1951 A Group

A Group
Season1951
ChampionsCSKA Sofia
(2nd title)
Matches played132
Goals scored365 (2.77 per match)
Top goalscorerDimitar Milanov
(13 goals)
1950
1952

The 1951 A Group was the third 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 12 teams, and CSKA Sofia won the championship.

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Relegation
1 CSKA Sofia (C) 22 18 1 3 62 7 +55 37
2 Spartak Sofia 22 14 8 0 27 7 +20 36
3 Levski Sofia 22 9 8 5 37 16 +21 26
4 Akademik Sofia 22 10 6 6 40 33 +7 26
5 Spartak Varna 22 10 5 7 40 27 +13 25
6 Cerveno Zname Sofia (R) 22 6 11 5 26 21 +5 23 Relegation to 1952 B Group
7 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 22 7 9 6 21 20 +1 23
8 Stroitel Sofia (R) 22 8 6 8 25 24 +1 22 Relegation to 1952 B Group
9 Minyor Pernik 22 9 2 11 37 36 +1 20
10 Botev Plovdiv 22 6 5 11 26 32 −6 17
11 Spartak Pleven (R) 22 1 3 18 16 59 −43 5 Relegation to 1952 B Group
12 Dunav Ruse (R) 22 0 4 18 8 83 −75 4
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away AKD BPD CHZ CSK DUN LEV LPL MIN SPL SSF SPV STR
Akademik Sofia 5–2 1–1 1–3 4–1 3–3 0–0 4–1 2–0 0–0 2–0 3–1
Botev Plovdiv 0–1 1–0 0–2 4–1 0–1 0–3 1–4 6–0 1–1 0–1 1–1
Cerveno Zname Sofia 2–0 1–1 0–2 3–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 7–1 0–0 2–2 2–0
CSKA Sofia 2–0 0–0 5–0 12–0 2–1 1–0 3–0 5–5 0–1 1–0 2–0
Dunav Ruse 0–2 1–1 1–2 0–6 0–5 0–0 0–3 1–1 0–0 0–5 1–3
Levski Sofia 1–1 4–0 1–1 2–0 6–0 1–1 0–1 2–0 1–3 2–0 1–1
Lokomotiv Plovdiv 2–1 1–2 0–0 0–5 3–0 1–0 3–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 1–1
Minyor Pernik 1–3 1–2 2–2 0–2 5–0 1–0 3–2 1–0 1–3 0–1 1–2
Spartak Pleven 3–3 0–3 0–1 0–5 5–1 0–1 1–1 0–6 1–2 2–3 1–2
Spartak Sofia 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 3–1 2–0 1–0 2–1
Spartak Varna 7–2 2–1 1–1 0–3 6–1 0–4 0–0 4–0 3–0 1–1 3–2
Stroitel Sofia 0–2 1–0 1–0 0–1 6–0 0–0 1–0 1–3 1–0 0–0 0–0
Source: A PFG (in Bulgarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Dimitar Milanov CSKA Sofia 13
2 Dimitar Andonov Spartak Sofia 8
Mihail Yankov CSKA Sofia
Arsen Dimitrov Levski Sofia
Nikolay Milkov Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Champions

CSKA Sofia
Goalkeepers
Georgi Kekemanov 14 (0)
Stefan Gerenski 8 (0)
Defenders
Georgi Rusev 9 (1)
Manol Manolov 17 (0)
Georgi Enisheynov 3 (0)
Georgi Tsvetkov 20 (0)
Georgi Nasev 19 (0)
Midfielders
Gavril Stoyanov 11 (0)
Stefan Bozhkov 17 (2)
Panayot Panayotov 17 (1)
Atanas Tsanov 12 (3)
Gancho Vasilev 11 (2)
Forwards
Krum Yanev 11 (2)
Dimitar Milanov 22 (13)
Stefan Stefanov 20 (13)
Mihail Yankov 14 (8)
Angel Milanov 14 (6)
Manager
Krum Milev

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