2014–15 PFC Levski Sofia season
| 2014–15 season | |||
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| President |
 Todor Batkov
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| Manager |
 José Murcia (until 4 August 2014) Georgi Ivanov (until 22 December 2014) Stoycho Stoev (from 22 December 2014) |
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| Stadium |
Georgi Asparuhov Vasil Levski National Stadium (for derby games only) |
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| A Group | 7th | ||
| Bulgarian Cup | Runners-up | ||
| Top goalscorer |
League: Añete (14 goals) All: Añete (16 goals) |
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| Highest home attendance | 15 000 vs Ludogorets Razgrad (29 April) | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 0 vs Botev Plovdiv (17 August) | ||
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After a frustrating 2013–14 season Levski found themselves in 5th position and missing participation in European competitions for the first time since 1990. The disappointing season lead to the release of a lot of players mainly foreigners with big salaries. Those releases were a result of the club's bad financial condition. Stanislav Angelov announced his retirement from professional football after a friendly game against SS Lazio which marked the 100th year anniversary of the club. Vladimir Gadzhev and Dimitar Makriev's contracts were not renewed while players like Kevin Bru, Larsen Touré, Rafael Bastos, Cristóvão da Silva Ramos, Pavel Čmovš, Ricardo Nunes and Dustley Mulder were released on free transfers.
On 19 May club legend Georgi Ivanov returned to the club as a Sports director and announced the club plans to change the transfer policy and sign only local players. As a result of that ex-Levski players Valeri Domovchiyski, Borislav Stoychev and Lachezar Baltanov returned to the club. Ivanov also made some changes in the staff releasing the chief scouts Doncho Donev and Kiril Vangelov. Club icon Daniel Borimirov was appointed as head of the Youth department.
On 5 June 2014 Georgi Ivanov announced the appointment of the Spanish manager José Murcia as the head coach of the team. The contract would be for a 2-year time. This was the first time in the club's history when a Spanish coach is in charge of Levski Sofia. 'Pepe' Murcia is going to be the 13th foreign coach to lead the Blues in their 100 years of history. The appointing of Murcia bring some more changes in the staff at Levski which included hiring methodologist David Serano for the Youth academy. As the pre-season started Pepe Murcia appointed Valeri Bojinov as the new captain of the team. Former player Dimitar Telkiyski also joined the club being appointed as youth coach and assistant of Georgi Todorov at the new formed U-21 team of the club.
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