1979–80 A Group

A Group
Season	1979–80
Champions	CSKA Sofia; (20th title)
Relegated	Lokomotiv Plovdiv; Etar;
European Cup	CSKA
UEFA Cup	Levski; Beroe;
Matches played	240
Goals scored	632 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Spas Dzhevizov; (21 goals)
	← 1978–79 1980–81 →

The 1979–80 A Group was the 32nd 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	18	10	2	60	30	+30	46	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Slavia Sofia	30	21	3	6	66	27	+39	45	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Levski Sofia	30	15	7	8	45	38	+7	37	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Beroe Stara Zagora	30	13	8	9	49	37	+12	34	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5	Trakia Plovdiv	30	14	5	11	39	38	+1	33
6	Marek Dupnitsa	30	11	9	10	51	42	+9	31
7	Cherno More Varna	30	9	13	8	36	33	+3	31
8	Minyor Pernik	30	11	6	13	31	46	−15	28
9	Chernomorets Burgas	30	12	3	15	39	42	−3	27
10	Botev Vratsa	30	10	6	14	35	43	−8	26
11	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	7	12	11	32	43	−11	26
12	Pirin Blagoevgrad	30	9	7	14	27	34	−7	25
13	Sliven	30	8	9	13	32	43	−11	25
14	Spartak Pleven	30	7	10	13	26	39	−13	24
15	Lokomotiv Plovdiv (R)	30	6	10	14	33	52	−19	22	Relegation to 1980–81 B Group
16	Etar Veliko Tarnovo (R)	30	7	6	17	31	45	−14	20	Relegation to 1980–81 B Group

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

Results

Home \ Away	BSZ	BVR	CHM	CHB	CSK	ETA	LEV	LPL	LSO	MAR	MIN	PIR	SLA	SLI	SPL	TRA
Beroe Stara Zagora		2–0	1–2	1–1	3–2	3–0	3–1	4–3	2–2	0–0	4–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	4–2
Botev Vratsa	2–0		1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	2–2	3–0	3–1	3–2
Cherno More	0–0	0–0		2–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	4–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–0	3–0	2–2
Chernomorets Burgas	1–2	3–0	2–3		2–3	1–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–1
CSKA Sofia	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–1		6–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–1
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–1		1–2	3–1	0–2	7–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–1
Levski Sofia	1–0	4–2	2–2	1–0	2–3	2–0		3–0	5–1	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–1		1–2	1–1	5–3	3–0	0–4	0–0	1–0	0–0
Lokomotiv Sofia	1–1	4–2	0–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	2–3	0–2		1–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–2
Marek Dupnitsa	3–2	2–0	1–2	3–1	1–2	3–3	2–1	7–1	1–1		3–0	1–0	2–0	6–0	1–1	5–1
Minyor Pernik	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–3	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–0		1–0	2–0	0–3	1–1	1–0
Pirin Blagoevgrad	2–4	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–1		1–0	3–0	2–0	1–0
Slavia Sofia	2–0	4–0	1–1	4–0	2–1	4–3	2–0	3–2	5–1	4–1	4–1	3–1		3–1	3–0	4–0
Sliven	2–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	2–3	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–3		3–3	0–0
Spartak Pleven	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–0		1–0
Trakia Plovdiv	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–3	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–0

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

Champions

CSKA Sofia

Goalkeepers
Georgi Velinov	21	(0)
Yordan Filipov	9	(0)

Defenders
Georgi Dimitrov	23	(1)
Tsonyo Vasilev	21	(0)
Angel Rangelov	30	(0)
Vasil Tinchev	9	(0)
Ivan Zafirov	26	(0)
Dinko Dimitrov	3	(0)
Angel Kalburov	18	(0)
Hristo Topalov	12	(0)

Midfielders
Plamen Markov	30	(5)
Krasimir Goranov	24	(0)
Vasil Simov	9	(0)
Dimitar Aleksiev	3	(0)
Tsvetan Yonchev	27	(4)
Metodi Tomanov	5	(0)
Ivan Metodiev	24	(5)

Forwards
Spas Dzhevizov	28	(21)
Mario Valkov	22	(6)
Tsvetan Danov	2	(0)
Nikola Hristov	26	(13)
Georgi Slavkov	9	(5)
Dimitar Dimitrov	4	(0)

Manager
	Asparuh Nikodimov

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Spas Dzhevizov	CSKA Sofia	21
2	Andrey Zhelyazkov	Slavia Sofia	19
3	Chavdar Tsvetkov	Slavia Sofia	18
4	Ivan Petrov	Marek Dupnitsa	14
5	Nikola Hristov	CSKA Sofia	13
6	Petko Petkov	Beroe Stara Zagora	12
6	Tsonko Simeonov	Sliven	12
8	Krasimir Manolov	Trakia Plovdiv	11
	Rafi Rafiev	Cherno More
	Blagoy Krastanov	Spartak Pleven

Awards

Team of the Season

Team of the Season (by newspaper Naroden Sport)^[2]
Goalkeeper	Hristo Hristov (Pirin)
Defence	Ivan Ilchev (Chernomorets)	Bozhil Kolev (Cherno More)		Boko Dimitrov (Lokomotiv Sofia)		Evlogi Banchev (Minyor)
Midfield	Venelin Toshkov (Botev Vratsa)		Andrey Zhelyazkov (Slavia)		Valentin Maldzhanski (Botev Vratsa)
Attack	Georgi Iliev (Chernomorets)		Petko Petkov (Beroe)		Chavdar Tsvetkov (Slavia)

References

^ "Жужо и Чаво губят дуела с полковник" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 16 March 2013.
^ "Football'81" (PDF). retro-football.bg (in Bulgarian).

External links

Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)
1979–80 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com

[1] "Жужо и Чаво губят дуела с полковник" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 16 March 2013.

[football'81-2] "Football'81" (PDF). retro-football.bg (in Bulgarian).

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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 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 2025–26

1979–80 in Bulgarian football
Domestic leagues	B Group V Group
Domestic cups	Bulgarian Cup (Final)
European competitions	European Cup UEFA Cup Cup Winners' Cup Balkans Cup
Related to national team	UEFA Euro 1980 qualification (Group 1) Cvetan Ilchev
List of transfers

1979–80 in European football (UEFA)
« 1978–79 1980–81 »
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '79 '80 England Faroe Islands '79 '80 Finland '79 '80 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '79 '80 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '79 '80 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '79 '80 Spain Sweden '79 '80 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '79 '80 Finland '79 '80 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '79 '80 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '79 '80 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup