1951 A Group

A Group

Season	1951
Champions	CSKA Sofia (2nd title)
Matches played	132
Goals scored	365 (2.77 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dimitar Milanov (13 goals)
← 1950 1952 →

The 1951 A Group was the third season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

Overview

It was contested by 12 teams, and CSKA Sofia won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	CSKA Sofia (C)	22	18	1	3	62	7	+55	37
2	Spartak Sofia	22	14	8	0	27	7	+20	36
3	Levski Sofia	22	9	8	5	37	16	+21	26
4	Akademik Sofia	22	10	6	6	40	33	+7	26
5	Spartak Varna	22	10	5	7	40	27	+13	25
6	Cerveno Zname Sofia (R)	22	6	11	5	26	21	+5	23	Relegation to 1952 B Group
7	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	22	7	9	6	21	20	+1	23
8	Stroitel Sofia (R)	22	8	6	8	25	24	+1	22	Relegation to 1952 B Group
9	Minyor Pernik	22	9	2	11	37	36	+1	20
10	Botev Plovdiv	22	6	5	11	26	32	−6	17
11	Spartak Pleven (R)	22	1	3	18	16	59	−43	5	Relegation to 1952 B Group
12	Dunav Ruse (R)	22	0	4	18	8	83	−75	4

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

Results

Home \ Away	AKD	BPD	CHZ	CSK	DUN	LEV	LPL	MIN	SPL	SSF	SPV	STR
Akademik Sofia		5–2	1–1	1–3	4–1	3–3	0–0	4–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	3–1
Botev Plovdiv	0–1		1–0	0–2	4–1	0–1	0–3	1–4	6–0	1–1	0–1	1–1
Cerveno Zname Sofia	2–0	1–1		0–2	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	7–1	0–0	2–2	2–0
CSKA Sofia	2–0	0–0	5–0		12–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	5–5	0–1	1–0	2–0
Dunav Ruse	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–6		0–5	0–0	0–3	1–1	0–0	0–5	1–3
Levski Sofia	1–1	4–0	1–1	2–0	6–0		1–1	0–1	2–0	1–3	2–0	1–1
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	2–1	1–2	0–0	0–5	3–0	1–0		3–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1
Minyor Pernik	1–3	1–2	2–2	0–2	5–0	1–0	3–2		1–0	1–3	0–1	1–2
Spartak Pleven	3–3	0–3	0–1	0–5	5–1	0–1	1–1	0–6		1–2	2–3	1–2
Spartak Sofia	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–0		1–0	2–1
Spartak Varna	7–2	2–1	1–1	0–3	6–1	0–4	0–0	4–0	3–0	1–1		3–2
Stroitel Sofia	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	6–0	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–0	0–0	0–0

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

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Dimitar Milanov	CSKA Sofia	13
2	Dimitar Andonov	Spartak Sofia	8
	Mihail Yankov	CSKA Sofia
	Arsen Dimitrov	Levski Sofia
	Nikolay Milkov	Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Champions

CSKA Sofia

Goalkeepers
Georgi Kekemanov	14	0(0)
Stefan Gerenski	08	0(0)

Defenders
Georgi Rusev	09	0(1)
Manol Manolov	17	0(0)
Georgi Enisheynov	03	0(0)
Georgi Tsvetkov	20	0(0)
Georgi Nasev	19	0(0)

Midfielders
Gavril Stoyanov	11	0(0)
Stefan Bozhkov	17	0(2)
Panayot Panayotov	17	0(1)
Atanas Tsanov	12	0(3)
Gancho Vasilev	11	0(2)

Forwards
Krum Yanev	11	0(2)
Dimitar Milanov	22	(13)
Stefan Stefanov	20	(13)
Mihail Yankov	14	0(8)
Angel Milanov	14	0(6)

Manager
	Krum Milev

References

• Bulgaria - List of final tables (RSSSF)
• Bulgarian Football Archive - bulgarian-football.com