- Dimitar Berbatov
Dimitar Berbatov (born January 30, 1981 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a striker for English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur and Bulgaria.
- Hristo Stoichkov
Hristo Stoichkov alternatively spelt Stoitchkov (born February 8, 1966, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a football manager and former striker who was a member of the Bulgaria national team that finished fourth at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Apart from his footballing talent, he was notable for his on-pitch temper. He was honoured as European Footballer of the Year in 1994.
- Tiago Silva
Tiago Silva dos Santos (born April 4, 1979 in Rio Taquari, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian footballer with a Bulgarian passport. He is currently playing for CSKA Sofia as a defender
- Stiliyan Petrov
Stiliyan Petrov (sometimes spelt Stilian Petrov) ((born July 5, 1979 in Montana) is a Bulgarian football player who currently plays for Aston Villa in the Premier League. He joined Aston Villa from Scottish Premier League club Celtic in August 2006. Petrov had become known for his solid performances in midfield for both Celtic and Bulgaria. He captained the national team at Euro 2004 where he was sent off during a match against Denmark.
- Emil Kostadinov
Emil Kostadinov (born August 12, 1967 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He gained international prominence after scoring two goals in the last matchday of the European 1994 World Cup qualification, against the French national team. His second goal of the match, scored in the very last second of regular time, qualified Bulgaria to the World Cup finals at the expense of France.
- Yordan Todorov
Yordan Todorov (born 27 July 1981) is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for PFC CSKA Sofia as a midfielder.
- Dimitar Penev
Dimitar Penev (born July 12, 1945) is a Bulgarian football coach and former player of CSKA Sofia. Uncle to Lubo Penev. He was manager of the Bulgaria national football team during the 1994 FIFA World Cup, where his team reached the semi-finals and then lost the bronze medal game with Sweden. Throughout his career as manager he demonstrated excellence in both tactics and team psychology. Penev's most notable quality was his ability to work well with young players.
- Guillaume Dah Zadi
Guillaume Dah Zadi is a Côte d'Ivoire footballer, currently playing for PFC CSKA Sofia as a forward but right now on loan to Changchun Yatai. His former clubs include Africa Sports, FC Satellite Abidjan, Wydad Casablanca and EOGK Tunisie.
- Hristo Bonev
Hristo Bonev (born February 3, 1947 in Plovdiv) is a former Bulgarian football (soccer) player, the all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team. Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev played for the Bulgarian national team 96 times, scoring a record 47 goals. He played for his country at the 1970 and 1974 World Cups. Most of Bonev's club career was spent with Lokomotiv Plovdiv, …
- Trifon Ivanov
Trifon Ivanov (born July 27, 1965 in Lipnitsa, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian international football player. Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his hirsute appearance, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo. Later moves included spells at CSKA Sofia during 1994-95 and 1997-98 as well as at the Austrian teams Austria Vienna and Rapid Vienna and the Spanish club Real Betis Seville.
- Florentin Petre
Florentin Petre is a Romanian footballer. He was born in Bucharest and debuted in Divizia A with Dinamo Bucureşti in 1994, scoring in his first match. Except for a spell in FC UTA Arad in the second half of that season, he has stayed with Dinamo since. He helped win The Double in 2000 before contracting hepatitis C, which put him on the sideline for almost two seasons. He returned to win the Romanian league in 2004 and the Cup in 2003 and 2004, …
- Georgi Iliev
Georgi Iliev (9 September 1981 in Varna) is a Bulgarian football (soccer) player on the position of a midfielder who currently plays for CSKA Sofia. He is 178 cm tall and weighs 75 kg.
- Plamen Markov
Plamen Markov (born September 11, 1957 in Sevlievo) is a retired Bulgarian football player, currently working as a football manager. He played for Bulgaria national football team (24 caps/7 goals) and was a participant at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.In clubs, he played for CSKA Sofia (1975-1985), FC Metz (1985-1987) and Grenoble Foot (1987-1990). He has coached Bulgaria at the 2004 UEFA European Championship, PFC CSKA Sofia and PFC Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo.
- Stanislav Angelov
Stanislav Angelov (born April 12, 1978 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian football player, who currently plays in Energie Cottbus. <br><br> On June 13, 2007 the 1.Bundesliga club Energie Cottbus officially announced they have signed the player for three years until 2010. That was followed by an immediate reaction from Levski, who denied any such deal, and stated that Angelov was still their player and that he has acted incongruently with the terms of his current contract.
- Zdravko Lazarov
Zdravko Lazarov (born 20 February 1976) is a Bulgarian football player who, as of 2006, was playing for Kayseri Erciyesspor. He has previously played for Kocaelispor and Gaziantepspor. He was part of the Bulgarian 2004 European Football Championship team.
