1953 A Group

A Group
Season1953
ChampionsLevski Sofia
(8th title)
Matches played223
Goals scored484 (2.17 per match)
Top goalscorerDimitar Minchev
(15 goals)
← 1952
1954 →

The 1953 A Group was the fifth 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.[1]

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Relegation
1 Levski Sofia (C) 28 19 5 4 48 22 +26 43
2 CSKA Sofia 28 18 6 4 64 23 +41 42
3 Cherno More Varna 28 12 7 9 29 20 +9 31
4 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 28 9 13 6 30 29 +1 31
5 Slavia Sofia 28 9 12 7 42 33 +9 30
6 Spartak Pleven 28 9 12 7 29 29 0 30
7 Lokomotiv Sofia 28 10 9 9 30 32 −2 29
8 Minyor Pernik 28 11 6 11 33 35 −2 28
9 Spartak Plovdiv 28 9 9 10 29 29 0 27
10 Akademik Varna (R) 28 9 7 12 26 43 −17 25 Relegation to 1954 B Group
11 Botev Plovdiv (R) 28 8 8 12 29 31 −2 24
12 Spartak Sofia (R) 28 5 14 9 24 34 −10 24
13 Stroitel Sofia (R) 28 5 12 11 22 29 −7 22
14 VVS Sofia (R) 28 6 9 13 26 35 −9 21
15 Marek Dupnitsa (R) 28 3 7 18 23 60 −37 13
– Unified team of VSO[a] (R) 13 11 0 2 37 8 +29 0[b]
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ "Unified team of volunteer's sport organisations" is the name of the national football team of Bulgaria which participated in the league
  2. ^ Results annulled

Results

Home \ Away AVA BPD CHM CSK LEV LPL LSO MAR MIN SLA SPL SPD SSF STR VVS
Akademik Varna 0–1 1–0 0–1 0–4 2–2 0–2 3–0[a] 3–2 2–0 0–0 2–1 3–1 0–0 1–0
Botev Plovdiv 1–1 1–1 0–3 0–1 0–1 0–1 3–0[a] 1–2 2–2 4–0 0–0 0–0 2–2 3–0
Cherno More 0–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 2–1 3–2 1–0 3–0 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 3–2
CSKA Sofia 7–0 2–0 0–0 0–1 5–0 3–1 3–0[a] 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–1 7–1 2–2 1–0
Levski Sofia 4–1 0–1 1–0 0–5 5–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 3–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv 0–0 2–0 0–0 0–1 0–2 0–0 4–3 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
Lokomotiv Sofia 3–1 0–1 2–0 0–4 0–3 2–2 3–0[a] 0–1 0–5 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–1 1–1
Marek Dupnitsa 2–2 1–0 0–0 1–2 0–3[a] 0–3[a] 1–1 1–2 0–3[a] 2–2 4–1 0–0 1–0 1–3
Minyor Pernik 2–0 1–4 3–2 1–3 1–2 1–1 0–1 4–1 2–3 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–0
Slavia Sofia 1–1 5–2 0–2 1–2 1–2 1–1 1–2 1–1 0–3 2–1 0–0 4–1 1–1 2–0
Spartak Pleven 3–0 0–0 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 4–2 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 3–0 1–0
Spartak Plovdiv 1–0 2–1 0–3 0–1 3–0 1–1 1–0 4–0 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 2–1
Spartak Sofia 1–0 1–2 1–0 2–2 1–1 3–3 0–0 3–0[a] 2–0 0–0 2–3 1–1 0–0 1–1
Stroitel Sofia 3–0 1–0 0–1 2–2 3–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 0–0
VVS Sofia 1–2 0–0 2–1 3–0 2–3 0–3 2–2 1–0 3–0 0–3 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–2
Source: A PFG (in Bulgarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Marek Dupnitsa was excluded after spectator riots in the match against Minyor Pernik. The remaining eight matches were rated 0–3 for the opponents.

Champions

Levski Sofia
Goalkeepers
Simeon Kostov 19 (0)
Dimitar Elenkov 8 (0)
Defenders
Metodi Angelovski 20 (0)
Dimitar Dimitrov 1 (0)
Dimitar Iliev 19 (0)
Amedeo Kleva 24 (0)
Dimitar Doychinov 8 (0)
Ivan Dimchev 23 (0)
Midfielders
Dragan Georgiev 11 (1)
Aleksandar Krastev 17 (0)
Lyubomir Hranov 17 (3)
Aleksandar Bahchevandzhiev 1 (0)
Dimitar Kontev 2 (0)
Ivan Georgiev 14 (1)
Stefan Abadzhiev 14 (5)
Forwards
Dimitar Andonov 21 (12)
Arsen Dimitrov 4 (1)
Vasil Spasov 24 (10)
Todor Stoyanov 4 (0)
Todor Takev 25 (6)
Dimitar Popdimitrov 1 (0)
Georgi Kardashev 6 (1)
Yordan Tomov 20 (4)
Manager
Dimitar Mutafchiev

Top scorers

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Dimitar Minchev Spartak Pleven
VVS Sofia 		15
2 Dimitar Andonov Levski Sofia 12
3 Kiril Nikolov Marek Dupnitsa 11
4 Vasil Spasov Levski Sofia 10

References

  1. ^ "Сини "старци" крадат злато за червена сметка" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 9 September 2012.
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