Petar Shopov

Petar Shopov
Personal information
Full namePetar Ivanov Shopov
Date of birth14 January 1978
Place of birthBansko, Bulgaria
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing positionStriker
Club information
Current team
Vihren
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1996-1997Levski Sofia0(0)
1997-1998Pirin Blagoevgrad25(10)
1998-1999Levski Sofia18(4)
1999-2000Pirin Blagoevgrad10(1)
2000-2002Slavia Sofia35(8)
2002-2004Železnik Belgrade42(12)
2004Slavia Sofia13(1)
2004-2005NK Mura17(2)
2005-2006Pirin Blagoevgrad12(2)
2006Kairat Almaty11(1)
2006-2007Kastoria29(5)
2007-2008Digenis Morphou14(2)
2008-2009Anagennisi Karditsa5(0)
2009Sportist Svoge8(1)
2010Septemvri Simitli14(1)
2011-Vihren1(0)
National team
1997-1999U-2113(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 April 2011.
† Appearances (Goals).

Petar Ivanov Shopov (Bulgarian: Петър Иванов Шопов ; born 14 January 1978 in Bansko) is a Bulgarian professional football player, who currently plays for Vihren in the West B PFG.

Career

He started his career playing with Levski Sofia however during the 1996-97 season he only made one official appearance in the Cup being loaned in the next season to Pirin Blagoevgrad, where he scored 10 goals in 25 games and became top scorer of the team. Soon he had a chance back at the Bulgarian giants Levski but after one season he returned to his previous club on loan again.[1] But he will be back to the capital, in January 2000, this time to play in Slavia Sofia where he stayed for two years. Petar Shopov's first adventure abroad was in January 2002, when he signed for the Serbian top league club FK Železnik from Belgrade. In two years he scored 12 goals. After spending another season in Sofia with Slavia again, he signed with the Slovenian club NK Mura where he played one season before returning to his first professional club Pirin in 2005. In 2006 he had a short spell in Kazakhstan first league club FC Kairat Almaty, before moving to Greece to play first in Kastoria F.C.,where he became top scorer of the team and then in Anagennisi Karditsa. In the middle he had a stint in Cypros with Digenis Morphou. In the summer of 2009, Shopov returned to Bulgaria, signing a contract with Sportist Svoge. However he left at the end of the year. In 2010, Petar signed a contract with West B PFG club Septemvri Simitli.[2]

References

  1. Petar SHopov at Levski official website
  2. Petar Shopov at FootballDatabase

External sources