Ilian Stoyanov
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Ilian Stoyanov (born January 20, 1977) is a Bulgaria
n football
player, defender. In Bulgaria he is also known as Collovati, because of his haircut in the past. He recently plays for Fagiano Okayama of Japan's J. League Division 2
.
He started his professional career with CSKA Sofia in 1995.
He joined JEF United Ichihara Chiba
in 2005 from Levski Sofia and enjoyed a reasonably successful first season, helping them lift the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
(the Japanese League Cup), the club's first ever trophy- and also to repeat the achievement the following season, 2006. The club released him in July 2007 after he criticised manager Amar Osim
. On 12 August 2007, he signed with another Japanese club Sanfrecce Hiroshima
. He could not help the team to avoid relegation to J2 in the same season. However he helped his new team to get to the final of the Emperor's Cup
in 2007, and to win the Xerox Super Cup in 2008.
In 2009, he returned to Bulgaria national team
and started 7 games in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
.
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|1995-96
||CSKA Sofia||rowspan="10"|TBI A Football Group
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|1996-97
||rowspan="4"|Velbazhd Kyustendil||17||0||||||-||-||||||||
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|1997-98
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|1998-99
||22||1||||||-||-||||||||
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|1999-00
||22||1||||||-||-||||||||
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|2000-01
||rowspan="5"|PFC Levski Sofia
||20||1||||||-||-||||||||
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|2001-02
||25||0||||||-||-||||||||
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|2002-03
||19||1||||||-||-||||||||
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|2003-04
||18||0||||||-||-||||||||
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|2004-05
||8||0||||||-||-||||||||
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|2005||rowspan="3"|JEF United Ichihara Chiba
||rowspan="4"|J. League Division 1||30||1||2||0||8||0||colspan="2"|-||40||1
|-
|2006||26||0||0||0||10||0||colspan="2"|-||36||0
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|rowspan="2"|2007||9||1||colspan="2"|-||4||0||colspan="2"|-||13||1
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|rowspan="4"|Sanfrecce Hiroshima
||13||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||18||0
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|2008
||J. League Division 2
||32||2||4||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||36||2
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|2009||rowspan="2"|J. League Division 1||23||4||0||0||3||1||colspan="2"|-||26||5
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|2010
||17||0||1||0||2||0||3||1||23||1
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|2011
||Fagiano Okayama||J. League Division 2||||||||||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||||
181||5||||||-||-||||||||
150||8||12||0||27||10||3||1||192||10
331||13||||||||||||||||
|1998||2||0
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|1999||5||0
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|2000||4||0
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|2001||2||0
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|2002||1||0
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|2003||5||0
|-
|2004||9||0
|-
|2005||3||0
|-
|2006||0||0
|-
|2007||0||0
|-
|2008||0||0
|-
|2009||6||0
|-
|2010||3||0
|-
!Total||40||0
|}
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
n football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
player, defender. In Bulgaria he is also known as Collovati, because of his haircut in the past. He recently plays for Fagiano Okayama of Japan's J. League Division 2
J. League Division 2
The or is the second division of and is the second-tier professional association football league in Japan. Currently, J. League Division 2 is the second level of the Japanese association football league system. The first tier is represented by J...
.
Career
He was part of the Bulgarian 2004 European Football Championship team, who exited in the first round, finishing bottom of Group C, having finished top of Qualifying Group 8 in the pre-tournament phase. In the beginning of his career, he played as left-back.He started his professional career with CSKA Sofia in 1995.
He joined JEF United Ichihara Chiba
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...
in 2005 from Levski Sofia and enjoyed a reasonably successful first season, helping them lift the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
J. League Cup
J. League Cup is a Japanese football competition organized by J. League. It is also known as Yamazaki Nabisco Cup or Nabisco Cup because confectionery/bakery company Yamazaki Nabisco have sponsored the competition since its inception in 1992.It is generally regarded as the Japanese equivalent to...
(the Japanese League Cup), the club's first ever trophy- and also to repeat the achievement the following season, 2006. The club released him in July 2007 after he criticised manager Amar Osim
Amar Osim
Amar Osim is a former Bosnian football player and now a manager. He is currently managing FK Željezničar.-Playing career:...
. On 12 August 2007, he signed with another Japanese club Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
is a Japanese association football club in the J. League Division 1.-Club name:The club name is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian word frecce or 'arrows'...
. He could not help the team to avoid relegation to J2 in the same season. However he helped his new team to get to the final of the Emperor's Cup
Emperor's Cup
, commonly known as or , is a Japanese association football competition. It has the longest tradition of any football tournament in Japan, dating back to 1921, before the formation of the J. League, Japan Football League and their predecessor, Japan Soccer League...
in 2007, and to win the Xerox Super Cup in 2008.
In 2009, he returned to Bulgaria national team
Bulgaria national football team
The FIFA Bulgaria national football team is an association football team fielded by the Bulgarian Football Union, a member association of UEFA. The team's home ground is Vasil Levski in Sofia and Luboslav Penev is in charge manager after replacement of Lothar Matthäus...
and started 7 games in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
The European zone of qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup saw 53 teams competing for 13 places at the finals. The qualification process started on 20 August 2008, after UEFA Euro 2008, and ended on 18 November 2009. The qualification process saw the first competitive matches of...
.
Career statistics
Last update: 15 December 2010|-
|1995-96
A PFG 1995-96
-Overview:It was contested by 16 teams, and PFC Slavia Sofia won the championship. Lovech, renamed from Lex Lovech in the previous season, were relegated along with FC Spartak Plovdiv and Shumen.-League standings:-References:*...
||CSKA Sofia||rowspan="10"|TBI A Football Group
Bulgarian A Professional Football Group
The Bulgarian A Professional Football Group commonly known as A PFG is the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The league is sponsored by Victoria FATA Insurance and therefore is officially known as Victoria A Football Group since 2011...
||3||0||||||-||-||||||||
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|1996-97
A PFG 1996-97
-League standings:-References:*...
||rowspan="4"|Velbazhd Kyustendil||17||0||||||-||-||||||||
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|1997-98
A PFG 1997-98
- Final table :-Top goalscorers:17 goals Boncho Genchev Anton Spasov 13 goals Stefan Yurukov Danilo Doncic ...
||27||1||||||-||-||||||||
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|1998-99
A PFG 1998-99
- Final table :* Metalurg Pernik relegated by Bulgarian Football Union for match fixing* Litex and Levski three points deducted for winning fixed matches against Metalurg...
||22||1||||||-||-||||||||
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|1999-00
A PFG 1999-00
-League standings:-Top goalscorers:20 goals Mihail Mihaylov 19 goals Svetoslav Todorov 16 goals Plamen Timnev -References:...
||22||1||||||-||-||||||||
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|2000-01
A PFG 2000-01
-Overview:It was contested by 14 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.-League standings:-Top goalscorers:21 goals Georgi Ivanov 17 goals Hristo Yovov 14 goals Stefan Yurukov -References:...
||rowspan="5"|PFC Levski Sofia
PFC Levski Sofia
"Levski Sofia" redirects here. For the sports club, see Levski Sofia .PFC Levski Sofia, otherwise simply known as Levski or Levski Sofia, is a professional football club based in Sofia, Bulgaria...
||20||1||||||-||-||||||||
|-
|2001-02
A PFG 2001-02
-First stage:-Top 6 Group:-Bottom 8 Group:-Top goalscorers:21 goals Vladimir Manchev 18 goals Todor Kolev 17 goals Stoyko Sakaliev ...
||25||0||||||-||-||||||||
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|2002-03
A PFG 2002-03
-League standings:-Top goalscorers:22 goals Georgi Chilikov 17 goals Martin Kushev 14 goals Emil Gargorov 13 goals Velizar Dimitrov ...
||19||1||||||-||-||||||||
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|2003-04
A PFG 2003-04
-League standings:-Top goalscorers:25 goals Martin Kamburov 17 goals Stoyko Sakaliev 16 goals Blagoy Georgiev -References:...
