FC Chernomorets Balchik


Chernomorets is a Bulgarian football club based in Balchik, that competes in the Second League, the second tier of Bulgarian football. The team plays its home games at the local Balchik Stadium with 3,200 seats.

History

Chernomorets were founded as Sport Club Strela in late 1918 by English and Italian soldiers after World War I. The team finally became known as Chernomorets in 1957.
In its history, Chernomorets plays mainly in the Bulgarian amateurs divisions. Until the 1976/77 season, the team participated in either the third Bulgarian division, but gained a promotion to the B Group for the 1977/78 season. The next season was not so successful and the team was relegated back to the third division.
Chernomorets qualified for second time in its history for the second division by finishing on 3rd place in North-Eastern V Group in the 2007-08 season. In this period in the club worked as an assistant coach former famous football player Iliyan Kiryakov.
The club has withdrawn from B PFG in February 2011 for a big finance debt.
Between 9 November 2014 and 27 March 2016, Chernomorets won 37 consecutive games in the third division. In the 2015–16 season, the team finished first and won promotion to the B Group after five years absence, but on 12 June 2016, they announced that will stay in V Group and won't compete in the professional tier due to financial reasons.

Honours

Current squad

As of 1 February 2020
For recent transfers, see Transfers summer 2019 and Transfers winter 2019–20.

Past seasons

League positions


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