was from Plovdiv & another fam member played for Loko. 032 is the ☎️ code of Plovdiv
Fantastic story: Aged 10, Alexander Vezenkov, who has just signed for the Sacramento Kings in the NBA, was asked by his then coach at APOEL Nicosia for an autograph ✍️
The coach motivated him by saying: 'Sign this paper & write: 'I, Alex Vezenkov, will become a 🏀 star one day!'
Krastev’s agent Nikolay Zheynov, who was at the LAFC game, told Bulgarian media outlet dsport: ‘After the match Giorgio Chiellini came to us and said: ‘Well, I don’t know about Messi, but we have a player who needs less than 15 mins to score!’
Grande, Giorgio! 😃
🔥Bulgaria international Filip Krastev with the fastest debut goal in LAFC’s history! It took him just 8 mins to find the back of the net for his new team after coming on as a sub in the middle of the 2nd half against Real Salt Lake 🎯 Well done, Filip!
🇷🇴 In Romania there are two Steauas (FCSB and Steaua)...
🇧🇬... and in Bulgaria there are two CSKAs (CSKA-Sofia and CSKA 1948)
🔜... and now CSKA 1948 will face FCSB in the Conference League
A few days ago Ludogorets' Polish striker Jakub Świerczok reportedly helped a 73-year-old woman from the town of Razgrad after the woman feinted on the street. Świerczok and his partner Alina were nearby, saw the woman and called an ambulance. The woman is now recovering at home
Lokomotiv Plovdiv striker and two-time Player of the Year Dimitar Iliev with a... MISS of the season contender in today's league game against Tsarsko selo! Just wait for it...🤯
Video: Diema Sport
🦊🧤 BEST video you'll watch this month! Bulgarian champions Ludogorets got outfoxed... literally! 😃😃 A fox broke into their training HQ and stole a goalkeeper glove! Just wait for it...
BREAKING: Alan Pardew is the new permanent manager of CSKA-Sofia and will stay in charge of the Reds until the end of NEXT season, CSKA have just announced!
Pardew’s big challenge this season: to win the Bulgarian Cup final derby against Levski on May 11
🇺🇾🤝🇧🇬 Happy 91st birthday to Bulgaria's South American football pride:
@DanubioFC
! The club that was named after the Danube river and was founded by two brothers whose mother was Bulgarian. Doña María Mincheff de Lazaroff was actually the one suggesting the name
Feliz cumple!😍
Ludogorets winger and Bulgaria international Kiril Despodov is reportedly eyed by Scottish champions
#RangersFC
, claims Bulgarian newspaper Tema Sport in today's edition
🇧🇬🤝🇩🇪 Levski and Eintracht Frankfurt, who're facing each other in the Conference League playoffs, will reportedly sign a collaboration agreement after this week's game on German soil which will allow Levski's academy coaches to gain first-hand experience at Eintracht's HQ
🍻 ‘Cheers for our return’: The fantastic tifo created by the ultras of Botev Plovdiv during tonight’s UEL qualifier against Maribor. This is the first Euro game Botev play at their own club stadium since 1995
👨🏻🦳🇧🇬⚽️ Slavia Sofia goalkeeper Georgi Petkov has just bettered his own record for oldest player in Bulgarian top flight’s history. Petkov’s exact age in tonight’s league clash with CSKA-Sofia is 47 years and 27 days…
Mad scenes in Sofia outside the National Stadium where Bulgaria plays Hungary behind closed doors: clashes between fans and police forces, water bombs and cars set on fire…
CONFIRMED: Dimitar Berbatov has just announced that he'll run for president of the Bulgarian FA! What's more - ex-Bulgaria internationals
@StanPetrov19
and Martin Petrov are forming part of Berba's team
😱 BEST penalty miss of the season?
🔥 Bulgarian league champions Ludogorets with the hottest contender after their striker Sotiriou really gave it a try…
Video: Diema Sport
🇧🇬🤝🇺🇾
@Team_Bulgaria
has congratulated
@DanubioFC
on their 90th anniversary by sending a special shirt of the national team
Danubio was founded in 1932 by two brothers of Bulgarian origin. Their mother, Maria, was the one who suggested the club's name - after river Danube
Another day in the Bulgarian league = another Norwegian screamer 🇳🇴😱
After yesterday's bicycle kick beauty scored by CSKA-Sofia's Tobias Heintz, tonight it was Ludogorets defender Aslak Fonn Witry's turn to launch this 🚀🚀 into Etar's net
Video: Diema
Moving story: goalkeeper of CSKA-Sofia
@DimiEvtimov
walked out onto the pitch ahead of today’s Bulgarian league derby against Levski wearing a scarf that belonged to a 90-year-old CSKA fan who passed away recently, honouring his memory
😳🤪 One of the WEIRDEST goals of the season has just been scored during tonight's Bulgarian league game between Slavia Sofia and Beroe!!! Just wait for it...
Video: Diema Sport
WHAT. A. GOAL!!!
CSKA-Sofia defender Jurgen Mattheij just scored an absolute screamer in today's Bulgarian league clash with CSKA 1948! 🚀🚀🚀 (and before you ask: yep, there are two CSKAs in the top flight)
Video: Diema Sport
🇳🇴🤝🇧🇬 Great story: 5-year-old Norwegian kid Adrian attended a CSKA-Sofia game a few months ago while on a family holiday in Bulgaria. Since then Adrian has become a passionate CSKA fan and today the boy met CSKA’s Norwegian duo: Jonathan Lindseth & Tobias Heintz
75-year-old Ljupko Petrović, who led
@crvenazvezda_en
to European Cup glory, is back in the dugout! Petrović is the new coach of Bulgarian 2nd-tier Litex. He is the 4th oldest active manager in world football:
🥇M. Lucescu - 77 yo
🥈Edy Reja - 77 yo
🥉Jesualdo Ferreira - 76 yo
Ex-
#pafc
midfielder Graham Carey once again proving that he's one of CSKA-Sofia's key players - he's just scored the equalisier in today's derby against Levski. Just wait for the replay and enjoy his fantastic skills...
Video: Diema Sport
CSKA-Sofia have started talks with Lech Poznan over the permanent transfer of Karlo Muhar. The Croatian midfielder is currently at CSKA on a season-long loan, with the Reds allegedly ready to pay Lech €200,000 for his services
🤝 WE HAVE A DEAL! Serbian businessman Dragan Solak and his company United Group, who already own Southampton, have reportedly reached an agreement for acquiring Levski Sofia. The deal is expected to be sealed before the turn of the year. Levski’s urgent debts are around €8m…
THE. GOAL. OF. THE. SEASON. IN. BULGARIA!
🚀 Ivan Minchev scored this absolute screamer for his Slavia Sofia against Alan Pardew's CSKA-Sofia in the Bulgarian Cup semi-finals!
Video: Diema Sport
This is Manchester United’s biggest fan in Bulgaria, who fought for 15 years in court to change his real name (Marin) to... Manchester United. Now his first name is Manchester indeed. He’s sadly lost his mother and his job and
#MUFC
manager Solskjaer wrote him a letter of support
👀🔵 Three English teams, Middlesbrough, Hull City and Coventry, are keeping an eye on Levski midfielder Andrian Kraev, reveals Sportal. He’s currently training with Levski’s B side after refusing to renew his contract which will make him a free agent at the end of the season
Fabulously named Levski academy midfielder Steven Gerard, who’s also currently playing for Bulgaria U17, is having a trial at Red Bull Salzburg, according to 🇧🇬 media outlet Gong
CSKA-Sofia striker
@nazon28
making fun of Slavia's oldie goalie Georgi Petkov (aged 47) simulating back pain while getting substituted. Petkov is the Jedi master of time wasting ⌛️
👨🏻🦳🇧🇬⚽️ Slavia Sofia goalkeeper Georgi Petkov has just bettered his own record for oldest player in Bulgarian top flight’s history. Petkov’s exact age in tonight’s league clash with CSKA-Sofia is 47 years and 27 days…
True story that... This is the Bulgarian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. The question is: 'Who is Mohamed Salah?' The participant asks for the audience to help him...
