1974–75 A Group

A Group
Season	1974–75
Champions	CSKA Sofia; (18th title)
Relegated	Etar; Yantra;
European Cup	CSKA
UEFA Cup	Levski; Dunav;
Matches played	240
Goals scored	675 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ivan Pritargov; (20 goals)
	← 1973–74 1975–76 →

The 1974–75 A Group was the 27th season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

Overview

It was contested by 16 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)	30	15	9	6	52	32	+20	39	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Levski Sofia	30	15	8	7	54	30	+24	38	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Slavia Sofia	30	15	6	9	56	35	+21	36	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
4	Dunav Ruse	30	15	5	10	41	28	+13	35	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5	Akademik Sofia	30	14	7	9	39	33	+6	35
6	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	12	9	9	49	44	+5	33
7	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	12	7	11	53	43	+10	31
8	Sliven	30	10	10	10	42	45	−3	30
9	Spartak Pleven	30	9	10	11	34	45	−11	28
10	Botev Plovdiv	30	12	4	14	41	55	−14	28
11	Botev Vratsa	30	9	9	12	46	49	−3	27
12	Pirin Blagoevgrad	30	11	5	14	31	42	−11	27
13	Minyor Pernik	30	11	4	15	36	45	−9	26
14	Cherno More Varna	30	9	8	13	28	43	−15	26
15	Etar Veliko Tarnovo (R)	30	8	5	17	43	56	−13	21	Relegation to 1975–76 B Group
16	Yantra Gabrovo (R)	30	7	6	17	30	50	−20	20	Relegation to 1975–76 B Group

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

Results

Home \ Away	AKD	BPD	BVR	CHM	CSK	DUN	ETA	LEV	LPL	LSO	MIN	PIR	SLA	SLI	SPL	YAN
Akademik Sofia		3–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	4–0	0–1	0–3	1–2	1–0	3–0
Botev Plovdiv	0–1		0–0	3–0	1–0	2–3	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	3–3	4–1	1–0
Botev Vratsa	4–2	2–3		2–2	1–1	0–1	3–2	3–2	3–0	4–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	4–1	3–1
Cherno More	1–0	1–1	1–0		1–0	0–1	1–0	0–2	2–3	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–0
CSKA Sofia	0–0	4–1	1–0	3–1		2–0	3–2	1–0	2–2	1–2	2–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	5–3
Dunav Ruse	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–1	1–0		3–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	4–1	2–0
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	1–1	4–1	1–1	4–2	2–2	1–2		0–4	2–0	1–1	1–0	4–1	0–2	2–1	2–0	3–2
Levski Sofia	2–0	2–2	0–0	3–1	1–2	4–2	2–0		2–0	2–1	4–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	3–2	4–1
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	2–2	7–3	4–3	2–2	2–1	2–1	3–2	2–1		1–1	5–0	2–0	1–3	3–2	0–0	4–1
Lokomotiv Sofia	1–2	2–1	3–2	2–0	3–3	1–1	2–1	1–3	1–0		3–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	6–0
Minyor Pernik	2–0	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	3–1		4–1	0–0	5–1	2–0	0–1
Pirin Blagoevgrad	1–3	4–1	2–0	4–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–0		1–0	4–0	0–0	0–2
Slavia Sofia	5–1	3–1	5–0	1–0	1–3	1–3	5–1	2–1	2–0	2–5	4–1	4–0		2–1	2–3	2–0
Sliven	0–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	5–4	2–0	3–0	1–1		3–1	2–0
Spartak Pleven	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	3–3	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1		2–1
Yantra Gabrovo	0–1	5–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–4	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1

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

Champions

CSKA Sofia

Goalkeepers
Stoyan Yordanov	15	0(0)
Yordan Filipov	18	0(0)

Defenders
Kiril Stankov	19	0(0)
Dimitar Penev	28	0(2)
Ivan Zafirov	20	0(0)
Todor Simov	03	0(0)
Kiril Lyubomirov	05	0(0)
Bozhil Kolev	28	(12)
Stefan Velichkov	22	0(1)
Tsonyo Vasilev	24	0(0)

Midfielders
Borislav Sredkov	19	0(1)
Asparuh Nikodimov	21	0(2)
Plamen Yankov	24	0(0)
Georgi Denev	23	(10)
Tsvetan Atanasov	14	0(1)
Stoil Trankov	03	0(0)
Kevork Tahmisyan	15	0(1)
Angel Slavov	09	0(0)
Ivan Metodiev	06	0(0)

Forwards
Petar Zhekov	05	0(3)
Stefan Mihaylov	28	0(9)
Dimitar Marashliev	21	0(7)
Yordan Hristov	12	0(1)

Manager
	Manol Manolov

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Ivan Pritargov	Botev Plovdiv	20
2	Nikola Hristov	Dunav Ruse	15
3	Andrey Zhelyazkov	Slavia Sofia	14
3	Hristo Bonev	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	14
5	Pavel Panov	Levski Sofia	13
5	Stefan Bogomilov	Cherno More Varna	13
7	Bozhil Kolev	CSKA Sofia	12
	Chavdar Tsvetkov	Slavia Sofia
	Mehmed Osmanov	Sliven
	Stoyan Kotsev	Etar Veliko Tarnovo

References

^ "7 лидери, 7:3 и челна стойка, накрая игра на нерви пред 60 000" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 9 February 2013.

External links

Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)
1974–75 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com

v t e Bulgarian football championship seasons
State Championship (National Football Division)	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1941 1942 1943 1944
Republic Championship	1945 1946 1947 1948
A Group	1948–49 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
First League	2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25

v t e 1974–75 in Bulgarian football
Domestic leagues	A Group B Group V Group
Domestic cups	Bulgarian Cup (Final)
European competitions	European Cup UEFA Cup Cup Winners' Cup Balkans Cup 1974 1975
Related to national team	UEFA Euro 1976 qualification (Group 8) Stoyan Ormandzhiev
Club seasons
A Group	Akademik Botev Plovdiv Botev Vratsa Cherno More CSKA Dunav FC Etar Levski Lokomotiv Plovdiv Lokomotiv Sofia Minyor Pernik Slavia Sliven Spartak Pleven Pirin Blagoevgrad Yantra
List of transfers

v t e 1974–75 in European football (UEFA)
« 1973–74 1975–76 »
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '74 '75 England Faroe Islands '74 '75 Finland '74 '75 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '74 '75 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '74 '75 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '74 '75 Spain Sweden '74 '75 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '74 '75 Finland '74 '75 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '74 '75 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '74 '75 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia '74
League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final)
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '74 '75

1974–75 A Group

Overview

League standings

Results

Champions

Top scorers

References

External links

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