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PFC Litex Lovech (Bulgarian: ПФК Литекс Ловеч) or simply Litex (Bulgarian: Литекс) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Lovech, which currently competes in the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group, the top division of Bulgarian football. The club's home ground is the Lovech Stadium, which has a capacity of 7,000 seats, electric floodlights and permission to stage European matches. To date, Litex has won the championship twice and has won the Bulgarian Cup four times. Together with Levski Sofia, Litex is the second football club that represents Bulgaria in the European Club Association.
[edit] HonoursBulgarian League Cup
Norcia Winter Cup
[edit] HistoryThe football club was founded in 1921 under the name Hisarya, with the first official game being played by the team in 1923. Over the years, the club has changed its name several times before becoming Osum in 1979. Under that name the club played constantly in the B PFG and was close to promotion several times, before finally achieving that goal in 1994 under the name LEX (the sponsoring company at the time) after finishing in 1st position. The first season in the A PFG was a success for a club like LEX, finishing 11th after victories against teams of the likes of CSKA Sofia (1:0), Slavia Sofia (1:0) and Lokomotiv Sofia (1:0). The next season was not successful and the club, renamed Lovech, was relegated to the second division. This was the turning point in the history of the club, when the petrol businessman and citizen of Lovech Grisha Ganchev bought the football club and renamed it to Litex. The following season almost all of the current players were released and a significant number of valuable players were signed. As expected, the team won the Bulgarian B PFG without difficulty, finishing more than 10 points ahead of the second team in the table, and the team was promoted back to the A PFG. At that short spell in the second division, Litex surprisingly reached the quarter-final of the Bulgarian Cup and the final of the Bulgarian League Cup, which was lost after a 2:2 draw in the regular time and a 5:3 in the penalty shoot-out. Also, Litex won all of its matches against the teams from the top 5 of the table of the Bulgarian A PFG (either in friendly matches or cup matches).  In 1997, Litex was promoted for the second time to the top division and immediately became Bulgarian champions, finishing the season 5 points ahead of the second-placed Levski Sofia. This was unprecedented in Bulgarian football history. The striker of the team Dimcho Belyakov became top goalscorer with his 21 goals scored during the season. The midfielder Stoycho Stoilov received the Best League Player award. The club's first participation in the European club tournaments was also promising, with Litex eliminating the Swedish Halmstads BK (2:0 and 1:2) and reaching the second qualifying round (but being knocked out by Russian powerhouse Spartak Moscow). The club also won the championship for the second time a year later. In the recent years, Litex won the Bulgarian Cup four times, in 2001 (a 1:0 win against Velbazhd Kyustendil after extra time), in 2004 (a win over CSKA after a 2:2 in the regular time and a penalty shootout), in 2008 a win over Cherno More Varna (1:0) and in 2009 against Pirin Blagoevgrad (3:0 in the regular time). Litex is also the team, which inflicted the biggest defeat of CSKA Sofia, 8:0 in Lovech, in the first half of the 1998/99 season. In early August, 2007, Litex signed a three-year sponsorship and advertising contract with Bulgarian mobile operator GLOBUL and started the 2007/08 season with the logo of the mobile service i-mode on the team's kits. In December, 2007, Litex became the first Bulgarian club to have branded a mobile phone game, Litex Football. Before the start of the 2008/09 season, Litex lost the Bulgarian Supercup final with 0:1 from CSKA Sofia. The winning goal for the army team was scored by Kiril Kotev in the 65th minute. After a season later, Litex again lost the Bulgarian Supercup with 0:1 from CSKA Sofia's city rival and current champion at that time Levski Sofia. [edit] League positions
[edit] European cup historyFor more details on this topic, see PFC Litex Lovech in Europe. This is a list of the recent matches of Litex in Europe:
[edit] StadiumLitex Lovech's home ground is the Lovech Stadium, a football stadium in Lovech. Built in 1962, the ground underwent a total reconstruction in 1999 and was brought to a suitable stand to host international matches in 1999. It has approximately 7,000 seats with pitch dimensions of 105 x 68 metres. The record attendance is 12,500 for the game against Levski Sofia in 08 November, 1998. [edit] Current squadAs of September 1, 2009
For recent transfers, see List of Bulgarian football transfers winter 2010. [edit] Selected former playersThe following players included were either playing for their respective national teams or left good impression among the fans.
Note: For a complete list of Litex Lovech players, see Category:PFC Litex Lovech players. [edit] Managerial historyFor more details on this topic, see List of PFC Litex Lovech managers. This is a list of the recent Litex Lovech managers:
As of 1 October 2009. [edit] Notable stats
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