1994–95 A Group

A Group
Season	1994–95
Dates	19 August 1994 – 10 June 1995
Champions	Levski Sofia; (20th title)
Relegated	Lokomotiv GO; Pirin; Beroe;
UEFA Cup	Levski; Botev; Slavia;
Matches played	240
Goals scored	689 (2.87 per match)
Top goalscorer	Petar Mihtarski; (24 goals)
	← 1993–94 1995–96 →

The 1994–95 A Group was the 47th 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 Levski Sofia won the championship and its first three-peat.^[1] LEX Lovech, winners of the B Group in the previous season, played in A Group for the first time in their history.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Levski Sofia (C)	30	26	1	3	84	15	+69	79	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
2	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	21	5	4	59	30	+29	68	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
3	Botev Plovdiv	30	18	6	6	66	31	+35	60	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
4	Slavia Sofia	30	16	5	9	63	35	+28	53	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
5	CSKA Sofia	30	13	7	10	51	46	+5	46
6	Spartak Plovdiv	30	12	7	11	33	34	−1	43	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
7	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	13	3	14	48	38	+10	42
8	Neftochimic Burgas	30	12	3	15	41	50	−9	39
9	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	30	10	6	14	31	54	−23	36	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
10	Shumen	30	10	6	14	33	50	−17	36
11	LEX Lovech	30	10	6	14	25	46	−21	36
12	Dobrudzha Dobrich	30	10	5	15	32	43	−11	35
13	Montana	30	9	7	14	31	41	−10	34
14	Lokomotiv G. Oryahovitsa (R)	30	10	3	17	35	53	−18	33	Relegation to 1995–96 B Group
15	Pirin Blagoevgrad (R)	30	9	3	18	30	46	−16	30
16	Beroe Stara Zagora (R)	30	3	3	24	27	77	−50	12

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

Results

Home \ Away	BSZ	BOT	CSK	DOB	ETA	LEV	LEX	LGO	LPL	LSO	MON	NEF	PIR	SHU	SLA	SPP
Beroe Stara Zagora		0–3	1–2	0–2	1–1	1–3	3–0	1–3	2–2	0–2	0–1	4–2	1–0	1–2	2–2	0–1
Botev Plovdiv	6–0		4–3	4–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	3–0	2–0	5–0	3–1	4–1
CSKA Sofia	4–2	3–2		2–1	2–2	1–7	2–0	5–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	3–0	4–1	4–1	0–0	0–0
Dobrudzha Dobrich	5–1	2–2	1–0		0–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	0–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	0–1
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	1–0	1–3	1–1	1–3		1–4	3–1	2–1	2–5	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–0
Levski Sofia	5–2	6–1	3–0	2–1	4–0		2–0	5–0	2–0	8–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	6–1	1–0	2–0
LEX Lovech	3–0	0–3	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–3		2–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0
Lokomotiv G. Oryahovitsa	1–0	1–1	2–2	3–0	2–1	1–0	3–1		0–0	1–2	2–0	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	8–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–4	3–0	4–0		0–2	1–0	2–1	4–2	2–0	2–2	1–0
Lokomotiv Sofia	2–1	3–2	2–0	4–0	2–0	0–1	4–0	3–0	3–0		3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–2	4–1
Montana	3–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	4–0	0–1	4–0	2–0	1–0	0–0		1–1	3–0	1–0	1–4	0–3
Neftochimic Burgas	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	3–1	1–3	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–3	4–1		3–1	4–1	3–0	2–2
Pirin Blagoevgrad	2–0	0–2	0–3	1–0	3–1	0–1	1–1	3–2	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–0		2–1	4–1	1–2
Shumen	2–1	0–0	2–2	3–0	4–0	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–3	2–1	3–2	1–1		0–0	1–0
Slavia Sofia	3–0	2–0	3–1	5–1	2–0	0–2	4–0	5–0	2–1	4–1	1–1	4–0	2–1	4–2		4–0
Spartak Plovdiv	4–1	0–0	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–3

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

Champions

Levski Sofia

Goalkeepers
Plamen Nikolov	23	0(0)
Zdravko Zdravkov	12	0(0)
Oleg Morgun	01	0(0)

Defenders
Valentin Dartilov	27	0(0)
Gosho Ginchev	28	0(0)
Ivan Vasilev	16	0(1)
Tsanko Tsvetanov	29	0(1)
Aleksandar Markov	06	0(0)
Emil Kremenliev	28	0(1)

Midfielders
Daniel Borimirov	29	(17)
Georgi Slavchev	03	0(0)
Ilian Iliev	23	(11)
Zlatko Yankov	29	0(4)
Nikolay Todorov	28	(11)
Georgi Ivanov	21	0(3)
Petar Kosturkov	01	0(0)
Stanimir Stoilov	27	(13)
Veselin Sarbakov	02	0(0)

Forwards
Kancho Yordanov	27	0(3)
Plamen Timnev	11	0(2)
Iliyan Simeonov	07	0(2)
Dimitar Trendafilov	01	0(0)
Nasko Sirakov*	10	(12)

Manager
	Georgi Vasilev

Sirakov left the club during a season.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Petar Mihtarski	CSKA Sofia	24
2	Vladko Shalamanov	Slavia Sofia	22
3	Daniel Borimirov	Levski Sofia	17
4	Nasko Sirakov	Levski Sofia (12) Botev Plovdiv (4)	16
5	Nikolay Petrunov	Pirin Blagoevgrad	14
6	Stanimir Stoilov	Levski Sofia	13
7	Veliyan Parushev	Neftochimic	12
	Valentin Ignatov	Lokomotiv GO
	Boris Hvoynev	Botev Plovdiv
10	Georgi Donkov	Botev Plovdiv	11
	Nikolay Todorov	Levski Sofia
	Aleksandar Radev	Lokomotiv Plovdiv
	Stancho Tsonev	Neftochimic

Source:1994–95 Top Goalscorers

References

^ "Гигов харчи 55 милиона за калъфка" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 13 July 2013.

External links

Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)
1994–95 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com

[1] "Гигов харчи 55 милиона за калъфка" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 13 July 2013.

[1]

v t e 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 1979–80 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

v t e 1994–95 in Bulgarian football
Domestic leagues	A Group B Group V Group
Domestic cups	Bulgarian Cup (Final)
European competitions	UEFA Cup Cup Winners' Cup
Related to national team	UEFA Euro 1996 qualification (Group 7) Dimitar Penev
List of transfers

v t e 1994–95 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Armenia '94 '95 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzeg-Bosnia) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '94 '95 Finland '94 '95 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '94 '95 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '94 '95 Latvia '94 '95 Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '94 '95 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '94 '95 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '94 '95 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '94 '95 Finland '94 '95 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '94 '95 Israel Italy Latvia '94 '95 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '94 '95 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
League cups	England Finland '94 '95 France Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales
Supercups	England Germany Italy
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, Group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup