1953 A Group

Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1953 season.

Overview[]

It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.^[1]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Levski Sofia (C)	28	19	5	4	48	22	+26	43
2	CSKA Sofia	28	18	6	4	64	23	+41	42
3	Cherno More Varna	28	12	7	9	29	20	+9	31
4	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	28	9	13	6	30	29	+1	31
5	Slavia Sofia	28	9	12	7	42	33	+9	30
6	Spartak Pleven	28	9	12	7	29	29	0	30
7	Lokomotiv Sofia	28	10	9	9	30	32	−2	29
8	Minyor Pernik	28	11	6	11	33	35	−2	28
9	Spartak Plovdiv	28	9	9	10	29	29	0	27
10	(R)	28	9	7	12	26	43	−17	25	Relegation to 1954 B Group
11	Botev Plovdiv (R)	28	8	8	12	29	31	−2	24
12	Spartak Sofia (R)	28	5	14	9	24	34	−10	24
13	(R)	28	5	12	11	22	29	−7	22
14	(R)	28	6	9	13	26	35	−9	21
15	Marek Dupnitsa (R)	28	3	7	18	23	60	−37	13
–	Unified team of VSO^[a] (R)	13	11	0	2	37	8	+29	0^[b]

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ "Unified team of volunteer's sport organisations" is the name of the national football team of Bulgaria which participated in the league
^ Results annulled

Home \ Away		BPD	CHM	CSK	LEV	LPL	LSO	MAR	MIN	SLA	SPL	SPD	SSF
		0–1	1–0	0–1	0–4	2–2	0–2	3–0^[a]	3–2	2–0	0–0	2–1	3–1	0–0	1–0
Botev Plovdiv	1–1		1–1	0–3	0–1	0–1	0–1	3–0^[a]	1–2	2–2	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	3–0
Cherno More	0–1	2–0		1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–2	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	3–2
CSKA Sofia	7–0	2–0	0–0		0–1	5–0	3–1	3–0^[a]	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	7–1	2–2	1–0
Levski Sofia	4–1	0–1	1–0	0–5		5–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–2		0–0	4–3	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0
Lokomotiv Sofia	3–1	0–1	2–0	0–4	0–3	2–2		3–0^[a]	0–1	0–5	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–1
Marek Dupnitsa	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	1–1		1–2	0–3^[a]	2–2	4–1	0–0	1–0	1–3
Minyor Pernik	2–0	1–4	3–2	1–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	4–1		2–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0
Slavia Sofia	1–1	5–2	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–3		2–1	0–0	4–1	1–1	2–0
Spartak Pleven	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	4–2	0–0	0–0		1–1	2–0	3–0	1–0
Spartak Plovdiv	1–0	2–1	0–3	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	4–0	1–2	1–1	1–1		1–0	3–0	2–1
Spartak Sofia	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	3–3	0–0	3–0^[a]	2–0	0–0	2–3	1–1		0–0	1–1
	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	3–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	1–1		0–0
	1–2	0–0	2–1	3–0	2–3	0–3	2–2	1–0	3–0	0–3	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–2

Source: A PFG (in Bulgarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Marek Dupnitsa was excluded after spectator riots in the match against Minyor Pernik. The remaining eight matches were rated 0–3 for the opponents.

Goalkeepers
	19	0(0)
	08	0(0)

Manager
	Dimitar Mutafchiev

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1		Spartak Pleven VVS Sofia	15
2		Levski Sofia	12
3		Marek Dupnitsa	11
4	Vasil Spasov	Levski Sofia	10

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