- Vladimir Manchev
Vladimir Manchev is a Bulgarian football player who, as of 2007 plays for Real Valladolid in the Spanish Primera División. He has also played for the Bulgarien club teams of Spartak Pleven, Yantra, Hebar and CSKA Sofia, the french Lille OSC and the spanish team of Levante UD. He has been a top scorer of the bulgarien First League in 2001-2002 season with 21 goals playing for CSKA. He was honored with the Bulgarian Cup in 1999 with CSKA.
- Chucks Nwoko
Chucks Nwoko (born November 21, 1978 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a professional footballer currently playing for Maltese Football League side Sliema Wanderers, where he plays as a midfielder.
- Milen Petkov
Milen Petkov (born January 12, 1974) is a former Bulgarian football player who last played for AEK Athens FC. His previous team was CSKA Sofia. He was part of the Bulgarian World Cup 1998 and Euro 2004 teams. He is now living in the United States, where is a philanthropist and law school applicant.
- Georgi Slavkov
Georgi Slavkov (born 18 September 1958 in Musomishte near Gotse Delchev) is a former Bulgarian football player. He scored 61 goals in 112 games for Botev Plovdiv between 1976 and 1982. In 1981 he won the France Football's Golden Boot award. With CSKA Sofia he played between 1982 and 1986, scoring 48 goals. Then he was transferred to the French club AS Saint-Étienne. He finished his career in Portugal in 1992.
- MacDonald Mukansi
MacDonald "Scooter" Mukansi (born May 26, 1975) is a South African football player. He played for a few clubs, including Jomo Cosmos, Paralimni, CSKA Sofia, Lokomotiv Sofia, and Manning Rangers. He played for the South Africa national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Eugen Trică
Eugen Trică is a Romanian football player playing for CFR Cluj. Trică started his career at Universitatea Craiova as a youth, being promoted in the first team in 1995. He then joined Steaua in 1998, winning the championship in 2001. Litex Lovech was the third club Trică played for, after being transferred in 2003, then after two years he joined the squad of Maccabi Tel Aviv but after only few months he returned to Bulgaria, this time at PFC CSKA Sofia.
- Stefan Aladzhov
Stefan Aladzhov (born October 18, 1947) is a former Bulgarian football (soccer) player in defender role. In career he played mostly for PFC Levski Sofia and PFC CSKA Sofia. In 1970 he was named Bulgarian Footballer of the Year. For the Bulgaria national football team he played in two editions of FIFA World Cup, in 1970 and in 1974.
- Aleksandar Shalamanov
Aleksandar Shalamanov (born 4 September 1941) is a former football (soccer) player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian to have taken part in both the Summer and Winter Olympics and a Football World Cup. Shalamanov began his career as a defender with CSKA Sofia in 1960-61, but moved to Slavia Sofia in 1961 to remain there until 1974, when he retired after 263 matches in the Bulgarian Championship, three Bulgarian Cup trophies (1963, …
- Bernardo Redín
Bernardo Redín is a former Colombian footballer. He earned 40 caps and scored 5 goals for the Colombia national football team from 1987 to 1991, and scored 2 goals in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
- Oliver Kovačević
Oliver Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливер Ковачевић; born October 10 1974 in Split, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia), a goalkeeper, is a Serbian football player currently playing for CSKA Sofia. He has been named as a member of the Serbia and Montenegro national football team for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. This makes him the only player based in Bulgaria included in a 2006 World Cup squad.
- Radoslav Zabavník
Radoslav Zabavník is a Slovak international footballer currently playing for Czech powershouse AC Sparta Praha as a defender. Born in Košice, Zabavník played for MFK Košice and MŠK Žilina in his native country's Corgoň Liga, winning the championship twice with MŠK Žilina. Between 2004 and late 2005, Zabavník played in Bulgaria for PFC CSKA Sofia. In the end of 2005, he was sold to AC Sparta Praha.
- Hamilton Ricard
Hamilton Ricard is a Colombian footballer Ricard plays as a striker, and has played for Deportivo Cali, Middlesbrough, CSKA Sofia, Independiente, Emelec, Shonan Bellmare, and Numancia over the course of his career. Ricard was signed by Bryan Robson for a fee of £2million 1998, and scored 33 goals in 92 starts (with 23 substitute appearances) over a four year Middlesbrough career.
- Bontcho Guentchev
Boncho Guentchev (born 7 July, 1964) is a former Bulgarian international footballer. He spent the majority of his career playing in England for Ipswich Town but also had spells at FC Etar Veliko Tarnovo, Sporting Lisbon, CSKA Sofia and Luton Town before finishing his career in English non-league football with Hendon and Carshalton Athletic. He played in the World Cup in 1994 and scored an important penalty against Mexico. He played also at Euro 1996.
