2010–11 B Group

The 2010–11 B Group was the 55th season of the Bulgarian B Football Group, the second tier of the Bulgarian football league system. The season started on 31 July 2010 and finished in May 2011 with the A Group promotion play-off.

Bulgarian B Group

Season	2010–11
Champions	Botev Vratsa (West) Ludogorets (East)
Promoted	Ludogorets Botev Vratsa Svetkavitsa
Relegated	Vihren Botev Krivodol Kom-Minyor Spartak Plovdiv Brestnik Chernomorets Balchik Dunav Ruse Ravda
Matches played	396
Goals scored	573 (1.45 per match)
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

On 3 June the Executive Committee of Bulgarian Football Union decided to reduce the number of teams in both West and East B PFG due to the licensing problems that occurred in the last 5 years. The new format will consist 12 teams in each group playing three times during the season. The draw for the third matches will be conducted after Round 22 based in the Berger tables. The same principles were used in the first level football leagues in Macedonia and Montenegro.

There is also change regarding the A Group promotion play-off. Since this season it will be played in two stages. The first will be the match between the runners-up from the East and West B PFG. The final stage will be played between the 14th finished team from A Group and the winner from the first stage.^[1]

Team changes from 2009–10

Movement between A Group and B Group

The champions of the two B Group 2009/10 divisions were promoted to the A Group 2010/11. These were Kaliakra Kavarna (East) and Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo (West).

Lokomotiv Mezdra, Sportist Svoge and Botev Plovdiv were relegated from A Group 2009/10 after finishing in the bottom three places. Botev and Lokomotiv did not even receive license for the B Group, so they will participate in 2010-11 V AFG

Movement between B Group and third-level leagues

Rodopa Smolyan and Belite Orli Pleven declared bankruptcy during the winter break and so relegated from respectively East B PFG and West B PFG. Bdin Vidin finished in 15th place in West B PFG and relegated to the Bulgarian North-West V AFG.

The relegated teams were replaced by teams from the third-level leagues of the Bulgarian league pyramid and allocated to one of the two divisions. Dorostol Silistra as winners of a North-East V AFG and Ravda as winners of South-East V AFG joined the Eastern division. Malesh Mikrevo as winners of South-West V AFG and Chavdar Byala Slatina as winners of North-West V AFG were included to the Western division.

On 20 July AKB Minyor Radnevo declared that their financial status would not be secured, so they were removed from East B PFG.^[2] It is not clear what the future of AKB Minyor would be. On 27 July the Executive committee of Bulgarian Football Union decided that the new member of East B PFG will be FC Razgrad 2000.^[3] At the same time FC Razgrad renamed themselves and from this season they will be PFC Ludogorets Razgrad.

Reducing the size of the divisions

Because of the reducing the size of the divisions, some teams from both East and West B Group lost their license. The teams of Spartak Varna, Volov Shumen, Svilengrad and Botev Plovdiv, which should play in East B PFG this season, did not receive professional license and so were relegated to the next division levels. The same is the case with the following teams from West B PFG - Marek Dupnitsa, Balkan Botevgrad, Rislki Sportist Samokov and Lokomotiv Mezdra.

East B Group

Stadia and locations

Brestnik

Balchik

Pomorie

Dobrudzha

Dorostol

Dunav

Ludogorets

Lyubimets

Nesebar

Ravda

Svetkavitsa

Spartak

Location of teams in East B PFG 2010-11

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Notes
Brestnik 1948	Brestnik	Berkut	7,000	6th in 2009/10
Chernomorets Balchik	Balchik	Balchik	2,500	8th in 2009/10
Chernomorets Pomorie	Pomorie	Pomorie	3,000	7th in 2009/10
Dobrudzha	Dobrich	Druzhba	12,500	13th in 2009/10
Dorostol	Silistra	Louis Ayer	12,000	Promoted from Third Division (North East)
Dunav	Ruse	Gradski Stadium	22,000	3rd in 2009/10
Ludogorets	Razgrad	Dyanko Stefanov	12,000	Promoted from Third Division (North East)
Lyubimetz 2007	Lyubimets	Lyubimetz	5,000	5th in 2009/10
Nesebar	Nesebar	Nesebar	10,000	2nd in 2009/10
Ravda	Ravda	Nesebar	10,000	Promoted from Third Division (South East)
Svetkavitsa	Targovishte	Svetkavitsa	7,000	11th in 2009/10
Spartak Plovdiv	Plovdiv	Todor Diev	3,548	4th in 2009/10

