FC Sevlievo

The club was founded on 29 December 1922 as SC Rakovski by a group of football enthusiasts of the Аssociation for Tourism in Rositsa. Upon its formation, Ivan Tsochev, Boris Popivanov, and Serafim Ganushev became the president, secretary, and steward respectively. Brothers Sokurov, who played on the team, chose to name it Rakovski in honor of the Bulgarian national hero Georgi Sava Rakovski. They played their first game against Viktoria F.C. from Veliko Tarnovo, ending in a 1:1 draw.

After the reorganization of some of the sports associations in Bulgaria, some voluntary sports organizations arose in Sevlievo. The most popular was DSO Red Flag (Bulgarian: ДСО Червено знаме). In 1957, every voluntary sports organizations union in VSO Rakovski. Two years later Rakovski was admitted into the Bulgarian Third Division. In 1968 the club was promoted for the first time to B PFG, the second division of Bulgarian football.

Plamen Markov led Sevlievo to their first promotion in 2002–03.

In 1980, the club was renamed F.C. Rositsa.

The team became known as PFC Vidima-Rakovski in 1997, after the union between F.C. Rakovski and F.C. Vidima, a little club of the Vidima Standart Ideal works. In the next 1998-99 season, the team won the Cup of Amateur Bulgarian league.

In the 2002-03 season, with Plamen Markov as head coach, promotion to first A Pfor of Vidima-Rakovski. Gerasim Zakov scored the club’s first top league goal in a 3-3 draw against Lokomotiv Sofia. The 2003-04 campaign, remembered as the first A PFG season in the club's history ended in a good 12th place. In the same season, Vidima-Rakovski had their best Bulgarian Cup run, beating Kameno and Belasitsa Petrich before losing to Lokomotiv Sofia in the quarter-finals. In the next campaign, Vidima won just nine games and were relegated.

In 2006-07 season Vidima-Rakovski finished 2nd in B PFG, and managed to participate in the play-off for promotion to the A PFG. On June 2, 2007, Vidima won the play-off against PFC Naftex Burgas with a result of 1-0 and qualified for the first division for the second time in the club's history. However, the next year they were relegated again.

In 2009-10 Vidima won a third promotion to the top division by winning the Western B PFG. They finished at 14th place in A PFG in the next season and secured their top division status via relegation play-off against Sportist Svoge, which they won in a penalty shoot-out.

In the 2011-12 season, they finished 14th in the league, winning only 3 of their 30 matches. As a result, Vidima competed in B PFG in the 2012-2013 season.

The club re-formed as FC Sevlievo on 4 June 2015 after bankruptcy.[1]

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt partner
2015–2017	ASICS	none
2017–	Krasiko	Libra

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 Iliya Kanchev 2 DF  BUL Aleks Georgiev 3 DF  BUL Tihomir Trifonov 5 DF  BUL Georgi Pavlov 6 DF  BUL Atanas Fidanin (captain) 7 MF  BUL Hristiyan Vasilev 8 MF  BUL Nikolay Nikolaev 9 MF  BUL Stiviyan Makaveev 10 FW  BUL Tihomir Kanev 11 FW  BUL Galin Stoyanov 12 GK  BUL Krasi Uzunov

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 MF  BUL Nikolay Banov 14 MF  BUL Iliyan Trifonov 15 MF  BUL Stefan Ivanov 16 GK  BUL Dimitar Pantev 22 MF  BUL Kristiyan Kolev 23 DF  BUL Nikolay Ragin 37 DF  BUL Ivaylo Iliev 83 DF  BUL Ivan Penev 92 DF  BUL Pavlin Ivanov 93 MF  BUL Dobrin Petrov