FC Chernomorets Balchik

Chernomorets

Full name	FC Chernomorets Balchik
Founded	1918 (1918)
Ground	Balchik Stadium
Ground Capacity	3,200
Manager	Georgi Ivanov
League	B Group
2015–16	V Group, 1st /promoted/
Home colours Away colours

FC Chernomorets Balchik is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Balchik, currently playing in the North-Eastern V Group, the third division of Bulgarian football. The team plays its home games at the local Balchik Stadium with 3,200 seats.

History

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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 his history Chernomorets plays mainly in 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 his 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The club has withdrawn from B PFG in February 2011 for a big finance debt.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. In 2015–16 season, the team finished first and won promotion to the B Group after five years absence.

Honours

• Eighth place in the East "B" group: 2009/10
• 1\16 finalist 5 times in the tournament for the National Cup: once for the Cup of the Soviet Army - 1977/78 three times, and the Cup of Bulgaria - 2002/03, 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010 / '11

Current squad

As of 1 March 2016 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 22 GK Konstantinos Havales 1 GK Georgi Stavrev 18 DF Sevdalin Staykov 20 DF Nikolay Ivanov 12 DF Genadi Lugo DF Lyubomir Koev 10 DF Yavor Kolev (captain) 21 DF Miroslav Nachev 71 MF Stanislav Zhelyazkov

No. Position Player 69 MF Petko Tsankov MF Nikolay Arnaudov 13 MF Ahmed Hikmet MF Karen Madoyan 23 MF Beadir Beadirov 11 MF Viktor Mitev 7 MF Ivaylo Lazarov 14 MF Valentin Veselinov 9 FW Vasil Tachev

External links

• Chernomorets Balchik at bgclubs.eu