Bulgaria national football team: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Team colours
Home 　 Away
Current coach
Hristo Stoichkov, 2004-
Most capped player
Borislav Mikhailov: 102
Highest goalscorer
Christo Bonev: 47
First International
Austria 6 - 0 Bulgaria (Vienna, Austria; 21 May, 1924)
Largest win
Bulgaria 7 - 0 Norway (Sofia, Bulgaria; 3 November, 1957)
Bulgaria 7 - 0 Malta (Sofia, Bulgaria; 14 October, 1982)
Largest defeat
Spain 13 - 0 Bulgaria (Madrid, Spain; 21 May, 1933)
World Cup
Finals appearances: 7 (First: 1962) Best result: Fourth place, 1994
European Championships
Finals appearances: 2 (First: 1996) Best result: Round 1, 1996, 2004

The Bulgaria national football team is controlled by the Bulgarian Football Union. Bulgaria's best World Cup performance was in the 1994 World Cup, where they beat Germany to reach the Semi-finals, losing to Italy, but reaching a highly credible fourth place.

World Cup record

• 1930 - Did not enter
• 1934 - Did not qualify
• 1938 - Did not qualify
• 1950 - Did not enter
• 1954 - Did not qualify
• 1958 - Did not qualify
• 1962 - Round 1
• 1966 - Round 1
• 1970 - Round 1
• 1974 - Round 1
• 1978 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Did not qualify
• 1986 - Round 2
• 1990 - Did not qualify
• 1994 - Fourth place
• 1998 - Round 1
• 2002 - Did not qualify

• 1960-1992 - Did not qualify
• 1996 - Round 1
• 2000 - Did not qualify
• 2004 - Round 1

• Hristo Stoichkov