Vidima-Rakovski
Full nameПрофесионален футболен клуб Видима-Раковски
(Professional football club Vidima-Rakovski)
Short nameVidima-Rakovski
FoundedDecember 29, 1922 (1922-12-29)
as SC Rakovski
DissolvedJanuary 29, 2015 (2015-01-29)
Vidima-Rakovski
GroundRakovski Stadium,
Sevlievo
Capacity8,816
ChairmanYaroslav Donchev[1]
LeagueNorth-West V AFG
2013–14North-West V AFG, 8th
WebsiteClub website

PFC Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo (Bulgarian: ПФК Видима-Раковски Севлиево) was a Bulgarian football club based in Sevlievo- Balabanica, which competed in various Bulgarian football leagues (ultimately the North-West V AFG, the third level of Bulgarian football) before dissolving in 2015.

The club was established on September 2, 1997 as Vidima-Rakovski. It was the successor to SC Rakovski, which was founded on December 19, 1922. Vidima-Rakovski played in the lower divisions of the Bulgarian football league system until 2003, when the club was promoted to the top division. The club's home ground was the Rakovski Stadium in Sevlievo, which has a capacity of 8,816 people. The club folded in 2015 after financial problems and was succeeded by Sevlievo.

Honours

Bulgarian A PFG:

Bulgarian B Group

Bulgarian Cup:

History

Vidima-Rakovski was founded on December 29, 1922 as the Rakovski football club by a group of football enthusiasts of the Association for Tourism in Rositsa. Upon its formation, Ivan Tsochev, Boris Popivanov, and Serafim Ganushev became the president, secretary, and steward respectively. Brothers Sokurov, who played on the team, chose to name it Rakovski in honor of the Bulgarian national hero Georgi Sava Rakovski. They played their first game against Viktoria F.C. from Veliko Tarnovo, ending in a 1:1 draw.

After the reorganization of some of the sports associations in Bulgaria, some voluntary sports organizations arose in Sevlievo. The most popular was DSO Red Flag (Bulgarian: ДСО Червено знаме). In 1957, every voluntary sports organizations union in VSO Rakovski. Two years later Rakovski was admitted into the Bulgarian Third Division. In 1968 the club was promoted for the first time to B PFG, the second division of Bulgarian football.

Plamen Markov led Vidima to first promotion in 2002–03.

In 1980, the club was renamed F.C. Rositsa. The team became known as PFC Vidima-Rakovski in 1997, after the union between F.C. Rakovski and F.C. Vidima, a little club of the Vidima Standart Ideal works. In the next 1998-99 season, the team won the Cup of Amateur Bulgarian league.

In the 2002-03 season, with Plamen Markov as head coach, Vidima achieved its first ever promotion to the A Group. Gerasim Zakov scored the club’s first top league goal in a 3-3 draw against Lokomotiv Sofia. The 2003-04 campaign, remembered as the first A PFG season in the club's history ended in a good 12th place. In the same season, Vidima-Rakovski had their best Bulgarian Cup run, beating Kameno and Belasitsa Petrich before losing to Lokomotiv Sofia in the quarter-finals.

In the next season, Vidima did not perform as well, winning just nine games and were relegated after two seasons in the top tier.

In 2006-07 season Vidima-Rakovski finished 2nd in B PFG, and managed to participate in the play-off for promotion to the A PFG. On June 2, 2007, Vidima won the play-off against PFC Naftex Burgas with a result of 1-0 and qualified for the first division for the second time in the club's history. However, the next year they were relegated again.

In 2009-10 Vidima won a third promotion to the top division by winning the Western B PFG. They finished at 14th place in A PFG in the next season and secured their top division status via relegation play-off against Sportist Svoge, which they won in a penalty shoot-out.

In the 2011-12 season, they finished 14th in the league, winning only 3 of their 30 matches. As a result, Vidima competed in B PFG in the 2012-2013 season.

In 2015, the club was dissolved, but later in the same year, it was reformed under the name FC Sevlievo. The reformed club carries the records and history of the previous entity founded in 1922, therefore it is not considered a new club.

Stadium

The club's home ground was the Rakovski Stadium in Sevlievo. The stadium has an exact seating capacity of 8,816 spectators and it was opened in 1958. It was renovated in 2001, when plastic seats and a new scoreboard were installed.

Final squad

As of 1 August 2014 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 MF Bulgaria BUL Dimitar Pantaleev
3 DF Bulgaria BUL Krasimir Tsankov
4 MF Bulgaria BUL Emil Giev
5 DF Bulgaria BUL Georgi Stoychev (captain)
6 DF Bulgaria BUL Marian Simeonov
7 MF Bulgaria BUL Alyosha Iliev
8 MF Bulgaria BUL Nikolay Ivanov
9 FW Bulgaria BUL Stefan Ginchev
No. Pos. Nation Player
10 MF Bulgaria BUL Mladen Nikolaev
11 DF Bulgaria BUL Pavlin Ivanov
13 DF Bulgaria BUL Kiril Fidin
16 GK Bulgaria BUL Vasil Todorov
17 MF Bulgaria BUL Aleksandar Asenov
22 GK Bulgaria BUL Hristo Hristov
23 FW Bulgaria BUL Yoan Petkov

Notable players

Managers

References

  1. ↑ "vidimarakovski.bg". www.vidimarakovski.bg. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
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