Cherno More Varna
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Professional fudbolen club Cherno More Varna |
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| Seat | Varna | ||
| founding | March 3, 1913 | ||
| Colours | green white | ||
| president | Marin Mitew | ||
| Website | chernomorepfc.bg | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Ilan Iliev | ||
| Venue | Titscha Stadium | ||
| Places | 12,000 | ||
| league | A group | ||
| 2018/19 | 5th place | ||
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The professional fudbolen klub Tscherno More ( Bulgarian Професионален футболен клуб Черно море ), short PFK Tscherno More ( Bulgarian ПФК Черно море ) is a football club in Varna ( Bulgaria ).
Establishment phase and historical background
The club was founded on March 3, 1913 as "Galata" and is the first official Bulgarian club. When the championship round was formed under the name "Sofia League" and the Bulgarian Football Association was formed in 1923, the club was initially overshadowed by local rivals "Wladislaw Varna", who secured the first two official championships in 1924 and 1925.
Around 1930 "Schipchensky Sokol Varna", another club from the city, celebrated successes in the championship, which culminated in the championship of 1932. After Wladislaw was able to win the championship again in 1936, Titscha improved and in the following two years reached the final of the championship, which at that time was played in play-off mode.
When the championship was contested in a league system, Titscha won his first championship in 1938. In the years of the Second World War , the club could not repeat the success and presented itself with only mediocre success.
New beginning after the Second World War
The year 1945, in which the club merged with the three-time champion and local rival "Wladislaw Varna", is often seen as the real hour of birth. In the early days of the association created in this way, numerous name changes were made to TW-45 Warna (1945), Botew Warna (1948), Botew Stalin (1949), WUS Stalin (1950), WUS Warna, SKNA Warna (both 1956) and again WUS Warna (1959) with only moderate success, as the club was not in the top division.
The most successful clubs in the city after the end of the war, alongside rivals Spartak Warna, were the "Akademik Warna", appearing in the top Bulgarian league in 1952, and the later namesake "SD Cherno More Warna". Before WUS Warna merged with these teams to "SAFD Cherno More Varna" in 1969, Cherno More Varna reached third place in the championship in 1953 and mostly played in the midfield of the league, whereas Akademik only secured relegation in one case in three first division seasons could.
Modern developments since the 1970s
After the final merger under the name of Cherno More, the club established itself from the 1969/70 season, initially in the midfield of the league until 1976, when relegation was narrowly missed and relegation followed. After only one season, the club returned and was able to establish itself in the upper midfield around 1980 until another downward trend followed. In 1984 the class could still be secured after relegation games against Belasiza Petritsch , two years later the return to the second division was inevitable.
The recovery only succeeded in the second attempt and it was followed by the direct and thus third descent in 1990. The tragedy of direct relegation after the previous promotion hit the club again in 1994, with the club in "FK Cherno More Varna" a year earlier (1993). renamed.
Only in 2000 did the club return to the top division and since the 2002/03 season Cherno More stabilized in the upper half. In the 2008/09 season, the club reached the first round of the UEFA Cup . The club met the German Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart there . The first leg, which was played in the national stadium Wassil Levski in Sofia , lost Varna after 1-0 lead with 1: 2. In the second leg, in Stuttgart, the team led against the favorites 2-0 up to the 82nd minute, with which the guests from Bulgaria would have made it into the group stage. The game ended 2-2 and the Bulgarians missed the sensation.
Others
- Until the 2005/06 season, the club was never able to qualify for a European competition outside of the UI Cup .
Sporting successes
- Bulgarian champion (1): 1938 (as Wladislaw Varna (3): 1925, 1926, 1934
- Bulgarian Cup Winner (1): 2015
- Bulgarian Supercup Winner (1): 2015
- UEFA Cup participation (3): 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2015/16
European Cup balance sheet
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | To | Back |
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| 2008/09 | Uefa cup | 1st qualifying round |
 UE Sant Julià
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9-0 | 4: 0 (H) | 5: 0 (A) |
| 2nd qualifying round |
 Maccabi Netanya
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3: 1 | 1: 1 (A) | 2: 0 (H) | ||
| 1 round |
 VfB Stuttgart
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3: 4 | 1: 2 (H) | 2: 2 (A) | ||
| 2009/10 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round |
 FC Iskra-Stali Rîbnița
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4-0 | 1: 0 (H) | 3: 0 (A) |
| 3rd qualifying round |
 PSV Eindhoven
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0: 2 | 0: 1 (A) | 0: 1 (H) | ||
| 2015/16 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round |
 FK Dinamo Minsk
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1: 5 | 1: 1 (H) | 0: 4 (A) |
Overall record: 12 games, 5 wins, 3 draws, 4 defeats, 20:12 goals (goal difference +8)
