Dimitar Dimitrov (football coach)

Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov at the presentation as coach of Amkar Perm (2009)
Personnel
birthday	June 9, 1959
place of birth	Burgas ,  Bulgaria
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
	FC Chernomorets Burgas
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1981	FC Chernomorets Burgas
1981-1985	Akademik Sofia
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
0000-1993	Neftochimik Burgas (assistant coach)
1993-1997	Neftochimik Burgas
1998	Litex Lovech
1998-1999	Bulgaria
1999-2000	Litex Lovech
2000-2001	Levski Sofia
2001-2003	Locomotive Plovdiv
2003-2004	Neftochimik Burgas
2004-2005	al-Nasr
2006-2008	FC Chernomorets Burgas
2009	FK Amkar Perm
2009-2011	al-Qadisiyah
2011-2014	FC Chernomorets Burgas
2015-2017	Ertis Pavlodar
2017–	Ludogorez Razgrad
1 Only league games are given.

Dimitar Dimitrov ( Bulgarian Димитър Димитров ; born June 9, 1959 in Burgas ) is a former Bulgarian football player and current coach .

As a young player at FC Chernomorets Burgas , Dimitrov won the Bulgarian U-20 championship three times. He was a student at the National Sports Academy . Before his 25th birthday, he had to give up his football career due to an injury to his knee.

His career as a football coach began at Neftochimik Burgas . In the meantime he graduated from the trainer school in Cologne . After working as an assistant coach at Neftochimik under Ivan Wutow , he was appointed coach of the Burgas club in 1993. In 1997 Dimitrov moved to FK Litex Lovech and won the Bulgarian football championship in 1998.

On September 13, 1998 he was introduced as the coach of the Bulgarian national football team. He stayed at the post until the end of 1999. After that he led the teams of Levski Sofia , FK Litex Lovech , Lokomotive Plovdiv , PFC Naftex Burgas and Al-Nasr in Saudi Arabia . In 2005 he made his comeback in Bulgaria. On December 20, 2005, he took over the management of the Bulgarian national team alongside Christo Stoitschkow . He held the position of sports manager. In April 2007 he gave up the post together with Stoichkov. He then became the coach of Chernomorets Burgas FC , with whom he won first place in the Eastern B Grupa in the 2006/07 season. In the 2007/08 and 08/09 seasons he led his team in the A Grupa , the highest Bulgarian league.

At the end of 2008 Dimitrov moved to the Russian first division club Amkar Perm . He was succeeded in Burgas by Krassimir Balakow .

At the end of 2009 he was coach of the Saudi club al-Qadisiya al-Chubar and since June 2011 he has been coaching his home club FC Chernomorets Burgas again .

On October 13, 2011, Dimitrov announced at a press conference that he had stomach cancer .

In June 2015 he was signed by the Kazakh first division club Irtysh Pavlodar .

Web links

• Dimitar Dimitrov in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ topsport.bg , December 26, 2008
2. ^ Football coach Dimitrov suffers from stomach cancer. In: Focus . October 31, 2011, accessed May 21, 2019 .