The 1988–89 A Group was the 41st season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948. The campaign was won by CSKA Sofia, ten points ahead of Levski Sofia. Spartak Varna and Minyor Pernik were relegated.
Teams Stadiums and locations
Team City Stadium Capacity Beroe Stara Zagora Beroe 18,000 Cherno More Varna Yuri GagarinTicha 35,0008,000 CSKA Sofia Narodna Armia 26,000 Dunav Ruse GradskiDunav 22,00012,000 Etar Veliko Tarnovo Ivaylo 15,000 Levski Sofia LevskiRakovski 40,00018,000 Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa Dimitar Dyulgerov 14,000 Lokomotiv Plovdiv LokomotivDeveti Septemvri 13,00050,000 Lokomotiv Sofia Vasil Levski National Stadium 60,000 Minyor Pernik Minyor 16,000 Pirin Blagoevgrad Hristo Botev (Blagoevgrad) 15,000 Slavia Sofia Slavia 25,000 Sliven Sliven Hadzhi Dimitar 15,000 Spartak Varna Spartak 12,000 Trakia Plovdiv Hristo Botev (Plovdiv) 30,000 Vratsa Vratsa Hristo Botev (Vratsa) 25,000
Personnel Team Manager CaptainBeroe Petko Petkov Petko TenevCherno More Bozhil Kolev Todor MarevCSKA Dimitar Penev Georgi DimitrovDunav Simeon Simeonov Borislav BogomilovEtar Georgi Vasilev Emil DimitrovLevski Vasil Metodiev Petar PetrovLokomotiv GO Todor Velev Angel MinchevLokomotiv Plovdiv Stancho Bonchev Ayan SadakovLokomotiv Sofia Atanas Mihaylov Stoycho StoevMinyor Evlogi Banchev Rumen AndonovPirin Boris Nikolov Petar TsvetkovSlavia Hristo Mladenov Antonio AnanievSliven Lyudmil Goranov Tenko DobrevSpartak Varna Blagoy Kalfov Zhivko GospodinovTrakia Ivan Gluhchev Dimitar MladenovVratsa Petar Kamenov Emil Marinov
League standings
Results
Champions CSKA Sofia Goalkeepers Iliya Valov 23 (0) Rumen Apostolov 10 (0) Defenders Nedyalko Mladenov 22 (0) Stefan Bachev 28 (1) Krasimir Bezinski 25 (0) Georgi Dimitrov 22 (2) Kiril Kachamanov 12 (0) Trifon Ivanov 29 (3) Midfielders Georgi Georgiev 24 (4) Kostadin Yanchev 21 (1) Ivaylo Kirov 26 (4) Petar Vitanov 24 (3) Lachezar Tanev 14 (3) Forwards Hristo Stoichkov 26 (23) Emil Kostadinov 29 (12) Doncho Donev 12 (1) Lyuboslav Penev 22 (21) Plamen Getov* 11 (8) Rumen Stoyanov 3 (0) Manager Dimitar Penev
Getov left the club during a season.
Top scorers RankScorerClubGoals1 Hristo StoichkovCSKA Sofia 232 Lyuboslav PenevCSKA Sofia 213 Vasil DragolovLevski Sofia 184 Preslav GetovEtar Veliko Tarnovo 14 Nikolay PetrunovPirin Blagoevgrad 6 Plamen KazakovSpartak Varna 137 Emil KostadinovCSKA Sofia 12 Petar AleksandrovSlavia Sofia Rosen KrumovLevski Sofia 10 Antim PehlivanovBotev Plovdiv 11 Myumyun KashmerBeroe Stara Zagora
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Dunav 13,400 2 CSKA Sofia 12,667 3 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 10,500 4 Levski 9,071 5 Beroe 9,000 6 Trakia 8,538 7 Lokomotiv GO 8,367 8 Cherno More 8,357 9 Etar 8,000 10 Sliven 7,857 11 Pirin 7,286 12 Minyor 6,633 13 Botev 6,600 14 Varna 5,867 15 Slavia Sofia 4,480 16 Lokomotiv Sofia 4,287Source:
References
External links Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)