Slavia Sofia
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| Full name | Professional football club Slavia Sofia |
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| Nickname(s) | The Whites The White Avalanche |
| Founded | 10 April 1913 |
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Ovcha Kupel Stadium, Sofia |
| Capacity | 25,556 |
| Owner | Mladen Mihalev |
| Chairman | Ventseslav Stefanov |
| Head coach | Vladimir Ivanov |
| League | Bulgarian First League |
| 2015–16 | A Group, 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
PFC Slavia Sofia (Bulgarian: ПФК Славия София) is a Bulgarian football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the Parva Liga. Slavia's home ground is the Ovcha Kupel Stadium with a capacity of 25,556. The team's colours are white and black. Established on April 10, 1913, Slavia is currently the oldest sports club in the capital of Bulgaria.
Domestically, the club has won the Bulgarian Championship seven times and the Bulgarian Cup seven times. It has also come second in the championship ten times and reached the cup final three more times.
Among the team's international successes are a Cup Winners' Cup semi-final in 1967 and a quarter-final in 1981, as well as two consecutive Balkans Cup trophies in 1986 and 1988.
On April 10, 1913, a group of young people living near a Russian Monument in Sofia and representatives of the local capital clubs Botev and Razvitie, in a coffee-house – Alabin str. in Sofia, decided to establish an incorporated sport club – the first organized sport club in Sofia. The new incorporated club has named Slavia. Dimitar Blagoev – Palio, a 21-year-old student, was elected as the first president of the club. As members of the first club administrative council were elected Emanuil Geshev, Ferdinand Mihaylov, Tsvyatko Velichkov, Georgi Grigorov and Todor Kalkandzhiev.
A few days later, was elected the first football team of the club - Stefan Lalov, Ilia Georgiev, Emanuil Geshev, Todor Kalkandzhiev, Stefan Chumpalov, Dimitar Blagoev – Palio (all of them from Botev) and Pavel Grozdanov, Ferdinand Mihaylov, Boris Sharankov, Asen Bramchev, Dimitar Cvetkov (all of them from Razvitie). The first sport dresses of the club were white shirts and black shorts. Since 1924 the team plays with white shirts and white shorts and up to present days it is popular as the "White pride". On August 11, 1913, Slavia plays its first match versus the local team Savata and wins by 1–0.
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