FC Dunav Ruse
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| Full name | Football Club Dunav 2010 |
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| Nickname(s) | Drakonite (The Dragons) |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Ground | Gradski Stadium, Ruse |
| Capacity | 19,960 |
| Chairman | Simeon Simeonov |
| Head coach | Veselin Velikov |
| League | Bulgarian First League |
| 2015–16 |
B Group, 1st /promoted/ |
| Website | Club home page |
FC Dunav Ruse (Bulgarian: Футболен клуб Дунав Русе) is a Bulgarian football club based in Ruse, that competes in the Parva Liga, the top flight of the Bulgarian football league system.
Dunav Ruse were established on February 16, 1949 as a merger between two football clubs in the city, Dinamo and Rusenets. Dunav's home colours are sky blue and white. The club is named after the Danube River (Bulgarian: река Дунав), on the banks of which the city of Ruse is situated. They play their home matches at the local Gradski Stadium (City Stadium) which has a capacity of around 20,000 spectators.
Over the course of its history, the club carried a variety of different names such as Sava, Napredak, Levski, Varush, Angel Kanchev, Rakovski, Rusenets, Dinamo, Spartak, DNA, Torpedo and Partizanin. Dunav played in the A Group over a number of seasons between 1937–1940, 1951, 1956, 1958–67, 1968–73, 1974–77, 1984–86, 1988–91 and 1996–98, before being relegated again.
Among the club's most notable achievements are a final in the Bulgarian championship in 1937, an A Group fourth place in 1975 and four domestic cup finals in 1938, 1939, 1941 and 1962.
Following years of several movements between lower divisions, the team, under playing manager Engibar Engibarov, eventually won the Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League in 2003–04, and for the next season they finally gained promotion to the B PFG after a long-term hiatus in the amateur divisions. It was to be their first appearance in professional football since the team were relegated from the A Group in 1991.
From January 5, 2006 until 2 October of the same year, Dunav were managed by Ferario Spasov. He acquired some well-known footballers and loaned talented players from Litex Lovech in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the first division again.
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