Bulgaria Squad, Fixtures, Results, Stats and Ratings

Recent Matches

A record of the recent fixtures played by Bulgaria with their matchratings. The matchratings (which displays the performance/form) range from zero to 10 and are calculated via our algorithms.

Comp	Date		Fixture
WCQ	Sep 7, 2025	L	Georgia 3 - 0 Bulgaria
WCQ	Oct 11, 2025	L	Bulgaria 1 - 6 Türkiye
WCQ	Oct 14, 2025	L	Spain 4 - 0 Bulgaria
WCQ	Nov 15, 2025	L	Türkiye 2 - 0 Bulgaria
WCQ	Nov 18, 2025	W	Bulgaria 2 - 1 Georgia

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Squad Season 2026 Canada/Mexico/USA Stats

Below is the Bulgaria first-team squad for the 2026 Canada/Mexico/USA season ranked by position from goalkeeper to strikers. Use the menu to sort the list per statistic including their FC Player Form Ranking.

General information

General
Discipline
Defending
Errors
Disruption
Passing
Creation
Attacking
Decisive
Goalkeeping

NAME	POSITION	AGE	HEIGHT	WEIGHT
Goalkeepers
Goalkeepers
Aleks Bozhev GK	GK	20	175		N/A
Dimitar Evtimov GK	GK	32	190	80	N/A
Dimitar Mitov GK	GK	29	194	80	N/A
Defenders
Defenders
Valentin Antov D (R)	D (R)	25	187	75	N/A
Martin Georgiev D (R)	D (R)	20			N/A
Nikolay Minkov D (R)	D (R)	28	178	68	N/A
Rosen Bozhinov D (LC)	D (LC)	20			N/A
Zhivko Atanasov D (C)	D (C)	34	187	84	N/A
Atanas Chernev D (C)	D (C)	23	191	79	N/A
Kristian Dimitrov D (C)	D (C)	28	191		N/A
Hristiyan Petrov D (CL)	D (CL)	23			N/A
Viktor Popov D, M (R)	D, M (R)	25	179	77	N/A
Stefan Velkov D (CR)	D (CR)	29			N/A
Midfielders
Midfielders
Ilia Gruev DM, M (C)	DM, M (C)	25	185	72	N/A
Ivaylo Chochev M (C), DM (L)	M (C), DM (L)	32	188	78	N/A
Andrian Kraev M, DM (C)	M, DM (C)	26	191	78	N/A
Vasil Panayotov M (C)	M (C)	35	177	73	N/A
Stanislav Shopov M, AM (C)	M, AM (C)	23	179	75	N/A
Kristiyan Stoyanov M (C)	M (C)	22			N/A
Ivan Yordanov M (C)	M (C)	25	170	58	N/A
Kiril Despodov AM (R)	AM (R)	29	179	69	N/A
Zdravko Dimitrov AM (L)	AM (L)	27	180	71	N/A
Stanislav Ivanov AM, W (R)	AM, W (R)	26			N/A
Radoslav Kirilov AM, W (L)	AM, W (L)	33	170	60	N/A
Filip Krastev AM, W (L)	AM, W (L)	24			60
Attackers
Attackers
Marin Petkov W, M (R)	W, M (R)	22	178	69	N/A
Wanderson Viana S (C)	S (C)	31			N/A
Martin Minchev S (C), AM (L)	S (C), AM (L)	24	184		N/A
Vladimir Nikolov S (C)	S (C)	24			N/A
Georgi Rusev ST (C)	ST (C)	27	175	72	N/A

Profile

Nation: Bulgaria
City:
Manager: Aleksandar Dimitrov

Team Colors:
Youngest Player: Martin Georgiev (20)
Oldest Player: Vasil Panayotov (35)

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About Bulgaria

Bulgaria first qualified for the World Cup in 1962 and would also compete in the next three tournaments, although they did not get out of the group stage on any occasion. For the nation’s best performance at the prestigious competition, look to their ‘golden generation’ of the 1990s which included such star players as Hristo Stoichkov, Yordan Lechkov and Krasimir Balakov. At USA 94, they made it to the semi-final stage after defeating defending champions Germany, 2-1 in the quarter-final after Stoichkov and Lechkov both scored to turn around the game after a Lothar Matthaus opener. Their capital city of Sofia saw street parties explode into celebrations following the win, but the journey would end in the last four, as Italy knocked them out with a 2-1 victory. They have only qualified for one subsequent World Cup in 1998. Two years later after their semi-final berth in the World Cup, they could not replicate the success in the European Championship and went out in the group stage, as they did eight years later in 2004. Dimitar Berbatov is their top goalscorer along with Hristo Bonev, while Stiliyan Petrov has the most caps.