1995–96 A Group

A Group
Season	1995–96
Champions	Slavia Sofia; (7th title)
Relegated	Shumen; Lovech; Spartak Plovdiv;
UEFA Cup	Slavia; Lokomotiv Sofia;
Matches played	240
Goals scored	592 (2.47 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ivo Georgiev; (21 goals)
	← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1995–1996 season.

Overview[]

It was contested by 16 teams, and Slavia Sofia won the championship.^[1] Lovech, renamed from Lex Lovech in the previous season, were relegated along with Spartak Plovdiv and Shumen.

League standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Slavia Sofia (C)	30	20	7	3	51	14	+37	67	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
2	Levski Sofia	30	19	5	6	49	22	+27	62	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	17	7	6	55	24	+31	58	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
4	Neftochimic Burgas	30	17	6	7	58	31	+27	57
5	CSKA Sofia	30	16	8	6	49	26	+23	56	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
6	Spartak Varna	30	13	2	15	47	52	−5	41	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
7	Dobrudzha Dobrich	30	12	3	15	30	43	−13	39
8	Levski Kyustendil	30	10	7	13	27	37	−10	37
9	Montana	30	9	9	12	33	35	−2	36
10	Botev Plovdiv	30	10	6	14	33	38	−5	36
11	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	10	5	15	25	50	−25	35
12	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	30	9	6	15	21	37	−16	33
13		30	9	5	16	33	41	−8	32
14	Shumen (R)	30	9	5	16	28	44	−16	32	Relegation to 1996–97 B Group
15	Lovech (R)	30	7	9	14	29	40	−11	30
16	Spartak Plovdiv (R)	30	6	4	20	24	58	−34	22

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

Results[]

Home \ Away	BOT	CSK	DOB	ETA	LVK	LEV	LPL	LSO	LOV	MON	NEF		SHU	SLA	SPP	SPV
Botev Plovdiv		0–4	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	5–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–3
CSKA Sofia	3–0		2–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–5	4–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	4–2	1–0	3–1	4–0
Dobrudzha Dobrich	1–0	2–0		0–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–3	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–2
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	1–2	0–0	2–2		1–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	4–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–1
Levski Kyustendil	2–1	0–0	2–0	2–0		2–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–0
Levski Sofia	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–0		4–0	0–1	4–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	4–1
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–2	0–1		1–0	2–1	0–4	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–4	1–0	2–1
Lokomotiv Sofia	2–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	0–2	4–0		3–1	3–0	3–1	4–1	1–1	2–2	4–0	5–0
Lovech	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–0		1–1	0–2	2–1	3–0	0–1	2–0	0–0
Montana	3–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	2–0	0–0	3–2		0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–2	2–3
Neftochimic Burgas	2–0	2–2	5–1	3–0	3–0	5–1	4–0	1–1	5–2	1–0		3–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	5–2
	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1		4–0	2–4	2–0	3–0
Shumen	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–3	2–0		0–1	3–1	2–0
Slavia Sofia	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	4–0		2–0	3–0
Spartak Plovdiv	2–4	2–4	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	4–2	1–3		0–1
Spartak Varna	2–1	1–3	2–3	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	2–0	0–2	8–1

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

Champions[]

Slavia Sofia

Goalkeepers
Zdravko Zdravkov	29	0(0)
	00	0(0)
Stoycho Dragov	02	0(0)

Defenders
Petar Tsvetanov	24	0(2)
Mihail Zahariev	10	0(0)
Vladimir Ivanov	28	0(3)
Stoyan Atsarov	30	0(1)
Kiril Kachamanov	28	0(1)
	08	0(1)
Stefan Kolev	28	0(0)
	11	0(0)
Ivan Paskov*	01	0(0)

Midfielders
Marius Urukov	28	0(4)
	07	0(0)
Kiril Metkov	04	0(0)
Diyan Angelov	13	0(1)
	13	0(0)
	03	0(0)
Geno Dobrevski*	13	0(1)
	10	0(1)
Vladko Shalamanov*	13	0(9)
Anton Dimitrov	24	0(1)

Forwards
	06	0(0)
Atanas Kirov	28	0(7)
	15	0(1)
	03	0(0)
*	03	0(0)
Nasko Sirakov	20	(16)
Vanyo Shishkov*	06	0(0)

Manager
	Stoyan Kotsev

Paskov, G. Dobrevski, Shalamanov, Bonchev and Shishkov left the club during a season.

Top scorers[]

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Ivo Georgiev	Spartak Varna	21
2		Neftochimic Burgas	18
3	Nasko Sirakov	Slavia Sofia	16
4	Simeon Chilibonov	Lokomotiv Sofia	12
5	Anatoli Tonov	Montana	11
5	Dimcho Belyakov	Lovech	11
7	Hristo Yovov	Levski Sofia	10
7	Marian Hristov	Levski Sofia	10
9	Vladko Shalamanov	Slavia Sofia	9
	Petar Mihtarski	CSKA Sofia
	Doncho Donev	Levski Sofia
	Petar Zhabov	CSKA Sofia
		Slavia Sofia

Source:1995–96 Top Goalscorers

References[]

^ "Златният дубъл през 1996 година" (in Bulgarian). pfcslavia.com.

External links[]

Bulgaria – List of final tables (RSSSF)

[1] "Златният дубъл през 1996 година" (in Bulgarian). pfcslavia.com.

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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 1995–96 in Bulgarian football
Domestic leagues	A Group B Group
Domestic cups	Bulgarian Cup (Final)
European competitions	UEFA Cup Cup Winners' Cup
Related to national team	UEFA Euro 1996 (Qualification Group 7, Group B) Dimitar Penev

v t 1995–96 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '95 '96 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (, ) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '95 '96 Finland '95 '96 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '95 '96 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '95 '96 Latvia '95 '96 Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '95 '96 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '95 '96 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '95 '96 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Armenia Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland '95 '96 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Macedonia Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '95 '96 Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine FR Yugoslavia
League cups	England Finland Iceland Northern Ireland Scotland
Supercups	Germany
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup