PFC Ludogorets Razgrad II


Ludogorets II or Ludogorets 2 is a Bulgarian professional football team based in Razgrad. Founded in 2015, it is the reserve team of PFC Ludogorets Razgrad, and currently plays in Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football.
Obliged to play one level below their main side, Ludogorets II is ineligible for promotion to First League and also can not compete in the Bulgarian Cup.

History

Foundation

In the beginning of 2015, the Bulgarian Football Union discussed the idea to add the reserve sides of several A Group clubs in the B Group or in the lower regional divisions. Ludogorets Razgrad, Litex Lovech, Levski Sofia, CSKA Sofia, Cherno More Varna and Botev Plovdiv expressed such interest to have a team in the B Group. At the beginning of June 2015, the BFU announced that only Litex and Ludogorets have sent such applications. Eventually, Ludogorets II and Litex II were added to the 2015-16 B Group.

2015–present: Second League

The team finished on 7th position in their first season. The team started the 2016–17 season precariously and finished in the religation zone on the half season. That's why on 12 January 2017, the team announced Radoslav Zdravkov, a Bulgarian football legend and also frequent assistant coach in the Bulgarian national team in recent age. 2 days later from Ludogorets announced that in order to get better results from second team, they would apply big changes. Radoslav Zdravkov was announced as a head coach with Galin Ivanov and Marcelo Chagas for assistants and one other Bulgarian legend, Spas Dzhevizov, was announced as a selectionist, and will look after for youth talents from Ludogorets Academy and other academies to join the team.
On 29 March 2017, the new youth stadium, Eagles' Nest was finished and the second team would play on it. The stadium has 2,000 seats.
From the 2017–18 season, Ludogorets change the politic about the second team by taking the decision to play with only youth players of the club in the Bulgarian Second League. The team started the season against Lokomotiv Sofia and beat them with 2:1 result with a team average age being 19 years.

Players

Personnel

Manager history

Current technical body

Past seasons

League positions


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Statistics

Second League matches

RankingNationalityNameYearsMatchesGoals
1Oleg Dimitrov2015–2019954
2Preslav M. Petrov2015–804
3Denislav Aleksandrov2015–20197719
4Ivaylo Klimentov2015–2019726
5Daniel Naumov2016–2019620
6Tomas Tsvyatkov2015–2018579
7Svetoslav Kovachev2015–20185410
8Erol Dost2017–513
9Antonio Georgiev2015–2017432
10Preslav I. Petrov2015–2017431

RankingNationalityNameYearsMatchesGoals
1Denislav Aleksandrov2015–20197719
2Yanaki Smirnov2015–20162811
3Svetoslav Kovachev2015–20185410
4Tomas Tsvyatkov2015–2018579
5Tsvetelin Chunchukov2015–2017318
6Ivaylo Klimentov2015–2019616
7Mihail Aleksandrov2015–201664
—Júnior Brandão2018–64
—Juninho Quixadá2015–201874
—Lucas Sasha2015–201994