Aleksandar Georgiev (Bulgarian: Александър Георгиев; born 10 October 1997) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a winger for Arda Kardzhali.[2]
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Aleksandar Veselinov Georgiev | ||
Date of birth | (1997-11-10) 10 November 1997 (age 24) | ||
Place of birth | Targovishte, Bulgaria | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Arda Kardzhali | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
0000–2008 | Svetkavitsa Targovishte | ||
2008–2009 | Vilafranca | ||
2009–2015 | Litex Lovech | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2015–2016 | Litex Lovech II | 13 | (4) |
2015–2016 | Litex Lovech | 5 | (0) |
2016–2017 | CSKA Sofia II | 15 | (3) |
2016–2019 | CSKA Sofia | 19 | (1) |
2018 | → Septemvri Sofia (loan) | 9 | (0) |
2019 | → Etar (loan) | 4 | (0) |
2019– | Arda Kardzhali | 64 | (1) |
National team‡ | |||
2013 | Bulgaria U17 | 3 | (0) |
2014–2016 | Bulgaria U19 | 12 | (6) |
2016–2018 | Bulgaria U21 | 13 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 May 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 March 2018 |
Georgiev was a youth player of hometown team Svetkavitsa Targovishte. He spent one year in Hristo Stoichkov's academy in Vilafranca football club. After that he joined Litex Lovech's academy.[3]
Georgiev made his debut coming on as a substitute in the 42nd minute for Litex in a match against Ludogorets Razgrad won by Litex.[4]
On 10 June he and 15 others Litex players joined the refounded CSKA Sofia club. He began the season in the reserve team of the club, which plays in the Bulgarian Second League. He made his debut for the first team on 18 September 2016 against Cherno More Varna coming on as a substitute in the 73rd minute.[5]
On 13 May 2016 he was included in the Bulgaria U21 team for the 2016 Toulon Tournament.[6] He scored his first goal for the U21 side on 11 October 2016 in a match against Romania U21 won by Bulgaria with 2-0.[7]
Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||||
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Club | League | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |
Bulgaria | League | Bulgarian Cup | Europe | Other[lower-alpha 1] | Total | ||||||||
Litex Lovech | A Group | 2014–15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | ||
Litex Lovech II | B Group | 2015–16 | 13 | 4 | – | – | – | 13 | 4 | ||||
Litex Lovech | A Group | 2015–16 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 8 | 0 | ||
Total | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
CSKA Sofia II | Second League | 2016–17 | 15 | 3 | – | – | – | 15 | 3 | ||||
CSKA Sofia | First League | 2016–17 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 7 | 0 | |||
2017–18 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 14 | 1 | |||||
Total | 19 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 | |||
Septemvri Sofia (loan) | First League | 2018–19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | 0 | ||
Etar (loan) | 2018–19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 4 | 0 | |||
Arda Kardzhali | 2019–20 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | 0 | 21 | 1 | |||
2020–21 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 6 | 0 | |||||
Total | 23 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 1 | |||
Career statistics | 88 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 99 | 9 |
FC Arda Kardzhali – current squad | |
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