Slavia Sofia
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| Basic data | ||
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| Surname | PFC Slavia Sofia | |
| Seat | Sofia | |
| founding | April 10, 1913 | |
| president | Wenzislaw Stefanow | |
| Website | pfcslavia.com | |
| First soccer team | ||
| Head coach | Zlatomir Zagorčić | |
| Venue | Slavia Stadium | |
| Places | 25,556 | |
| league | A group | |
| 2019/20 | 3rd place | |
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The PFK Slavija ( Bulgarian Професионален футболен клуб Славия / Profesionalen futbolen klub Slavija, German professional football club Slavija) is a football club from Sofia , Bulgaria .
Foundation phase
The association was founded on April 10, 1913 with the simultaneous merger with the associations "Botew Sofija" and "Raswitie Sofija" by young people in a coffee house in the Bulgarian capital as the first professional club under the name "SK Slavija Sofija". The student Dimitar Blagoew was elected first president at the age of 21.
After Slavia was able to win an unofficial championship in the first year and the competition was reorganized after the First World War , the club was able to win the first title clearly 4-0 in the final against Spartak Varna four years after the establishment of the Bulgarian championship in 1928 win.
The period that followed until the end of World War II is the club's most successful period to date. With five other championships in 1930, 1936, 1939, 1941 and 1943, Slavia was able to win more titles than any other club.
post war period
After the war, the association merged with “SK Balgarija Sofija” and “SK Beganez Sofija” as “NFD Slawija Sofija”. However, no further titles could be added to the collection under the new name or under the name "DSO Strojitel Sofija", under which the association appeared from 1949.
After another change in "USS-DSO Udarnik Sofija" in 1951, the Soviet Army Cup could be won at the end of the season and Slavia ended an almost ten-year lean period.
However, more than ten more years, four vice championships and two more renaming in "GUTP-DSO Udarnik Sofija" (1952) and "FD Slawija Sofija" (1957) pass until the club won the second Soviet Army Cup in 1963 could expand his trophy collection. In the following years, Slavia was able to defend the title twice in 1964 and 1966.
After the end of the 1968/69 season, the country's communist party carried out numerous restructurings in Bulgarian football and merged Slavia with the Bulgarian champions in 1964 and local rivals FK Lokomotiv Sofija . This was reversed in 1971 after only two seasons, so that the club regained its independence under "DFS Slawija Sofija".
After Slavia was able to win its sixth and last Soviet Army Cup in 1980, the club gave itself in 1986 its still valid name "PFK Slawija Sofija" (or "FK" at that time). The club was not granted any further titles until the end of the Cold War .
Between 1979 and 1988 the chess department of the club had the greatest success. The team was able to take part in the European Team Championship, the European Club Cup , five times .
Modern developments since the 1990s
Despite the reorganization of the Bulgarian football landscape since the beginning of the 1990s, Slavia was initially unable to take advantage of the loss of supremacy from CSKA Sofia , and Levski Sofia and later other clubs outside of Sofia increasingly appeared as additional competitors.
The year 1996 is nevertheless to be regarded as the most successful year in the club's history. The Bulgarian championship, which was won again after 53 years, was even completed to a double when Slavia spectacularly defeated Levski Sofia 4-0 in the final of the Bulgarian Cup.
Although the club always played in the top half of the table in the following years, there has been no further success since then.
Sporting successes
- Bulgarian champion (7): 1928, 1930, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1996
- Bulgarian Cup Winner (2): 1996, 2018
- Soviet Army Cup Winners (6): 1952, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1980
- Balkan Cup Winner (2): 1986, 1988
European Cup balance sheet
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | To | Back |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963/64 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | Preliminary round |
 MTK Budapest
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1: 2 | 0: 1 (A) | 1: 1 (H) |
| 1964/65 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | Preliminary round |
 Cork Celtic
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3: 1 | 1: 1 (H) | 2: 0 (A) |
| 1 round |
 FC Lausanne Sports
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4: 5 | 1: 0 (H) | 1: 2 (A) | ||
| 2: 3 in Rome | ||||||
| 1966/67 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
 Swansea Town
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5: 1 | 1: 1 (A) | 4: 0 (H) |
| 2nd round |
 Racing Strasbourg
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2: 1 | 0: 1 (A) | 2: 0 (H) | ||
| Quarter finals |
Servette Geneva
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3: 1 | 0: 1 (A) | 3: 0 (H) | ||
| Semifinals |
 Glasgow Rangers
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0: 2 | 0: 1 (H) | 0: 1 (A) | ||
| 1968/69 | Exhibition cities cup | 1 round |
Aberdeen FC
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0: 2 | 0: 0 (H) | 0: 2 (A) |
| 1969/70 | Exhibition cities cup | 1 round |
.svg){kind=small} Valencia CF
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3: 1 | 2: 0 (H) | 1: 1 (A) |
| 2nd round |
FC Kilmarnock
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3: 4 | 1: 4 (A) | 2: 0 (H) | ||
| 1970/71 | Exhibition cities cup | 1 round |
.svg){kind=small} Hajduk Split
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1: 3 | 0: 3 (A) | 1: 0 (H) |
| 1972/73 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
 FC Schalke 04
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2: 5 | 1: 2 (A) | 1: 3 (H) |
| 1973/74 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
.svg){kind=small} Dinamo Tbilisi
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3: 4 | 1: 4 (A) | 2: 0 (H) |
| 1975/76 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
 SK Sturm Graz
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2: 3 | 1: 3 (A) | 1: 0 (H) |
| 1980/81 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
 Legia Warsaw
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3: 2 | 3: 1 (H) | 0: 1 (A) |
| 2nd round |
 Sparta Prague
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3: 2 | 0: 2 (A) | 3: 0 (H) | ||
| Quarter finals |
 Feyenoord Rotterdam
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3: 6 | 3: 2 (H) | 0: 4 (A) | ||
| 1982/83 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
FK Sarajevo
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4: 6 | 2: 2 (H) | 2: 4 (A) |
| 1988/89 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
Partizan Belgrade
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0:10 | 0: 5 (A) | 0: 5 (H) |
| 1990/91 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
 Omonia Nicosia
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4: 5 | 2: 1 (H) | 2: 4 a.d. (A) |
| 1991/92 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
 CA Osasuna
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1: 4 | 1: 0 (H) | 0: 4 (A) |
| 1995/96 | Uefa cup | Preliminary round |
 Olympiacos Piraeus
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0: 3 | 0: 2 (H) | 0: 1 (A) |
| 1996/97 | Uefa cup | Preliminary round |
 FK Inkaras Kaunas
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5: 4 | 4: 3 (H) | 1: 1 (A) |
| qualification |
FC Tirol Innsbruck
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2: 5 | 1: 1 (H) | 1: 4 (A) | ||
| 2016/17 | UEFA Europa League | 1st qualifying round |
 Zagłębie Lubin
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1: 3 | 1: 0 (H) | 0: 3 (A) |
| 2018/19 | UEFA Europa League | 1st qualifying round |
 Tampereen Ilves
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3: 1 | 1: 0 (A) | 2: 1 (H) |
| 2nd qualifying round |
 Hajduk Split
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2: 4 | 0: 1 (A) | 2: 3 (H) | ||
Overall record : 55 games, 19 wins, 8 draws, 28 defeats, 63:90 goals (goal difference −27)
Others
- Slavia Sofia is the only Bulgarian club that has participated in all national championships since its inception in 1924.
- Slavia's greatest international success is reaching the semi-finals of the 1967 European Cup Winners' Cup , in which they lost to the Glasgow Rangers .
Former players
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Marian Christow (1994-1995) -
Russi Petkow (1998-2000)
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Assen Karaslavow (2001-2007)
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Tschawdar Jankow (199? –2002) youth, (2002–2005, 2012–2014) player
