Bulgarian Supercup

The Bulgarian Supercup (Bulgarian: Суперкупа на България) is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and the holder of the Bulgarian Cup at that time. In case the champion of Bulgaria has also won the cup, the Bulgarian Cup finalist competes with the champion in the match for the trophy.

Bulgarian Football Supercup

Founded	1989 2004; (restored)
Country	Bulgaria
Confederation	UEFA
Number of teams	2
Current champions	Lokomotiv Plovdiv (2nd title)
Most championships	CSKA Sofia Ludogorets Razgrad (4 wins each)
Website	Official Site

The Supercup match is usually held during the weekend before the start of a new season. Since 2004 the Supercup game has been an annual event. The most successful club in the event is Ludogorets Razgrad with four Supercup titles and three times being runners-up. Ludogorets Razgrad is the club that has participated in most seasons of the Supercup with seven appearances. The competition has been dominated by Sofia-based teams. The Sofia teams have won together a total number of 7 titles.

History

Inaugural Event 1989

Bulgarian Supercup 1989

The first match for the Bulgarian Supercup was held in 1989. The match was proposed by Kiril Zaharinov, sports editor at the Bulgarian News Agency and secretary of the union of the Bulgarian sport journalists at that time.

The match was held at 9th September Stadium in Burgas, opposing 1988-89 Bulgarian champion and Cup holder CFKA Sredets (now CSKA Sofia) and the runner-up in the 1988–89 edition of the Bulgarian Cup Chernomorets Burgas. CSKA won the match 1-0 thanks to a goal by Hristo Stoichkov.

The first Supercup trophy was made in Italy and was 80 cm tall, weighing 15 kg. Today it is kept in the CSKA Sofia museum.

Since 2004

Bulgarian Supercup (2007-2011)

Bulgarian Supercup (2011-)

After the political changes of 1989 in Eastern Europe the Bulgarian Supercup match was suspended. Fourteen years later the Bulgarian Professional Football League in association with the Bulgarian Football Union decided to restore the event organising a Supercup match between the champion of the 2003-04 season Lokomotiv Plovdiv and the 2003–04 Bulgarian Cup holder Litex Lovech. The match was held at Naftex Stadium in Burgas and Lokomotiv won 1-0 after a last-minute goal by Ivan Paskov.

Since the restoration of the tournament in 2004 eight teams have participated in the event and six of them have managed to win the trophy - Lokomotiv Plovdiv (winners in 2004), Levski Sofia (winners in 2005, 2007 and 2009), CSKA Sofia (winners in 2006, 2008 and 2011), Litex Lovech (winners in 2010), Ludogorets Razgrad (winners in 2012), and Beroe Stara Zagora (winners in 2013).

Since 2004 all the winners of the Supercup trophy have also been runners-up in other editions of the tournament, making the inaugural runner-up Chernomorets Burgas in 1989 the only participant in the event to not have won the trophy.

In 2011 the winner of the cup CSKA Sofia became the single most successful team in the event, winning their fourth trophy as they beat Litex Lovech with final score 3–1. Also, as of 2011 Litex Lovech has participated six times in the Supercup match - most of all other participants.

From 2004 onwards a brand new trophy is made for every event as it was decided by the organisers that each Supercup winner should retain the trophy in perpetuity. However, three designs have been used for the trophy as of 2014 - one for the Supercups of 2004–2006, another for the trophies of 2007-2010 and the third from 2011 onwards. The current trophy was designed in Italy in 2007 and is 100 cm tall.

