PFC Neftochimic Burgas

On 6 July 2009, Naftex Burgas stopped its existence. On 7 July the amateur football club Athletic was renamed to Neftochimic 1986 and was subsequently declared by the owners as a successor of the old team.During the following 2010–11 season the team finished second, completing a quick return to professional football.[1] On 27 June 2014 it was announced that the club was dissolved due to financial debts.

Neftochimic also won the 2011 Bulgarian Amateur Football League Cup.

The club was founded in 2009 as Football Club Master. On 19 June 2014, the BFU confirmed Benkovski Byala's withdrawal from the 2014–15 B PFG and officially invited Master Burgas to take their spot as the 2nd placed team in the Southeast V AFG.[2]

On 22 June, the club announced it has accepted the invitation, and in addition will change its name to PFC Burgas and switch colors from red and white to blue and white, similar to the flag of Burgas.[3][4]

On 7 January 2015, it's announced that PFC Burgas and the newly establish team SNC Neftochimic Burgas, claiming to be successor of PFC Neftochimic Burgas (2009–14), are going to merge in the end of the season and start the next season under the name PFC Neftochimic Burgas 1962.[5] Neftochimic Burgas 1962 started the 2015–16 season in B Group on the place of PFC Burgas.The team finished 12th, but was administratively promoted to the new Bulgarian First League.

On 3 June 2017, the team lost the playoff match against Vitosha Bistritsa and was relegated from the Bulgarian First League.[6] On 23 June 2017, the team announced that they will play mostly with youth team players due to financial troubles and so most of U19 team were promoted to first team with Nikolay Krastev as manager and Stanislav Zhekov as his assistant, while most of the players from last season would be released.[7]

On 15 August 2017, it was announced that Lokomotiv Burgas would merge with the team, making Sutherland Global Services the new owners of the team. The 2017-18 season was very poor for "the Sheikhs", as they won only 2 games in the Second League, and were relegated to the third tier, the Third Amateur Football League.[8]

As of 1 February 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Pavel Zdravkov 2 DF Dzhuneyt Ali 3 DF Atanas Tasholov 4 DF Plamen Tenev 6 DF Tsvetan Chahov 7 MF Galin Dimov 8 MF Emanuil Manev 9 FW Ivan Kolev 10 MF Miroslav Radev 14 FW Zhivko Petkov

No. Position Player 20 FW Ivan Tsachev 21 MF Tsvetan Filipov (captain) 22 MF Tsvetomir Tsonkov 23 DF Diyan Moldovanov 27 DF Nikolay Kostov 33 GK Rosen Andonov 66 MF Radoslav Apostolov 77 MF Dimitar Kostadinov 92 MF Erik Pochanski 99 MF Kristiyan Parashkevov

For recent transfers, see Transfers summer 2019 and Transfers winter 2019–20.