Iliya Kirchev
Personal information | |||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 28 December 1932 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dolni Chiflik, Bulgaria | ||||||||||||
Date of death | 11 September 1997 | (aged 64)||||||||||||
Place of death | Varna, Bulgaria | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
1951–1965 | Spartak Varna | 319 | (3) | ||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||
1957–1963 | Bulgaria | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||
1973–1974 | Spartak Varna | ||||||||||||
1978–1979 | Spartak Varna | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Iliya Kirchev (Bulgarian: Илия Кирчев; 28 December 1932 – 11 September 1997) was a Bulgarian footballer.[1]
Career[]
Kirchev was a central defender. He played with PFC Spartak Varna and earned 286 caps in Bulgarian first division. For the Bulgaria national football team Kirchev featured in 7 games[2] and won a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He died at the age of 64 in 1997.
Honours[]
International[]
- Bulgaria
References[]
- ^ "Iliya Kirchev". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "Ilia Kirchev, international footballer".
External links[]
- Spartak Varna profile (in Bulgarian)
- Iliya Kirchev at National-Football-Teams.com
- Iliya Kirchev at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1932 births
- 1997 deaths
- Bulgarian footballers
- Bulgaria international footballers
- PFC Spartak Varna players
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- Footballers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Bulgaria
- Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria
- Bulgarian football managers
- PFC Spartak Varna managers
- People from Varna Province
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Association football defenders
- Sportspeople from Varna, Bulgaria
- Bulgarian football defender stubs
- Bulgarian Olympic medalist stubs