FC National Sofia

National Sofia (Bulgarian: Национал София) is a Bulgarian association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the A RFG Sofia, the fourth division of the Bulgarian football league system. National's home ground is the NSA Stadium which has a capacity of 2,500 spectators.

National was establimished in 2003 as youth academy by Blagomir Mutin, who studied for football coach, but could not find a job, so decided to start his own academy.^[1] By 2015, the academy become the largest in Bulgaria.^[2] In 2017 the academy started a partnership with Dinamo Zagreb.^[3]

Having the success of being part of almost every youth league in Bulgaria, National finally decided to start a first team in 2023 and joined B Regional Group - Sofia.^[4] The team won the league and got promoted to A RFG Sofia in 2024, starting with 12 consecutive wins.^[5] The team begome popular with joining charity initiatives.^[6] In August 2024 the team got involved in an accident with Levski Academy, when a fight was started between managers and parrents of both clubs.^[7] In 2024 the team was eliminated by Rilski Sportist in the preliminary round for Bulgarian Cup.^[8] In September 2024, National's head coach, Rosen Ilkov was signed by Saudi Arabian women's team United Eagles and his place was taken by Stanislav Katrankov.^[9] In 2024-25 season they missed the chance to qualify for Third League, but at the start of 2025-26 season they were one of few team to have team in every Elite Youth leagues (U18, U17, U16, U15).^[10]

As of 19 September 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.

• Official website
• bgclubs.eu