1969–70 A Group

The 1969–70 A Group was the 22nd season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

A Group

Season	1969–70
Champions	Levski Sofia (11th title)
Relegated	Minyor Beroe
European Cup	Levski
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	Slavia Botev Plovdiv
Matches played	240
Goals scored	647 (2.7 per match)
Top goalscorer	Petar Zhekov (31 goals)
← 1968–69 1970–71 →

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.^[1]

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Levski Sofia (C)	30	23	4	3	67	17	+50	50	Qualification for European Cup preliminary round
2	CSKA Sofia	30	21	5	4	73	29	+44	47	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Slavia Sofia	30	15	8	7	41	31	+10	38	Invitation for Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
4	Botev Plovdiv	30	15	4	11	48	34	+14	34
5	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	14	5	11	53	45	+8	33
6	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	30	12	8	10	42	36	+6	32
7	Cherno More Varna	30	11	7	12	47	34	+13	29
8	Chernomorets Burgas	30	10	9	11	33	41	−8	29
9	Akademik Sofia	30	9	10	11	34	32	+2	28
10	Dunav Ruse	30	9	9	12	28	34	−6	27
11	Marek Dupnitsa	30	12	3	15	41	49	−8	27
12	Spartak Pleven	30	10	7	13	29	53	−24	27
13	Botev Vratsa	30	9	7	14	34	38	−4	25
14	Maritsa Plovdiv	30	10	3	17	34	51	−17	23
15	Beroe Stara Zagora (R)	30	6	4	20	19	64	−45	16	Relegation to 1970–71 B Group
16	Minyor Pernik (R)	30	5	5	20	24	59	−35	15

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

Results

Home \ Away	AKD	BSZ	BPD	BVR	CHM	CHB	CSK	DUN	ETA	LEV	LPL	MAR	MPL	MIN	SLA	SPL
Akademik Sofia		2–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–2	3–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	2–2
Beroe Stara Zagora	0–3^[a]		0–1	2–1	1–0	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–3^[a]	3–1	0–3^[a]	2–2	0–3^[a]	2–1
Botev Plovdiv	2–1	3–0^[a]		2–0	3–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	3–2	1–2	2–1	3–0	5–0
Botev Vratsa	1–1	3–0^[a]	3–1		0–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	4–2	3–1	3–0	1–2	4–1
Cherno More	2–1	3–1	0–1	4–0		2–0	0–1	0–0	3–1	0–1	2–0	4–0	6–1	3–0	4–0	3–0
Chernomorets Burgas	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1		2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–2	1–0	0–2	2–0	0–0	4–1
CSKA Sofia	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	5–1		4–1	3–2	4–2	6–1	2–1	6–1	2–1	2–0	7–0
Dunav Ruse	1–0	3–0^[a]	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–1	0–2		1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–1	1–2	1–1
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	1–1	3–0^[a]	2–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	3–2	1–1		0–2	2–2	5–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1
Levski Sofia	2–1	4–0	2–1	4–0	4–1	4–0	5–2	3–0	2–2		1–0	4–0	1–0	6–0	0–1	1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	2–1	4–0	1–3	1–0	1–1	4–1	3–3	4–1	2–0	1–3		5–2	1–0	4–0	1–2	0–0
Marek Dupnitsa	2–1	3–0^[a]	3–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1		2–0	1–0	0–0	8–0
Maritsa Plovdiv	1–1	1–0	1–3	2–0	3–2	2–2	2–4	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–2		2–0	1–0	2–0
Minyor Pernik	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–3	1–1	2–2	0–5	3–4	3–0	2–0		1–2	0–2
Slavia Sofia	2–3	2–2	5–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–3	1–1	3–0	3–2	1–0	2–1		1–0
Spartak Pleven	0–0	3–0^[a]	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–2	2–1	3–0	1–0	0–0

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

1. As a result of the crowd riots in the match between Beroe Stara Zagora and Levski Sofia, the remaining twelve encounters were rated 0–3 against Beroe.

Champions

Levski Sofia

Goalkeepers
Georgi Kamenski	23	0(0)
Biser Mihaylov	08	0(0)

Defenders
Ivan Zdravkov	01	0(0)
Kiril Ivkov	27	0(0)
Georgi Todorov	05	0(0)
Dobromir Zhechev	23	0(2)
Stefan Aladzhov	29	0(0)
Stoichko Peshev	17	0(2)
Milko Gaydarski	27	0(0)

Midfielders
Stefan Pavlov	19	0(1)
Petar Kirilov	14	0(1)
Yanko Kirilov	29	0(4)
Tsvetan Veselinov	18	(10)
Ivan Stoyanov	11	0(0)
Vasil Mitkov	26	(12)

Forwards
Nikola Kotkov	24	(14)
Pavel Panov	23	0(8)
Georgi Asparuhov	24	(12)
Aleksandar Kostov	19	0(1)
Slavcho Stoilov	02	0(0)

Manager
	Rudolf Vytlačil

Top scorers

 

Petar Zhekov - top scorer of the 1969–70 season

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Petar Zhekov	CSKA Sofia	31
2	Hristo Bonev	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	20
3	Dinko Dermendzhiev	Botev Plovdiv	18
	Stefan Bogomilov	Cherno More Varna
5	Dimitar Tsekov	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	16
6	Dimitar Yakimov	CSKA Sofia	14
	Nikola Kotkov	Levski Sofia
8	Georgi Asparuhov	Levski Sofia	12
	Vasil Mitkov	Levski Sofia
10	Georgi Lukanov	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	11
	Mladen Vasilev	Akademik Sofia
	Kiril Milanov	Marek Dupnitsa
	Georgi Kamenov	Botev Vratsa

References

1. "Стара Загора на крачка от бунт заради гавра с Берое" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 5 January 2013.

External links

• Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)
• 1969–70 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com