Bulgaria women's national football team

The Bulgaria women's national football team (Bulgarian: Български женски национален отбор по футбол) represents Bulgaria in international women's football, and is controlled by the Bulgarian Football Union. The team's major success came in 2008 when they won the Balkan Championship and the Albena Cup in the same year. These major tournament victories brought them up to their all-time highest FIFA world ranking of 33rd.

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Bulgaria national football team.

Bulgaria
Nickname(s)Лъвиците (The Lionesses)
AssociationBulgarian Football Union
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Head coachSilviya Radulska
CaptainRadoslava Slavcheva
Home stadiumLovech Stadium
FIFA codeBUL
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 73 6 (18 December 2020)[1]
Highest33 (December 2008)
Lowest79 (July 2019)
First international
 Bulgaria 1–1 Spain 
(Sofia, Bulgaria; 11 October 1987)
Biggest win
 Estonia 0–5 Bulgaria 
(Otopeni, Romania; 18 November 2006)
 Bulgaria 5–0 Luxembourg 
(Ta' Qali, Malta; 5 June 2009)
 Bulgaria 5–0 Georgia 
(Lovech, Bulgaria; 21 November 2009)
Biggest defeat
 France 14–0 Bulgaria 
(Le Mans, France; 28 November 2013)

Home stadium

The Bulgaria women's national team play their home matches on the Lovech Stadium.

Achievements

World Cup record
Year Result
1999Did not qualify
2003Did not enter
2007
2011Did not qualify
2015
2019Did not enter
2023To be determined

UEFA Women's Championship record
Year Result
1989Did not qualify
1991
1993
No Host 1995
1997
2001Did not enter
2005
2009Did not qualify
2013
2017Did not enter
2021

Balkan Cup record
Year Result
2008Champions

Albena Cup record
Year Result
2008Champions

Coaching staff
PositionNameRef.
Head coach Silviya Radulska

Players

Current squad

The following players were called up for a friendly match against Luxembourg on 20 September 2020.[2]

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Viktoriya Ivanova (2001-01-25) 25 January 2001 0 0 Sevlievo Ladies
12 1GK Roksana Shahanska (C) (1992-04-23) 23 April 1992 16 0 NSA
2 2DF Aleksandra Palagacheva (2002-09-02) 2 September 2002 1 0 Lokomotiv Plovdiv
3 2DF Yanitsa Ivanova (2001-01-05) 5 January 2001 1 0 NSA
4 2DF Monika Razhgeva (1992-11-21) 21 November 1992 10 0 NSA
5 2DF Nora Dimitrova (1996-07-26) 26 July 1996 1 0 NSA
13 2DF Yana Dineva (2002-11-08) 8 November 2002 1 0 Unknown
15 2DF Vanesa Stoycheva (2003-02-10) 10 February 2003 1 0 NSA
6 3MF Yoana Papazova (1992-08-13) 13 August 1992 4 0 NSA
7 3MF Simona Petkova (1993-09-03) 3 September 1993 7 0 Lugano
8 3MF Nina Georgieva (1995-07-05) 5 July 1995 1 0 Beroe
10 3MF Ivana Naydenova (2001-12-21) 21 December 2001 2 1 NSA
16 3MF Yana Yordanova (2003-02-20) 20 February 2003 0 0 NSA
17 3MF Valentina Asenova (1991-02-05) 5 February 1991 9 0 NSA
19 3MF Teya Penkova (1999-09-08) 8 September 1999 1 0 NSA
9 4FW Polina Rasina (1999-03-12) 12 March 1999 1 0 Pirin Blagoevgrad
11 4FW Evdokiya Popadiynova (1996-10-26) 26 October 1996 4 1 AaB
14 4FW Dimitra Ivanova (2004-01-26) 26 January 2004 0 0 NSA
21 4FW Yuliana Aleksandrova (1999-02-21) 21 February 1999 2 0 NSA

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up to the Bulgaria squad in the past 12 months.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
GK
DF
MF
FW

Individual records
*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 2020.

Results and fixtures
  • The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixtures

References
  1. "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.


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