PFC Litex Lovech

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PFC Litex Lovech
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Full name PFC Litex Lovech AD
Nickname(s)The Lilacs
Founded 1921
Ground Lovech Stadium
(Capacity 7,000)
Chairman Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Angel Bonchev
Manager Image:Flag of Serbia.svg Miodrag Jesic
League TBI A Football Group
2006-07 4th
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Home colours
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Away colours

PFC Litex Lovech (Bulgarian: ПФК Литекс (Ловеч)) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Lovech.

Litex takes part in the TBI A Football Group. The team plays its home games at the local Lovech Stadium with 7,000 seats, electric lighting and permission to stage international matches. Litex has twice been Bulgarian champion and twice Bulgarian Cup winner.

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[edit] History

The football club of the town of Lovech was founded in 1921 under the name Hisarya. The first official game was held in 1923.

The club changed its name several times over the years, before becoming Osum in 1979. Under that name the club played constantly in the Bulgarian Second Division and was close to promotion several times, before finally achieving in 1994 under the name LEX (the sponsoring company at the time) after finishing in 1st position.

The first season in the Premier League was a kind of success for a club like LEX, finishing 11th after scoring victories over the teams of CSKA (1:0), Slavia Sofia (1:0) and Lokomotiv Sofia (1:0), which were some of the best teams in Bulgaria at that time.

The next season was not so successful and the team, renamed Lovech in the meantime, was relegated back to the Second Division. This was the turning point in the history of the club. Petrol businessman and citizen of Lovech Grisha Ganchev bought the club and renamed it Litex. Almost all of the current players were released and a significant number of valuable players were signed. The team won first place without difficulty, finishing more than 10 points ahead of the second team in the table and qualifying for the First Division. In the same season Litex reached the quarter-final of the Bulgarian Cup and the final of the Bulgarian League Cup, which they unfortunately lost after a 2:2 draw in regular time and a penalty shoot-out. Litex also won against every team from the top of the table of the Bulgarian First Division (either in friendly matches or cup matches).

In 1997, Litex were promoted for a second time to the First Division and immediately became Bulgarian champions, finishing the season 5 points ahead of the second-placed Levski Sofia. This was unprecedented in Bulgarian football history. The striker of the team Dimcho Belyakov became top goalscorer with his 21 goals during the season. Midfielder Stoycho Stoilov received the Best League Player award. The club's first participation in European club tournaments was also promising, with Litex eliminating the Swedish Halmstads BK (2:0 and 1:2) and reaching the second qualifying round (but being knocked out by Spartak Moscow). The team won the Bulgarian Championship for the second successive time a year later.

Litex Lovech have also won the Bulgarian Cup twice — 2001 (beating the team of Velbazhd Kyustendil 1:0 in the final match after extra time) and 2004 (a win over CSKA after 2:2 in the regular time and a penalty shootout).

Litex is also the team which inflicted the biggest defeat on CSKA Sofia — 8:0 in Lovech in the autumn of 1998. The club is honoured as the first Bulgarian team to win against a German team in Germany — 2:0 over Union Berlin in the Second Round of the UEFA Cup in October 2001.

The biggest win in Europe so far is 7:0 over NK Željezničar in Lovech in August 2004.

In early August 2007, Litex signed a three-year sponsorship and advertising contract with Bulgarian mobile operator GLOBUL and started the 2007/2008 season with the logo of the mobile service i-mode on their jerseys. In December 2007, Litex was the first Bulgarian club to have branded mobile phone game- Litex Football.

[edit] Stadium

Lovech Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Lovech, Bulgaria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of PFC Litex Lovech.Built in 1962, and after a total reconstruction in 1999, it gained permission to stage international matches (with only 4 other Bulgarian stadiums in the list) It has around 7 000 seats and electric lighting. The field measures 110x82 meters.The most visited match has been the one versus Levski (Sofia) in 22.10.1998 - 12 500 spectators.

[edit] Current lineup

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12. TODOROV
33. BERBEROVIC
21. CAMBON
4. CICHERO
5. VENKOV
8. TOM
17. BOUDARENE
23. JELENKOVIC
16. MANOLEV
11. BETO
32. Iv. POPOV
Litex Lovech'2007

As of June 2007

No. Position Player
1 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg GK Ilia Nikolov
2 Image:Flag of Macedonia.svg DF Robert Popov
3 Image:Flag of France.svg DF Cédric Cambon
4 Image:Flag of Venezuela.svg DF Alejandro Cichero
5 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg DF Mihail Venkov
6 Image:Flag of France.svg DF Cédric Uras
7 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg MF Stanislav Genchev
8 Image:Flag of Brazil.svg MF Tom
10 Image:Flag of Brazil.svg MF Sandrinho
11 Image:Flag of Brazil.svg FW Beto
12 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg GK Todor Todorov
16 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg MF Stanislav Manolev
No. Position Player
17 Image:Flag of France.svg MF Fabien Boudarène
18 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg FW Krum Bibishkov
20 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg DF Ivan Bandalovski
21 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg FW Zoran Janković
22 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg DF Plamen Nikolov
23 Image:Flag of Serbia.svg MF Nebojša Jelenković
24 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg MF Petar Zlatinov
26 Image:Flag of Brazil.svg MF Dudu
30 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg GK Evgeni Aleksandrov
32 Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg MF Ivelin Popov
33 Image:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg DF Džemal Berberović

[edit] Squad changes 2007/08 season

In:

Out:

[edit] Greatest team

  1. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Vitomir Vutov
  2. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Radostin Kishishev
  3. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Rosen Kirilov
  4. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Ivaylo Petkov
  5. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Zhivko Zhelev
  6. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Stefan Yurukov
  7. Image:Flag of Serbia.svg Nebojša Jelenković
  8. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Marian Todorov
  9. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Dimcho Belyakov
  10. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Zoran Jankovic
  11. Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Svetoslav Todorov

[edit] Achievements

[edit] Notable players

   

[edit] External links

Belasitsa Petrich | Beroe | Botev Plovdiv | Cherno More Varna | Chernomorets 919 Burgas | CSKA Sofia | Levski Sofia | Litex Lovech | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | Lokomotiv Sofia | Marek Dupnitsa | Pirin Blagoevgrad | Slavia Sofia | Spartak Varna | Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo | Vihren Sandanski

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