Bulgaria national under-21 football team

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Bulgaria Under-21

Nickname(s)

The Lions (Lavovete) (лъвовете)

Association

Bulgarian Football Union

Head coach

Aleksandar Stankov

Captain

Ivelin Popov

Most caps

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Top scorer

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First kit





Second kit

First International
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Biggest defeat
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UEFA U-21 Championship

Appearances

2 (First in 1978)

Best result

semi-finalists 1978

The Bulgaria national under-21 football team (Bulgarian: младежки национален отбор на България по футбол, mladezhki natsionalen otbor na Balgariya po futbol) is the national under-21 football team of Bulgaria and is controlled by the Bulgarian Football Union. The team competes in the European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years.

1 UEFA U-23 Championship record
2 UEFA U-21 Championship record
3 Squad
4 See also
5 References and external links

[edit] UEFA U-23 Championship record

The Bulgaria national under-23 football team was the first ever champion in the UEFA Under-23 Challenge Cup. The team defended the title four times between June 1967 and April 1967: against East Germany, Finland, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands before losing it to Yugoslavia in October 1968.

1972: semi-finalists
1974: quarter-finalists
1976: quarter-finalists

[edit] UEFA U-21 Championship record

1978: semi-finalists
1980: qualifying stage
1982: qualifying stage
1984: qualifying stage
1986: qualifying stage
1988: qualifying stage
1990: quarter-finalists
1992: qualifying stage
1994: qualifying stage
1996: qualifying stage
1998: qualifying stage
2000: qualifying stage
2002: qualifying stage
2004: qualifying stage
2006: qualifying stage

The Bulgarian under-21 team has also qualified for the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship play-offs by dominating Qualifying Group 12 after two wins against 2006 Championship finalists Ukraine (3:0 away) and the team of Croatia (2:1 home). The Under-21s were aided by senior team stars Valeri Bojinov (Juventus F.C.) and Chavdar Yankov (Hannover 96) for these matches. Other of the team's distinguished players as of 2006 include Tsvetan Genkov (PFC Lokomotiv Sofia) and Valeri Domovchiyski (PFC Levski Sofia).