Dimitar Berbatov was a forward unlike any other. As one of the most technically gifted strikers of his generation, he ...

However Bulgarian fans protesting against their own football federation clashed with police outside the ground. The draw gave Hungary 15 points from seven games in Group G of European qualifying ...

Stiliyan Petrov spent a combined 14 years at Aston Villa and Celtic, but it is not just his own playing career that means he ...

The reality for Berbatov is rather different. He is driven by his ambition to become the next president of Bulgarian football. “You reach a time in life where you realise you need to step up ...

Festy Ebosele has emerged as an injury concern for Heimir Hallgrimsson ahead of Ireland's March double-header against Bulgaria.

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Ireland will go back there in March for a Nations League play-off and, though the first meeting with Bulgaria didn't come until 1977, Sofia has a special place in Irish football history.

The family of an England football supporter who died in Bulgaria has been given a date for a pre-inquest into his death following more than five years of “hell”. Rob Spray died in Sofia on ...