May 12 – Bulgaria’s Spartak Varna has lost its license to participate Bulgaria’s top tier next season. The decision was taken by the Bulgarian Football Union’s Licensing Commission following Spartak’s failure to meet financial rules over payment of government taxes.
April 22 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has signed a tripartite agreement with the Junior Achievement Bulgaria Foundation (JA) and the Association for Production, Storage and Trading of Electricity (APSTE) to increase the financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills of junior and youth national football teams.
April 1 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) is organizing a special campaign this month to promote zero violence in the country’s stadiums in cooperation with the Margaritka project and supporters’ clubs of all efbet League teams.
March 6 – CSKA Sofia have criticised the Bulgarian Football Union’s (BFU) Disciplinary Committee for the “unequal” punishments it handed out following the club’s Eternal Derby with Levski Sofia last weekend, which was marred by misbehaviour by both sets of fans.
February 26 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has terminated its relations with the Ares Football Academy and banned all of their teams from training at the Boyana National Football Base.
January 31 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has signed a partnership agreement with Condor, Bulgaria’s leading travel agency.
December 9 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) plans to build a football academy with the financial help of FIFA and UEFA.
The president of the BFU, Georgi Ivanov, said in an interview with the Bulgarian National Television that FIFA and UEFA will provide the funds for the large-scale project, since the BFU does not receive any financial assistance from the state.
December 6 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has signed a cooperation agreement with the Johan Cruyff Institute, the educational institution founded by Dutch great Johan Cruyff, aimed at educating athletes, sport and business professionals in the field of sport management.
September 12 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has applied for grants from a European Union aid programme to renovate and build stadiums and football bases in 40 Bulgarian municipalities.
July 25 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has threatened three of its top tier clubs with sanctions over the quality of their pitches following the first round of the efbet League which the BFU said were endangering the health of the players.
June 12 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) is to invest an additional BGN 200,000 (€100,000) per season to improve the VAR system in the Bulgarian first division – the efbet League. Currently, the BFU pays BGN 1 million (€500,000) per season for VAR.
March 21 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has rejected the request from Botev Plovdiv to appoint foreign referees for their upcoming Bulgarian Cup semi-final matches against CSKA Sofia, to be played over two legs.
CSKA and Botev Plovdiv met in a league game last weekend, which Sofia won 4:0. After the match, Botev Plovdiv were critical of the refereeing.
A Botev statement said: “PFK Botev acknowledges its own mistakes that led to the unpleasant 4:0 loss,
November 28 – The president of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) Borislav Mihaylov has resigned from his post after 18 years in charge. He announced his resignation after a short meeting of the executive committee of the BFU.
November 21 – Bulgarian prosecutors have begun an investigation into the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) and its president Borislav Mihaylov (pictured).
November 17 – Battle scenes accompanied the Euro 2024 qualifier between Bulgaria and Hungary, which was played in front of empty stands in Sofia as thousands of fans from dozens of Bulgarian clubs gathered to protest in front of the Vasil Levski national stadium.