1995–96 A Group

The 1995–96 A Group was the 48th season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

A Group

Season	1995–96
Dates	12 August 1995 – 11 May 1996
Champions	Slavia Sofia (7th title)
Relegated	Shumen Lovech Spartak Plovdiv
UEFA Cup	Slavia Lokomotiv Sofia
Matches played	240
Goals scored	592 (2.47 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ivo Georgiev (21 goals)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Slavia Sofia won the championship.^[1] Lovech, renamed from Lex Lovech in the previous season, were relegated along with Spartak Plovdiv and Shumen.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Slavia Sofia (C)	30	20	7	3	51	14	+37	67	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
2	Levski Sofia	30	19	5	6	49	22	+27	62	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	17	7	6	55	24	+31	58	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
4	Neftochimic Burgas	30	17	6	7	58	31	+27	57
5	CSKA Sofia	30	16	8	6	49	26	+23	56	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
6	Spartak Varna	30	13	2	15	47	52	−5	41
7	Dobrudzha Dobrich	30	12	3	15	30	43	−13	39
8	Levski Kyustendil	30	10	7	13	27	37	−10	37
9	Montana	30	9	9	12	33	35	−2	36
10	Botev Plovdiv	30	10	6	14	33	38	−5	36
11	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	10	5	15	25	50	−25	35
12	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	30	9	6	15	21	37	−16	33
13	Rakovski Ruse	30	9	5	16	33	41	−8	32
14	Shumen (R)	30	9	5	16	28	44	−16	32	Relegation to 1996–97 B Group
15	Lovech (R)	30	7	9	14	29	40	−11	30
16	Spartak Plovdiv (R)	30	6	4	20	24	58	−34	22

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

Results

Home \ Away	BOT	CSK	DOB	ETA	LVK	LEV	LPL	LSO	LOV	MON	NEF	RAK	SHU	SLA	SPP	SPV
Botev Plovdiv		0–4	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	5–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–3
CSKA Sofia	3–0		2–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–5	4–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	4–2	1–0	3–1	4–0
Dobrudzha Dobrich	1–0	2–0		0–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–3	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–2
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	1–2	0–0	2–2		1–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	4–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–1
Levski Kyustendil	2–1	0–0	2–0	2–0		2–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–0
Levski Sofia	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–0		4–0	0–1	4–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	4–1
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–2	0–1		1–0	2–1	0–4	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–4	1–0	2–1
Lokomotiv Sofia	2–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	0–2	4–0		3–1	3–0	3–1	4–1	1–1	2–2	4–0	5–0
Lovech	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–0		1–1	0–2	2–1	3–0	0–1	2–0	0–0
Montana	3–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	2–0	0–0	3–2		0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–2	2–3
Neftochimic Burgas	2–0	2–2	5–1	3–0	3–0	5–1	4–0	1–1	5–2	1–0		3–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	5–2
Rakovski Ruse	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1		4–0	2–4	2–0	3–0
Shumen	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–3	2–0		0–1	3–1	2–0
Slavia Sofia	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	4–0		2–0	3–0
Spartak Plovdiv	2–4	2–4	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	4–2	1–3		0–1
Spartak Varna	2–1	1–3	2–3	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	2–0	0–2	8–1

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

Champions

Slavia Sofia

Goalkeepers
Zdravko Zdravkov	29	0(0)
Tsvetan Zdravkov	00	0(0)
Stoycho Dragov	02	0(0)

Defenders
Petar Tsvetanov	24	0(2)
Mihail Zahariev	10	0(0)
Vladimir Ivanov	28	0(3)
Stoyan Atsarov	30	0(1)
Kiril Kachamanov	28	0(1)
Mario Dafkov	08	0(1)
Stefan Kolev	28	0(0)
Dobromir Minchev	11	0(0)
Ivan Paskov*	01	0(0)

Midfielders
Marius Urukov	28	0(4)
Tsvetozar Dermendzhiev	07	0(0)
Kiril Metkov	04	0(0)
Diyan Angelov	13	0(1)
Zoran Ristić	13	0(0)
Danail Zhelyazkov	03	0(0)
Geno Dobrevski*	13	0(1)
Ivan Dobrevski	10	0(1)
Vladko Shalamanov*	13	0(9)
Anton Dimitrov	24	0(1)

Forwards
Nikolay Pramatarov	06	0(0)
Atanas Kirov	28	0(7)
Dimitar Totev	15	0(1)
Ivan Dimitrov	03	0(0)
Aleksandar Bonchev*	03	0(0)
Nasko Sirakov	20	(16)
Vanyo Shishkov*	06	0(0)

Manager
	Stoyan Kotsev

• Paskov, G. Dobrevski, Shalamanov, Bonchev and Shishkov left the club during a season.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Ivo Georgiev	Spartak Varna	21
2	Vesko Petkov	Neftochimic Burgas	18
3	Nasko Sirakov	Slavia Sofia	16
4	Simeon Chilibonov	Lokomotiv Sofia	12
5	Anatoli Tonov	Montana	11
	Dimcho Belyakov	Lovech
7	Hristo Yovov	Levski Sofia	10
	Marian Hristov	Levski Sofia
9	Vladko Shalamanov	Slavia Sofia	9
	Petar Mihtarski	CSKA Sofia
	Doncho Donev	Levski Sofia
	Petar Zhabov	CSKA Sofia
	Dimitar Totev	Slavia Sofia

• Source:1995–96 Top Goalscorers