1986–87 A Group

A Group
Season	1986–87
Champions	CSKA Sofia; (24th title)
Relegated	Akademik Svishtov, Dimitrovgrad
European Cup	CSKA Sofia
UEFA Cup	Trakia Plovdiv; Lokomotiv Sofia;
Matches played	240
Goals scored	786 (3.28 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nasko Sirakov; (36 goals)
	← 1985–86 1987–88 →

Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1986–1987 season.

Overview[]

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

Teams[]

Stadiums and locations[]

Sofia

Beroe

Vratsa

Spartak Vn

Spartak Pl

Akademik

Trakia
Loko Pd

Sliven

Pirin

Etar

Dimitrovgrad

Chernomorets

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Locations of the 1986–87 Bulgarian A Group teams

CSKA

Levski

Lokomotiv

Slavia

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Sofia 1986–87 A Group football clubs

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Akademik	Svishtov		13,500
Beroe	Stara Zagora	Beroe	17,000
Chernomorets	Burgas	Deveti Septemvri	18,000
CSKA	Sofia	Narodna Armia	26,000
Dimitrovgrad	Dimitrovgrad		12,000
Etar	Veliko Tarnovo	Ivaylo	16,000
Levski	Sofia	Levski	40,000 18,000
Lokomotiv	Plovdiv	Lokomotiv Deveti Septemvri	13,000 50,000
Lokomotiv	Sofia	Vasil Levski National Stadium	60,000
Pirin	Blagoevgrad	Hristo Botev (Blagoevgrad)	15,000
Slavia	Sofia	Slavia	25,000
Sliven	Sliven	Hadzhi Dimitar	15,000
Spartak	Varna	Spartak	12,000
Trakia	Plovdiv	Hristo Botev (Plovdiv)	30,000
Vratsa	Vratsa	Hristo Botev (Vratsa)	25,000

Personnel[]

Team	Manager	Captain
Akademik	Petko Petkov
Beroe	Evgeni Yanchovski	Tenyo Minchev
Chernomorets
CSKA	Dimitar Penev	Lachezar Tanev
Dimitrovgrad		Ivan Iliev
Etar	Georgi Vasilev
Levski	Pavel Panov	Rusi Gochev
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	Hristo Bonev	Ayan Sadakov
Lokomotiv Sofia
Pirin		Yordan Murlev
Slavia
Sliven
Spartak Pleven	Ivan Vutsov	Plamen Getov
Spartak Varna		Zhivko Gospodinov
Trakia		Kostadin Kostadinov
Vratsa

League standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	0–0	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Sofia (C)	30	21	5	0	4	73	30	+43	47	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Levski Sofia	30	19	6	0	5	75	35	+40	44	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round^[a]
3	Trakia Plovdiv	30	16	7	0	7	57	30	+27	39	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	14	7	1	8	67	45	+22	35	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5	Slavia Sofia	30	15	5	0	10	59	46	+13	35
6	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	11	8	1	10	58	44	+14	30
7	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	30	12	6	0	12	40	42	−2	30
8	Vratsa	30	11	6	0	13	42	56	−14	28
9	Sliven	30	11	5	0	14	52	52	0	27
10	Spartak Varna	30	10	5	0	15	44	62	−18	25
11	Pirin Blagoevgrad	30	8	8	2	12	35	47	−12	24
12	Chernomorets Burgas	30	10	4	0	16	48	76	−28	24
13	Beroe Stara Zagora	30	8	5	0	17	44	54	−10	21
14	Spartak Pleven	30	7	7	2	14	31	50	−19	21
15	Akademik Svishtov (R)	30	7	7	1	15	29	51	−22	21	Relegation to 1987–88 B Group
16	Dimitrovgrad (R)	30	8	5	1	16	32	66	−34	21	Relegation to 1987–88 B Group

Source: 1986-87 Football retro-football.bg
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Levski Sofia qualified for Cup Winners' Cup as a finalists in the 1986–87 Bulgarian Cup.

