FC Pirin
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| Full name | Municipal Football Club Pirin |
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| Nickname(s) | Orletata (The Eaglets) |
| Short name | Pirin |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Ground | Hristo Botev Stadium, Blagoevgrad |
| Capacity | 7,500 |
| Owner | Blagoevgrad Municipality |
| Head coach | Milen Radukanov |
| League | First League |
| 2016–17 | First League, 10th |
| Website | Club website |
Pirin (Bulgarian: Пирин) is a Bulgarian municipal (Bulgarian: общински, pronounced obshtinski) association football club based in Blagoevgrad, which currently competes in the First League, the first division of Bulgarian football.
The club was founded in 2008, after a merger between two clubs from Blagoevgrad, Pirin 1922 and PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad. By an official court decision later that year, the club was announced as a historical successor of the club records of the former FC Pirin, founded in 1922. In 2011, following a bankruptcy of the entity, which represented the football club, Pirin's football department was merged once again with Perun Kresna, to eventually become OFC Pirin.
Pirin Blagoevgrad's name is adopted from Pirin, a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria. The club's home ground is the Hristo Botev Stadium in Blagoevgrad with a capacity of 7,000 spectators. Pirin's nickname is Orletata (the Baby Eagles) and their kit colours are dark green and white.
To date, the club has four domestic cup finals and most notably, enjoys high praise for its development of football players, as several noted Bulgarian footballers were produced by Pirin's youth academy. Among them are the 1994 FIFA World Cup bronze medallists Petar Mihtarski and Ivaylo Andonov, as well as former Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov, who won two Premier League titles and was the 2010-11 Premier League top goalscorer.
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