1961–62 A Group

The 1961–62 A Group was the 14th season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

A Group

Season	1961–62
Champions	CSKA Sofia (12th title)
Relegated	Minyor Marek
European Cup	CSKA Sofia
Matches played	182
Goals scored	519 (2.85 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nikola Yordanov (23 goals)
← 1960–61 1962–63 →

Overview

It was contested by 14 teams, and CSKA Sofia won the championship.^[1]

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Sofia (C)	26	18	5	3	60	25	+35	41	Qualification for European Cup preliminary round
2	Spartak Plovdiv	26	13	9	4	55	35	+20	35
3	Levski Sofia	26	12	6	8	46	37	+9	30
4	Botev Plovdiv	26	8	11	7	43	38	+5	27	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round
5	Slavia Sofia	26	10	7	9	45	40	+5	27
6	Cherno More Varna	26	9	9	8	29	30	−1	27
7	Lokomotiv Sofia	26	8	10	8	39	39	0	26
8	Spartak Pleven	26	11	4	11	33	40	−7	26
9	Beroe Stara Zagora	26	10	5	11	30	40	−10	25
10	Dunav Ruse	26	8	8	10	40	40	0	24
11	Spartak Varna	26	7	9	10	33	31	+2	23
12	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	26	7	7	12	24	35	−11	21
13	Minyor Pernik (R)	26	4	10	12	18	39	−21	18	Relegation to 1962–63 B Group
14	Marek Dupnitsa (R)	26	5	4	17	24	50	−26	14

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BSZ	BPD	CHM	CSK	DUN	LEV	LPL	LSO	MAR	MIN	SLA	SPL	SPD	SPV
Beroe Stara Zagora		2–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	4–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	3–2
Botev Plovdiv	1–0		0–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	4–2	2–0	1–3	1–1	3–1
Cherno More	3–0	1–1		0–2	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	0–0
CSKA Sofia	3–0	3–1	1–0		1–0	1–1	2–1	5–1	3–1	3–0	2–0	7–1	4–1	0–1
Dunav Ruse	4–1	2–2	4–2	2–2		1–2	1–0	1–0	4–1	1–2	2–3	5–1	1–1	2–2
Levski Sofia	2–2	1–6	6–0	6–3	4–0		4–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–2	3–3	1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–3	1–1	2–0		2–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–1
Lokomotiv Sofia	3–0	3–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1		6–1	1–0	3–1	2–1	4–4	2–0
Marek Dupnitsa	1–0	2–2	0–1	0–2	0–1	3–0	3–2	3–1		2–2	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–0
Minyor Pernik	3–2	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–0		1–0	1–1	0–1	0–0
Slavia Sofia	6–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	1–3	3–3	1–0	3–1	4–1	4–1		5–1	0–0	1–0
Spartak Pleven	0–0	3–0	2–0	1–3	1–0	2–1	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1		1–0	1–0
Spartak Plovdiv	2–1	4–4	2–4	2–0	4–3	1–0	4–0	4–0	3–0	6–0	1–1	4–3		4–3
Spartak Varna	5–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–3	3–1	0–0	6–1	1–0	0–1

Source: A PFG (in Bulgarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Champions

CSKA Sofia

Goalkeepers
Georgi Naydenov	21	0(0)
Hristo Andonov	04	0(0)
Petar Petrov	04	0(0)

Defenders
Nikola Kovachev	25	0(4)
Stoyan Koshev	10	0(0)
Ivan Zdravkov	03	0(0)
Kiril Rakarov	20	0(2)
Manol Manolov	10	0(0)
Boris Gaganelov	23	0(0)

Midfielders
Boris Stankov	08	0(1)
Georgi Zlatkov	10	0(1)
Panteley Dimitrov	26	0(2)
Vasil Romanov	10	0(2)
Georgi Georgiev	04	0(0)

Forwards
Ivan Kolev	26	0(6)
Ivan Rankov	23	0(7)
Nikola Tsanev	22	(13)
Hristo Dzhordzhilov	01	0(1)
Dimitar Yakimov	25	(15)
Panayot Panayotov	24	0(2)
Anton Krastev	08	0(3)

Manager
	Krum Milev

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Nikola Yordanov	Dunav Ruse	23
2	Todor Diev	Spartak Plovdiv	19
	Aleksandar Vasilev	Slavia Sofia
4	Hristo Dishkov	Spartak Plovdiv	16
5	Dimitar Yakimov	CSKA Sofia	15

References

1. "Сериалът „Къде е Гунди" лишава Аспарухов от титла с ЦСКА" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 10 November 2012.

External links

• Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)
• 1961–62 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com