- Boban Babunski
Boban Babunski (born May 5, 1968 in Skopje) is a Macedonian football coach and former player. He is married and has two boys. He was capped two times for Yugoslavia in 1991. Between 1993 and 2000 he played 23 matches and scored 1 goal for the Macedonian national team. On club level Babunski played in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Spain, Japan, Greece and Germany. Boban Babunski served as assistant coach for Macedonian national team manager Slobodan Santrač.
- Stoyko Sakaliev
Stoyko Sakaliev (born 25 March 1979) is a Bulgarian footballer who, as of 2006, is playing for Bulgarian club PFC CSKA Sofia as a striker. He has also represented the Bulgaria national football team. Sakaliev was born in Sofia. His first team was Naftex Burgas, where he rose to prominence as a quality forward, but he also spent some time on loan at Naftex Burgas. He was first loaned to CSKA Sofia during 2004, but bought in the summer of 2005.
- Velizar Dimitrov
Velizar Dimitrov (born April 13, 1979) is a Bulgarian football player who, as of 2006 was playing for CSKA Sofia. He was part of the Bulgarian 2004 European Football Championship team, who exited in the first round, finishing bottom of Group C, having finished top of Qualifying Group 8 in the pre-tournament phase. He joined CSKA Sofia in 2002, brought in the team by the manager Stoycho Mladenov from Marek Dupnitza. He prefers playing at the right side of the attack.
- Luboslav Penev
Luboslav Penev (born August 31, 1966) is a former Bulgarian footballer. Penev's first professional team was CSKA Sofia of the Bulgarian capital. He made his first team debut in 1984, when he was only 18 years old. CSKA of the late 1980s was a footballing "alma mater" to several Bulgarian players who made it to the international top in the 1990s. During those days Lubo's teammates included defender Trifon Ivanov, winger Emil Kostadinov, and striker Hristo Stoichkov.
- Stanimir Stoilov
Stanimir Kolev Stoilov, nickname "Murray" (born February 13, 1967) is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current manager of PFC Levski Sofia. Stoilov began his career at the local FC Haskovo, where he stayed until 1990. His first spell at Levski Sofia spanned 2 years, between July 1990 and June 1992, …
- Ilian Kiriakov
Ilian Kiriakov (born 4 August 1967) was a Bulgarian football player. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96. During his career he played for FC Etar Veliko Tarnovo, CSKA Sofia, Deportivo de La Coruña, Aberdeen F.C. and Anorthosis Famagusta. Kiriakov was noted for his short height, which was compensated for by his energy and prowess. He usually played as a left midfielder or defender.
- Hristo Yanev
Hristo Yanev (born May 4, 1979 in Kazanluk) is a Bulgarian football player, currently playing for the French Grenoble Foot 38. He is CSKA Sofia ex-player. He joined the CSKA Sofia team in 2000 from Beroe (Stara Zagora), when he was only 20 years old and since then he has always played an important role in the team. Yanev plays either as a winger or forward.
- Valentin Iliev
Valentin Iliev (born August 11, 1980) is a footballer currently playing for PFC CSKA Sofia.
- Quido Lanzaat
Quido Lanzaat is a Dutch football (soccer) player currently (as of June 2007) playing for Bulgarian club PFC CSKA Sofia as a defender. Born in Amsterdam, Lanzaat is a product of the AFC Ajax football academy. With Ajax, he has played in the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League and was capped for his country at youth and under-21 level.
- Stoyan Kolev
Stoyan Kolev (born February 3, 1976) is a Bulgarian football player. He is a reliable goalkeeper who currently plays for italian Treviso. He shone on the domestic scene as part of the CSKA Sofia team and impressed manager Plamen Markov earning a place in the Bulgarian 2004 European Football Championship team.
- Ivan Ivanov
Ivan Ivanov, born 25 February 1988 in Blagoevgrad, Height: 186 cm, Weight: 77 kg) is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for PFC CSKA Sofia as a defender. He is an ex-PFC Pirin 1922 player. He moved to PFC CSKA Sofia in 2005. He is Bulgarian under 21 player. As a player of PFC CSKA Sofia he was a Bulgarian Cup winner in 2006 and Bulgarian Super Cup winner of the same year. Ivan Ivanov is considered as one of the big Bulgarian football talents.
- Francisco Martos
Francisco Javier Martos Espigares (born 4 January 1984) is a Spanish footballer currently playing for FC Barcelona C as a right back. A native of Alamedilla, Andalusia, Francisco Martos is a FC Barcelona trainee, having passed through all levels of the academy, FC Barcelona B and C, and featured twice for the first team. He was loaned by PFC CSKA Sofia in June 2006.