1979–80 A Group

Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1979–80 season.

Overview[]

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Sofia (C)	30	18	10	2	60	30	+30	46	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Slavia Sofia	30	21	3	6	66	27	+39	45	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Levski Sofia	30	15	7	8	45	38	+7	37	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Beroe Stara Zagora	30	13	8	9	49	37	+12	34	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5	Trakia Plovdiv	30	14	5	11	39	38	+1	33
6	Marek Dupnitsa	30	11	9	10	51	42	+9	31
7	Cherno More Varna	30	9	13	8	36	33	+3	31
8	Minyor Pernik	30	11	6	13	31	46	−15	28
9	Chernomorets Burgas	30	12	3	15	39	42	−3	27
10	Botev Vratsa	30	10	6	14	35	43	−8	26
11	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	7	12	11	32	43	−11	26
12	Pirin Blagoevgrad	30	9	7	14	27	34	−7	25
13	Sliven	30	8	9	13	32	43	−11	25
14	Spartak Pleven	30	7	10	13	26	39	−13	24
15	Lokomotiv Plovdiv (R)	30	6	10	14	33	52	−19	22	Relegation to 1980–81 B Group
16	Etar Veliko Tarnovo (R)	30	7	6	17	31	45	−14	20	Relegation to 1980–81 B Group

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

Home \ Away	BSZ	BVR	CHM	CHB	CSK	ETA	LEV	LPL	LSO	MAR	MIN	PIR	SLA	SLI	SPL	TRA
Beroe Stara Zagora		2–0	1–2	1–1	3–2	3–0	3–1	4–3	2–2	0–0	4–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	4–2
Botev Vratsa	2–0		1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	2–2	3–0	3–1	3–2
Cherno More	0–0	0–0		2–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	4–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–0	3–0	2–2
Chernomorets Burgas	1–2	3–0	2–3		2–3	1–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–1
CSKA Sofia	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–1		6–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–1
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–1		1–2	3–1	0–2	7–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–1
Levski Sofia	1–0	4–2	2–2	1–0	2–3	2–0		3–0	5–1	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–1		1–2	1–1	5–3	3–0	0–4	0–0	1–0	0–0
Lokomotiv Sofia	1–1	4–2	0–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	2–3	0–2		1–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–2
Marek Dupnitsa	3–2	2–0	1–2	3–1	1–2	3–3	2–1	7–1	1–1		3–0	1–0	2–0	6–0	1–1	5–1
Minyor Pernik	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–3	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–0		1–0	2–0	0–3	1–1	1–0
Pirin Blagoevgrad	2–4	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–1		1–0	3–0	2–0	1–0
Slavia Sofia	2–0	4–0	1–1	4–0	2–1	4–3	2–0	3–2	5–1	4–1	4–1	3–1		3–1	3–0	4–0
Sliven	2–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	2–3	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–3		3–3	0–0
Spartak Pleven	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–0		1–0
Trakia Plovdiv	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–3	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–0

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

Goalkeepers
Georgi Velinov	21	0(0)
Yordan Filipov	09	0(0)

Manager
	Asparuh Nikodimov

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Spas Dzhevizov	CSKA Sofia	21
2	Andrey Zhelyazkov	Slavia Sofia	19
3	Chavdar Tsvetkov	Slavia Sofia	18
4		Marek Dupnitsa	14
5		CSKA Sofia	13
6	Petko Petkov	Beroe Stara Zagora	12
6		Sliven	12
8		Trakia Plovdiv	11
		Cherno More
		Spartak Pleven

Team of the Season (by newspaper Naroden Sport)^[2]
Goalkeeper	(Pirin)
Defence	(Chernomorets)	Bozhil Kolev (Cherno More)		Boko Dimitrov (Lokomotiv Sofia)		(Minyor)
Midfield	(Botev Vratsa)		Andrey Zhelyazkov (Slavia)		(Botev Vratsa)
Attack	(Chernomorets)		Petko Petkov (Beroe)		Chavdar Tsvetkov (Slavia)

^ "Жужо и Чаво губят дуела с полковник" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 16 March 2013.
^ "Football'81" (PDF). retro-football.bg (in Bulgarian).

v t Bulgarian football championship seasons
State Championship (National Football Division)	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1941 1942 1943 1944
Republic Championship	1945 1946 1947 1948
A Group	1948–49 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
First League	2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22

v t 1979–80 in European football (UEFA)
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Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '79 '80 England Faroe Islands '79 '80 Finland '79 '80 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '79 '80 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '79 '80 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '79 '80 Spain Sweden '79 '80 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Bulgaria Cyprus England Faroe Islands Finland France West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '79 '80 Israel Italy Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '79 '80 Romania Scotland Spain Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Scotland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup