Enyo Krastovchev

Enyo Krastovchev (Bulgarian: Еньо Кръстовчев; born 7 February 1984) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a striker.

Enyo Krastovchev
Personal information
Full name Enyo Emilov Krastovchev
Date of birth (1984-02-07) 7 February 1984
Place of birth Dupnitsa, Bulgaria
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Playing position(s) Striker
Youth career
Marek Dupnitsa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2008 Marek Dupnitsa 82 (27)
2008–2010 Levski Sofia 28 (11)
2010–2011 AZAL Baku 13 (2)
2011–2012 Inter Baku 15 (1)
2013 Spartak Varna 7 (1)
2013–2018 Marek Dupnitsa 36[2] (7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 May 2015

Career

Marek Dupnitsa

Krastovchev was raised in Marek Dupnitsa's youth teams. He made his official debut in A PFG at 18 years old in 2002. Between 2003 and 2005 Krastovchev played in Bulgaria national under-21 football team. In July 2006 Krastovchev was training with Litex Lovech, but then he decided to return to Dupnitsa. Between 2002 and 2008 the forward had 90 matches and 19 goals for Marek. He returned to his hometown club in 2013 but left in July 2018.[3]

Levski Sofia

He was invited by Levski Sofia to join trial period. which began on 19 February 2008. He played for Levski for 46th in a friendly match against Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo on 20 February 2008. Then on 26 February 2008, he finally joined PFC Levski Sofia.

He made his official debut for Levski on 2 March 2008 against Vihren Sandanski. On the same match he scored his first goal for Levski in the 64th minute. The result of the match was 1:0 with a home win for Levski.

On 9 April 2007 Krastovchev played an awesome match against his ex-team Marek Dupnitsa. Krastovchev scored 4 goals – in 21st, 31st, 37th and 53rd minute. The result of the match was 0:4 with a guest win for Levski. Krastovchev played a full match and was the best player, scoring all goals of the match.

Krastovchev played awesome again at his first Eternal Derby against CSKA Sofia on 10 May 2008. The result of the match was 1:1 with a guest draw for Levski. Krastovchev scored the goal for Levski in the 44th minute. He was injured during a match for Levski in the beginning in the season 2008–2009 and will return either in late March or in the new season.

He became a Champion of Bulgaria in 2009, after a contradictory but great season under the coaching of Emil Velev. Despite the bad results during the autumnal part of the season, after great matches in the spring, Levski Sofia fulfilled the plan before the term had set and became a champion for 26 time, before the last round has been played. Unfortunately, for Krastovchev, he played only three matches during the season because of an injury.

On 15 June 2009, it was announced that Krastovchev will continue his career at PFC Slavia Sofia. Anyway, the transfer did not became a fact, because Krastovchev wanted a higher salary.

All in all, for 2009/2010 season, Krastovchev started training with the second team of the Blues. However, after scoring 2 goals in 1 match for the doubles, on 23 July 2009, Krastovchev returned the first team.

Krastovchev scored his first goal for Levski in 09/10 season on 8 August 2009 against Botev Plovdiv. The result of the match was 5:0 with a home win for Levski.

During 2009/2010 season, the Levski's team started their European campaign with 9:0 (on aggregate) in the second Qualifying round of Champions League against UE Sant Julià. On the next round, Levski Sofia faced FK Baku. The blues eliminated the team from Azerbaijan with 2:0 (on aggregate). In the play-off round Levski was eliminated by Debreceni VSC with 4:1 (on aggregate). However, Levski qualified for UEFA Europa League.

At the beginning same season, Levski had a serious problem with scoring goals, but Krastovchev helped Levski to dissolve it.

Due to Georgi Hristov's bad patch of form over a number of games, Krastovchev gradually managed to establish himself as the first choice forward for Levski Sofia, scoring a number of important goals like in the 3:2 away win against FC Sportist Svoge. On 25 November 2009, he was sent off in the 2:2 home draw with Litex Lovech for a second bookable offense.

In 2009/2010 season, after couple of bad games and results, Levski however achieved qualifying for UEFA Europa League becoming 3rd in the final ranking.

Playing style

Krastovchev is not very fast, but he is also very creative. He plays awesomely with his head. Krastovchev can also play very well when he is not in front of the goal-line. Krastovchev plays with all his heart.

Club career statistics

This statistic includes domestic league, domestic cup and European tournaments.

Season Team Division Apps Goals
2009–10 PFC Levski Sofia 1 11 4
2008–09 PFC Levski Sofia 1 3 0
2007–08 PFC Levski Sofia 1 14 7
2007–08 PFC Marek Dupnitsa 1 14 2
2006–07 PFC Marek Dupnitsa 1 25 6
2005–06 PFC Marek Dupnitsa 1 12 3
2004–05 PFC Marek Dupnitsa 1 9 0
2003–04 PFC Marek Dupnitsa 1 22 7
2002–03 PFC Marek Dupnitsa 1 8 1

Last update: 14 April 2010

Awards
  • Champion of Bulgaria 2009
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References
  1. "Профил на Еньо Кръстовчев" (in Bulgarian). sportal.bg. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  2. Appearances and goals incomplete due to lack of data.
  3. "Еньо Кръстовчев напусна Марек" (in Bulgarian). sportal.bg. 13 July 2018.
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