1997 Bulgarian Cup final

The 1997 Bulgarian Cup final was played at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia on 28 May 1997, and was contested between the sides of CSKA Sofia and Levski Sofia. The match was won by CSKA Sofia.

1997 Bulgarian Cup final

Event	1996–97 Bulgarian Cup
Levski Sofia CSKA Sofia A Group A Group 1 3
Date	28 May 1997
Venue	Vasil Levski Stadium, Sofia
Referee	Atanas Uzunov (Plovdiv)
Attendance	18,500

Match

Details

28 May 1997

18:00 EEST

Levski Sofia	1–3	CSKA Sofia
Gospodinov 51'		Lulchev 9' Zhabov 48' M. Petkov 58'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 18,500

Referee: Atanas Uzunov (Plovdiv)

Levski

CSKA

Levski: GK 1 Dimitar Ivankov DF 2 Emil Kremenliev (c) DF 3 Valentin Dartilov DF 4 Vladimir Ivanov DF 5 Stanimir Gospodinov MF 6 Vladimir Yonkov MF 7 Viktorio Pavlov MF 8 Marian Hristov MF 9 Zahari Sirakov MF 10 Todor Zaytsev  59' FW 11 Hristo Yovov Substitutes: GK 12 Krasimir Kolev MF 13 Tsvetomir Chipev DF 14 Elin Topuzakov DF 15 Milen Penchev MF 16 Veselin Sarbakov FW 17 Anatoli Tonov  59' FW 18 Georgi Varadev Manager: Andrey Zhelyazkov

CSKA: GK 1 Ilian Vasilev DF 2 Adalbert Zafirov DF 3 Filip Filipov  85' DF 4 Stefan Lulchev DF 5 Dobromir Mitov MF 6 Milen Petkov MF 7 Georgi Slavchev  70' MF 8 Anatoli Nankov (c) FW 9 Petar Zhabov  54' FW 10 Ivaylo Andonov MF 11 Georgi Yordanov Substitutes: GK 12 Petko Petkov DF 13 Galin Ivanov  70' FW 14 Kancho Yordanov MF 15 Iliya Voynov FW 16 Dimitar Ivanov  54' DF 17 Risto Milosavov MF 18 Ivo Slavchev  85' Manager: Georgi Vasilev

MAN OF THE MATCH MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees:Ivan Lekov (Sofia) and Yordan Yordanov (Razgrad) Fourth official: Stefan Ormandzhiev (Sofia)

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.

See also

• 1996–97 A Group