The 2008–09 A Group was the 85th season of the Bulgarian national top football division, and the 61st of A Group as the top tier football league in the country. It began on 9 August 2008 and ended on 13 June 2009. CSKA Sofia were the defending champions, but they were unable to retain it and Levski Sofia won the title, which was their 26th overall.
Three teams were promoted from the 2007–08 B Group. These include the champions of the East and West B Groups, as well as the promotion playoff winner, decided through a one match between the runners-up of the two B Groups. The promoted teams were Lokomotiv Mezdra, Sliven, and Minyor Pernik. Lokomotiv Mezdra made their debut in the top tier of Bulgarian football, Sliven return after a fifteen-year absence, while Minyor Pernik return to the top tier after a seven-year absence. The promoted teams replaced Marek Dupnitsa, Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo and Beroe Stara Zagora, who were relegated after respective top flight spells of seven, one, and four years in the A Group.
1. Saidhodzha scored 7 goals for Botev Plovdiv and 7 for CSKA Sofia (he was transferred during the winter break) 2. Fernández scored 4 goals for Cherno More Varna and 5 for Chernomorets Burgas (he was transferred during the winter break)
Annual awardsedit
Team of the seasonedit
The team have been voted by selected media representatives (Note: First team members are denoted in bold).[1]
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External linksedit
2008–09 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com
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The 2008 09 A Group was the 85th season of the Bulgarian national top football division and the 61st of A Group as the top tier football league in the country It began on 9 August 2008 and ended on 13 June 2009 CSKA Sofia were the defending champions but they were unable to retain it and Levski Sofia won the title which was their 26th overall A GroupSeason2008 09Dates9 August 2008 13 June 2009ChampionsLevski Sofia 26th title RelegatedVihrenSpartakBelasitsaChampions LeagueLevskiEuropa LeagueCSKACherno MoreLitex via domestic cup Matches played240Goals scored619 2 58 per match Top goalscorerMartin Kamburov 17 goals Biggest home winCherno More 6 0 BelasitsaLevski 6 0 BotevBiggest away winBelasitsa 1 7 LevskiHighest scoringVihren 3 5 ChernomoretsBelasitsa 1 7 Levski 2007 082009 10 Contents 1 Promotion and relegation 2 Team overview 3 League table 4 Results 5 Champions 6 Top scorers 7 Annual awards 7 1 Team of the season 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksPromotion and relegation editThree teams were promoted from the 2007 08 B Group These include the champions of the East and West B Groups as well as the promotion playoff winner decided through a one match between the runners up of the two B Groups The promoted teams were Lokomotiv Mezdra Sliven and Minyor Pernik Lokomotiv Mezdra made their debut in the top tier of Bulgarian football Sliven return after a fifteen year absence while Minyor Pernik return to the top tier after a seven year absence The promoted teams replaced Marek Dupnitsa Vidima Rakovski Sevlievo and Beroe Stara Zagora who were relegated after respective top flight spells of seven one and four years in the A Group Teams promoted from B PFG after the 2007 08 season West group champions Lokomotiv Mezdra East group champions OFC Sliven Play offs Minyor Pernik Teams relegated to B PFG after the 2007 08 season Vidima Rakovski Sevlievo Marek Dupnitsa Beroe Stara ZagoraTeam overview edit nbsp nbsp Sofia nbsp BotevLoko Pd nbsp Cherno MoreSpartak nbsp Belasitsa nbsp Chernomorets nbsp Litex nbsp Loko Mz nbsp Minyor nbsp Pirin nbsp Sliven nbsp Vihrenclass notpageimage Location of teams in 2008 09 A Group nbsp nbsp CSKA nbsp Levski nbsp Lokomotiv nbsp Slaviaclass notpageimage Sofia 2008 09 A Group football clubs Club Location Manager Venue Capacity Belasitsa Petrich nbsp Miroslav