Kristiyan Kitov

Kristiyan Kitov (Bulgarian: Кристиян Китов; born 14 October 1996) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Strumska Slava Radomir.[1] He is the youngest debutant and goalscorer for Ludogorets.

Kristiyan Kitov
Personal information
Full name Kristiyan Dimitrov Kitov
Date of birth (1996-10-14) 14 October 1996
Place of birth Sofia, Bulgaria
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+12 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Strumska Slava
Number 20
Youth career
0000–2012 CSKA Sofia
2012–2015 Ludogorets Razgrad
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2018 Ludogorets Razgrad 4 (1)
2015–2018 Ludogorets Razgrad II 31 (0)
2018 Lokomotiv GO 12 (2)
2019– Strumska Slava 96 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 08:21, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Career

Ludogorets Razgrad

Born in Sofia, Kitov began his football career from CSKA Sofia, before moving to Ludogorets Razgrad. He was the captain of the U19 team who took a part of 2014–15 season of UEFA Youth League.[2]

Kitov become the youngest player to debut for the first team, coming in play at 15 years 11 months 25 days in match against Dunav Ruse in the Bulgarian Cup.[3] He completed his professional debut in A Group on 18 May 2014 scoring a goal for the 3:1 win over Cherno More, becoming the youngest goalscorer for Ludogorets at age 16 years 7 months 4 days.[4] For the 2015–16 season Kitov was part of the newly created second team of Ludogorets in B Group playing not very often due to injuries. Three years later, on 28 May 2017, he returned in the first team and played for the First League again against Cherno More and the team won with the same result.[5]

Kitov started the 2017–18 season in Ludogorets II playing in the first match of the season against Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia.[6]

On 30 May 2018 Kitov ended his contract with Ludogorets due to mutual agreement, because he couldn't find a place in the first team and the team didn't want to stop his development.[7]

Lokomotiv GO

On 7 July 2018 Kitov signed a contract with the Bulgarian Second League team Lokomotiv GO.[8]

Career statistics

Club

As of 29 November 2018
Club performanceLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotal
ClubLeagueSeasonAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
BulgariaLeagueBulgarian CupEuropeOther[lower-alpha 1]Total
Ludogorets Razgrad A Group 2013–14 1120000031
2014–15 0000000000
2015–16 0000000000
First League 2016–17 20000020
2017–18 10000010
Total 4120000061
Ludogorets Razgrad II B Group 2015–16 7070
Second League 2016–17 3030
2017–18 210210
Total 310000000310
Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa Second League 2018–19 12210132
Career statistics473300000503
  1. Includes Bulgarian Supercup matches.

Honours

Club

Ludogorets

References

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