1987–88 A Group

The 1987–88 A Group was the 40th season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948. The championship was won by Levski Sofia, two points ahead of CSKA Sofia. Chernomorets Burgas and Spartak Pleven were relegated.

Bulgarian A Group

Season	1987–88
Champions	Levski Sofia (17th title)
Relegated	Chernomorets Spartak Pleven
European Cup	Levski Sofia
UEFA Cup	Trakia Plovdiv Slavia Sofia
Matches played	240
Goals scored	695 (2.9 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nasko Sirakov (28 goals)
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Levski Sofia (C)	30	20	8	2	67	29	+38	48	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	CSKA Sofia	30	20	6	4	76	32	+44	46	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Trakia Plovdiv	30	15	9	6	52	31	+21	39	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Slavia Sofia	30	14	10	6	48	30	+18	38
5	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	12	8	10	47	47	0	32
6	Beroe Stara Zagora	30	11	7	12	41	44	−3	29
7	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	12	4	14	44	59	−15	28
8	Sliven	30	11	5	14	35	43	−8	27
9	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	30	10	6	14	44	41	+3	26
10	Spartak Varna	30	10	6	14	36	52	−16	26
11	Minyor Pernik	30	10	5	15	34	36	−2	25
12	Pirin Blagoevgrad	30	7	11	12	32	37	−5	25
13	Lokomotiv G. Oryahovitsa	30	11	3	16	41	57	−16	25
14	Vratsa	30	8	8	14	34	46	−12	24
15	Chernomorets Burgas (R)	30	9	3	18	27	50	−23	21	Relegation to 1988–89 B Group
16	Spartak Pleven (R)	30	6	9	15	37	61	−24	21

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BSZ	CHB	CSK	ETA	LEV	LGO	LPL	LSO	MIN	PIR	SLA	SLI	SPL	SPV	TRA	VRA
Beroe Stara Zagora		1–0	2–3	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	3–3	4–1	1–1	1–4
Chernomorets Burgas	0–1		0–1	1–1	2–1	4–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–3	0–1
CSKA Sofia	4–2	8–0		1–0	2–3	4–0	7–0	4–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	4–3	5–1	2–1	1–0	2–0
Etar Veliko Tarnovo	2–1	3–0	3–3		3–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	5–1	3–0	3–0	3–2
Levski Sofia	2–2	2–0	2–2	1–0		3–0	5–1	5–3	2–0	3–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	6–1	1–0	4–2
Lokomotiv G. Oryahovitsa	4–1	3–2	2–5	1–0	1–2		2–0	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–3	2–0	2–1	2–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	1–2	2–1	3–0	3–2	1–1	4–3		3–0	2–0	2–1	2–4	1–0	3–2	5–2	2–5	4–0
Lokomotiv Sofia	1–1	4–2	2–2	1–0	1–3	3–1	1–1		1–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–2	1–2	2–0
Minyor Pernik	1–0	3–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–0	0–2		4–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	1–1	4–0
Pirin Blagoevgrad	0–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	4–0	1–1	2–0		3–0	0–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–1
Slavia Sofia	2–0	4–0	1–3	2–0	2–2	5–2	2–0	0–0	3–1	1–0		2–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	4–1
Sliven	1–1	3–0	2–1	3–2	0–4	1–0	3–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–1		4–3	4–1	1–1	0–0
Spartak Pleven	2–4	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	0–1	0–1		2–2	3–3	0–0
Spartak Varna	2–0	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–3	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	4–1		0–0	3–1
Trakia Plovdiv	3–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–1	3–1	0–0	5–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–2		2–0
Vratsa	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–2

Source: A PFG (in Bulgarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Champions

Levski Sofia

Goalkeepers
Borislav Mihaylov	24	0(0)
Vlado Delchev	06	0(0)

Defenders
Kiril Vangelov	17	0(0)
Nikolay Iliev	30	0(1)
Krasimir Koev	30	0(1)
Plamen Nikolov	11	0(0)
Dinko Gospodinov	15	0(0)
Stoil Georgiev	27	0(0)
Stefan Kolev	06	0(0)
Petar Petrov	23	0(2)

Midfielders
Emil Velev	29	0(1)
Dimitar Markov	09	0(0)
Georgi Yordanov	30	(10)
Sasho Nachev	11	0(1)
Bozhidar Iskrenov	27	0(6)
Georgi Slavchev	05	0(1)

Forwards
Emil Spasov	18	0(2)
Nasko Sirakov	30	(28)
Rosen Krumov	16	0(0)
Georgi Donkov	01	0(0)
Petar Kurdov	22	(13)

Manager
	Vasil Metodiev

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Nasko Sirakov	Levski Sofia	28
2	Lyuboslav Penev	CSKA Sofia	21
3	Ivelin Mladenov	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	18
4	Atanas Pashev	Trakia Plovdiv	17
5	Petar Aleksandrov	Slavia Sofia	16
6	Hristo Stoichkov	CSKA Sofia	14
7	Petar Kurdov	Levski Sofia	13
	Vasil Dragolov	Beroe
	Emil Kostadinov	CSKA Sofia
10	Yordan Lechkov	Sliven	12
	Stefan Draganov	Lokomotiv Plovdiv

External links

• Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)
• 1987–88 Statistics of A Group at a-pfg.com