Mitev Tsar Samuil Stadium 9 500 Botev Plovdiv nbsp Kostadin Angelov Hristo Botev Stadium Plovdiv 22 000 Cherno More Varna nbsp Nikola Spasov Ticha Stadium 8 250 Chernomorets Burgas nbsp Dimitar Dimitrov Naftex Stadium 18 037 CSKA Sofia nbsp Luboslav Penev Balgarska Armiya Stadium 22 015 Levski Sofia nbsp Emil Velev Georgi Asparuhov Stadium 29 800 Litex Lovech nbsp Stanimir Stoilov Lovech Stadium 7 000 Lokomotiv Mezdra Mezdra nbsp Georgi Bachev Lokomotiv Stadium Mezdra 5 000 Lokomotiv Plovdiv Plovdiv nbsp Ayan Sadakov Lokomotiv Stadium Plovdiv 13 800 Lokomotiv Sofia Sofia nbsp Dragomir Okuka Lokomotiv Stadium Sofia 22 000 Minyor Pernik nbsp Dimitar Aleksiev Minyor Stadium 16 500 OFC Sliven Sliven nbsp Georgi Dermendzhiev Hadzhi Dimitar Stadium 10 000 Pirin Blagoevgrad nbsp Petar Tsvetkov Hristo Botev Stadium Blagoevgrad 7 500 Slavia Sofia nbsp Stevica Kuzmanovski Ovcha Kupel Stadium 18 000 Spartak Varna nbsp Dragoljub Simonovic Spartak Stadium 8 000 Vihren Sandanski nbsp Filip Filipov Sandanski Stadium 6 000League table editPos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation 1 Levski Sofia C 30 21 6 3 57 18 39 69 Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round 2 CSKA Sofia 30 21 5 4 54 22 32 68 Qualification for Europa League third qualifying round 3 Cherno More 30 18 6 6 48 19 29 60 Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round 4 Litex Lovech 30 17 7 6 53 26 27 58 Qualification for Europa League play off round a 5 Lokomotiv Sofia 30 16 6 8 52 29 23 54 6 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 30 12 7 11 40 43 3 43 b 7 Chernomorets Burgas 30 11 10 9 41 37 4 43 b 8 Lokomotiv Mezdra 30 10 7 13 39 41 2 37 c 9 Slavia Sofia 30 11 4 15 41 38 3 37 c 10 Pirin Blagoevgrad 30 10 5 15 35 50 15 35 d 11 Minyor Pernik 30 9 8 13 24 39 15 35 d 12 Sliven 30 8 8 14 32 40 8 32 13 Botev Plovdiv 30 8 6 16 31 50 19 30 14 Vihren R 30 8 2 20 29 50 21 26 Relegation to 2009 10 B Group 15 Spartak Varna R 30 5 10 15 19 46 27 25 16 Belasitsa Petrich R 30 4 5 21 24 71 47 17Source A PFG in Bulgarian Rules for classification 1st points 2nd head to head points 3rd head to head goal difference 4th head to head goals scored 5th head to head away goals scored 6th goal difference 7th goals scored C Champions R RelegatedNotes Litex Lovech won the 2008 09 Bulgarian Cup and qualified for the play off round of the UEFA Europa League a b Lokomotiv Plovdiv ahead of Chernomorets Burgas on head to head record Chernomorets Burgas Lokomotiv Plovdiv 1 3 Lokomotiv Plovdiv Chernomorets Burgas 1 1 a b Lokomotiv Mezdra ahead of Slavia Sofia on head to head record Slavia Sofia Lokomotiv Mezdra 0 0 Lokomotiv Mezdra Slavia Sofia 1 0 a b Montana ahead of Slavia Sofia on head to head record Minyor Pernik Pirin Blagoevgrad 0 0 Pirin Blagoevgrad Minyor Pernik 1 0 Results editHome Away BEL BOT CHM CHB CSK LEV LIT LME LPL LSO MIN OFC PIR SLA SPV VIH Belasitsa Petrich 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 3 1 7 1 1 1 3 1 2 2 4 0 0 2 1 1 4 2 5 0 0 1 2 Botev Plovdiv 5 0 2 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 3 1 2 2 0 4 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 1 1 0 3 1 Cherno More 6 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 5 0 2 0 Chernomorets Burgas 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 0 1 3 CSKA Sofia 1 0 2 1 1 1 2 1 0 2 2 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 1 2 1 3 0 2 0 Levski Sofia 2 0 6 0 3 0 3 1 1 1 2 0 3 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 5 0 3 2 Litex Lovech 4 1 5 1 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 3 0 2 1 2 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 Lokomotiv Mezdra 3 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 2 2 0 1 2 4 1 1 4 0 3 1 2 0 4 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 2 3 1 3 0 2 3 2 1 0 2 1 3 2 2 1 2 1 0 1 Lokomotiv Sofia 3 1 2 0 3 2 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 5 1 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 