Bulgaria national under-21 football team

Bulgaria U-21
Nickname(s)	Лъвчетата / Lavchetata; (The Young Lions)
Association	Bulgarian Football Union (BFU)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Aleksandar Dimitrov
Captain	Dominik Yankov
Most caps	Petar Mihtarski (51)
Top scorer	Atanas Mihaylov (31)
Home stadium	Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov
FIFA code	BUL
First colours	Second colours

The Bulgaria national under-21 football team (Bulgarian: Mладежки национален отбор на България по футбол)^[1] is considered to be the feeder team for the Bulgaria national football team. This team is for Bulgarian players aged under 21 at the start of the calendar year in which a two-year UEFA European Under-21 Championship campaign begins, so some players can remain with the squad until the age of 23.

Competition results

Champions Runners-Up Semi-Finals Other Top Results

Balkan Youth Championship

Year	Rank
1968	Champions
1970	Champions
1973	Champions

UEFA U-21 European Championship

Year	Rank
1972	Semi-Finals
1974	Quarter-Finals
1976	Quarter-Finals
1978	Semi-Finals
1990	Quarter-Finals

UEFA Euro 2025 Qualifier

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	4	4	0	0	13	4	+9	12	Final tournament	—	3–1	11 Oct '24	22 Mar '24	4–1	26 Mar '24
2	Poland	5	4	0	1	12	4	+8	12	Play-offs	15 Oct '24	—	26 Mar '24	3–0	5–0	2–1
3	Bulgaria	6	2	3	1	13	7	+6	9		2–3	10 Sep '24	—	1–1	6–0	1–0
4	Kosovo	6	2	2	2	8	10	−2	8		0–3	11 Oct '24	2–2	—	2–0	3–1
5	Estonia	6	0	1	5	2	19	−17	1		10 Sep '24	0–1	1–1	15 Oct '24	—	6 Sep '24
6	Israel	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0		TBD	21 Mar '24	15 Oct '24	10 Sep '24	TBD	—

Updated to match(es) played on 21 November 2023. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Recent fixtures

Win Draw Loss

25 March 2022 (2022-03-25) UEFA Euro 2023 qualification	Bulgaria	0–0	Netherlands	Sofia, Bulgaria
19:45 (EET)		Report		Stadium: Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov Attendance: 332 Referee: Sandi Putros (Denmark)

29 March 2022 (2022-03-29) UEFA Euro 2023 qualification	Wales	1–1	Bulgaria	Newport, Wales
17:00 (EET)	Pearson 63'	Report	Nikolov 61'	Stadium: Rodney Parade Attendance: 210 Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

4 June 2022 (2022-06-04) UEFA Euro 2023 qualification	Switzerland	1–0	Bulgaria	Lugano, Switzerland
19:00	Rieder 56'	Report		Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 1,125 Referee: Gustavo Fernandes Correia (Portugal)

11 June 2022 (2022-06-11) UEFA Euro 2023 qualification	Gibraltar	1–1	Bulgaria	Gibraltar
20:00	Peacock 83' (pen.)	Report	Nikolov 57'	Stadium: Victoria Stadium Attendance: 480 Referee: Alessandro Dudic (Switzerland)

23 September 2022 (2022-09-23) Friendly	Hungary	1–0	Bulgaria	Szombathely, Hungary
19:00	Kocsis 1'	Report		Stadium: Haladás Sportkomplexum

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27) Friendly	Bulgaria	1–1	Serbia	Sofia, Bulgaria
17:00	Tsenov 37'	Report	Ratkov 8'	Stadium: Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov
Note: The game was abandoned at half-time due to a thunderstorm.

21 November 2022 (2022-11-21) Friendly	Slovenia	0–0	Bulgaria	Murska Sobota, Slovenia
18:30		Report		Stadium: Fazanerija City Stadium

25 November 2022 (2022-11-25) Friendly	Bulgaria	0–3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
18:00		Report	Bašić 20' (pen.) Bristrić 33' Šošić 57'	Stadium: Stadion Hristo Botev

25 March 2023 (2023-03-25) Friendly tournament	Bulgaria	0–1	Slovakia	Antalya, Turkey
17:30 (UTC+03:00)		Report	Trabalik 69'	Stadium: Bellis Sports Center

28 March 2023 (2023-03-28) Friendly tournament	Bulgaria	0–2	Finland	Antalya, Turkey
17:30 (UTC+03:00)			Sadiku 55' Liimatta 73'	Stadium: Bellis Sports Center

15 June 2023 (2023-06-15) Friendly	Bulgaria	1–0	Montenegro	Plovdiv, Bulgaria
17:30 (UTC+03:00)	Nikolov 73'			Stadium: Hristo Botev Stadium

