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Bulgaria

FM07 Update

Nation
116Reputation
3147Players
401Clubs
—Average attendance

Identity

Short name
—
Three-letter name
BUL
National team nickname
—
Hashtag
—
Confederation
Europe
Capital city
Sofia
Languages
—
Currency
Bulgarian Lev
Colours
#E00000 #FFFFFF
Stored exchange rate
1 GBP = 2.84 BGN

Standing and attendances

Reputation
116
Youth rating
—
Game importance
1
State of development
2
Economic factor
13
Average attendance
—
Minimum and maximum
— / —
Citizenship gain type
—

Youth rating and game importance are decoded only in some versions and are blank in the rest rather than filled in.

National team

In the export
Team
Bulgaria Nation's own team
Reputation
—
Last position
—
Manager
—
Captain
—
Continental competition
—
Youth teams
—
Current squad
0 registered

Honours

FMDB calculation
3European U19 Championship1974, 1969, 1959
1European U21 Championship1967

Competitions won by this nation's own team or one of its youth sides, counted from comp_history. Every recorded season in this version. It records no cancelled, abandoned or joint-winner flags, so none are excluded.

Rules

Partial export
Foreign players
—
Work permits
—
Home-grown
—
Transfer windows
—
Youth contracts
—
Loans
—

Modern exports include foreign-player definitions, agreements and tax rules, which this panel has not integrated. Complete work-permit conditions, registration quotas and transfer windows remain separate gaps.

Player pool

FMDB calculation
3147Players
61Average ability
—Wonderkids
5.2%Playing abroad
0.0%In the top division

The 3,147 of this nation's 4,094 recorded people who carry a player row. This pool uses primary recorded nationality, not international eligibility. Modern exports also include additional nationalities and declared allegiance, which this calculation does not use. Playing abroad is measured against the 2,327 players whose club resolves; the top-division share against the 2,288 whose division records a level, where level 0 is the first tier. A wonderkid count needs an age, and an age needs the in-game date no database records.

Top players

FMDB calculation
# Player Club Pos Age CA
1Dimitar Ivanov BerbatovTottenham HotspurFC—166
2Martin PetrovManchester CityML—145
3Valeri BojinovManchester CityFC—139
4Stiliyan PetrovAston VillaMC—138
5Aleksandar TunchevCSKA (Sofia)DC—137
6Chavdar YankovHannover 96DMC—137
7Martin KamburovLokomotiv 1936 (Plovdiv)AMC—136
8Vladimir ManchevR.C. Celta S.A.D.FC—135
9Velizar DimitrovCSKA (Sofia)AMC—134
10Georgi PetkovLevski (Sofia)GK—134

Highest recorded player.current_ability among the people whose person.nation_uid points here. Age needs an in-game reference date the export does not carry, so that column stays blank rather than being computed against today.

League pyramid

FMDB calculation

No senior league divisions recorded

This nation records no active TOP_DIVISION, STANDARD_DIVISION or OTHER_DIVISION competition.

Every active senior league division this nation records, read whole rather than from the page of competitions below: 0 divisions, beside 44 other active competitions and 9 extinct. Level 0 is the top division. No promotion or relegation link is inferred between levels; archive stage rules are not integrated into this panel.

Kits

Season and slots

    Showing up to 6 of 0 loaded kit rows.

    International records

    Record Holder Value
    ———

    nation_record.record_type is a raw code; the two that occur are named here.

