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FC Lokomotiv Stara Zagora is a Bulgarian football club from Stara Zagora, founded in April 1934 as ZHSK (ЖСК). The club currently competes in the fourth tier of Bulgarian football, A RFG Stara Zagora. FC Lokomotiv is the second celebrity football team from Stara Zagora. Its best achievement has been participating in the "B" group of football, the second tier of Bulgarian football.

PFC Lokomotiv

Full name	FC Lokomotiv Stara Zagora
Founded	1935; 87 years ago (1935)
Ground	Lokomotiv Stadium
Capacity	12 000
Manager	Paolo Dragolov
League	Regional League - Stara Zagora
Home colours Away colours

History

Lokomotiv was founded in April 1934. It was named ZHSK until 1946, then Lokomotiv from 1946 to 1949, Energy in 1949, Torpedo from 1949 to 1950 and again from 1951 to Lokomotiv in 1959. In 1952. the team was steps away from entry into the "A" group. Lokomotiv was in the forehead on the "B" group (the elite come in the first five). After a 22-day round Lokomotiv is idvaden of primacy with Torpedo (Rousse). The reason – an incident with the audience during the game near the Danube. In 1959 Village Lokomotiv and Botev are united under the name Beroe. Although the organizational structure of entering Beroe, zheleznicharite retain their identity. In the summer of 1998, and with the participation of people from the Chairman of the Lokomotiv players and Askent from Gurkovo is formed Beroe 2000 (Stara Zagora). Along with Lokomotiv and Askent continue to exist. Two years later Beroe 2000, which in mid-1999 moved its headquarters and plays in Kazanlak, merged with "Lokomotiv Stara Zagora". In early July 2004. zheleznicharite merged with another local team – Union Beroe (Stara Zagora), founded in August 2000. Lokomotiv has 12 participations in the "B" group. Coach of the team of 2005 is the legendary Botev Plovdiv – Petar Zehtinski – Ziko.

Successes

• 8-th place in the National Championships in 1937
• 2-nd place in the South-east "B" group in 1956
• 3-rd place in the South-east "B" group in 1954 and 1955
• 6-th place in South "B" group in 1967
• 7-th place in South "B" group in 1958
• 8-th place in "B" group in 1951

* 15 holdings in "B" group.

• 1/16-final participant for the National Cup in 1968/69 (then the Soviet Army Cup) and 2004/05

First-team squad

As of 11 September 2022^[update]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BUL Pavlin Zhelev 2 MF  BUL Simeon Petkov 3 DF  BUL Kristiyan Atanasov 4 MF  BUL Petko Georgiev 5 MF  BUL Pavel Aleksandrov 6 FW  BUL Ivan Tilev 7 FW  BUL Aleksandar Petrov 8 DF  BUL Martin Argirov 9 FW  BUL Boyan Penev 10 DF  BUL Martin Dimitrov 11 DF  BUL Ivan Nedelchev

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 GK  BUL Zlatko Zhelyazkov 13 MF  BUL Dobromir Stratiev 14 МF  BUL Emil Valchev 15 DF  BUL Nikolay Stanev 16 DF  BUL Velizar Velikov 17 MF  BUL Christian Stoyanov 18 DF  BUL Petar Penev 19 FW  BUL Radi Staykov —  BUL —  BUL —  BUL

External links

• Official site

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