1992–93 A Group

The 1992–93 A Group was the 45th season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

A Group

Season	1992–93
Dates	8 August 1992 – 5 June 1993
Champions	Levski Sofia (18th title)
Relegated	Haskovo, Sliven
Champions League	Levski Sofia
UEFA Cup	Botev Plovdiv Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Matches played	240
Goals scored	667 (2.78 per match)
Top goalscorer	Plamen Getov (26 goals)
← 1991–92 1993–94 →

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Levski Sofia (C)	30	22	6	2	76	27	+49	50	Qualification for Champions League first round
2	CSKA Sofia	30	17	8	5	66	31	+35	42	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Botev Plovdiv	30	16	6	8	55	33	+22	38	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round^[a]
4	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	16	5	9	57	29	+28	37
5	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	11	13	6	52	39	+13	35
6	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	30	13	9	8	37	36	+1	35
7	Pirin Blagoevgrad	30	13	7	10	33	32	+1	33
8	Chernomorets Burgas	30	11	8	11	33	31	+2	30
9	Lokomotiv G. Oryahovitsa	30	10	9	11	31	37	−6	29
10	Beroe Stara Zagora	30	10	8	12	29	35	−6	28
11	Yantra Gabrovo	30	10	6	14	38	52	−14	26
12	Spartak Varna	30	8	8	14	30	48	−18	24
13	Dobrudzha Dobrich	30	9	4	17	32	57	−25	22
14	Slavia Sofia	30	8	5	17	39	56	−17	21
15	Haskovo (R)	30	6	5	19	32	66	−34	17	Relegation to 1993–94 B Group
16	Sliven (R)	30	6	1	23	27	58	−31	13

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

1. An extra slot for the UEFA Cup was given to Bulgaria following the 1993 Polish football scandal.

Results

Home \ Away	BSZ	BOT	CHB	CSK	DOB	ETA	HAS	LEV	LGO	LPL	LSO	PIR	SLA	SLI	SPV	YAN
Beroe Stara Zagora		0–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	3–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–4	4–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1
Botev Plovdiv	1–1		3–1	4–2	4–2	1–0	3–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	4–2	4–1	2–0	3–1	4–1
Chernomorets Burgas	2–0	1–0		0–0	4–0	0–0	3–1	0–2	2–1	1–3	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–2
CSKA Sofia	2–0	3–1	2–0		5–2	1–1	3–0	2–3	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	4–1	3–0	4–0	6–1
Dobrudzha Dobrich	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–1		3–0	0–0	0–4	0–0	0–2	0–5	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	1–0
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–0		1–0	0–3	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	4–2	1–0	2–2	2–1
Haskovo	0–1	1–3	0–0	1–3	3–1	2–2		2–3	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–3	2–1	4–1	2–0	3–0
Levski Sofia	3–1	1–0	2–0	1–3	4–2	3–1	4–0		2–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	4–3	4–1	4–0	5–0
Lokomotiv G. Oryahovitsa	2–0	3–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	4–1	0–0		1–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–2	6–2	3–1	3–0	1–3	4–0		2–2	0–0	2–0	3–0	6–0	3–1
Lokomotiv Sofia	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–5	2–1	3–0	4–1	2–3	2–1	1–1		4–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–1
Pirin Blagoevgrad	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–0		0–1	2–1	1–0	2–0
Slavia Sofia	2–3	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	0–2	4–1	0–3	0–1	0–3	2–2	1–1		2–1	3–2	4–0
Sliven	2–3	0–2	2–0	1–0	3–1	1–2	5–2	0–4	1–1	1–3	0–2	2–0	0–1		1–2	3–1
Spartak Varna	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–2	2–0		3–1
Yantra Gabrovo	1–1	1–0	2–0	4–4	1–0	0–0	6–1	0–1	3–1	0–2	2–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–0

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

Champions

Levski Sofia

Goalkeepers
Plamen Nikolov	23	0(0)
Zdravko Zdravkov	10	0(0)

Defenders
Valentin Dartilov	28	0(0)
Gosho Ginchev	11	0(0)
Krasimir Koev	17	0(0)
Stoyan Pumpalov	04	0(0)
Petar Hubchev	29	0(1)
Kalin Bankov	01	0(0)
Aleksandar Markov	17	0(0)
Nikolay Iliev	14	0(7)

Midfielders
Daniel Borimirov	29	0(5)
Georgi Slavchev	16	0(1)
Vladko Shalamanov	07	0(0)
Ilian Iliev	25	0(4)
Zlatko Yankov	17	0(5)
Emil Mitsanski	09	0(0)
Georgi Donkov	19	0(4)

Forwards
Valeri Valkov	12	0(0)
Plamen Getov	30	(26)
Lyubomir Nikolov	02	0(0)
Velko Yotov	25	(10)
Nikolay Mitov	07	0(1)
Rumen Stoyanov	05	0(0)
Dimitar Trendafilov	19	0(3)
Nasko Sirakov	12	0(9)

Manager
	Ivan Vutov

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Plamen Getov	Levski Sofia	26
2	Vladimir Stoyanov	Lokomotiv Sofia	21
3	Stefan Draganov	CSKA Sofia	17
	Ayan Sadakov	Lokomotiv Plovdiv
5	Ivaylo Andonov	CSKA Sofia	15
6	Yordan Bozdanski	Pirin Blagoevgrad	12
7	Doncho Donev	Lokomotiv Sofia	10
	Velko Yotov	Levski Sofia
	Petre Grigoraș	Dobrudzha
	Yasen Petrov	Botev Plovdiv
	Vesko Petkov	Beroe

• Source:1992–93 Top Goalscorers

References

• Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)