Bulgarian national team
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| Nickname(s) | Лъвовете (The Lions) |
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| Association | Bulgarian Football Union |
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach | Petar Hubchev |
| Captain | Ivelin Popov |
| Most caps | Stiliyan Petrov (106) |
| Top scorer | Dimitar Berbatov (48) |
| Home stadium | Vasil Levski National Stadium |
| FIFA code | BUL |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 52  2 (10 August 2017)
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| Highest | 3 (June 1995) |
| Lowest | 96 (August 2012) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 57 (29 March 2017) |
| Highest | 2 (August 1975) |
| Lowest | 40 (August 1955) |
| First international | |
 Bulgaria 0–0 Austria  (Vienna, Austria; 21 May 1924) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Bulgaria 10–0 Ghana  (Leon, Mexico; 14 October 1968) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
Bulgaria 1–8 Spain  (Madrid, Spain; 21 May 1933) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 8 (first in 1930) |
| Best result | Fourth place, 1994 |
| European Championship | |
| Appearances | 2 (first in 1996) |
| Best result | Group stage, 1996 and 2004 |
| Olympic medal record | ||
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| Men’s Football | ||
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1968 Mexico City | Team |
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1956 Melbourne | Team |
The Bulgaria national football team (Bulgarian: Български национален отбор по футбол) is an association football team fielded by the Bulgarian Football Union, a member association of UEFA. The team's home stadium is Vasil Levski in Sofia and Petar Hubchev is the current national manager. Their best achievmenets are — one FIFA World Cup semi-final in 1994, one UEFA Euro quarter-final in 1968 , one Summer Olympics final in 1968, and three Balkan Cup titles. Although defeating strong top ranked teams in many international friendlies throughout the years, the team's strength has slowly diminished, failing to qualify for any major tournament since 2004.
The Bulgaria national team was founded in 1922. In 1923, the Bulgarian Football Union was established and the team's first match was held in Vienna on 21 May 1924, against Austria a 6–0 defeat. The result was not surprising since Austria was at that time an avangarde of the Central–European school which dominated football in that period. To bring Bulgaria closer to that level, the Bulgarian FA has brought Austrian coaches Nitsch and Stejskal in the 1920s, and Hungarians Nemes, Fogl and German Feist in the 1930s.
Bulgaria was invited to participate in the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay, but eventually rejected the invitation because the players were incapable of having an extended leave of absence from work.
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