1953 A Group

The 1953 A Group was the fifth season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

A Group
Season1953
ChampionsLevski Sofia
(8th title)
Matches played223
Goals scored484 (2.17 per match)
Top goalscorerDimitar Minchev
(15 goals)
← 1952
1954 →

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.[1]

League standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Relegation
1 Levski Sofia (C) 28 19 5 4 48 22 +26 43
2 CSKA Sofia 28 18 6 4 64 23 +41 42
3 Cherno More Varna 28 12 7 9 29 20 +9 31
4 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 28 9 13 6 30 29 +1 31
5 Slavia Sofia 28 9 12 7 42 33 +9 30
6 Spartak Pleven 28 9 12 7 29 29 0 30
7 Lokomotiv Sofia 28 10 9 9 30 32 −2 29
8 Minyor Pernik 28 11 6 11 33 35 −2 28
9 Spartak Plovdiv 28 9 9 10 29 29 0 27
10 Akademik Varna (R) 28 9 7 12 26 43 −17 25 Relegation to 1954 B Group
11 Botev Plovdiv (R) 28 8 8 12 29 31 −2 24
12 Spartak Sofia (R) 28 5 14 9 24 34 −10 24
13 Stroitel Sofia (R) 28 5 12 11 22 29 −7 22
14 VVS Sofia (R) 28 6 9 13 26 35 −9 21
15 Marek Dupnitsa (R) 28 3 7 18 23 60 −37 13
– Unified team of VSO[lower-alpha 1] (R) 13 11 0 2 37 8 +29 0[lower-alpha 2]
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. "Unified team of volunteer's sport organisations" is the name of the national football team of Bulgaria which participated in the league
  2. Results annulled

Results
Home \ Away AVA BPD CHM CSK LEV LPL LSO MAR MIN SLA SPL SPD SSF STR VVS
Akademik Varna 0–1 1–0 0–1 0–4 2–2 0–2 3–0[lower-alpha 1] 3–2 2–0 0–0 2–1 3–1 0–0 1–0
Botev Plovdiv 1–1 1–1 0–3 0–1 0–1 0–1 3–0[lower-alpha 1] 1–2 2–2 4–0 0–0 0–0 2–2 3–0
Cherno More 0–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 2–1 3–2 1–0 3–0 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 3–2
CSKA Sofia 7–0 2–0 0–0 0–1 5–0 3–1 3–0[lower-alpha 1] 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–1 7–1 2–2 1–0
Levski Sofia 4–1 0–1 1–0 0–5 5–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 3–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv 0–0 2–0 0–0 0–1 0–2 0–0 4–3 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
Lokomotiv Sofia 3–1 0–1 2–0 0–4 0–3 2–2 3–0[lower-alpha 1] 0–1 0–5 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–1 1–1
Marek Dupnitsa 2–2 1–0 0–0 1–2 0–3[lower-alpha 1] 0–3[lower-alpha 1] 1–1 1–2 0–3[lower-alpha 1] 2–2 4–1 0–0 1–0 1–3
Minyor Pernik 2–0 1–4 3–2 1–3 1–2 1–1 0–1 4–1 2–3 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–0
Slavia Sofia 1–1 5–2 0–2 1–2 1–2 1–1 1–2 1–1 0–3 2–1 0–0 4–1 1–1 2–0
Spartak Pleven 3–0 0–0 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 4–2 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 3–0 1–0
Spartak Plovdiv 1–0 2–1 0–3 0–1 3–0 1–1 1–0 4–0 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 2–1
Spartak Sofia 1–0 1–2 1–0 2–2 1–1 3–3 0–0 3–0[lower-alpha 1] 2–0 0–0 2–3 1–1 0–0 1–1
Stroitel Sofia 3–0 1–0 0–1 2–2 3–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 0–0
VVS Sofia 1–2 0–0 2–1 3–0 2–3 0–3 2–2 1–0 3–0 0–3 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–2
Source: A PFG (in Bulgarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. Marek Dupnitsa was excluded after spectator riots in the match against Minyor Pernik. The remaining eight matches were rated 0–3 for the opponents.

Champions
Levski Sofia
Goalkeepers
Bulgaria Simeon Kostov190(0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Elenkov080(0)
Defenders
Bulgaria Metodi Angelovski200(0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Dimitrov010(0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Iliev190(0)
Italy Amedeo Kleva240(0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Doychinov080(0)
Bulgaria Ivan Dimchev230(0)
Midfielders
Bulgaria Dragan Georgiev110(1)
Bulgaria Aleksandar Krastev170(0)
Bulgaria Lyubomir Hranov170(3)
Bulgaria Aleksandar Bahchevandzhiev010(0)
Bulgaria Dimitar Kontev020(0)
Bulgaria Ivan Georgiev140(1)
Bulgaria Stefan Abadzhiev140(5)
Forwards
Bulgaria Dimitar Andonov21(12)
Bulgaria Arsen Dimitrov040(1)
Bulgaria Vasil Spasov24(10)
Bulgaria Todor Stoyanov040(0)
Bulgaria Todor Takev250(6)
Bulgaria Dimitar Popdimitrov010(0)
Bulgaria Georgi Kardashev060(1)
Bulgaria Yordan Tomov200(4)
Manager
Bulgaria Dimitar Mutafchiev

Top scorers
Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Bulgaria Dimitar Minchev Spartak Pleven
VVS Sofia		 15
2 Bulgaria Dimitar Andonov Levski Sofia 12
3 Bulgaria Kiril Nikolov Marek Dupnitsa 11
4 Bulgaria Vasil Spasov Levski Sofia 10

References
  1. "Сини „старци" крадат злато за червена сметка" (in Bulgarian). temasport.com. 9 September 2012.
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