1953 A Group

Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1953 season.

Overview

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Levski Sofia (C)	28	19	5	4	48	22	+26	43
2	CSKA Sofia	28	18	6	4	64	23	+41	42
3	Cherno More Varna	28	12	7	9	29	20	+9	31
4	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	28	9	13	6	30	29	+1	31
5	Slavia Sofia	28	9	12	7	42	33	+9	30
6	Spartak Pleven	28	9	12	7	29	29	0	30
7	Lokomotiv Sofia	28	10	9	9	30	32	−2	29
8	Minyor Pernik	28	11	6	11	33	35	−2	28
9	Spartak Plovdiv	28	9	9	10	29	29	0	27
10	Akademik Varna (R)	28	9	7	12	26	43	−17	25	Relegation to 1954 B Group
11	Botev Plovdiv (R)	28	8	8	12	29	31	−2	24
12	Spartak Sofia (R)	28	5	14	9	24	34	−10	24
13	Stroitel Sofia (R)	28	5	12	11	22	29	−7	22
14	VVS Sofia (R)	28	6	9	13	26	35	−9	21
15	Marek Dupnitsa (R)	28	3	7	18	23	60	−37	13
–	Unified team of VSO^[a] (R)	13	11	0	2	37	8	+29	0^[b]

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

^ "Unified team of volunteer's sport organisations" is the name of the national football team of Bulgaria which participated in the league
^ Results annulled

Goalkeepers
Simeon Kostov	19	0(0)
Dimitar Elenkov	08	0(0)

Midfielders
Dragan Georgiev	11	0(1)
Aleksandar Krastev	17	0(0)
Lyubomir Hranov	17	0(3)
Aleksandar Bahchevandzhiev	01	0(0)
Dimitar Kontev	02	0(0)
Ivan Georgiev	14	0(1)
Stefan Abadzhiev	14	0(5)

Manager
	Dimitar Mutafchiev

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Dimitar Minchev	Spartak Pleven VVS Sofia	15
2	Dimitar Andonov	Levski Sofia	12
3	Kiril Nikolov	Marek Dupnitsa	11
4	Vasil Spasov	Levski Sofia	10

v t e Bulgarian football championship seasons
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v t e 1953–54 in European football
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