20 June 2023 (2023-06-20) Friendly	Albania	3–1	Bulgaria	Elbasan, Albania
18:30 (UTC+03:00)	Shpendi 10' Kurtulan 14' Berisha 49'		Stoyanov 24'	Stadium: Elbasan Arena

7 September 2023 (2023-09-07) UEFA Euro 2025 qualification	Estonia	1–1	Bulgaria	Tallinn, Estonia
16:30 (EET)	Šapovalov 15'		Nikolov 8'	Stadium: Kadriorg Stadium

12 September 2023 (2023-09-12) UEFA Euro 2025 qualification	Bulgaria	1–0	Israel	Sofia, Bulgaria
18:00 (EET)	Iliev 50'			Stadium: Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov

13 October 2023 (2023-10-13) UEFA Euro 2025 qualification	Bulgaria	2–3	Germany	Sofia, Bulgaria
	Shopov 25' Iliev 90+3'	Report	Moukoko 40', 49', 69'	Stadium: Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov Referee: Nathan Verboomen (Belgium)

17 October 2023 (2023-10-17) UEFA Euro 2025 qualification	Bulgaria	1–1	Kosovo	Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov, Sofia
	Sorakov 90+1'	Report	Tahiri 8' (pen.)	Attendance: 358 Referee: Jan Petrik (Czech Republic)

17 November 2023 (2023-11-17) UEFA Euro 2025 qualification	Kosovo	2–2	Bulgaria	Zahir Pajaziti Stadium, Podujevo
	Tahiri 34', 59'	Report	Sorakov 8' Petkov 45'	Attendance: 200 Referee: Patrik Kolarić (Croatia)

21 November 2023 (2023-11-21) UEFA Euro 2025 qualification	Bulgaria	6–0	Estonia	Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov, Sofia
	Nikolov 50', 60', 85' Veering 65' (o.g.) Mitkov 66' Raychev 88'	Report		Attendance: 178 Referee: David Dickinson (Scotland)

26 March 2024 UEFA Euro 2025 qualification

Poland

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Bulgaria

Poland

10 September 2024 UEFA Euro 2025 qualification

Bulgaria

v

Poland

Bulgaria

11 October 2024 UEFA Euro 2025 qualification

Germany

v

Bulgaria

Germany

15 October 2024 UEFA Euro 2025 qualification

Israel

v

Bulgaria

Israel

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Aleksandar Dimitrov
Assistant manager	Ivaylo Yordanov Yavor Valchinov

Last updated: 20 December 2018
Source: https://bfunion.bg/news/45742/0

Manager history

Tenure	Head Coach
2000–2001	Dimitar Aleksiev
2002	Ivan Kolev
2003–2006	Petar Miladinov
2006–2007	Aleksandar Stankov
2008–2009	Ivan Kolev
2010–2013	Mihail Madanski
2014–2018	Antoni Zdravkov
2018–	Aleksandar Dimitrov

Players

Current squad

The following players were called up for the UEFA Euro 2025 qualification matches against Germany and Kosovo on 13 and 17 October 2023 respectively.^[2]

Caps and goals correct as of 13 October 2023, after the match against Germany.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1GK	Damyan Hristov	(2002-11-10) 10 November 2002	11	0	Ludogorets Razgrad
1GK	Plamen Andreev	(2004-12-15) 15 December 2004	5	0	Levski Sofia
1GK	Nikola Videnov	(2002-03-22) 22 March 2002	0	0	Spartak Varna

2DF	Atanas Chernev	(2002-03-25) 25 March 2002	12	0	Botev Plovdiv
2DF	Hristiyan Petrov	(2002-06-24) 24 June 2002	11	0	CSKA Sofia
2DF	Veljko Jelenković	(2003-06-05) 5 June 2003	6	0	Slavia Sofia
2DF	Simeon Vasilev	(2005-10-24) 24 October 2005	2	0	CSKA 1948 II
2DF	Martin Stoychev	(2003-10-17) 17 October 2003	2	0	Arda Kardzhali
2DF	Efe Ali	(2003-01-03) 3 January 2003	0	0	Lokomotiv Plovdiv

