PFC Lokomotiv Mezdra
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| Full name | PFC Lokomotiv Mezdra |
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| Nickname(s) | Zheleznicharite ot Mezdra (The irons from Mezdra) |
| Founded | 1945 2016 /refounded/ |
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Lokomotiv Stadium, Mezdra |
| Capacity | 5 000 |
| Manager | Anatoli Tonov |
| League | First Regional - Vratsa |
| 2011–12 | V Group, 2nd |
PFC Lokomotiv Mezdra (ПФК Локомотив Мездра) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Mezdra, which currently playing in the A RFG Vratsa, the 4th level of Bulgarian football. The club's home ground is the Lokomotiv Stadium in Mezdra, with a capacity of 5,000. Team colours are red and black.
PFC Lokomotiv Mezdra was founded in 1945, under the name Iron sport club. The team, nicknamed The irons from Mezdra, counts 20 participations in the second division, and the best success in Bulgarian Cup is a quarter-final in 1945-46.
The turning point in the history of the club was in 2007. The company NADIN bought the club, and almost all of its players were released and a significant number of valuable players were signed. The team won the second division without difficulty, finishing more than 10 points ahead of the second team in the table and qualifying for the top flight for the first time in his history.
In the first year in the top division, Lokomotiv's owner decided to bring players with a lot of experience in the Bulgarian football, his first signing being ex-Levski Sofia's Saša Simonović, who arrived from Slavia Sofia for free. Radostin Stanev, Iliya Iliev and Strati Iliev were just a few players who soon followed, as the club also signed seven imports - Portuguese David Silva, Rui Miguel and Fausto, Serbian Zoran Cvetković, Austrian Milan Janković, Greek Aristeidis Lottas and Jiří Lenko from Czech Republic. The team coach was Viktorio Pavlov. The first top flight game was against Spartak Varna, a 0-2 loss. After the match, Pavlov decided to resign and Georgi Todorov was named in his place. In this season the team finished 11th in A PFG.
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