    Across versions

    Recorded
    Bulgaria reputation across versions05K10K CM0102 RFM06 RFM10 RFM13 RFM16 RFM19 RFM22 RFM26 UReputation, CM0102 Release: 12 Reputation, CM0203 Release: 12 Reputation, CM0304 Release: 10 Reputation, CM0304 Update: 10 Reputation, FM05 Release: 120 Reputation, FM05 Update: 114 Reputation, FM06 Release: 119 Reputation, FM07 Release: 116 Reputation, FM07 Update: 116 Reputation, FM08 Release: 116 Reputation, FM09 Release: 116 Reputation, FM09 Update: 116 Reputation, FM10 Release: 116 Reputation, FM10 Update: 116 Reputation, FM11 Release: 75 Reputation, FM11 Update: 75 Reputation, FM12 Release: 100 Reputation, FM12 Update: 100 Reputation, FM13 Release: 100 Reputation, FM13 Update: 100 Reputation, FM14 Release: 105 Reputation, FM14 Update: 105 Reputation, FM15 Release: 107 Reputation, FM15 Update: 105 Reputation, FM16 Release: 105 Reputation, FM16 Update: 105 Reputation, FM17 Release: 105 Reputation, FM17 Update: 105 Reputation, FM18 Release: 105 Reputation, FM18 Update: 5,250 Reputation, FM19 Release: 105 Reputation, FM19 Update: 5,250 Reputation, FM20 Release: 105 Reputation, FM20 Update: 5,250 Reputation, FM21 Release: 105 Reputation, FM21 Update: 5,250 Reputation, FM22 Release: 5,250 Reputation, FM23 Release: 5,250 Reputation, FM24 Release: 5,250 Reputation, FM26 Release: 5,250 Reputation, FM26 Update: 5,250
    Recorded reputation in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. Raw export scales may differ between versions.

    Competitions

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    Name Type Level Reputation Extinct
    Bulgarian "V" Groups—340No
    Bulgarian "A" Group—1110No
    Bulgarian Cup——90No
    Bulgarian "B" Group—270Yes
    Bulgarian Southeastern "V" Amateur Group—345No
    Bulgarian Southwestern "V" Amateur Group—355No
    Bulgarian Northeastern "V" Amateur Group—340No
    Bulgarian Northwestern "V" Amateur Group—340No
    Bulgarian Lower Division——10No
    Bulgarian Soviet Army Cup——90Yes
    Bulgarian Super Cup——80No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Stara Zagora—4—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Vidin—4—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Vratsa—4—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Montana—4—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Pleven—4—No
    Bulgarian "B" Regional Group Pleven—5—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Vratsa—4—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Veliko Tarno—4—No
    Bulgarian "B" Regional Group Veliko Tarno—5—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Ruse—4—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Silistra—4—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Gabrovo—4—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Razgrad—4—No
    Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Dobrich—4—No

    Clubs

    Columns

    Columns

    Name City Division Reputation
    Beroe (Stara Zagora)—Bulgarian "A" Group85
    Botev (Plovdiv)—Bulgarian "A" Group95
    CSKA (Sofia)—Bulgarian "A" Group130
    Dobrudzha (Dobrich)—Bulgarian Northeastern "V" Amateur Group47
    Etar (Veliko Tarnovo)—Bulgarian Lower Division40
    Naftex (Burgas)—Bulgarian Eastern "B" Group85
    Levski (Sofia)—Bulgarian "A" Group138
    Lokomotiv (Gorna Oryahovitsa)—Bulgarian Northwestern "V" Amateur Group39
    Lokomotiv 1936 (Plovdiv)—Bulgarian "A" Group108
    Lokomotiv (Sofia)—Bulgarian "A" Group120
    Montana (Montana)—Bulgarian Western "B" Group49
    Pirin (Blagoevgrad)—Bulgarian "A" Regional Group Blagoevgrad38
    Shumen———
    Slavia (Sofia)—Bulgarian "A" Group110
    Spartak-S '94 (Plovdiv)—Bulgarian Eastern "B" Group52
    Spartak (Varna)—Bulgarian "A" Group77
    Septemvri (Sofia)—Bulgarian Southwestern "V" Amateur Group50
    Levski (Kyustendil)———
    Metalurg (Pernik)—Bulgarian Lower Division10
    Chernomorets (Burgas)—Bulgarian Lower Division45
    Belasitsa (Petrich)—Bulgarian "A" Group87
    Olimpik (Teteven)—Bulgarian Lower Division15
    Cherno more (Varna)—Bulgarian "A" Group104
    Akademik (Svishtov)—Bulgarian Northwestern "V" Amateur Group41
    Haskovo (Haskovo)—Bulgarian Eastern "B" Group64