Results[]

Home \ Away	ASV	BSZ	CHB	CSK	DIM	ETA	LEV	LPL	LSO	PIR	SLA	SLI	SPL	SPV	TRA	VRA
Akademik Svishtov		1–1	2–1	1–1	5–1	3–0	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–1
Beroe Stara Zagora	1–1		4–0	2–1	1–0	4–2	2–3	1–1	2–3	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	4–1	3–0	5–0
Chernomorets Burgas	2–0	2–1		0–2	4–1	1–1	0–2	2–2	1–3	4–1	2–4	3–2	7–1	1–0	3–2	2–1
CSKA Sofia	1–0	3–2	10–1		3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–3	3–0	1–3	2–1	3–1	4–0	4–2	7–2
Dimitrovgrad	0–0	3–0	3–2	1–1		1–0	1–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–1
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	2–1	4–0	2–1	0–2	1–1		0–1	4–3	1–0	2–2	1–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	3–0
Levski Sofia	3–0	3–2	8–1	0–1	4–1	3–0		4–2	2–1	3–0	2–2	4–2	3–1	7–3	1–1	7–1
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–1	7–0	3–2	2–0		2–1	1–1	2–0	4–0	1–1	7–1	1–2	2–0
Lokomotiv Sofia	4–0	2–1	1–1	3–3	5–0	3–0	4–2	1–1		2–0	5–1	2–1	0–0	3–1	2–1	5–1
Pirin Blagoevgrad	4–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–3	0–0	2–1		1–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–2	3–3
Slavia Sofia	4–0	5–0	4–3	2–3	4–1	2–1	0–2	4–3	2–2	3–1		4–1	3–1	2–1	0–2	2–0
Sliven	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	5–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	5–1	2–3	2–2		4–2	5–2	1–3	3–0
Spartak Pleven	3–1	1–0	3–0	0–3	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–3	0–1	1–1	1–2		1–2	1–1	2–0
Spartak Varna	6–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	3–1	2–1	1–1	5–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–0		0–2	2–2
Trakia Plovdiv	4–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	4–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	5–1	2–0	1–0	4–0	5–1		1–1
Vratsa	2–0	3–0	7–1	0–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–3	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0

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

Champions[]

CSKA Sofia

Goalkeepers
Georgi Velinov	30	0(0)
	03	0(0)
Yordan Filipov	01	0(0)

Defenders
Nedyalko Mladenov	26	0(0)
Angel Chervenkov	18	0(1)
Krasimir Bezinski	30	0(2)
	24	0(1)
Kiril Kachamanov	01	0(0)
Iliya Dyakov	05	0(0)
	30	0(0)
	04	0(0)
	20	0(0)

Midfielders
	01	0(0)
Kostadin Yanchev	22	0(0)
Ivaylo Kirov	26	0(6)
	04	0(0)
Lachezar Tanev	29	(28)
	02	0(0)

Forwards
Hristo Stoichkov	25	0(6)
Emil Kostadinov	26	0(3)
	01	0(1)
Lyuboslav Penev	27	(19)
	17	0(6)
	03	0(0)

Manager
	Dimitar Penev

Top scorers[]

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Nasko Sirakov	Levski Sofia	36
2	Petar Aleksandrov	Slavia Sofia	33
3	Lachezar Tanev	CSKA Sofia	28
4	Lyuboslav Penev	CSKA Sofia	19
5	Stoycho Stoev	Lokomotiv Sofia	18
6	Hristo Kolev	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	16
7	Petar Mihtarski	Pirin Blagoevgrad	15
8	Nikolay Rusev	Chernomorets Burgas	13
	Iliya Voynov	Vratsa
		Etar Veliko Tarnovo
		Lokomotiv Sofia

Awards[]

Team of the Season[]

Team of the Season (by newspaper Naroden Sport)^[1]
Goalkeeper	Georgi Velinov (CSKA)
Defence	(Spartak Varna)	Nikolay Iliev (Levski)		(Etar)		Krasimir Bezinski (CSKA)
Midfield	Nasko Sirakov (Levski)		Nikolay Rusev (Chernomorets)		Hristo Stoichkov (CSKA)
Attack	Lachezar Tanev (CSKA)		Petar Aleksandrov (Slavia)		Iliya Voynov (Vratsa)

References[]

^ "Football'87" (PDF). retro-football.bg (in Bulgarian).

External links[]

Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)

[table_note_res_CWC10.48295062570039-1] Levski Sofia qualified for Cup Winners' Cup as a finalists in the 1986–87 Bulgarian Cup.

[football'87-2] "Football'87" (PDF). retro-football.bg (in Bulgarian).

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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 1986–87 in Bulgarian football
Domestic leagues	A Group
Domestic cups	Bulgarian Cup (Final) ()
European competitions	European Cup UEFA Cup Cup Winners' Cup
Related to national team	UEFA Euro 1988 qualification (Group 7) Hristo Mladenov

v t 1986–87 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '86 '87 England Faroe Islands '86 '87 Finland '86 '87 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '86 '87 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '86 '87 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '86 '87 Spain Sweden '86 '87 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Bulgaria Cyprus England Faroe Islands Finland France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '86 '87 Israel Italy Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '86 '87 Romania Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Israel Northern Ireland Scotland Soviet Union '86
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '86 '87–'88