The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) is a football

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 association based in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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 and a member of UEFA

UEFA

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. It organizes a football league, Bulgarian A Professional Football Group

Bulgarian A Professional Football Group

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, and fields its Bulgaria national football team

Bulgaria national football team

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 in UEFA and FIFA

FIFA

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 -authorised competitions.

A legal entity that it claims descent from was founded in 1923 as the football department of the Bulgarian National Sports Federation, which existed until the Soviet invasion of 1944. The football governing body was then known as the Central Football Committee until 1948, the Republican Section for Football from 1948 until 1962 and the Bulgarian Football Federation from 1962 until 1985. On 27 June 1985, the organization was renamed to the Bulgarian Football Union, the name that it carries today.

Heads of the Bulgarian Football Union

head(s)	term
Pavel Grozdanov, Tsvetan Genov, Ivan Batandzhiev, L. Sokerov and D. Hristov	1923-1944
Georgi Stoyanov	(1946-1948)
Isak Katalan	1948
Ivan Nikolov	1948-1949
Mladen Nikolov	1949-1951
Petar Kolarov	1951-1952
Stefan Petrov	1952-1959
Lachezar Avramov	1959-1961
Kiril Nestorov	1961-1962
Nedyalko Donski	1962-1970
Danail Nikolov	1970-1975
Ivan Nikolov	1975-1979
Krum Vasilchev	1979-1982
Dimitar Nikolov	1982-1984
Ivan Shpatov	1984-1986
Andon Traykov	1986-1990
Slavcho Tepavicharov	1990-1991
Dimitar Largov	1991-1993
Valentin Mihov Valentin Mihov Valentin Mihov is a former Bulgarian football player and administrator. He is a former president of the Bulgarian Football Union and the Bulgarian Professional Football League .- Biography :...	1993-1994
Hristo Danov	1994-1995
Ivan Slavkov Ivan Slavkov Ivan Slavkov was a Bulgarian sports boss linked to the Communist-era nomenklatura. He served as the President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee between 1982 and 2005 and was a member of the International Olympic Committee between 1987 and 2005.During the Communist regime in Bulgaria, Slavkov...	1995-2005
Borislav Mikhailov Borislav Mikhailov Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....	2005-

External links

• Bulgarian Football Union Official Website
• Bulgaria at FIFA site
• Bulgaria at UEFA site