FC Sevlievo
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| Full name | Football Club Sevlievo | |
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| Founded | December 29, 1922 as SC Rakovski 4 June 2015 as FC Sevlievo | |
| Ground | Stadion Rakovski, Sevlievo | |
| Capacity | 5,000 | |
| Manager | Anatoli Tonov | |
| League | North-West Third League | |
| 2022–23 | North-West Third League, 6th | |
| Website | Club website | |
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FC Sevlievo (
Founded as SC Rakovski in December 1922, the club was declared bankrupt in 2015 and re-founded as FC Sevlievo.
History
Rakovski
The club was founded on 29 December 1922 as SC Rakovski by a group of football enthusiasts of the Association for Tourism in Rositsa. Upon its formation, Ivan Tsochev, Boris Popivanov, and Serafim Ganushev became the president, secretary, and steward respectively. Brothers Sokurov, who played on the team, chose to name it Rakovski in honor of the Bulgarian national hero Georgi Sava Rakovski. They played their first game against Viktoria F.C. from Veliko Tarnovo, ending in a 1:1 draw.
After the reorganization of some of the sports associations in
In 1980, the club was renamed F.C. Rositsa.
Vidima-Rakovski
The team became known as PFC Vidima-Rakovski in 1997, after the union between F.C. Rakovski and F.C. Vidima, a little club of the Vidima Standart Ideal works. In the next 1998-99 season, the team won the Cup of Amateur Bulgarian league.
In the 2002-03 season, with Plamen Markov as head coach, Vidima won promotion to the A Group for the first time ever. Gerasim Zakov scored the club’s first top league goal in a 3-3 draw against Lokomotiv Sofia. The 2003-04 campaign, remembered as the first A PFG season in the club's history, ended in a good 12th place. In the same season, Vidima-Rakovski had their best Bulgarian Cup run, beating Kameno and Belasitsa Petrich before losing to Lokomotiv Sofia in the quarter-finals. In the next campaign, Vidima won just nine games and was relegated back to the second level after two years among the best.
After the
In 2010, Vidima won a third promotion to the top division by winning the Western B PFG. They finished at 14th place in
In the
FC Sevlievo
The club re-formed as FC Sevlievo on 4 June 2015, after Vidima Rakovski declared bankruptcy.[1]
| Period | Kit manufacturer | Shirt partner |
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| 2015–2017 | ASICS
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| 2017–2022 |  Krasiko
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Libra |
| 2022– | ELITBET |
Honours
- First League:
- 12th place (1): 2003–04
- Bulgarian Cup:
- Quarter-finals: - 2003–04
- Second League:
- Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League
- Winners (1): 1998/99
Players
First-team squad
- As of 1 August 2020
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Managers
| Dates | Name | Honours |
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| 2015–2016 | Milen Vankov
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| 2016–2017 | Martin Doychev
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| 2017– | Milen Vankov[2]
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League positions
Shirt and sponsors
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Past seasons
| Season | League | Place | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Bulgarian Cup | ||
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| 2015–16 | V Group (III) |
9 | 13 | 3 | 14 | 49 | 56 | 42 | Did not qualify | ||
| 2016–17 | Third League (III) | 3 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 69 | 33 | 58 | Did not qualify | ||
| 2017–18 | Third League | 2 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 60 | 27 | 64 | First round | ||
| Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation. | |||||||||||
Sevlievo Ladies
| Full name | Football Club Sevlievo Ladies |
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| Ground | Rakovski Stadium, Sevlievo |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Manager | Yoanna Dzhambazova |
| League | Bulgarian Women's League |
| 2022–23 | 5th |
The football club also has a women's sports department named FC Sevlievo Ladies, currently playing in the top tier of Bulgarian Bulgarian Women's League football, Bulgarian Women's League.
First-team squad
- As of 26 August 2023
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Past seasons
| Season | League | Place | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | |||
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| 2015–16 | Bulgarian women's football championship (I) |
7 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 51 | 16 | |||
| 2016–17 | Bulgarian women's football championship |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation. | |||||||||||
References
- ^ Севлиево с нов клуб от есента, ще развива школа
- ^ "Милен Ванков отново е треньор на ФК "Севлиево"" (in Bulgarian). sevlievci.com. 7 July 2017.