2 0 Minyor Pernik 0 3 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 1 3 2 OFC Sliven 0 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 Pirin Blagoevgrad 2 0 0 3 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 4 1 0 3 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 Slavia Sofia 3 0 4 0 0 2 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 2 0 2 2 1 1 3 1 2 3 1 2 2 0 Spartak Varna 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 4 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 2 0 1 2 1 1 Vihren 4 1 0 0 0 2 3 5 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 3 1 2 2 0 Source A PFG in Bulgarian Legend Blue home team win Yellow draw Red away team win Champions editLevski Sofia Goalkeepers 0 1 nbsp Georgi Petkov 17 0 0 12 nbsp Bozhidar Mitrev 0 7 0 0 29 nbsp Daniel Kiss 0 3 0 0 31 nbsp Tsvetan Dimitrov 0 3 0 0 Defenders 0 2 nbsp Viktor Genev 14 0 0 0 3 nbsp Zhivko Milanov 23 0 2 0 5 nbsp Youssef Rabeh 22 0 0 14 nbsp Veselin Minev 18 0 0 15 nbsp Chakib Benzoukane 0 3 0 0 20 nbsp David Bystron 19 0 2 25 nbsp Lucio Wagner 16 0 0 26 nbsp Martin Dimov 0 1 0 0 33 nbsp Stefan Stanchev 0 1 0 0 34 nbsp Dimitar Dimitrov 0 1 0 0 37 nbsp Simeon Ivanov 0 1 0 0 55 nbsp Yordan Miliev 0 4 0 0 Midfielders 0 4 nbsp Georgi Chakarov 0 2 0 0 0 6 nbsp Rachid Tiberkanine 14 0 3 0 8 nbsp Georgi Sarmov 21 0 2 16 nbsp Mariyan Ognyanov 0 1 0 0 17 nbsp Georgi Nedyalkov 0 1 0 1 18 nbsp Miroslav Ivanov 20 0 0 20 nbsp Joaozinho 19 0 4 21 nbsp Ze Soares 25 0 3 22 nbsp Darko Tasevski 23 0 6 24 nbsp Nikolay Dimitrov 17 0 1 30 nbsp Lachezar Baltanov 15 0 0 45 nbsp Vladimir Gadzhev 23 0 1 70 nbsp Filipe da Costa 0 8 0 0 nbsp Boyan Iliev 0 2 0 0 Forwards 0 7 nbsp Jean Carlos 0 4 0 1 0 9 nbsp Georgi Ivanov 23 12 10 nbsp Hristo Yovov 11 0 4 11 nbsp Georgi Hristov 25 11 19 nbsp Ivan Tsachev 0 9 0 4 27 nbsp Enyo Krastovchev 0 3 0 0 32 nbsp Boyan Tabakov 0 1 0 0 Manager nbsp Emil Velev Iliev and Jean Carlos left the club during a season Top scorers editRank Scorer Club Goals 1 nbsp Martin Kamburov Lokomotiv Sofia 17 2 nbsp Dormushali Saidhodzha CSKA Sofia1 14 3 nbsp Georgi Ivanov Levski Sofia 12 4 nbsp Yordan Yurukov Cherno More Varna 11 nbsp Georgi Hristov Levski Sofia 6 nbsp Zoran Baldovaliev Lokomotiv Sofia 10 nbsp Pavle Delibasic Lokomotiv Plovdiv nbsp Michel Platini Chernomorets Burgas 9 nbsp Krum Bibishkov Litex Lovech 9 nbsp Adrian Fernandez Chernomorets Burgas2 nbsp Miroslav Manolov Cherno More Varna nbsp Sasa Simonovic Lokomotiv Mezdra nbsp Ivan Stoyanov Sliven nbsp Yordan Todorov CSKA Sofia 1 Saidhodzha scored 7 goals for Botev Plovdiv and 7 for CSKA Sofia he was transferred during the winter break 2 Fernandez scored 4 goals for Cherno More Varna and 5 for Chernomorets Burgas he was transferred during the winter break Annual awards editTeam of the season edit The team have been voted by selected media representatives Note First team members are denoted in bold 1 nbsp PetkovI IvanovManolevMinevRabehYanchevAlexJoaozinhoTonevKamburovG IvanovA PFG Team of the season first squad Position Name Club Goalkeepers Kiril Akalski Lokomotiv Plovdiv Georgi Petkov Levski Defenders Tanko Dyakov Cherno More Ivan Ivanov CSKA Stanislav Manolev Litex Zhivko Milanov Levski Veselin Minev Levski Youssef Rabeh Levski Midfielders Alex Cherno More Joaozinho Levski Dani Kiki Lokomotiv Plovdiv Aleksandar Tonev CSKA Todor Yanchev CSKA Kosta Yanev Sliven Forwards Spas Delev Pirin Georgi Ivanov Levski Martin Kamburov Lokomotiv Sofia Ivelin Popov Litex Head coach Emil Velev LevskiSee also edit2008 09 B GroupReferences edit Vizhte idealniya otbor na sezona v A grupa petima ot Levski sreshu trima ot CSKA in Bulgarian sportal bg 14 June 2009 Archived from the original on 14 September 2016 Retrieved 14 June 2009 External links edit2008 09 Statistics of A Group at a pfg com Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2008 09 A Group amp oldid 1202561744, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,