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Ludogorets Razgrad (C, P)	24	12	8	4	38	16	+22	44	Promotion to 2011–12 A Group
2	Chernomorets Pomorie	24	9	9	6	23	19	+4	36	Qualification for Promotion Play-Off
3	Spartak Plovdiv (R)	24	10	6	8	26	17	+9	36	Relegation to 2011–12 V Group
4	Svetkavitsa Targovishte (P)	24	8	9	7	24	23	+1	33	Promotion to 2011–12 A Group
5	Nesebar	24	9	5	10	20	22	−2	32
6	Lyubimets	24	7	9	8	22	26	−4	30
7	Dorostol Silistra	24	7	7	10	18	22	−4	28
8	Brestnik (R)	24	6	8	10	21	29	−8	26	Relegation to 2011–12 V Group
9	Dobrudzha Dobrich	24	7	5	12	14	30	−16	26
–	Chernomorets Balchik[a] (R)	14	5	6	3	11	7	+4	21	Relegation to 2011–12 V Group
–	Dunav Ruse[b] (R)	14	3	5	6	8	14	−6	14
–	Ravda[c] (R)	10	1	1	8	12	27	−15	4

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Chernomorets Balchik decided to cancel their participation in the championship during the winter break after the city municipality decided not to continue its financial support for the club. All its results are annulled and their opponents will rest if they should play against them.^[4]
2. Dunav Ruse decided to cancel their participation in the championship during the winter break due to financial difficulties. All its results are annulled and their opponents will rest if they should play against them.^[5]
3. Ravda decided to cancel their participation in the championship after Round 10 due "unacceptable results". All its results are annulled and their opponents will rest if they should play against them.^[6]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Petar Atanasov	Brestnik	11
2	Petar Kolev	Ravda	9
	Todor Kolev	Ludogorets	9
	Vasil Kaloyanov	Chernomorets Pomorie	9
5	Martin Stefanov	Spartak Plovdiv	7

Source: Soccerway

West B Group

Stadia and locations

Bansko

Krivodol

Vratsa

Chavdar

Etropole

Etar

Kom

Malesh

Pirin

Septemvri

Sportist

Vihren

Location of teams in West B PFG 2010-11

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Notes
Bansko	Bansko	Saint Peter	3,000	3rd in 2009/10
Botev Krivodol	Krivodol	Hristo Botev	3,000	10th in 2008-09
Botev Vratsa	Vratsa	Hristo Botev	32,000	6th in 2009/10
Chavdar Byala Slatina	Byala Slatina	Chavdar	3,000	Promoted from Third Division (North West)
Chavdar Etropole	Etropole	Chavdar	5,000	8th in 2009/10
Etar	Veliko Tarnovo	Ivaylo	18,000	5th in 2009/10
Kom-Minyor	Berkovitsa	Gradski	6,000	12th in 2009/10
Malesh	Mikrevo	Malesh	1,500	Promoted from Third Division (South West)
Pirin	Gotse Delchev	Gradski	8,000	11th in 2009/10
Septemvri	Simitli	Struma	8,000	7th in 2009/10
Sportist	Svoge	Chavdar Tsvetkov	3,500	Relegated from First Division
Vihren	Sandanski	Sandanski	6,000	4th in 2009/10

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Botev Vratsa (C, P)	30	20	2	8	52	28	+24	62	Promotion to 2011–12 A PFG
2	Sportist Svoge	30	15	7	8	36	15	+21	52	Qualification for Promotion Play-Off
3	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	30	13	12	5	33	19	+14	51
4	Bansko	30	14	6	10	42	35	+7	48
5	Chavdar Etropole	30	13	5	12	37	34	+3	44
6	Septemvri Simitli	30	12	7	11	30	31	−1	43
7	Vihren Sandanski (R)	30	13	3	14	37	32	+5	42	Relegation to 2011–12 V Group
8	Pirin Gotse Delchev	30	10	6	14	27	38	−11	36
9	Chavdar Byala Slatina	30	9	7	14	27	36	−9	34
10	Malesh Mikrevo	30	8	8	14	22	37	−15	32
11	Botev Krivodol (R)	30	4	5	21	25	63	−38	17	Relegation to 2011–12 V Group
–	Kom-Minyor[a] (R)	16	1	8	7	5	15	−10	11

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Kom-Minyor decided to cancel their participation in the championship on 1 March 2011 due financial difficulties. All its results are annulled and their opponents will rest if they should play against them.^[7]

Top goalscorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Tihomir Kanev	Etar	11
	Georgi Kalaydzhiev	Bansko	11
	Simeon Raykov	Botev Vratsa	11
4	Borislav Hazurov	Bansko	9
	Aleksandar Ruskov	Vihren	9
	Mario Bliznakov	Pirin Gotse Delchev	9
	Ivaylo Danchev	Botev Vratsa	9

Source: Soccerway

Promotion play-off

Sportist Svoge	1–2	Chernomorets Pomorie
Mladenov 82'	Report	Koparanov 38' Kostadinov 41'

8 June 2011

17:00 EEST

Hadzhi Dimitar, Sliven

Attendance: 600

Referee: Nikolay Yordanov (Sofia)

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Vidima-Rakovski	0–3	Chernomorets Pomorie
	Report	Atanasov 57' Kaloyanov 60', 80'

12 June 2011

17:00 EEST

Hadzhi Dimitar, Sliven

Attendance: 800

Referee: Stanislav Todorov