||18||0||||||-||-||||||||
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|2004-05
A PFG 2004-05
-League standings:-Top goalscorers:27 goals Martin Kamburov 22 goals Hristo Yanev 14 goals Vladislav Zlatinov 12 goals Tsvetan Genkov ...
||8||0||||||-||-||||||||
|-
|2005||rowspan="3"|JEF United Ichihara Chiba
JEF United Ichihara Chiba
is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...
||rowspan="4"|J. League Division 1||30||1||2||0||8||0||colspan="2"|-||40||1
|-
|2006||26||0||0||0||10||0||colspan="2"|-||36||0
|-
|rowspan="2"|2007||9||1||colspan="2"|-||4||0||colspan="2"|-||13||1
|-
|rowspan="4"|Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
is a Japanese association football club in the J. League Division 1.-Club name:The club name is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian word frecce or 'arrows'...
||13||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||18||0
|-
|2008
2008 J. League Division 2
The 2008 J. League Division 2 season is the 37th season of the second-tier club football in Japan and the 10th season since the establishment of J2 League. The season started on March 8 and ended on December 6....
||J. League Division 2
J. League Division 2
The or is the second division of and is the second-tier professional association football league in Japan. Currently, J. League Division 2 is the second level of the Japanese association football league system. The first tier is represented by J...
||32||2||4||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||36||2
|-
|2009||rowspan="2"|J. League Division 1||23||4||0||0||3||1||colspan="2"|-||26||5
|-
|2010
2010 J. League Division 1
The 2010 J. League Division 1 season was the 46th season of the top-flight club football in Japan and the 18th season since the establishment of J1 League. The season began on March 6 and ended on December 4....
||17||0||1||0||2||0||3||1||23||1
|-
|2011
2011 J. League Division 2
The 2011 J. League Division 2 season is the 40th season of the second-tier club football in Japan and the 13th season since the establishment of J2 League...
||Fagiano Okayama||J. League Division 2||||||||||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||||
181||5||||||-||-||||||||
150||8||12||0||27||10||3||1||192||10
331||13||||||||||||||||
International career statistics
|-|1998||2||0
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|1999||5||0
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|2000||4||0
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|2001||2||0
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|2002||1||0
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|2003||5||0
|-
|2004||9||0
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|2005||3||0
|-
|2006||0||0
|-
|2007||0||0
|-
|2008||0||0
|-
|2009||6||0
|-
|2010||3||0
|-
!Total||40||0
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Honors
- Bulgarian A Professional Football GroupBulgarian A Professional Football GroupThe Bulgarian A Professional Football Group commonly known as A PFG is the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The league is sponsored by Victoria FATA Insurance and therefore is officially known as Victoria A Football Group since 2011...
- 2001,2002 - Bulgarian CupBulgarian CupThe Bulgarian Cup is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. It is sponsored by the Bulgarian Corporate Commercial Bank....
- 2002, 2003, 2005 - J. League CupJ. League CupJ. League Cup is a Japanese football competition organized by J. League. It is also known as Yamazaki Nabisco Cup or Nabisco Cup because confectionery/bakery company Yamazaki Nabisco have sponsored the competition since its inception in 1992.It is generally regarded as the Japanese equivalent to...
- 2005, 2006 - J. League Best Eleven - 2005
- Xerox Super Cup - 2008
- J. League Division 2J. League Division 2The or is the second division of and is the second-tier professional association football league in Japan. Currently, J. League Division 2 is the second level of the Japanese association football league system. The first tier is represented by J...
- 2008
Personal life
- He is a friend of Bulgarian sumo wrestler Kotooshu KatsunoriKotooshu KatsunoriKotoōshū Katsunori is a professional sumo wrestler or rikishi. He made his debut in 2002, reaching the top division just two years later...
who became the first European to win the top division championship, MakuuchiMakuuchior is the top division of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers , ordered into five ranks according to their ability as defined by their performance in previous tournaments....
.