PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad (1922)

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FC Pirin

Full name	FC Pirin Blagoevgrad
Nickname(s)	The eagles
Founded	1922
Ground	Hristo Botev Stadium, Blagoevgrad (Capacity: 16 000)
Chairman	Vasil Miladinov
Manager	Boris Nikolov
League	B PFG
2007-08	V AFG, 1st
Home colours Away colours

PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad (Bulgarian: ПФК Пирин Благоевград) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Blagoevgrad, currently playing in the B PFG. The club is founded in 1922. Pirin played more than 20 seasons in the top flight and played two times European football.

In 2005/06 season Pirin were excluded from A PFG after two matches and demoted to their regional third level league (Southwestern V AFG) on Aug 18 for failing to arrange their debts; their results were annulled. During 2007-2008 season the team took first place in Bulgarian South-West V AFG, thus qualified in the Bulgarian B Professional Football Group for the upcoming season.

[edit] Honours

• Bulgarian A PFG - 5th place (1984/1985)
• Runner-up of the cup of Bulgaria - 2 times – 1992, 1994
• European
• European Cup/UEFA Champions League: 2
• 1971, 1997
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1
• 1987
• UEFA Super Cup: 1
• 1987

[edit] European cup history

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1985/86	UEFA Cup	1		Hammarby IF	1-3	0-4	1-7
1994/95	Cup Winners' Cup	QR		FC Schaan	3-0	1-0	4-0
		1		Panathinaikos FC	0-2	1-6	1-8

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player GK Atanas Arshinkov GK Veselin Ganev GK Zahari Dimitrov DF Aleksandar Yakimov DF Radoslav Mitrevski DF David Galabov DF Miroslav Nikolov DF Ivan Topuzov DF Krasimir Stoyanov DF Vasil Tudzharov DF Ivo Yordanov

No. Position Player MF Kostadin Katsimerski MF Boris Kondev MF Boris Galchev MF Asen Georgiev MF Anton Mangurev MF Yulian Kolushev MF Zdravko Ivanov FW Bogdan Stoyanov FW Dian Velkov FW Spas Delev FW Dimitar Paraskov

[edit] Famous players

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