FC Chernomorets Balchik

Chernomorets (Bulgarian: Черноморец) is a Bulgarian football club based in Balchik, that competes in the North-East Third League, the third tier of Bulgarian football. The team plays its home games at the local Balchik Stadium with 3,200 seats.

FC Chernomorets Balchik
Full nameFootball Club Chernomorets Balchik
Founded1918 (1918)
GroundBalchik Stadium
Capacity2,618
Head coachBoyko Kamenov
LeagueNorth-East Third League
2019–20Second League, 14th (disqualified)

History

Balchik Stadium

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 (The club finishing on 17th place in the group).

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The club has withdrawn from B PFG in February 2011 for a big finance debt.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.[1] 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.[2]

Honours

Players

Current squad

As of 1 August 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  BUL Pavlin Evtimov
2 DF  BUL Blagovest Gachev
3 MF  BUL Daniel Georgiev
4 DF  BUL Sevdalin Staykov
6 MF  BUL Vladislav Georgiev
7 FW  BUL Kristian Peshkov
10 MF  BUL Valentin Veselinov
11 MF  BUL Nikolay Pantev
12 DF  BUL Genadi Lugo (captain)
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF  BUL Ivan Ivanov
17 MF  GER Arya Hassani-Katehsari
18 FW  BUL Ivaylo Rusev
20 DF  BUL Nikolay Ivanov
21 DF  BUL Miroslav Nachev
23 MF  BUL Danail Dimov
27 GK  BUL Kalin Dyankov
33 MF  BUL Veselin Nikolaev
38 MF  BUL Todor Marinchev

Past seasons

League positions

Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria)Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria)Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria)Bulgarian V AFGBulgarian B Football GroupBulgarian V AFG
Season League Place W D L GF GA Pts Bulgarian Cup
2011–12V AFG (III)108713433436not qualified
2012–13V AFG71189373141not qualified
2013–14V AFG138220396326not qualified
2014–15V AFG22442851476not qualified
2015–16V AFG12411791473First round
2016–17Third League1244067976First round
2017–18Second League (II)1110911374039First round
2018–19Second League710713273537Second Round
Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation.

References

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