FC Dobrudzha Dobrich

FC Dobrudzha (Bulgarian: ФК Добруджа) is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Dobrich, that competes in the First League, the first tier of Bulgarian football.

Dobrudzha

Full name	Football club Dobrudzha Dobrich
Founded	1919; 106 years ago (1919)
Ground	Stadion Druzhba, Dobrich
Capacity	12,000
Chairman	Spiridon Spiridonov / Sergey Serafimov
Head coach	Atanas Atanasov
League	First League
2024–25	Second League, 1st (promoted)
Website	dobrudzha.com
Home colours Away colours

It plays its home matches at Stadion Druzhba with a capacity of 12,500 seats, and its team colours are green and yellow. The team is named after the Dobruja region, a prominent agricultural area in Northeast Bulgaria.

Honours

• Bulgarian Cup
  • Semi-finalists: 1946, 1947, 1979–80
• Second League
  • Winners (2): 1965–66, 2024–25

History

Previous crest used until 2018.

Dobrudzha was founded as a union of three clubs, Vihar, Orlov and Slavia, in 1916. The club assumed the names Cherveno zname, Spartak and Septemvri between 1949 and 1957, when it was renamed Dobrudzha after a few other local sport associations joined.

In 1962, Dobrudzha managed to gain promotion to the A Group for the first time in the club's history. The maiden season in the top level proved to be a challenge, however, and Dobrudzha was relegated, finishing 15th. Back into the B Group, Dobrudzha barely missed on promotion back to the A Group in 1964, finishing second. In 1966, however, Dobrudzha won the B Group and promoted back to A Group, after three years away. Two consecutive 12th-place finishes during the 1966–67 and 1967-68 seasons in the elite followed, where Dobrudzha narrowly avoided relegation twice. The fairytale ended in 1968–69, however, as Dobrudzha finished 15th and was relegated, ending a three-year stay in the A Group.

After the relegation in 1969, Dobrudzha spend the next two decades in the B Group, with a second-place finish in 1975 being the closest the team could get in terms of returning to the A Group. After 22 years in the B Group, Dobrudzha finished second during the 1990–91 season, and the long-awaited return to the top tier finally ended. Season 1991–92 marked what would be the golden era for Dobrudzha. After narrowly avoiding relegation and finishing 14th that season, Dobrudzha managed to stabilize in the top level and gradually improved its ranking the following years, with a 13th-place finish in 1993, followed by two 12th-place finishes the following years. Season 1995–96 is considered the most successful for the club in its entire history, as that is when a 7th-place finish was achieved. The next three seasons produced mid-table results, and in 2000, Dobrudzha was relegated back to the B Group, ending the club's nine consecutive years in the elite.

Dobrudzha managed to finish fifth the following season in the B Group, which was followed by a second-place finish in the 2001–02 season, marking a return to the A Group after two years. However, the team was relegated back after only one season. Season 2002–03 remains the last appearance for Dobrudzha in the top tier, as of 2023.

In 2018, Dobrudzha returned to the second tier by winning the 2017–18 Northeast Third League. The team, however, struggled in the second tier, finishing last. In the 2019–20 season, Dobrudzha once more finished first in the third tier, being promoted again to the second tier after the season was finished early in March, due to the COVID-19 epidemic in Bulgaria.

Dobrudzha had an impressive 2024–25 season in the Second League, almost consistently staying in the top two places throughout the season. On May 11, 2025, Dobrudzha mathematically secured a top two spot, meaning promotion to the First League. This ended the team’s twenty-two year absence from top-tier football.

Players

First-team squad

As of 2 August 2025^[update]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BUL Georgi Argilashki (captain) 3 DF  BUL Dimitar Pirgov 6 MF  BUL Ivaylo Klimentov 7 FW  BUL Anton Ivanov 8 MF  BRA Lucas Cardoso 9 FW  BUL Milcho Angelov 10 MF  BUL Rumen Rumenov (vice-captain) 13 GK  BUL Galin Grigorov 15 DF  BUL Bogdan Kostov 20 MF  BUL Aykut Ramadan 22 DF  COL Jhonatan Cuero 23 MF  SEN Malick Fall 27 FW  BUL Angel Angelov

No. Pos. Nation Player 28 DF  BUL Zdravko Serafimov 30 MF  SVN Almin Kurtović 31 FW  BUL Andrian Dimitrov 33 FW  BUL Simeon Veshev 35 MF  CRO Di Mateo Lovrić 37 DF  BUL Ventsislav Kerchev 45 DF  BUL Dzhan Hasan 69 GK  BUL Plamen Pepelyashev 70 DF  BUL Kolyo Stanev 77 FW  BUL Oktay Hamdiev 88 MF  BUL Krasian Kolev 98 FW  BUL Ivaylo Mihaylov

For recent transfers, see List of Bulgarian football transfers summer 2025.

