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Ludogorets II (Bulgarian: Лудогорец II) or Ludogorets 2 is a Bulgarian professional football team based in Razgrad. Founded in 2015, it is the reserve team of PFC Ludogorets Razgrad, and currently plays in Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football.

Ludogorets II

Full name	Professional Football Club Ludogorets Razgrad II
Nickname(s)	The Eagles Ludogorets babies
Short name	Ludogorets II
Founded	2015; 7 years ago (2015)
Ground	Eagles' Nest, Razgrad
Capacity	2,000
Owner	Kiril Domuschiev
Chairman	Aleksandar Aleksandrov
Head coach	Todor Zhivondov
League	Bulgarian Second League
2020–21	Second League, 4th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Obliged to play one level below their main side, Ludogorets II is ineligible for promotion to First League and also can not compete in the Bulgarian Cup.

History

Foundation

In the beginning of 2015, the Bulgarian Football Union discussed the idea to add the reserve sides of several A Group clubs in the B Group or in the lower regional divisions. Ludogorets Razgrad, Litex Lovech, Levski Sofia, CSKA Sofia, Cherno More Varna and Botev Plovdiv expressed such interest to have a team in the B Group. At the beginning of June 2015, the BFU announced that only Litex and Ludogorets have sent such applications. Eventually, Ludogorets II and Litex II were added to the 2015-16 B Group.

2015–present: Second League

The team finished on 7th position in their first season. The team started the 2016–17 season precariously and finished in the relegation^{[clarification needed]} zone after the half season. That's why on 12 January 2017, the team announced Radoslav Zdravkov, a Bulgarian football legend and also frequent assistant coach in the Bulgarian national team in recent age.[1] 2 days later from Ludogorets announced that in order to get better results from second team, they would apply big changes. Radoslav Zdravkov was announced as a head coach with Galin Ivanov and Marcelo Chagas for assistants and one other Bulgarian legend, Spas Dzhevizov, was announced as a selectionist, and will look after for youth talents from Ludogorets Academy and other academies to join the team.[2]

On 29 March 2017, the new youth stadium, Eagles' Nest was finished and the second team would play on it. The stadium has 2,000 seats.[3]

From the 2017–18 season, Ludogorets change the politic about the second team by taking the decision to play with only youth players of the club in the Bulgarian Second League.[4] The team started the season against Lokomotiv Sofia and beat them with 2:1 result with a team average age being 19 years.[5]

In the 2020–21 season, the team finished on their highest league position and ended the season on 4th place.[6]

Players

As of 30 September 2022[7]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  BRA Pedro Henrique 20 FW  BUL Yoan Yordanov 34 FW  BUL Branimir Kostadinov 35 FW  BUL Petar Kirev 38 FW  BUL Vladislav Naydenov 45 MF  BUL Petar Karaangelov 50 MF  BUL Tsvetoslav Petrov (captain) 53 DF  BUL Dimitar Gospodinov 58 DF  BUL Dimitar Iliev 59 DF  BUL Aleks Lukanov 61 MF  BUL Rosen Ivanov 62 MF  BUL Velislav Minkov 63 DF  BUL Anastas Pemperski

No. Pos. Nation Player 67 GK  BUL Damyan Hristov 68 GK  BUL Umut Habil 69 GK  BUL Plamen Pepelyashev 71 DF  BUL Emil Kyosov 72 DF  BUL Nesin Salim 74 MF  BUL Hyusein Kelyovluev 75 MF  BUL Petar Georgiev 76 DF  BUL Valentin Tsvetanov 79 DF  BUL Tihomir Dimitrov 80 MF  BUL Metodiy Stefanov 91 DF  BUL Aleksandar Ganchev — MF  BUL Todor Martinez — MF  BUL Marcel Ahmed

For recent transfers, see Transfers summer 2022.

For first team players, see Ludogorets Razgrad.

Personnel

Manager history

Dates	Name	Honours
2015	Veselin Branimirov
2015–2017	Galin Ivanov
2017–2019	Radoslav Zdravkov
2019	Radoslav Komitov
2019–	Todor Zhivondov

Current technical body

Position	Name	Nationality
Selectionist	Ivan Tsvetkov
Head Coach	Todor Zhivondov
Assistant Coach	Valeri Venkov
Goalkeeper coach	Viktor Georgiev
Physiotherapist	Detelin Maslov
Doctor	Ivaylo Yakimov
Administrator	Nikolay Tsonev

Past seasons

Season	League	Place	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
2015–16	B PFG (II)	7	12	5	13	41	41	41
2016–17	Second League (II)	8	13	5	12	39	33	44
2017–18	Second League	9	11	7	12	40	50	40
2018–19	Second League	11	9	5	16	31	43	32
2019–20	Second League	12	5	9	7	20	25	24
2020–21	Second League	4	14	8	8	56	38	50
2021–22	Second League	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation.

League positions

Statistics

Second League matches

As of 18 November 2022

Ranking	Nationality	Position	Name	Years	Matches	Goals
1	Bulgaria	MF	Tsvetoslav Petrov	2017–	104	19
2	Bulgaria	MF	Hyusein Kelyovluev	2017–	101	19
3	Bulgaria	MF	Ilker Budinov	2018–	100	14
4	Bulgaria	DF	Preslav M. Petrov	2015–2020	99	4
—	Bulgaria	DF	Tihomir Dimitrov	2017–	99	6
—	Bulgaria	MF	Metodiy Stefanov	2019–	99	2
7	Bulgaria	MF	Oleg Dimitrov	2015–2019	95	4
8	Bulgaria	DF	Dimitar Iliev	2017–2021 2022–	89	0
9	Bulgaria	MF	Velislav Minkov	2019–	86	6
—	Bulgaria	MF	Branimir Kostadinov	2019–	86	9
—	Bulgaria	FW	Vladislav Naydenov	2019–	86	15

• Players in bold are still playing for Ludogorets.

Second League goals

As of 31 October 2022

Ranking	Nationality	Position	Name	Years	Matches	Goals
1	Bulgaria	FW	Dimitar Mitkov	2019–2022	64	32
2	Bulgaria	FW	Denislav Aleksandrov	2015–2019	77	19
—	Bulgaria	MF	Hyusein Kelyovluev	2017–	101	19
—	Bulgaria	FW	Tsvetoslav Petrov	2018–	104	19
5	Bulgaria	MF	Vladislav Naydenov	2019–	86	15
6	Bulgaria	MF	Ilker Budinov	2018–	100	14
7	Bulgaria	FW	Yanaki Smirnov	2015–2016	28	11
8	Bulgaria	MF	Svetoslav Kovachev	2015–2018	54	10
9	Bulgaria	MF	Tomas Tsvyatkov	2015–2018	57	9
10	Bulgaria	FW	Branimir Kostadinov	2020–	86	9

• Players in bold are still playing for Ludogorets.

Notable players

Note: This list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 top league games and/or have reached international status.

References

External links

• Official website

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