Thursday, June 12, 2025

Bulgaria the Cup

 

Cup:Because of the 1970 World Cup both the championship and the final phase of the Cup tourbnament were played late in the summer – the Cup final almost at the end of August. Practically, at the time when the clubs had their new squads for 1970-71 season.

 Levski-Spartak Sofia - CSKA 'Septemvriisko zname' Sofia                 2-1

CSKA lost the Cup. The squad here is from the semi-fnal against Cherno More (Varna), which they won. At the final almost CSKA used almost the same players.
Levski-Spartak ended the 1969-70 season with a double. Sitting from left: I. Zdravkov, St. Pavlov, B. Mikhailov, P. Kirilov, St. Peshev, Al. Kostov, G. Asparoukhov, I. Stoyanov. Middle row: R. Vytlacil – coach, M. Gaydarski, Y. Kirilov, G. Todorov, St. Aladzhov, G. Tzvetkov, Kr. Bogdanov, Tzv. Vesselinov, V. Mitkov, G. Kamenski, Y. Arssov – assistant coach. Top row: D. Zhechev, N. Kotkov, P. Panov, K. Ivkov, Sl. Stoilov.
This was the second spell for the coach who made Czechoslovakia silver medallist at 1962 World Cup Rudolf Vytlacil and it was again a success: the Czech made Levski champion in 1965 and now again. But he was leaving... unfortunately.