1995–96 A Group

A Group
Season	1995–96
Dates	12 August 1995 – 11 May 1996
Champions	Slavia Sofia; (7th title)
Relegated	Shumen; Lovech; Spartak Plovdiv;
UEFA Cup	Slavia; Lokomotiv Sofia;
Matches	240
Goals	592 (2.47 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ivo Georgiev; (21 goals)
	← 1994–95 1996–97 →

The 1995–96 A Group was the 48th season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Slavia Sofia won the championship.^[1] Lovech, renamed from Lex Lovech in the previous season, were relegated along with Spartak Plovdiv and Shumen.

Team information

Stadia and locations

The following teams have ensured their participation in A Group for season 1995–96 (listed in alphabetical order):

Sofia

Etar

Neftochimic

Dobrudzha

Botev
Lokomotiv
Spartak Pd

Rakovski

Location of teams in 1995–96 A Group

Sofia 1995–96 A Group football clubs

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Botev	Plovdiv	Hristo Botev	18,000
CSKA	Sofia	Bulgarian Army	22,995
Dobrudzha	Dobrich	Druzhba	12,500
Etar	Veliko Tarnovo	Ivaylo	18,000
Levski	Kyustendil	Osogovo	10,000
Levski	Sofia	Georgi Asparuhov	29,986
Lokomotiv	Plovdiv	Lokomotiv	24,000
Lokomotiv	Sofia	Lokomotiv	22,000
Lovech	Lovech	Lovech	7,050
Montana	Montana	Ogosta	8,000
Neftochimic	Burgas	Lazur	18,037
Rakovski	Ruse	Gradski	20,000
Shumen	Shumen	Panayot Volov	24,000
Slavia	Sofia	Ovcha Kupel	18,000
Spartak	Plovdiv	Todor Diev	11,353
Spartak	Varna	Spartak	8,000

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Slavia Sofia (C)	30	20	7	3	51	14	+37	67	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
2	Levski Sofia	30	19	5	6	49	22	+27	62	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	17	7	6	55	24	+31	58	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
4	Neftochimic Burgas	30	17	6	7	58	31	+27	57
5	CSKA Sofia	30	16	8	6	49	26	+23	56	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
6	Spartak Varna	30	13	2	15	47	52	−5	41	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
7	Dobrudzha Dobrich	30	12	3	15	30	43	−13	39
8	Levski Kyustendil	30	10	7	13	27	37	−10	37
9	Montana	30	9	9	12	33	35	−2	36
10	Botev Plovdiv	30	10	6	14	33	38	−5	36
11	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	10	5	15	25	50	−25	35
12	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	30	9	6	15	21	37	−16	33
13	Rakovski Ruse	30	9	5	16	33	41	−8	32
14	Shumen (R)	30	9	5	16	28	44	−16	32	Relegation to 1996–97 B Group
15	Lovech (R)	30	7	9	14	29	40	−11	30
16	Spartak Plovdiv (R)	30	6	4	20	24	58	−34	22

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BOT	CSK	DOB	ETA	LVK	LEV	LPL	LSO	LOV	MON	NEF	RAK	SHU	SLA	SPP	SPV
Botev Plovdiv		0–4	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	5–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–3
CSKA Sofia	3–0		2–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–5	4–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	4–2	1–0	3–1	4–0
Dobrudzha Dobrich	1–0	2–0		0–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–3	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–2
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	1–2	0–0	2–2		1–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	4–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–1
Levski Kyustendil	2–1	0–0	2–0	2–0		2–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–0
Levski Sofia	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–0		4–0	0–1	4–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	4–1
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–2	0–1		1–0	2–1	0–4	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–4	1–0	2–1
Lokomotiv Sofia	2–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	0–2	4–0		3–1	3–0	3–1	4–1	1–1	2–2	4–0	5–0
Lovech	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–0		1–1	0–2	2–1	3–0	0–1	2–0	0–0
Montana	3–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	2–0	0–0	3–2		0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–2	2–3
Neftochimic Burgas	2–0	2–2	5–1	3–0	3–0	5–1	4–0	1–1	5–2	1–0		3–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	5–2
Rakovski Ruse	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1		4–0	2–4	2–0	3–0
Shumen	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–3	2–0		0–1	3–1	2–0
Slavia Sofia	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	4–0		2–0	3–0
Spartak Plovdiv	2–4	2–4	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	4–2	1–3		0–1
Spartak Varna	2–1	1–3	2–3	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	2–0	0–2	8–1

