FC Vereya


Vereya is a Bulgarian association football club registered in Stara Zagora. They lastly competed in the First League, the top division of Bulgarian football. The team was founded in 2001, and by 2016, they reached the top level for the first time. In 2019, they were expelled from the First League for reported match fixing.

History

Foundation and beginning

The club was founded in 2001 by a founding board led by Hristiyan Parvanov, Galin Mihaylov, Slavcho Tanev, Tonko Totev and Dimo Hristov. Until the 2005/06 season it was playing in Regional groups before the promotion to the V AFG under the name FC Vereya-Arsenal after a merger with Arsenal Kazanlak, but after the season 2006/07 Vereya-Arsenal became Arsenal Kazanlak and the 2nd team Vereya Bulsatkom moved to Stara Zagora again and was registered as FC Vereya. They won the A RFG 3 times in the next 5 seasons, getting the promotion during the 2011–12 season.

Trace Group ownership (2012–present)

In 2012, Bulgarian construction company Trace Group started investing in the club and a new stadium project Trace Arena was presented.
On May 21, 2014 the club won the Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League after defeating Minyor Pernik 2–0 in the final. During the same season Vereya finished 3rd in the V Group and secured promotion to the higher-ranked professional football league, the B Group.
In 2016, the club submitted an application for the newly restructured Bulgarian First League. On June 1, 2016, one of the new signings of the club for the upcoming season, the Brazilian Elias Alves da Silva, announced that he joined the club, as it would compete in the top league of Bulgaria, long before an official statement was given by the BFU officials on the number of the teams competing in the new league, thus sparking controversy.
On June 7, 2016, Vereya, alongside five other B Group outfits, were approved by the Bulgarian Football Union and were promoted to compete in the upcoming 2016-17 Bulgarian First League.
On 7 May 2019, Vereya were disqualified from the league for match fixing. All results from played matches involving Vereya were retained with the Bulgarian Football Union awarding Septemvri Sofia two wins by 3–0 from their scheduled relegation play-off matches with Vereya and the loser from the relegation play-off match between Dunav Ruse and Vitosha Bistritsa directly faced the second-placed team from the Second League. Vereya was then disqualified from the Second League, due to financial issues, following which they were also disqualified from the third tier, which meant that the team will start the 2019-20 season from the fourth division of Bulgarian football, in this case the Stara Zagora regional league.

Statistics

Season to season



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Shirt and sponsors

Vereya main colors are blue and white.
PeriodKit manufacturerShirt partner
2006–2012 UnknownBulsatcom / Trace Group
2012–2014 Tomy SportTrace Group
2014–2016 NikeTrace Group
2016–2018 ErreàTrace Group
2018–2019 UhlsportEfbet

Honours

First League:
Second League:
Third League:
A RFG Stara Zagora:
  • Winners : 2005-06, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2011–12
  • Runner-up : 2009–10
Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League:
  • Winners : 2013–14
Bulgarian Cup:
Had international caps for their respective countries, or held any club record. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Vereya or at some other point in their careers.
;Bulgaria
  • Zhivko Zhelev
  • Ivan Stoyanov
  • Kostadin Stoyanov
  • Ivo Ivanov
  • Ivan Bandalovski
  • Valeri Domovchiyski
  • Veselin Minev
  • Ventsislav Hristov
;Europe
  • Alexandru Pașcenco
  • Andrejs Kovaļovs
;Asia
  • Hussein Abdulghani
;Africa
  • Yassine El Kharroubi
  • Olivier Bonnes
  • Christoffer Mafoumbi
  • Ulysse Ndong
  • Alexander N'Doumbou
  • Samuel Inkoom
  • Selim Ben Djemia

    Managers

DatesNameHonours
2001–11Unknown
2011–13 Kolyo Hristov
2013–14 Petar Kostadinov99991 Amateur Cup title
1 Promotion to B Group
2014 Krasimir Manolov99991 Amateur Cup title
1 Promotion to B Group
2014 Gospodin Mirchev
2014–15 Radostin Kishishev
2015–16 Zhivko Zhelev
Vladislav Yanush
2016–2017 Aleksandar Tomash
2017 Ilian Iliev
2018 Blagomir Mitrev
2018 Ivan Kolev
2018 Nebojša Miličić
2018 Lyudmil Kirov
2018–2019 Nebojša Miličić
2019 Oleksandr Sevidov
2019 Ivan Vutov

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