    Cities

    Name Local region Population band Attraction Altitude
    PazardzhikSouth-West Bulgaria—13220
    MontanaNorth-West Bulgaria—6123
    SofiaSouth-West Bulgaria—20569
    PernikSouth-West Bulgaria—10751
    KyustendilSouth-West Bulgaria—10506
    PlevenNorth-West Bulgaria—1597
    LovechNorth-West Bulgaria—11253
    PlovdivSouth-East Bulgaria—20163
    RuseNorth-East Bulgaria—1787
    Veliko TarnovoNorth-West Bulgaria—16226
    ShumenNorth-East Bulgaria—13449
    BurgasSouth-East Bulgaria—1931
    VarnaNorth-East Bulgaria—2083
    DobrichNorth-East Bulgaria—15235
    SvishtovNorth-West Bulgaria—9136
    HaskovoSouth-East Bulgaria—13202
    DevnyaNorth-East Bulgaria—649
    VratsaNorth-West Bulgaria—10373
    Stara ZagoraSouth-East Bulgaria—17191
    PetrichSouth-West Bulgaria—14133
    SvilengradSouth-East Bulgaria—1042
    TargovishteNorth-East Bulgaria—7418
    SamokovSouth-West Bulgaria—8944
    TetevenNorth-West Bulgaria—3516
    DupnitsaSouth-West Bulgaria—11536

    Population band and attraction are raw source scales. Altitude is in metres. 209 cities and 209 stadiums are recorded for this nation, the stadiums counted through the stadium.city_uid join because stadium carries no nation of its own.

    Raw source values

    Source region index
    3
    Crowd tendencies
    —

    nation.source_region_index does not join to region; crowd_tendencies is an undecoded code. Both are printed as stored.

    Data wishlist for this page

    12 data pointsWhole site
    • person_nation_contract, club_team, club_squad_number National-team manager, captain and squad count Now liveThe nation page shows the manager, captain and registered squad count; linked team pages show recorded members. Missing identities stay missing.
    • comp_history, nation_cup_history National-team honours and tournament runs Partial exportConfirmed competition wins for recorded national teams are counted. Tournament stage/result rows are now exported separately but are not rendered here; winning a stage tie does not mean winning the competition.
    • nation_fifa_ranking, nation_coefficient FIFA points and association coefficients Exported; UI pendingThe schema records points and coefficient slots with documented context. It stores neither a world-rank position nor a ranking date.
    • nation_foreign_rule, nation_agreement, nation_tax_rule Foreign-player definitions, agreements and tax rules Exported; UI pendingModern exports contain these rows. Competition quotas, work permits and dated transfer windows are separate gaps.
    • work permits, registration quotas and transfer windows Complete employment and registration rules Needs source dataThe existing nation definitions do not establish all conditions, exemptions, quotas or windows.
    • person.nation_uid and player Player pool, ability, players abroad and leading players Now liveThe pool uses primary recorded nationality, not international eligibility. Youth counts still need a reference date; a full position breakdown is not implemented.
    • club_team for the nation Other national teams Now liveRecorded teams are linked without guessing their age group or substituting a youth team for the senior side.
    • competition.nation_uid and LeaguePyramid League pyramid and competitions Now liveThe pyramid reads up to 1,000 competitions independently of pagination and reports truncation. It does not infer promotion or relegation links.
    • person, player, club, city, stadium Recorded population and place counts Now liveCounts use the nation relationship; stadiums resolve through city. A staff-subtype count is not a count of all working coaches or managers.
    • nation_standing across versions, export_value_scale Reputation across versions Now liveCharts show raw recorded reputation. Era-aware normalization still needs scale-metadata integration.
    • nation.hashtag, city.local_region_uid Hashtag and city regions; national languages Partial exportHashtag and city-region information are displayed. The catalog has no direct nation-language relation, and source_region_index is not a region uid.
    • nation_rival Rivalries between nations Exported; UI pendingModern exports include rival nation, level and flags. No effective date is stored; the nation page has not integrated these rows.

    Reviewed 30 September 2026 against the current schema and page implementation. “Now live” means implemented where data is recorded; “Exported; UI pending” means the schema has data this page does not yet use. Tables and coverage vary by version. Missing values stay blank.