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2007–08 A Group

60th completed season of top-tier football league in Bulgaria

Field	Value
competition	A Group
season	2007–08
dates	11 August 2007 – 17 May 2008
winners	CSKA Sofia
(31st title)
relegated	Beroe
Vidima-Rakovski
Marek
continentalcup1	[Champions League](2008-09-uefa-champions-league)
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Levski Sofia
continentalcup2	[UEFA Cup](2008-09-uefa-cup)
continentalcup2 qualifiers	Lokomotiv Sofia
Litex
Cherno More
continentalcup3	[Intertoto Cup](2008-uefa-intertoto-cup)
continentalcup3 qualifiers	Chernomorets
league topscorer	Georgi Hristov
(19 goals)
biggest home win	Cherno More 7–0 Vidima-Rakovski
biggest away win	Belasitsa 1–6 Chernomorets
highest scoring	Levski 6–2 Botev (8 goals)
matches	240
total goals	558
prevseason	[2006–07](2006-07-a-group)
nextseason	[2008–09](2008-09-a-group)

(31st title) Vidima-Rakovski Marek Litex Cherno More (19 goals)

The 2007–08 A Group was the 60th season of the Bulgarian A Football Group since its establishment in 1948 and the 84th of a Bulgarian national top football division. The season began on 11 August 2007 and ended on 17 May 2008. CSKA Sofia won their 31st record league title. Last time they scooped the title was in 2004–05 season. CSKA won the league without a single defeat, 16 points ahead of their archrival Levski Sofia.

Despite the convincing results during the season, CSKA failed to get a UEFA license to participate in the Champions League due to unpaid debts. The guilt for the disaster in the club was taken by their chairman Aleksandar Tomov.

Teams

Team changes

At the end of the last season, Conegliano German, Rodopa Smolyan, and Rilski Sportist Samokov were relegated after finishing in the bottom three places of the 2006–07 season. Conegliano and Rilski Sportist survived only one season in the elite, while Rodopa ended a four-year stint in the A Group.

The relegated teams were replaced by three teams from the 2006–07 B Group, including the winners of the East and West B Groups, as well as the playoff winner decided between the runner-ups of the two B Groups. Chernomorets Burgas and Pirin Blagoevgrad were promoted directly, while Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo defeated Naftex Burgas to gain the last promotion spot. Chernomorets made its debut in the top tier of Bulgarian football, Pirin return after a one-year absence, while Vidima-Rakovski return after a two-year absence.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Belasitsa	Petrich	Tsar Samuil Stadium	9,500
Beroe	Stara Zagora	Beroe Stadium	13,512
Botev	Plovdiv	Hristo Botev Stadium	22,000
Cherno More	Varna	Ticha Stadium	8,250
Chernomorets	Burgas	Lazur Stadium	18,037
CSKA	Sofia	Balgarska Armiya Stadium	22,015
Levski	Sofia	Georgi Asparuhov Stadium	29,200
Litex	Lovech	Lovech Stadium	7,050
Lokomotiv	Plovdiv	Lokomotiv	13,800
Lokomotiv	Sofia	Lokomotiv Sofia	22,000
Marek	Dupnitsa	Bonchuk Stadium	16,050
Pirin	Blagoevgrad	Hristo Botev Stadium1	11,000
Slavia	Sofia	Ovcha Kupel Stadium	18,000
Spartak	Varna	Spartak Stadium	7,500
Vidima-Rakovski	Sevlievo	Rakovski Stadium	8,816
Vihren	Sandanski	Sandanski Stadium	6,000

1^. Stadiums of Botev Plovdiv and Pirin Blagoevgrad have the same names, but they are placed in different cities.

League table

Results

Champions

;CSKA Sofia

Goalkeepers
1
12
22

Defenders
2
3
6
13
14
15
27
30
84

Midfielders
5
10
11
16
17
18
20
21
23
24
28

Forwards
8
9
19
99

Manager

Iliev, Kabous, Amuneke and Chilikov left the club during a season.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals	1	2	3	5	6	9	10
BUL Georgi Hristov	Botev Plovdiv
BRA Nei	CSKA Sofia
BUL Marcho Dafchev	Lokomotiv Sofia
Macedonia Zoran Baldovaliev	Lokomotiv Sofia
BUL Aleksandar Aleksandrov	Cherno More Varna
BUL Plamen Krumov	Chernomorets Burgas
ROM Florentin Petre	CSKA Sofia
BUL Ivelin Popov	Litex Lovech
ARG Germán Pietrobon	Pirin Blagoevgrad
BUL Anatoli Todorov	Lokomotiv Plovdiv
BUL Miroslav Manolov	Cherno More Varna
BUL Ivan Naydenov	Spartak Varna

Attendances

#	Club	Average
1	CSKA Sofia	5,313
2	Botev	5,000
3	Beroe	4,967
4	Levski	4,940
5	Cherno More	4,533
6	Chernomorets	2,953
7	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	2,833
8	Pirin	2,627
9	Vihren	2,227
10	Varna	2,097
11	Lokomotiv Sofia	1,947
12	Belasitsa	1,940
13	Lovech	1,687
14	Slavia Sofia	1,291
15	Vidima-Rakovski	1,147
16	Marek	748

Source:

References

(12 October 2013). "Сезон 2007-08 "Лицензгейт" пука розовите балони на Сашо Томов". temasport.com.
[http://dariknews.bg/view_article.php?article_id=258773 CSKA without UEFA license, Tomov takes the guilt]
"Part of Aleksandar Tomov's book: How they took the license of CSKA".
https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/bgr/avebgr08.htm

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