Supercup finals

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue	Attendance	Report
1989 15 July 1989	CFKA Sredets (1) Winner of 1988–89 A Group and 1988–89 Bulgarian Cup	1 – 0	Chernomorets Burgas Runner-up of 1988–89 Bulgarian Cup	9th September Stadium, Burgas	20,000	Report
2004 31 July 2004	Lokomotiv Plovdiv (1) Winner of 2003–04 A Group	1 − 0	Litex Lovech Winner of 2003–04 Bulgarian Cup	Naftex Stadium, Burgas	4,300	Report
2005 31 July 2005	Levski Sofia (1) Winner of 2004–05 Bulgarian Cup	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (3–1 p)	CSKA Sofia Winner of 2004–05 A Group	Vasil Levski, Sofia	9,894	Report
2006 30 July 2006	CSKA Sofia (2) Winner of 2005–06 Bulgarian Cup	0 – 0 (a.e.t.) (3–0 p)	Levski Sofia Winner of 2005–06 A Group	Vasil Levski, Sofia	9,751	Report
2007 26 July 2007	Levski Sofia (2) Winner of 2006–07 A Group and 2006–07 Bulgarian Cup	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Litex Lovech Runner-up of 2006–07 Bulgarian Cup	Vasil Levski, Sofia	14,000	Report
2008 3 August 2008	CSKA Sofia (3) Winner of 2007–08 A Group	1 – 0	Litex Lovech Winner of 2007–08 Bulgarian Cup	Vasil Levski, Sofia	8,950	Report
2009 1 August 2009	Levski Sofia (3) Winner of 2008–09 A Group	1 – 0	Litex Lovech Winner of 2008–09 Bulgarian Cup	Vasil Levski, Sofia	2,300	Report
2010 12 August 2010	Litex Lovech (1) Winner of 2009–10 A Group	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Beroe Stara Zagora Winner of 2009–10 Bulgarian Cup	Vasil Levski, Sofia	1,700	Report
2011 30 July 2011	CSKA Sofia (4) Winner of 2010–11 Bulgarian Cup	3 – 1	Litex Lovech Winner of 2010–11 A Group	Lazur Stadium, Burgas	12,620	Report
2012 11 July 2012	Ludogorets Razgrad (1) Winner of 2011–12 A Group and 2011–12 Bulgarian Cup	3 − 1	Lokomotiv Plovdiv Runner-up of 2011–12 Bulgarian Cup	Lazur Stadium, Burgas	2,730	Report
2013 10 July 2013	Beroe Stara Zagora (1) Winner of 2012–13 Bulgarian Cup	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (5–3 p)	Ludogorets Razgrad Winner of 2012–13 A Group	Vasil Levski, Sofia	1,070	Report
2014 13 August 2014	Ludogorets Razgrad (2) Winner of 2013–14 A Group and 2013–14 Bulgarian Cup	3 − 1	Botev Plovdiv Runner-up of 2013–14 Bulgarian Cup	Lazur Stadium, Burgas	4,400	Report
2015 12 August 2015	Cherno More Varna (1) Winner of 2014–15 Bulgarian Cup	1 − 0	Ludogorets Razgrad Winner of 2014–15 A Group	Lazur Stadium, Burgas	1,810	Report
2016 Not held	Not played §
2017 9 August 2017	Botev Plovdiv (1) Winner of 2016–17 Bulgarian Cup	1 – 1 (5–4 p)	Ludogorets Razgrad Winner of 2016–17 First League	Lazur Stadium, Burgas	3,800	Report
2018 5 July 2018	Ludogorets Razgrad (3) Winner of 2017–18 First League	1 − 0	Slavia Sofia Winner of 2017–18 Bulgarian Cup	Trace Arena, Stara Zagora	850	Report
2019 3 July 2019	Ludogorets Razgrad (4) Winner of 2018–19 First League	2 − 0	Lokomotiv Plovdiv Winner of 2018–19 Bulgarian Cup	Vasil Levski, Sofia	3,800	Report
2020 2 August 2020	Lokomotiv Plovdiv (2) Winner of 2019–20 Bulgarian Cup	1 − 0	Ludogorets Razgrad Winner of 2019–20 First League	Huvepharma Arena, Razgrad	0	Report

§ Note: The 2016 Bulgarian Supercup was meant to be the 14th Bulgarian Supercup, an annual Bulgarian football match played between the winners of the previous season's Bulgarian A Football Group and Bulgarian Cup. The game was to be played between CSKA Sofia, winners of the 2016 Bulgarian Cup Final, and Ludogorets Razgrad, champions of the 2015–16 A Group. However, prior to the match CSKA Sofia bankrupted, followed by taking another team's professional license. As a consequence, the 2016 Bulgarian Supercup final was not held.

Performance

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Year(s) Won	Year(s) lost
Ludogorets Razgrad	4	4	2012, 2014, 2018, 2019	2013, 2015, 2017, 2020
CSKA Sofia	4	1	1989, 2006, 2008, 2011	2005
Levski Sofia	3	1	2005, 2007, 2009	2006
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	2	2	2004, 2020	2012, 2019
Litex Lovech	1	5	2010	2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
Beroe Stara Zagora	1	1	2013	2010
Botev Plovdiv	1	1	2017	2014
Cherno More Varna	1	–	2015	–
Chernomorets Burgas	–	1	–	1989
Slavia Sofia	–	1	–	2018

Performance by city

City	Wins	Clubs
Sofia	7	CSKA (4), Levski (3)
Razgrad	4	Ludogorets (4)
Plovdiv	3	Lokomotiv (2), Botev (1)
Lovech	1	Litex (1)
Stara Zagora	1	Beroe (1)
Varna	1	Cherno More (1)

External links

• Bulgaria Cups Overview - Super Cup, RSSSF.com