Bulgaria women's national football team
The Bulgaria national women’s football team is the national football team of Bulgaria and is controlled by the Bulgarian Football Union. The team's major success came in 2008 when they won the Balkan Championship and the Albena Cup in the same year. These major tournament victories brought them up to their all-time highest FIFA world ranking of 33rd.
| Nickname(s) | The Lionesses The Tricolours | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Association | Bulgarian Football Union | ||
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
| Head coach | Silviya Radulska | ||
| Captain | Radoslava Slavcheva | ||
| Home stadium | Lovech Stadium | ||
| FIFA code | BUL | ||
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| FIFA ranking | |||
| Current | 79  | ||
| Highest | 33 (December 2008) | ||
| Lowest | 79 (July 2019) | ||
| First international | |||
.svg.png){kind=small}  (Sofia, Bulgaria; 11 October 1987) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
  (Otopeni, Romania; 18 November 2006)  (Ta' Qali, Malta; 5 June 2009)  (Lovech, Bulgaria; 21 November 2009) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
 (Le Mans, France; 28 November 2013) | |||
Competition record
Albena Cup record
| Year | Rank |
|---|---|
| Champions |
Balkan Cup record
| Year | Rank |
|---|---|
| Champions |
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Players
Current squad
The following players were called up for two friendly matches against Croatia on 14 and 17 June 2019.[2]
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Viktoria Dimova | 8 January 2002 | 1 | 0 | |
| 12 | GK | Milena Karakoleva | 3 April 2004 | 0 | 0 | Unknown |
| 3 | DF | Yanitsa Ivanova | 5 January 2001 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4 | DF | Yana Dineva | 8 November 2002 | 1 | 0 | Unknown |
| 5 | DF | Nora Dimitrova | 26 July 1996 | 1 | 0 | |
| 13 | DF | Nina Georgieva | 7 September 1996 | 1 | 0 | Unknown |
| 15 | DF | Vanesa Stoycheva | 10 February 2003 | 1 | 0 | |
| 17 | DF | Monika Razhgeva | 21 November 1992 | 10 | 0 | |
| 7 | MF | Simona Petkova | 3 September 1993 | 6 | 0 |  |
| 8 | MF | Ivana Naydenova | 21 December 2001 | 1 | 0 | |
| 9 | MF | Bilyana Pencheva | 23 May 1997 | 1 | 0 | |
| 14 | MF | Simona Stoyanova | 28 March 2004 | 1 | 0 | |
| 19 | MF | Lora Petrova | 12 October 1998 | 1 | 0 | Unknown |
| 22 | MF | Leonora Zheleva | 13 May 1999 | 1 | 0 | |
| 10 | FW | Veronika Gotseva | 29 May 1993 | 3 | 0 | Unknown |
| 11 | FW | Velina Koshuleva | 1 February 1991 | 22 | 1 | |
| 18 | FW | Polina Rasina | 12 March 1999 | 1 | 0 | Unknown |
| 21 | FW | Yuliana Aleksandrova | 21 February 1999 | 1 | 0 | |
References
- "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
External links
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