1978–79 A Group

Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1978–79 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.^[1]

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Levski Sofia	30	18	7	5	54	29	43	1979–80 European Cup first round
2	CSKA Sofia	30	14	12	4	49	26	40	1979–80 UEFA Cup first round
3	Lokomotiv Sofia	30	14	9	7	35	22	37	1979–80 UEFA Cup first round
4	Slavia Sofia	30	16	4	10	52	33	36
5	Chernomorets Burgas	30	13	8	9	45	43	34
6	Marek Dupnitsa	30	13	7	10	42	39	33
7	Beroe Stara Zagora	30	14	5	11	45	47	33	1979–80 Cup Winners' Cup first round
8	Botev Plovdiv	30	9	11	10	45	45	29
9	Pirin Blagoevgrad	30	9	11	10	37	39	29
10	Cherno More Varna	30	8	10	12	29	40	26
11	Spartak Pleven	30	9	7	14	25	27	25
12	Botev Vratsa	30	9	7	14	36	42	25
13	Sliven	30	8	9	13	35	42	25
14	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	30	10	4	16	35	43	24
15	Akademik Sofia	30	6	10	14	27	50	22	Relegation to B Group
16	Haskovo	30	7	5	18	35	59	19	Relegation to B Group

Goalkeepers
Stefan Staykov	11	0(0)
Tomas Lafchis	19	0(0)

Manager
	Ivan Vutsov

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Rusi Gochev	Levski Sofia (5 goals for Chernomorets)	19
2	Chavdar Tsvetkov	Slavia Sofia	18
3	Spas Dzhevizov	CSKA Sofia	15
4	Andrey Zhelyazkov	Slavia Sofia	13
4	Ivan Petrov	Marek Dupnitsa	13
6	Atanas Mihaylov	Lokomotiv Sofia	12
	Pavel Panov	Levski Sofia
	Georgi Slavkov	Botev Plovdiv
9	Stoycho Mladenov	Beroe Stara Zagora	11
	Alyosha Dimitrov	Akademik Sofia
	Sasho Georgiev	Haskovo

v t e Bulgarian football championship seasons
State Championship (National Football Division)	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1941 1942 1943 1944
Republic Championship	1945 1946 1947 1948
A Group	1948–49 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
First League	2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25

v t e 1978–79 in European football (UEFA)
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Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '78 '79 England Faroe Islands '78 '79 Finland '78 '79 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '78 '79 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '78 '79 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '78 '79 Spain Sweden '78 '79 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '78 '79 Finland '78 '79 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '78 '79 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '78 '79 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '77–'78 '79–'80