FC Krumovgrad

Football Club Krumovgrad 1925 (Футболен клуб Крумовград 1925) is a football club based in Krumovgrad, Bulgaria. which currently competes in the First League, the top level of Bulgarian football league system. The team plays its home matches at the local Krumovgrad Stadium, but for 2023–24 season they play at Sport Complex Nikola Shterev - Starika in Plovdiv.

Establishment and regional leagues
Original club was founded as Levski Krumovgrad in 1925, the team mostly played in the regional leagues. For a short period the team did not exist, but in 2005, the team was refounded under the name Levski 2005.

FC Krumovgrad and professional leagues (2021-present)
In 2021 the team won a promotion to the Bulgarian Third League and indicated serious ambitions to win the group and be promoted to the professional football with Stefan Genov becoming a manager. On 21 September 2021 they eliminated the First League team of Tsarsko Selo. In October 2021, the club changed its name from Levski 2005 to Krumovgrad and adopted a new badge. In February 2022 Krumovgrad signed with Daniel Cerejido, the chief executive officer of Botev Plovdiv. On 14 March 2022 the club won South-East Third League and was promoted to the Second League for the first time in their history. On 26 May 2023 Krumovgrad secured their promotion to First League, for the first time in their history by finishing third in the second division, a place granting automatic promotion to the first league.

For the 2023-2024 season, the club played its home games at the Komatevo ground in Plovdiv, due to its own stadium not meeting the requirements for hosting top division matches. The opener of Krumovgrad's maiden season in the first flight was an unlikely 3:1 victory at home, against reigning efbet League champions Ludogorets.

Honours

 * Bulgarian Cup:
 * Round of 16 (1): 2021–22


 * Third League
 * Winners (1): 2021–22

Colours and badge
Krumovgrad plays in blue and yellow colours.

Squad
For recent transfers, see Transfers winter 2023–24 and Transfers summer 2024.

Foreign players
Up to five non-EU nationals can be registered and given a squad number for the first team in the Bulgarian First Professional League however only three can be used in a match day. Those non-EU nationals with European ancestry can claim citizenship from the nation their ancestors came from. If a player does not have European ancestry he can claim Bulgarian citizenship after playing in Bulgaria for 5 years.

EU Nationals
 * Matej Šimić

EU Nationals (Dual citizenship)
 * 🇸🇳 🇫🇷 Lamine Tall
 * 🇧🇷 Diego Raposo
 * 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 Vyacheslav Velyev

Non-EU Nationals
 * 🇧🇷 Patrick Luan
 * 🇧🇷 Renan Areias
 * 🇧🇷 Lucas Santana
 * 🇧🇷 Matheus Souza

Notable players
For all players with a Wikipedia article see Category:FC Krumovgrad players.

The footballers enlisted below have international caps for their respective countries or more than 100 caps for Krumovgrad. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries.


 * Bulgaria
 * 🇧🇬 Aleksandar Kolev
 * 🇧🇬 Blagoy Makendzhiev
 * 🇧🇬 Dimitar Pirgov
 * 🇧🇬 Momchil Tsvetanov
 * 🇧🇬 Serkan Yusein


 * Europe
 * 🇲🇩 Alexandru Osipov

Past seasons
Key


 * GS = Group stage
 * QF = Quarter-finals
 * SF = Semi-finals

Goalscoring and appearance records

 * Players in bold are still playing for Krumovgrad.