FC Chernomorets Balchik

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FC Chernomorets Balchik
Balchik logo.png
Full nameFootball Club Chernomorets Balchik
Founded1918; 103 years ago (1918)
Ground
Capacity2,618
Head coachBoyko Kamenov
LeagueNorth-East Third League
2020–212nd

Chernomorets (Bulgarian: Черноморец) is a Bulgarian football club based in Balchik, that competes in the North-East Third League, the third tier of Bulgarian football. The team plays its home games at the local Balchik Stadium with 3,200 seats.

History[]

Balchik Stadium

Chernomorets were founded as Sport Club Strela in late 1918 by English and Italian soldiers after World War I. The team finally became known as Chernomorets in 1957.

In its history, Chernomorets plays mainly in the Bulgarian amateurs divisions. Until the 1976/77 season, the team participated in either the third Bulgarian division, but gained a promotion to the B Group for the 1977/78 season. The next season was not so successful and the team was relegated back to the third division (The club finishing on 17th place in the group).

Chernomorets qualified for second time in its history for the second division by finishing on 3rd place in North-Eastern V Group in the 2007-08 season. In this period in the club worked as an assistant coach former famous football player Iliyan Kiryakov.

The club has withdrawn from B PFG in February 2011 for a big finance debt.

Between 9 November 2014 and 27 March 2016, Chernomorets won 37 consecutive games in the third division.[1] In the 2015–16 season, the team finished first and won promotion to the B Group after five years absence, but on 12 June 2016, they announced that will stay in V Group and won't compete in the professional tier due to financial reasons.[2]

Honours[]

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 1 August 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Bulgaria BUL Pavlin Evtimov
2 DF Bulgaria BUL Blagovest Gachev
3 MF Bulgaria BUL Daniel Georgiev
4 DF Bulgaria BUL Sevdalin Staykov
6 MF Bulgaria BUL Vladislav Georgiev
7 FW Bulgaria BUL Kristian Peshkov
10 MF Bulgaria BUL Valentin Veselinov
11 MF Bulgaria BUL Nikolay Pantev
12 DF Bulgaria BUL Genadi Lugo (captain)
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF Bulgaria BUL Ivan Ivanov
17 MF Germany GER Arya Hassani-Katehsari
18 FW Bulgaria BUL Ivaylo Rusev
20 DF Bulgaria BUL Nikolay Ivanov
21 DF Bulgaria BUL Miroslav Nachev
23 MF Bulgaria BUL Danail Dimov
27 GK Bulgaria BUL Kalin Dyankov
33 MF Bulgaria BUL Veselin Nikolaev
38 MF Bulgaria BUL Todor Marinchev

Past seasons[]

League positions[]

Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria)Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria)Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria)Bulgarian V AFGBulgarian B Football GroupBulgarian V AFG
Season League Place W D L GF GA Pts Bulgarian Cup
2011–12 V AFG (III) 10 8 7 13 43 34 36 not qualified
2012–13 V AFG 7 11 8 9 37 31 41 not qualified
2013–14 V AFG 13 8 2 20 39 63 26 not qualified
2014–15 V AFG 2 24 4 2 85 14 76 not qualified
2015–16 V AFG 1 24 1 1 79 14 73 First round
2016–17 Third League 1 24 4 0 67 9 76 First round
2017–18 Second League (II) 11 10 9 11 37 40 39 First round
2018–19 Second League 7 10 7 13 27 35 37 Second Round
Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation.

References[]

  1. ^ "Балчик подава молба за влизане в Книгата на Гинес" (in Bulgarian). varnautre.bg. 5 April 2016.
  2. ^ Първи отбор се отказа от участие в "Б" група

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