👉most popular answer: Religious leader
👉2nd most popular: Political prisoner
🤔🤪😂
#AFCON2021
OFFICIAL: Levski have sold their biggest star Welton to Japanese side Gamba Osaka! The Blues reportedly wanted to get €3m for the Brazilian but have agreed a deal that’s believed to be around €2.5-€2.8m 🤝
Today the one and only Trifon Ivanov would have celebrated his 56th birthday. He was one of his generation’s best defenders and a larger-than-life character. Trifon once bought himself a tank from the Bulgarian army just for the sake of having some fun. An absolute legend…
🤝 DEAL! Levski goalkeeper Plamen Andreev will join Feyenoord and sign a 5-year contract with the Dutch giants who will pay Levski €1.2m for his services. Andreev is expected to fly to the Netherlands on Saturday to pass his medical and finalise his move
When he signed for Partizan in 2015, Valeri Bojinov met a very talented 15-year-old kid from the club’s academy. Impressed with his progress, Bojinov recommended the boy’s signing to one of his former clubs…
The name of the boy was Dušan Vlahovič and the club was Fiorentina…
Say what?!? ⚽️ Before the start of this season all Bulgarian top-flight clubs got 60 footballs each. It turns out they all have... the Polish Ekstraklasa logo 🇵🇱😀
Bulgarian top-flight side Lokomotiv Plovdiv are on the verge of selling their star striker Mitchy Ntelo to Coventry FC for a fee that's believed to be around €1.2m
#skyblues
🔜🆕🏟️ CSKA-Sofia have officially announced their home league game against title rivals Ludogorets on Dec 10 will be their last-ever game at the Bulgarian Army stadium that first opened its doors back in 1976. After that, CSKA will start working on building their new stadium 🏗️
Awful news: the national team suffered a heavy traffic accident on the roads of Tbilisi ahead of tomorrow’s Nations League clash vs Georgia. The team and the delegation were travelling on two buses which collided with midfielder Todor Nedelev taken to a hospital. Hope all’s well
Crvena Zvezda’s European Cup winning coach Ljupko Petrović is reportedly in a critical condition after suffering a car crash on the outskirts of Belgrade. Petrović has been in charge of Levski, Litex and CSKA-Sofia throughout his magnificent career. Hope he gets well 🙏
Levski midfielder Borislav Tsonev just scored one of the goals of the season in the Bulgarian top flight!!! Just watch and enjoy... 🚀
Video: Diema Sport
🐶🐶 Inspired by Dinamo Bucharest’s charity project, Botev Plovdiv and Ludogorets captains, Todor Nedelev and Kiril Despodov, walked onto the pitch ahead of tonight’s league clash holding puppies from a local shelter. This way they want to make people adopt the dogs
Video: Diema
🇧🇬🏆 Today’s Bulgarian Cup final between CSKA 1948 and Ludogorets at the National Stadium Vasil Levski in Sofia has set a record for the least attended final with less than 2,000 people present in the stands
BREAKING: Levski have filed a complaint, asking UEFA for their Conference League clash with Hamrun to be REPLAYED! The reason is that a Hamrun player entered the Levski half (as the 📸 shows) before the Maltese side resumed the match after conceding a goal. Then Hamrun scored…
On
#ValetinesDay
let's show our love for the two Pirin fans who love their club in good and (mostly) bad times and were the only ones in the away stand during the Bulgarian league clash with Slavia Sofia 💚💚 Pirin lost 2-0
🎥 Sportal
Grigor Dimitrov’s agent, Georgi Stoimenov, has denied the accusations reported by some Serbian media outlets that Grigor twice refused to be tested for Covid-19, while in Serbia & Croatia. ‘Nobody offered Grigor to get tested - neither in Belgrade, nor in Zadar,’ Stoimenov said
All people Grigor was in contact with in his Bulgarian hometown Haskovo last week will now be tested for Covid-19. Some of them are already under quarantine
Juventus forward Dusan Vlahovic sent Valeri Bojinov a special video message, sending his regards to the players and coaching staff of Septemvri Sofia, Bojinov’s current team. Vlahovic and Bojinov played together at Partizan and Bojinov was the one who recommended DV to Fiorentina
🏟️⬅️🚕 Anyone called a taxi? A taxi entered the stadium DURING the Bulgarian league clash between Septemvri Sofia and CSKA 1948, then turned around and left the venue 😃😃
🇧🇬🔥 The amazing world of Bulgarian football!
Lokomotiv Plovdiv's Croatian goalkeeper Dinko Horkaš is reportedly on the verge of signing for French side Lorient in the days to come. The transfer fee is around €1m