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The Bulgaria national football team was formed in 1922. In 1923, the Bulgarian Football Union was formed and the team's first match was held in Vienna on 21 May 1924, which resulted in a 6–0 defeat against Austria. [3] Bulgaria also participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris a few days later.
In the 2019 rankings that will be used for the 2020–21 European competitions, Bulgaria's coefficient points total is 17.500. After earning a score of 4.000 during the 2018–19 European campaign, Bulgaria is ranked by UEFA as the 28th best association in Europe out of 55. 26 Azerbaijan 19.000; 27 Israel 18.625; 28 Bulgaria 17.500; 29 Romania ...
These divisions were round-robin tournaments that included football clubs from different geographic areas. CSKA Sofia have won 31 titles, the most of any club. CSKA's rivals, Levski Sofia, are second with 26. Ludogorets Razgrad are third; the team is currently in a streak of 13 consecutive titles, which is a record in Bulgarian football. The ...
Bulgaria has also won several European sumo championships, and is often among the top competitors in this sport. The Bulgaria national cricket team became an associate member of the ICC in 2017. Bulgaria intended to host the 2020 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup with Sofia as the host city between July 4 and 12 2020.
The Bulgarian Football Union made some changes in the format of A Group prior to season 2013–14 with the reduction of the number of the teams participating in the top league from 16 to 14 and the reintroduction of the two phase league with a regular season and a playoff/play out phase.
This was also the first home win for a Bulgarian team in the UEFA Champions League. Ludogorets became the first Bulgarian team to qualify twice for the Champions League group stage, achieving the feat during the 2016–17 season of the tournament. During that season, the team set a new record for most goals scored (6), and became the first ...
PFC Slavia Sofia 1913 (Bulgarian: ПФК Славия София 1913) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home ground is the Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov in Ovcha kupel with a capacity of 25,556. The ...
For a football club to be a member of the Bulgarian Football Union it is sufficient to engage in activities developing the sport, but not actively participating in the tournaments organised by the governing body. Thus a club may not have a participating team in the men's football leagues considered in the list but still be a member of the union.