Bulgarian Football Union

Bulgarian Football Union

UEFA
Founded	1923 (1923)
Headquarters	Sofia
FIFA affiliation	1924
UEFA affiliation	1954
President	Borislav Mihaylov
Website	bfunion.bg

The old BFU headquarters in Sofia

The Bulgarian Football Union (Template:Lang-bg BFS) is a football association based in Bulgaria and a member of UEFA. It organizes a football league, Bulgarian Parva Liga, and fields its Bulgaria national football team in UEFA and FIFA -authorised competitions.

A legal entity that it claims descent from was founded in 1923 as the football department of the Bulgarian National Sports Federation, which existed until the Soviet invasion of 1944. The football governing body was then known as the Central Football Committee until 1948, the Republican Section for Football from 1948 until 1962 and the Bulgarian Football Federation from 1962 until 1985. On 27 June 1985, the organization was renamed the Bulgarian Football Union, the name that it carries today.

Presidents

President	Years in power
Pavel Grozdanov	1923–1933
Tsvetan Genov	1933–1934
Ivan Batandzhiev	1934–1939
Lyubomir Sokerov	1940–1942
Docho Hristov	1942–1944
Georgi Stoyanov	1946–1948
Isaac Catalan	1948
Ivan Nikolov	1948–1949
Mladen Nikolov	1949–1951
Petar Kolarov	1951–1952
Stefan Petrov	1952–1959
Lachezar Avramov	1959–1961
Kiril Nesterov	1961–1962
Nedyalko Donski	1962–1970
Danail Nikolov	1970–1975
Ivan Nikolov	1975–1979
Krum Vasilchev	1979–1982
Dimitar Nikolov	1982–1984
Ivan Shpatov	1984–1986
Andon Traykov	1986–1990
Slavcho Tapavicharov	1990–1991
Dimitar Largov	1991–1993
Valentin Mihov	1993–1994
Hristo Danov	1994–1995
Ivan Slavkov	1995–2005
Borislav Mihaylov	2005–2019
Mihail Kasabov	2019–2021
Borislav Mihaylov	2021–present

Competitions

See also: Bulgarian football league system

It organizes the following competitions:

Men's football

• First League, 1st level
• Second League, 2nd level
• Third League (4 divisions), 3rd level
• Regional Groups, 4th and 5th level
• Bulgarian Cup
• Bulgarian Supercup
• Cup of AFL (amateur cup)

Youth football

• Elite League; First league for academy sides, with three age categories, Under 19, Under 17s and Under 15s sides

Women's football

• Bulgarian Women's League (or Swiss Capital League); First Women's Division
• Bulgarian Women's Cup

National teams

The Bulgarian Football Federation also organizes national football teams representing Bulgaria at all age levels:

Men's

• Bulgaria national football team (currently managed by Yasen Petrov)
• Bulgaria U21 national football team (currently managed by Aleksandar Dimitrov)
• Bulgaria U19 national football team (currently managed by Angel Stoykov)
• Bulgaria U18 national football team (currently managed by Angel Stoykov)
• Bulgaria U17 national football team (currently managed by Yordan Petkov)
• Bulgaria U16 national football team (currently managed by Marcho Dafchev)
• Bulgaria U15 national football team (currently managed by Stefan Kolev)

Women's

• Bulgaria women's national football team (currently managed by Silvia Radoyska)

Futsal

• Bulgaria national futsal team (currently managed by Bogomil Marev)

References

• Paytashev, Rumen (2001). World Football Encyclopedia, 1st edition. Trud. ISBN 954-528-500-1.

External links

• Official website (in English and Bulgarian)
• Bulgaria at FIFA site
• Bulgaria at UEFA site