3MF	Martin Atanasov	(2002-01-19) 19 January 2002	14	0	Minyor Pernik
3MF	Stanislav Shopov	(2002-02-23) 23 February 2002	13	2	CSKA Sofia
3MF	Emanuel Mirchev	(2002-02-09) 9 February 2002	12	0	Teutonia Ottensen
3MF	Emil Tsenov	(2002-04-26) 26 April 2002	11	1	CSKA 1948
3MF	Bozhidar Penchev	(2002-03-13) 13 March 2002	7	0	Beroe Stara Zagora
3MF	Kristiyan Stoyanov	(2003-04-29) 29 April 2003	7	0	Slavia Sofia
3MF	Nikolay Zlatev	(2004-12-12) 12 December 2004	7	0	Cherno More
3MF	Valentin Nikolov	(2003-10-15) 15 October 2003	5	0	Lokomotiv Sofia
3MF	Nikola Iliev	(2004-06-06) 6 June 2004	3	2	CSKA 1948
3MF	Asen Mitkov	(2005-02-17) 17 February 2005	3	0	Levski Sofia

4FW	Roberto Raychev	(2005-05-07) 7 May 2005	7	0	Slavia Sofia
4FW	Georgi Nikolov	(2002-07-05) 5 July 2002	6	2	Hebar Pazardzhik
4FW	Martin Sorakov	(2003-10-23) 23 October 2003	6	0	Krumovgrad
4FW	Daniel Lyubomirov	(2004-01-01) 1 January 2004	4	0	Alavés
4FW	Petar Andreev	(2004-06-02) 2 June 2004	3	0	Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Recent call ups

The following players have previously been called up to the Bulgaria under-21 squad and remain eligible.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Hristiyan Slavkov	(2003-02-26) 26 February 2003	2	0	Etar Veliko Tarnovo

DF	Martin Georgiev	(2005-09-24) 24 September 2005	3	0	Barcelona
DF	Kaloyan Kostov	(2004-05-04) 4 May 2004	2	0	Benfica
DF	Rosen Stefanov	(2002-11-27) 27 November 2002	2	0	Cherno More
DF	Todor Pavlov	(2004-07-31) 31 July 2004	1	0	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	v. Finland, 27 March 2023
DF	Dzhan Hasan	(2002-05-04) 4 May 2002	1	0	Dunav Ruse	v. Finland, 27 March 2023
DF	Luka Ivanov	(2003-12-31) 31 December 2003	0	0	Lokomotiv Sofia	v. Finland, 27 March 2023
DF	Dimo Krastev	(2003-02-10) 10 February 2003	6	0	Fiorentina	v. Serbia, 27 September 2022 ^A
DF	Lazar Boyanov	(2003-04-01) 1 April 2003	0	0	Marinhense	v. Serbia, 27 September 2022

MF	Kristiyan Stoyanov	(2003-04-29) 29 April 2003	6	0	Slavia Sofia
MF	Krasian Kolev	(2004-01-18) 18 January 2004	4	0	Botev Plovdiv
MF	Chung Nguyen Do	(2005-05-23) 23 May 2005	2	0	Slavia Sofia
MF	Sewen Emilov	(2003-08-05) 5 August 2003	0	0	Falkenbergs FF
MF	Martin Smolenski	(2003-03-08) 8 March 2003	3	0	Pirin Blagoevgrad	v. Finland, 27 March 2023
MF	Biser Bonev	(2003-06-04) 4 June 2003	0	0	Botev Plovdiv II	v. Serbia, 27 September 2022

FW	Martin Petkov	(2002-08-15) 15 August 2002	11	1	Septemvri Sofia
FW	Simeon Aleksandrov	(2003-09-24) 24 September 2003	6	0	Septemvri Sofia
FW	Ivan Tasev	(2002-04-27) 27 April 2002	5	0	Pirin Blagoevgrad
FW	Mark-Emilio Papazov	(2003-10-08) 8 October 2003	3	0	Hebar Pazardzhik
FW	Miroslav Marinov	(2004-03-07) 7 March 2004	3	0	Botev Vratsa	v. Finland, 27 March 2023

Notes

^A = Not part of the current squad due to being called up to the senior team.
^INJ = Not part of the current squad due to injury.
^COVID = Withdrawn from the current squad due to suffering from COVID-19.

References

↑ Mladezhki natsionalen otbor na Balgariya po futbol, literally "Bulgaria national youth football team".
↑ "Състав на България U21 за евроквалификациите срещу Германия и Косово" (in Bulgarian). Български футболен съюз. 7 October 2023. Retrieved 14 June 2023.

External links

Official website (in Bulgarian)
UEFA Under-21 website, complete results archive
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, full record of U-21 and U-23 Championships

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[1] Mladezhki natsionalen otbor na Balgariya po futbol, literally "Bulgaria national youth football team".

[2] "Състав на България U21 за евроквалификациите срещу Германия и Косово" (in Bulgarian). Български футболен съюз. 7 October 2023. Retrieved 14 June 2023.

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