Todor Yanchev (born 19 May 1976) is a Bulgaria

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 professional football

Football (soccer)

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 midfielder, who plays for CSKA Sofia. He mainly plays as a defensive midfielder.

Career

Born in Kazanlak

Kazanlak

Kazanlak, formerly Kazanlık is a Bulgarian town in Stara Zagora Province, located in the middle of the plain of the same name, at the foot of the Balkan mountain range, at the eastern end of the Rose Valley...

, Todor's first club was local club F.C. Rozova Dolina

F.C. Rozova Dolina

Football Club Rozova Dolina is a Bulgarian association football club based in Kazanlak, Stara Zagora Province, currently playing in the South-East V AFG, the third level of Bulgarian football. Their home ground since 1968 has been Sevtopolis Stadium....

, before he moved to the squads of PFC Naftex Burgas

PFC Naftex Burgas

PFC Naftex Burgas is a former football club from Burgas, Bulgaria.-History:The club was created in 1962 by a group of workers, laying the foundations of the future Petroleum Refinery Neftochim, which had not yet been named. The team startеd in A regional group under the name of Stroitel. The...

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In the summer break of 2000 CSKA Sofia

PFC CSKA Sofia

PFC CSKA Sofia , commonly known as CSKA or CSKA Sofia is a professional football club based in Sofia, Bulgaria. The club was officially founded on May 5, 1948. CSKA's abbreviation stands for Central Sports Club of the Army...

 sign Yanchev. With CSKA he became a champion of Bulgaria for 2003 and 2005. After the end of 2004-05 season Yanchev transferred to Greek side Kallithea. Year later he signed with Danish Randers

Randers FC

Randers FC is a Danish professional football team based in Randers, which plays in the top-flight Danish Superliga championship. Founded as a merger on January 1, 2003, the club builds upon the license of Randers Freja, a former three-time Danish Cup winning team...

, spending one season in Danish Superliga

Danish Superliga

The Danish Superliga is the current Danish football championship tournament, and administered by the Danish Football Association. It is the highest association football league in Denmark and is currently contested by 12 teams each year, with 2 teams to be relegated, which proves to be one of the...

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In 2007, Todor returned to Bulgaria, to join CSKA Sofia

PFC CSKA Sofia

PFC CSKA Sofia , commonly known as CSKA or CSKA Sofia is a professional football club based in Sofia, Bulgaria. The club was officially founded on May 5, 1948. CSKA's abbreviation stands for Central Sports Club of the Army...

 for the second time. In 2008 he became a champion of Bulgaria for third time and won Bulgarian Supercup

Bulgarian Supercup

The Bulgarian Supercup is an annually held football match between the football club that has won the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group and the club that has won the Bulgarian Cup...

. In the summer of 2009 he, as well as Kiril Kotev

Kiril Kotev

Kiril Kotev is a Bulgarian football player who currently plays for Dalian Aerbin.-Career:In his youth years, Kotev started to play football at FC Vihar Gorublyane. At the age of 16 he moved to Velbazhd Kyustendil. In 2002 Kotev signed with Lokomotiv Plovdiv, with whom became a Champion of...

 and Yordan Todorov

Yordan Todorov

Yordan Valkov Todorov is a Bulgarian footballer, who plays for Lokomotiv Plovdiv as a midfielder.-Youth career:Todorov was raised in Maritsa Plovdiv's youth teams. He stayed there for 7 years, before he left in 2000....

, stayed in the club although the club was facing a big financial crisis, showing very stable level of play proving why he has been the team captain.

Awards

Champion of Bulgaria - 3 times - 2003,2005, 2008 (with CSKA Sofia) Bulgarian Cup

Bulgarian Cup

The 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....

 - 1 time - 2010–11

2010–11 Bulgarian Cup

The 2010–11 Bulgarian Cup is the eightieth official season of the Bulgarian annual football knockout tournament. The competition will begin in September 2010 with the matches of the Preliminary Round and end with the final in May 2011...

 (with CSKA Sofia) Bulgarian Supercup

Bulgarian Supercup

The Bulgarian Supercup is an annually held football match between the football club that has won the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group and the club that has won the Bulgarian Cup...

 - 2 times - 2008

2008 Bulgarian Supercup

The 2008 Bulgarian Supercup was the 6th Bulgarian Supercup match, a football match which was contested between the "A" professional football group champion, CSKA Sofia, and the winner of Bulgarian Cup, Litex Lovech. The match was held on 3 August 2008 at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia,...

, 2011

2011 Bulgarian Supercup

The 2011 Bulgarian Supercup was the 9th Bulgarian Supercup match, a football match which was contested between the "A" professional football group champion, Litex Lovech, and the winner of the Bulgarian Cup, CSKA Sofia. The match was held on 30 July 2011 at the Lazur Stadium in Burgas,...

 (with CSKA Sofia)

External links

• http://cska.sportal.bg/bg/players:81 Profile at cska.bg
• http://footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.todor.yanchev.7851.en.html Profile at footballdatabase.eu