FC Aksakovo

FC Aksakovo
Full nameФутболен Клуб Аксаково
Football Club Aksakovo
Founded1948 (1948)
GroundAksakovo Stadium, Aksakovo
Capacity320
ChairmanSvetlin Stanchev
ManagerIvan Raychev
LeagueThird League
2024–258th
Websitehttps://fcaksakovo.com/

FC Aksakovo (Bulgarian: ФК Аксаково) is a Bulgarian association football club based in Aksakovo, Bulgaria, which competes in the Third League, the third division of the Bulgarian football league system. Aksakovo's home ground is the Aksakovo Stadium, which has a capacity of 320 spectators.

History

Aksakovo have a football club since 1948 playing mainly in the regional leagues. In 1994, the team was bought by Vahan Angutyan, changing the name of the club from Primorets Aksakovo to Avtotrade Aksakovo, taking the name of his business. The team promoted to Bulgarian B Football Group in 1996 and finished 10th in 1996–97 B Group season, leaded by the ex Bulgaria international Kevork Tahmisyan.[1] Before the start of the season, the team was merged with FC Port Varna into Avtotrade-Port Varna.[2]

In November 2022, the team stadium was rebuilt into a modern mini training complex.[3] In 2023, Kaloyan Mihalev and Nikolay Georgiev become managers of the team, coming together with some players from Septemvri Tervel. In 2024 mid season, the team had same points with FC Fratria II and expressed desire to return to Third League.[4] On 24 April 2024 they secured their first place in the league. On 5 June 2024 it was officially announced that Aksakovo joined Third league.[5]

Honours

Logo, shirt and sponsor

Period Kit manufacturer Shirt partner
2022–2024 Misho Sport Plastchim-T
2024– Jako

Players

Current squad

As of 12 August 2024

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 Atanas Batsov
3 DF  BUL Slavi Stalev
4 DF  BUL Angel Rupenyan
5 DF  BUL Valentin Georgiev
6 MF  BUL Yordan Atanasov
7 MF  BUL Dimitar Dimitrov
8 MF  BUL Ivan Markov
9 FW  BUL Lyubomir Mihalev
10 MF  BUL Dimitar Simeonov
11 MF  BUL Nikolay Iliev
12 GK  BUL Daniel Dobrev
13 DF  BUL Mihail Paskalev
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF  BUL Svetoslav Nikolov
15 DF  BUL Georgi Radev
16 DF  BUL Dimitar Vasilev
17 FW  BUL Damyan Petrov
18 MF  BUL Petko Tsankov
19 MF  BUL Martin Stelyanov
20 DF  BUL Kaloyan Tsvetkov
21 FW  BUL Desislav Dyakov
22 DF  SYR Akel Al-Ftajeh
23 MF  BUL Preslav Pasev
24 MF  BUL Kostadin Ivanov
25 FW  UKR Bogdan Hristov (on loan from Fratria)

Out on loan

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

Personnel

Club officials

Position Name Nationality
Coaching staff
Head coach Kaloyan Mihalev
Assistant coach Nikolay Georgiev
Assistant coach Ilia Iliev
Goalkeepers coach Plamen Roev

Seasons

Past seasons

Results of league and cup competitions by season
Season League Bulgarian Cup Other competitions Top goalscorer
Division Level P W D L F A GD Pts Pos
1994–95 North-East V Group 3 54 26 +28 48 6th DNQ
1995–96 3 29 23 4 2 69 14 +55 73 1st DNQ Zhivko Kelepov 21
1996–97 B Group 2 34 13 10 11 36 39 -3 49 10th Preliminary Zhivko Kelepov 10
1997–98 2 30 3 5 22 18 73 -55 14 14th Second Round
1998–04 Did not participate in league from 1998 to 2004
2004–05 North-East V Group 3 + 7th First round
2005–06 3 30 15 8 7 56 23 +33 53 5th DNQ
2006–07 3 32 14 8 10 43 34 +9 50 7th DNQ
2007–08 3 34 18 7 9 50 32 +18 61 4th DNQ
2008–09 3 36 18 4 14 62 55 +7 58 7th DNQ
2009–10 3 34 11 0 23 35 86 -51 33 17th DNQ
2010–14 Did not participate in league from 2010 to 2014
2014–15 A Regional Varna 4 20 1 2 17 11 52 -41 5 11th DNQ
2015–16 4 22 7 5 10 32 44 -12 26 7th DNQ
2016–17 4 18 4 6 8 14 27 -13 18 7th DNQ
2017–18 4 24 11 7 6 43 33 +10 40 4th DNQ
2018–19 4 22 6 8 8 19 35 -16 26 7th DNQ
2019–20 4 11 2 4 6 13 20 -7 10 9th DNQ
2020–21 4 24 7 8 9 32 33 -1 29 9th DNQ
2021–22 4 20 8 4 8 32 27 +5 28 6th DNQ
2022–23 4 18 9 4 5 28 24 +4 31 4th DNQ
2023–24 4 20 17 2 1 69 15 +54 53 1st ↑ DNQ
2024–25 Third League 3 30 12 6 12 50 48 +2 42 8th Preliminary round Cup of AFL QF Rumen Nikolov 10
2025–26 3 TBD TBD

Key

  • GS = Group stage
  • QF = Quarter-finals
  • SF = Semi-finals
Champions Runners-up Promoted Relegated

References