1980–81 A Group

Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1980–81 season.

Overview[]

It was contested by 16 teams, and CSKA Sofia won the championship.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Sofia (C)	30	14	12	4	70	32	+38	40	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Levski Sofia	30	13	10	7	44	25	+19	36	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Trakia Plovdiv	30	15	5	10	64	40	+24	35	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
4	Akademik Sofia	30	13	8	9	42	40	+2	34	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5	Spartak Pleven	30	12	7	11	38	41	−3	31
6	Cherno More Varna	30	8	13	9	36	37	−1	29
7	Slavia Sofia	30	10	9	11	35	44	−9	29
8	Marek Dupnitsa	30	12	4	14	39	40	−1	28
9	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	8	12	10	34	35	−1	28
10	Beroe Stara Zagora	30	11	6	13	45	49	−4	28
11	Chernomorets Burgas	30	9	10	11	42	49	−7	28
12	Botev Vratsa	30	8	11	11	32	37	−5	27
13	Belasitsa Petrich	30	11	5	14	38	47	−9	27
14	Sliven	30	11	5	14	33	43	−10	27
15	Minyor Pernik (R)	30	12	3	15	32	51	−19	27	Relegation to 1981–82 B Group
16	Pirin Blagoevgrad (R)	30	6	14	10	33	47	−14	26	Relegation to 1981–82 B Group

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

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

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

Goalkeepers
Georgi Velinov	27	0(0)
	03	0(0)

Manager
	Asparuh Nikodimov

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Georgi Slavkov	Trakia Plovdiv	31
2	Spas Dzhevizov	CSKA Sofia	17
3		Akademik Sofia	16
4	Andrey Zhelyazkov	Slavia Sofia	13
4	Kostadin Kostadinov	Trakia Plovdiv	13
6	Mihail Valchev	Akademik Sofia	12
7	Atanas Mihaylov	Lokomotiv Sofia	11
		Beroe Stara Zagora
	Plamen Getov	Spartak Pleven
		Marek Dupnitsa
	Chavdar Tsvetkov	Slavia Sofia

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 1980–81 in European football (UEFA)
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Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '80 '81 England Faroe Islands '80 '81 Finland '80 '81 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '80 '81 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '80 '81 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '80 '81 Spain Sweden '80 '81 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Bulgaria Cyprus England Faroe Islands Finland France West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '80 '81 Israel Italy Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '80 '81 Romania Scotland Soviet Union '81 Spain Yugoslavia
League cups	England Scotland
Super cups	Soviet Union '81
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup