Stefan Welkow

Stefan Welkow
Personnel
birthday	December 12, 1996
place of birth	Sofia ,  Bulgaria
size	189 cm
position	defense
Juniors
Years	station
0000–2014	Slavia Sofia
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2014-2018	Slavia Sofia	88 (2)
2018-2020	FC Den Bosch	18 (2)
2020	→  RKC Waalwijk  (loan)	3 (0)
2020–	KFC Uerdingen 05	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Bulgaria U16	at least 5 (0)
2014	Bulgaria U19	2 (0)
2013-2018	Bulgaria U21	17 (1)
2017–	Bulgaria	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 4, 2020

Stefan Welkow ( Bulgarian Стефан Велков , English transcription: Stefan Velkov ; born December 12, 1996 in Sofia ) is a Bulgarian football player . The defender is under contract with KFC Uerdingen 05 in Germany .

Career

society

Welkow was trained up to the age of 18 at Slavia Sofia in the Bulgarian capital and then integrated into the squad of the club's first team. In his first season he was in central defense, came to 19 first division games and two games each in the cup and in the relegation round. Between July 2014 and 2015 he was out of action due to a serious knee injury, but was able to get back to the defense after completing his rehab. In the summer of 2016 Welkow was able to achieve his first league goal as well as his first two appearances in the European Cup when he failed with Slawia in the Europa League qualification against Zagłębie Lubin .

In his last season , the defender had to play with the club against relegation again, but won the national cup with him after a triumph over city rivals Levski in spring 2018 . The Bulgarian then signed a two-year contract with the Dutch second division club FC Den Bosch . Welkow was often taken into account there, but alongside regular Sam Kersten in central defense he was used in constant alternation with Leo Väisänen . Fourth in the championship had to play two promotion playoff games against the Go Ahead Eagles , one of which ended in a draw and the other was lost. In the second half of the following season , there was a loan to the first division promoted RKC Waalwijk , but due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the Dutch championship was prematurely canceled in spring 2020.

After the end of his contract, the Bulgarian moved to Germany, where he was signed by the third division KFC Uerdingen 05 .

National team

After 25 international matches for Bulgaria's youth teams , Welkow made his debut for the senior national team in a friendly against Belarus on February 26, 2020 .

successes

Slavia Sofia

• Bulgarian Cup Winner : 2018

Web links

• Stefan Welkow in the database of weltfussball.de
• Stefan Welkow in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Central defender Velkov comes to KFC , kfc-uerdingen.de, accessed on August 4, 2020