Foreign players

Up to twenty foreign nationals can be registered and given a squad number for the first team in the Bulgarian First League, however only five non-EU nationals can be used during a match day. Those non-EU nationals with European ancestry can claim citizenship from the nation their ancestors came from. If a player does not have European ancestry he can claim Bulgarian citizenship after playing in Bulgaria for 5 years.

EU Nationals Di Mateo Lovrić Almin Kurtović

EU Nationals (Dual citizenship) Lucas Cardoso

Non-EU Nationals Jhonatan Cuero Malick Fall

Notable players

• For all players with a Wikipedia article see Category:FC Dobrudzha Dobrich players.

Had international caps for their respective countries, held any club record, or had more than 100 league appearances. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries.

Bulgaria

• Sasho Angelov
• Diyan Bozhilov
• Simeon Chilibonov
• Ivaylo Dimitrov
• Iliya Dyakov
• Ivo Georgiev
• Daniel Gramatikov
• Rumen Hristov
• Atanas Iliev
• Georgi Kichukov
• Nikolay Kostov
• Ivaylo Lazarov
• Kristiyan Malinov
• Georgi Pashov
• Milen Petkov
• Milen Gamakov
• Svetoslav Petrov
• Dimitar Pirgov
• Simeon Simeonov
• Svilen Simeonov
• Stoycho Stoilov
• Stanislav Stoyanov
• Nikolay Todorov
• Svetoslav Todorov
• Iliya Valov
• Mihail Venkov
• Preslav Yordanov
• Ventsislav Zhelev

Europe

• Justin Haber
• Risto Milosavov

Africa

• Paulo Soares
• Serge Yoffou

Statistics

League positions

Seasons

15 seasons in First League:

Season	Place
1962–63	15th
1966–67	12th
1967–68	12th
1968–69	15th
1991–92	14th
1992–93	13th
1993–94	12th
1994–95	12th
1995–96	7th
1996–97	12th
1997–98	11th
1998–99	9th
1999–00	12th
2002–03	13th
2025–26	–

Best wins:

Home team	Away team	Result	Competition	Season
PFC Dobrudja (Dobrich)	FC Haskovo (Haskovo)	10–0	Bulgarian Cup	2000–01
PFC Rakovski (Ruse)	PFC Dobrudja (Dobrich)	1–7	A PFG	1996–97
PFC Dobrudja (Dobrich)	PFC Beroe (Stara Zagora)	5–1	A PFG	1994–95
PFC Dobrudja (Dobrich)	PFC Septemvri (Sofia)	5–1	A PFG	1998–99

Notable persons

Players Players with most matches played for the team in A PFG:

Nationality	Player	Number of matches
	Rumen Boev	212
	Diyan Bozhilov	200
	Rumen Slavov	over 180
	Svetoslav Krastev	over 160
	Atanas Georgiev	over 140

Players with most goals, scored in A PFG:

Nationality	Player	Goals
	Diyan Bozhilov	25
	Georgi Manolov	23
	Rumen Boev	18
	Serge Yoffou	15
	Risto Milosavov	14

Former managers

• Iliya Iliev
• Petar Kirov
• Eduard Eranosyan
• Asen Milushev
• Petar Zhekov
• Hristo Milanov
• Kolyo Markov
• Yanko Dinkov
• Dimitar Aleksiev
• Vasil Velikov
• Ivan Manolov
• Boris Nikolov
• Stoyan Kotsev
• Ljubomir Veljković
• Dimcho Nenov
• Emil Velev
• Svetoslav Petrov
• Atanas Atanasov-Orela
• Sasho Angelov
• Stefan Slavov
• Diyan Bozhilov
• Radomir Todorov
• Todor Kiselichkov
• Atanas Atanasov-Orela

External links

• Official website (archived 7 October 2014)
• DOBRUDJA1919.COM – Fansite^[usurped] (archived 20 March 2007)
• Dobrudja1919.com/Gallery – Photo Gallery^[usurped] (archived 2 February 2015)
• Facebook Fanpage
• DDFC1919 YouTube Channel