PFC Botev Plovdiv
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| Full name | PFC Botev Plovdiv 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Canaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | March 12, 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Hr.Botev (The College), | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 22,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Dimitar Hristolov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Svetoslav Garkov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | TBI A Football Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006-06 | A Grupa, 13th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Botev Plovdiv (Bulgarian: Ботев Пловдив), also known as the Canaries, founded on March 12, 1912, is a Bulgarian football club from the city of Plovdiv.
Botev Plovdiv is the oldest club and one of the most prominent in Bulgaria playing its home matches at Hristo Botev Stadium in the residential quarter of Kamenitza..
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[edit] History
Botev Plovdiv Football Club was founded by students from the Catholic College and the First Male High school. They chose to name it "Botev" in honour of the Bulgarian national hero Hristo Botiov.
The club stadium of Botev Pld, renovated in 1961, is "Stadion Botev". Originally the stadium was named 'The College' due to the fact that in the early 1900's the pitch was owned by the Catholic College and it is still known by this name among the fans.
[edit] Motto
Botev Pld's motto is: Krasota, vjara, borba ("Beauty, faith, fight").
[edit] Honours
- Champions of Bulgaria: 1929, 1967
- National Cup winners: 1962, 1981
- Europe - Quarter-final Cup Winners Cup, 1963
- Balkans Cup winners: 1972
[edit] Colors
Yellow and black - adopted in 1917. There are two versions about how the colors have been chosen.
The first one tells that yellow and black are symbol of the unity between the catholic collegians (yellow) and the orthodox schoolfellows (black). The second one explains that because the founders copied the whole organizational structure from the then very popular Austrian clubs, they took the colors of the Austro-Hungarian imperial flag (also the first club badge was an exact copy of the SK Rapid Wien crest).
[edit] Stadium
In 1959 the authorities allowed the building of a new club stadium at the place of the old field in the neighborhood of “Kamenitza”. The first building works begin on 21 July 1959. Two years later, Botev Plovdiv finally returns to its home - “The College.” On May 14, 1961 the stadium was officially opened. The prime minister at the time – Anton Yugov – attended the celebrations together with the deputy-minister of defense Dobri Dzhurov and most of the influential communist leaders. The celebrations ended with a friendly match against FC Steaua Bucureşti won by the yellow-blacks with 3:0. For more than 30 years there were no big repair works on the College. In 1993, during the presidency of Hristo Danov, some serious repair works were made. The visitors’ changing room was moved to the eastern part of the stadium. A tunnel under the East and the North stand was built in order to connect the visitors’ changing room with the field and the capacity of the stadium was reduced. In 1995 electric lighting was built, but ironically it did not face the standards for playing football in the night. The attendance record was set on February 27, 1963 during the quarter-final of the Cup Winner’s Cup against Atletico Madrid (1:1) – 40 000 people. The record for the Bulgarian championship was set in 1966 against Levski Sofia(0:1) – 37 000 people, but because of the riots between the fans and the rush of fans on the field, Botev Plovdiv was forced to play its derbies at “The Big House” – the City Stadium. Several times the city rivals from Lokomotiv Plovdiv and Spartak Plovdiv have played their home matches at The College. During the spring of 1980 “The Smurfs”(Lokomotiv) played their home matches there (followed by a relegation in Second Division) as well as one match in the Spring of 2004 (when they became Champions for first time). The Gladiators from Spartak used the stadium for several matches during the 1995/1996 season. One final for the National Cup was held at the College in 2000 when Levski Sofia won the cup after 2:0 against Naftex Burgas.
[edit] Current lineup
As of January 2007
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[edit] 2006 Formation
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[edit] Presidents
- Stoyan Puhtev (1912 – 1922)
- Ivan Nikiforov (1922 – 1923)
- Gueorgui Hitrilov (1923 – 1926)
- Hristo Kanchev (1926 – 1944)
- Stoyo Seizov (1944 – 1947)
- Dimitar Ganchev (1947 – 1953)
- Dimitar Vanguelov (1953 – 1960)
- Yovcho Yovchev (1960 – 1964)
- Stanko Stankov (1964 – 1972)
- Kiril Asparuhov (1972 – 13.09.1990)
- Viden Apostolov (13.09.1990 – 01.10.1992)
- Petar Baldzhiev (01.10.1992 – 16.01.1993)
- Hristo Danov (16.01.1993 – 04.01.1995)
- Mihail Markachev (04.01.1995 – 14.10.1996)
- Georgi Chakarov (14.10.1996 – 16.09.1997)
- Petko Muravenov (16.10.1997 – 26.11.1997)
- Vassil Koritarev (26.11.1997 – 16.12.1997)
- Vasko Ninov (16.12.1997 – 19.03.1999)
- Dimitar Hristolov (since 19.03.1999)
[edit] Address
10, Iztochen Blvd, kv. Kamenitza, 4017 Plovdiv
