2010–11 A Group


The 2010–11 A Group was the 87th season of the Bulgarian national top football division, and the 63rd of A Group as the top-tier football league in the country. The season commenced on 31 July 2010 and ended with the last games on 28 May 2011. The winter break was between the weekends around 29 November 2010 and 26 February 2011. Litex Lovech had defended their 2009/10 A Group title and became champions for [|2] years in a row.

Team information

, Sportist Svoge and Botev Plovdiv were directly relegated after finishing in the bottom three places. Lokomotiv ended a two-year tenure, Sportist were relegated after a year in A Group and Botev were excluded from A Group due to financial difficulties at the winter brake.
The relegated teams were replaced by Vidima-Rakovski, champions of West B Group and Kaliakra Kavarna, champions of the East B Group. Vidima-Rakovski returned to A Group after two years, while Kaliakra entered the top division for their first time.
A further place in the league was decided through a play-off match between the runners-up teams from the both B Group's. The game was played on 23 May 2010 between Nesebar and Akademik Sofia. Akademik won the match with result of 2–1 and returned to the top division after 28 years. The last time the club have played in A Group was during season 1981–82.

Stadia and locations

As in the previous year, the league will comprise the best thirteen teams of season 2009/10, the 2 champions of the West and East B Group's and the winners of the promotion play-off between the runners-up from the West and East B Group's.
The following teams have ensured their participation in A Group for season 2010/11 :
TeamCityStadiumStadium capacity
AkademikSofiaOvcha Kupel[|1]18,000
BeroeStara ZagoraBeroe17,800
Cherno MoreVarnaTicha8,250
ChernomoretsBurgasLazur18,037
CSKASofiaVasil Levski243,632
KaliakraKavarnaKavarna5,000
LevskiSofiaGeorgi Asparuhov29,986
LitexLovechLovech7,050
LokomotivPlovdivLokomotiv13,800
LokomotivSofiaVasil Levski[|3]43,632
MinyorPernikMinyor8,000
MontanaMontanaOgosta8,000
PirinBlagoevgradHristo Botev7,500
SlaviaSofiaOvcha Kupel18,000
Sliven 2000SlivenHadzhi Dimitar10,000
Vidima-RakovskiSevlievoRakovski8,816

;Notes
  1. Akademik Sofia will play their league home games at Ovcha Kupel Stadium in Sofia because their Akademik Stadium had not received approval from the BFU license committee.
  2. CSKA Sofia will play their league home games at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia because their Balgarska Armiya had not received approval from the BFU license committee.
  3. Lokomotiv Sofia will play their league home games at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia because their Lokomotiv Stadium had not received approval from the BFU license committee.

    Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableReplaced byDate of appointment
CSKA Sofia Adalbert Zafirov End of caretaker contract16 May 2010Pre-season Pavel Dochev13 May 2010
Slavia Sofia Velislav VutsovSacked17 May 2010Pre-season Emil Velev19 May 2010
Levski Sofia Anton Zdravkov
Georgi Ivanov		End of caretaker contract20 May 2010Pre-season Yasen Petrov20 May 2010
Pirin Blagoevgrad Stefan GrozdanovLeaves the club8 June 2010Pre-season Yordan Bozdanski21 June 2010
Litex Lovech Angel ChervenkovSacked5 August 20101st Petko Petkov 5 August 2010
CSKA Sofia Pavel DochevSacked16 August 201013th Gjore Jovanovski16 August 2010
Pirin Blagoevgrad Yordan BozdanskiSacked30 August 201014th Kostadin Angelov1 September 2010
Litex Lovech Petko Petkov End of caretaker contract1 September 20104th Luboslav Penev2 September 2010
Minyor Pernik Anton VelkovResigned6 September 201016th Stoycho Stoev8 September 2010
Kaliakra Kavarna Filip FilipovSacked6 October 201013th Anton Zdravkov7 October 2010
CSKA Sofia Gjore JovanovskiSacked21 October 20109th Milen Radukanov21 October 2010
Cherno More Varna Velizar PopovResigned23 October 201010th Stefan Genov23 October 2010
Lokomotiv Sofia Dimitar VasevSacked22 November 20105th Dian Petkov 22 November 2010
Sliven Dragoljub SimonovićResigned4 December 201015th Dimcho Nenov10 January 2011
Chernomorets Burgas Krasimir BalakovResigned7 December 20103rd Anton Velkov23 December 2010
Chernomorets Burgas Anton VelkovSacked21 March 20117th Georgi Vasilev21 March 2011
Lokomotiv Plovdiv Nedelcho MatushevSacked26 April 20115th Saša Nikolić26 April 2011

League table

Relegation playoff

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Chernomorets Pomorie wasn't allowed to compete in the next season, so there will be 2 play-offs. The first will be between the teams that lost against Chernomorets Pomorie, Vidima-Rakovski and Sportist Svoge. The other will be between Svetkavitsa and FC Etar Veliko Tarnovo for the Pirin Blagoevgrad's place.
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Positions by round

Results

Champions

;Litex Lovech

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 28 May 2011
RankScorerClubGoals
1 Garra DembéléLevski Sofia26
2 Zdravko LazarovLokomotiv Plovdiv14
3 Spas DelevCSKA Sofia13
4 Doka MadureiraLitex Lovech12
5 Tsvetan GenkovLokomotiv Sofia11
5 Hristo ZlatinskiLokomotiv Plovdiv11
7 Michel PlatiniCSKA Sofia10
7 Nikolay BozhovSlavia Sofia10
7 Basile de CarvalhoLokomotiv Plovdiv10
7 Vladislav ZlatinovBeroe Stara Zagora10
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Top assistants

Including matches played on 28 May 2011
RankPlayerClubAssists
1 Darko TasevskiLevski Sofia9
2 TomLitex Lovech8
2 Zdravko LazarovLokomotiv Plovdiv8
4 JoãozinhoLevski Sofia7
4 Hristo YanevLitex Lovech7
4 Spas DelevCSKA Sofia7
7 Gregory NelsonCSKA Sofia6
7 Iskren PisarovLokomotiv Sofia6
7 Marcho DafchevLokomotiv Sofia6
10 Tsvetan GenkovLokomotiv Sofia5
10 Basile de CarvalhoLokomotiv Plovdiv5
10 SerginhoLokomotiv Plovdiv5
10 Dragi KotsevLokomotiv Plovdiv5
10 Emil GargorovCSKA Sofia5
10 Todor HristovBeroe5
10 Doka MadureiraLitex Lovech5
10 Atanas ChipilovMontana5

Scoring