Source: A PFG (in Bulgarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Champions

Slavia Sofia

Goalkeepers
Zdravko Zdravkov	29	(0)
Tsvetan Zdravkov	0	(0)
Stoycho Dragov	2	(0)

Defenders
Petar Tsvetanov	24	(2)
Mihail Zahariev	10	(0)
Vladimir Ivanov	28	(3)
Stoyan Atsarov	30	(1)
Kiril Kachamanov	28	(1)
Mario Dafkov	8	(1)
Stefan Kolev	28	(0)
Dobromir Minchev	11	(0)
Ivan Paskov*	1	(0)

Midfielders
Marius Urukov	28	(4)
Tsvetozar Dermendzhiev	7	(0)
Kiril Metkov	4	(0)
Diyan Angelov	13	(1)
Zoran Ristić	13	(0)
Danail Zhelyazkov	3	(0)
Geno Dobrevski*	13	(1)
Ivan Dobrevski	10	(1)
Vladko Shalamanov*	13	(9)
Anton Dimitrov	24	(1)

Forwards
Nikolay Pramatarov	6	(0)
Atanas Kirov	28	(7)
Dimitar Totev	15	(1)
Ivan Dimitrov	3	(0)
Aleksandar Bonchev*	3	(0)
Nasko Sirakov	20	(16)
Vanyo Shishkov*	6	(0)

Manager
	Stoyan Kotsev

Paskov, G. Dobrevski, Shalamanov, Bonchev and Shishkov left the club during a season.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Ivo Georgiev	Spartak Varna	21
2	Vesko Petkov	Neftochimic Burgas	18
3	Nasko Sirakov	Slavia Sofia	16
4	Simeon Chilibonov	Lokomotiv Sofia	12
5	Anatoli Tonov	Montana	11
5	Dimcho Belyakov	Lovech	11
7	Hristo Yovov	Levski Sofia	10
7	Marian Hristov	Levski Sofia	10
9	Vladko Shalamanov	Slavia Sofia	9
	Petar Mihtarski	CSKA Sofia
	Doncho Donev	Levski Sofia
	Petar Zhabov	CSKA Sofia
	Dimitar Totev	Slavia Sofia

Source:1995–96 Top Goalscorers

References

^ "Златният дубъл през 1996 година" (in Bulgarian). pfcslavia.com.

External links

Bulgaria – List of final tables (RSSSF)

[1] "Златният дубъл през 1996 година" (in Bulgarian). pfcslavia.com.

[1]

Bulgarian football championship seasons
State Championship (National Football Division)	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1941 1942 1943 1944
Republic Championship	1945 1946 1947 1948
A Group	1948–49 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
First League	2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26

1995–96 in Bulgarian football
Domestic leagues	A Group B Group V Group
Domestic cups	Bulgarian Cup (Final)
European competitions	UEFA Cup Cup Winners' Cup
Related to national team	UEFA Euro 1996 (Qualification Group 7, Group B) Dimitar Penev
List of transfers

1995–96 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '95 '96 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzeg-Bosnia, Republika Srpska) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '95 '96 Finland '95 '96 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '95 '96 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '95 '96 Latvia '95 '96 Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '95 '96 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '95 '96 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '95 '96 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '95 '96 Finland '95 '96 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '95 '96 Israel Italy Latvia '95 '96 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '95 '96 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
League cups	England Finland '95 '96 France Iceland Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales
Supercups	England Germany
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup