FC Chernomorets Balchik

Chernomorets (Bulgarian: Черноморец) is a Bulgarian football club based in Balchik, that competes in the Second League, the second tier of Bulgarian football. The team plays its home games at the local Balchik Stadium with 3,200 seats.

FC Chernomorets Balchik

Full name	Football Club Chernomorets Balchik
Founded	1918 (1918)
Ground	Balchik Stadium
Capacity	2,618
Head coach	Boyko Kamenov
League	Second League
2019–20	Second League, 14th (disqualified)
Home colours Away colours

History

Balchik Stadium

Chernomorets were founded as Sport Club Strela in late 1918 by English and Italian soldiers after World War I. The team finally became known as Chernomorets in 1957.

In its history, Chernomorets plays mainly in the Bulgarian amateurs divisions. Until the 1976/77 season, the team participated in either the third Bulgarian division, but gained a promotion to the B Group for the 1977/78 season. The next season was not so successful and the team was relegated back to the third division (The club finishing on 17th place in the group).

Chernomorets qualified for second time in its history for the second division by finishing on 3rd place in North-Eastern V Group in the 2007-08 season. In this period in the club worked as an assistant coach former famous football player Iliyan Kiryakov.

The club has withdrawn from B PFG in February 2011 for a big finance debt.

Between 9 November 2014 and 27 March 2016, Chernomorets won 37 consecutive games in the third division.[1] In the 2015–16 season, the team finished first and won promotion to the B Group after five years absence, but on 12 June 2016, they announced that will stay in V Group and won't compete in the professional tier due to financial reasons.[2]

Honours

• Second League
  • 7th place: 2018–19
• Third League
  • Winners (2): 2015–16, 2016–17
• Bulgarian Cup
  • Round of 16 (1): 2018–19
• Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League
  • Winners (1): 2016–17
  • Runners-up (1): 2015–16

Players

Current squad

As of 1 February 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BUL Hristiyan Hristov 2 DF  BUL Todor Taushanov 3 DF  BUL Daniel Georgiev 6 MF  BUL Aleksandar Stefanov 7 MF  BUL Aleksandar Popov 8 MF  BUL Georgi Georgiev 10 MF  BUL Tsvetan Iliev 11 MF  BUL Viktor Mitev 12 DF  BUL Genadi Lugo (captain) 13 DF  BUL Trayan Trayanov 14 MF  BUL Lyuben Lyubenov

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  BUL Yunuz Yunuz 18 MF  BUL Ivan Mihaylov 20 DF  BUL Nikolay Ivanov 21 DF  BUL Miroslav Nachev 23 MF  BUL Doni Donchev 24 FW  BUL Vladislav Mirchev 27 GK  BUL Hristo Kovachev 30 GK  BUL Veselin Dobrev 38 MF  BUL Stanislav Zhelyazkov 77 FW  BUL Georgi Stoyanov

For recent transfers, see Transfers summer 2019 and Transfers winter 2019–20.

Past seasons

League positions

Season	League	Place	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Bulgarian Cup
2011–12	V AFG (III)	10	8	7	13	43	34	36	not qualified
2012–13	V AFG	7	11	8	9	37	31	41	not qualified
2013–14	V AFG	13	8	2	20	39	63	26	not qualified
2014–15	V AFG	2	24	4	2	85	14	76	not qualified
2015–16	V AFG	1	24	1	1	79	14	73	First round
2016–17	Third League	1	24	4	0	67	9	76	First round
2017–18	Second League (II)	11	10	9	11	37	40	39	First round
2018–19	Second League	7	10	7	13	27	35	37	Second Round
Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation.

References

1. "Балчик подава молба за влизане в Книгата на Гинес" (in Bulgarian). varnautre.bg. 5 April 2016.
2. Първи отбор се отказа от участие в "Б" група

External links

• Chernomorets Balchik at bgclubs.eu