The 2007–08 A Group was the 60th season of the Bulgarian A Football Group since its establishment in 1948 and the 84th of a Bulgarian national top football division. The season began on 11 August 2007 and ended on 17 May 2008. CSKA Sofia won their 31st record league title. Last time they scooped the title was in 2004–05 season. CSKA won the league without a single defeat, 16 points ahead of their archrival Levski Sofia.
Despite the convincing results during the season, CSKA failed to get a UEFA license to participate in the Champions League due to unpaid debts. The guilt for the disaster in the club was taken by their chairman Aleksandar Tomov.
Teams Team changes At the end of the last season, Conegliano German, Rodopa Smolyan, and Rilski Sportist Samokov were relegated after finishing in the bottom three places of the 2006–07 season. Conegliano and Rilski Sportist survived only one season in the elite, while Rodopa ended a four-year stint in the A Group.
The relegated teams were replaced by three teams from the 2006–07 B Group, including the winners of the East and West B Groups, as well as the playoff winner decided between the runner-ups of the two B Groups. Chernomorets Burgas and Pirin Blagoevgrad were promoted directly, while Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo defeated Naftex Burgas to gain the last promotion spot. Chernomorets made its debut in the top tier of Bulgarian football, Pirin return after a one-year absence, while Vidima-Rakovski return after a two-year absence.
Stadia and locations
Team Location Stadium CapacityBelasitsaPetrichTsar Samuil Stadium 9,500BeroeStara ZagoraBeroe Stadium 13,512BotevPlovdivHristo Botev Stadium 22,000Cherno MoreVarnaTicha Stadium 8,250ChernomoretsBurgasLazur Stadium 18,037CSKASofiaBalgarska Armiya Stadium 22,015LevskiSofiaGeorgi Asparuhov Stadium 29,200LitexLovechLovech Stadium 7,050LokomotivPlovdivLokomotiv 13,800LokomotivSofiaLokomotiv Sofia 22,000MarekDupnitsaBonchuk Stadium 16,050PirinBlagoevgradHristo Botev Stadium1 11,000SlaviaSofiaOvcha Kupel Stadium 18,000SpartakVarnaSpartak Stadium 7,500Vidima-RakovskiSevlievoRakovski Stadium 8,816VihrenSandanskiSandanski Stadium 6,000 1^. Stadiums of Botev Plovdiv and Pirin Blagoevgrad have the same names, but they are placed in different cities.
League table
Results
Champions CSKA Sofia Goalkeepers1 Daniel Bekono 0 (0)12 Ivaylo Petrov 28 (0)22 Ilko Pirgov 2 (0) Defenders2 Nenad Nastić 7 (0)3 Aleksandar Tunchev 26 (3)6 Kiril Kotev 18 (0)13 Nikola Vujadinović 24 (1)14 Valentin Iliev* 14 (1)15 Robert Petrov 0 (0)27 Quido Lanzaat 8 (0)30 Yordan Todorov 26 (1)84 Filipe Machado 15 (2) Midfielders5 Todor Yanchev 28 (2)10 Georgi Iliev 16 (1)11 Emil Gargorov 13 (0)16 Ivaylo Dimitrov 1 (0)17 Zé Rui 13 (0)18 Florentin Petre 24 (11)20 Yordan Yurukov 8 (1)21 Chigozie Udoji 23 (1)23 Abderrahman Kabous* 8 (0)24 Aleksandar Tonev 2 (0)28 Marquinhos 25 (1) Forwards8 Velizar Dimitrov 24 (4)9 José Luis Garcés 14 (3)19 Evgeni Yordanov 8 (1)99 Nei 29 (14) Kevin Amuneke* 10 (2) Georgi Chilikov* 12 (3) Manager Stoycho Mladenov
Iliev, Kabous, Amuneke and Chilikov left the club during a season.
Top scorers RankScorerClubGoals1 Georgi HristovBotev Plovdiv2 NeiCSKA Sofia3 Marcho DafchevLokomotiv Sofia Zoran BaldovalievLokomotiv Sofia5 Aleksandar AleksandrovCherno More Varna6 Plamen KrumovChernomorets Burgas Florentin PetreCSKA Sofia Ivelin PopovLitex Lovech9 Germán PietrobonPirin Blagoevgrad10 Anatoli TodorovLokomotiv Plovdiv Miroslav ManolovCherno More Varna Ivan NaydenovSpartak Varna
Attendances
# Club Average 1 CSKA Sofia 5,313 2 Botev 5,000 3 Beroe 4,967 4 Levski 4,940 5 Cherno More 4,533 6 Chernomorets 2,953 7 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 2,833 8 Pirin 2,627 9 Vihren 2,227 10 Varna 2,097 11 Lokomotiv Sofia 1,947 12 Belasitsa 1,940 13 Lovech 1,687 14 Slavia Sofia 1,291 15 Vidima-Rakovski 1,147 16 Marek 748Source:
References
External links 2007–08 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com