1988–89 B Group

Bulgarian B Group

Season	1988–89
Champions	Hebar
Promoted	Hebar Chernomorets
Relegated	Akademik Sofia Spartak Plovdiv Lokomotiv Ruse Arda
Matches played	380
Goals scored	962 (2.53 per match)
Top goalscorer	Vladimir Stoyanov (24 goals)
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

The 1988–89 B Group was the 33rd season of the Bulgarian B Football Group, the second tier of the Bulgarian football league system. A total of 20 teams contested the league.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Arda

Akademik Sv

Bdin

Akademik Sf

Dobrudzha

Lokomotiv R

Osam

Cherveno Zname

Hebar

Ludogorets

Chernomorets

Haskovo

Spartak Pd

Shumen

Vihren

Tundzha

Spartak Pl

Lokomotiv StZ

Rila

Yantra

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Locations of the 1988–89 Bulgarian B Group teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Akademik	Sofia	Akademik (Sofia)	15,000
Akademik	Svishtov	Akademik (Svishtov)	13,500
Arda	Kardzhali	Druzhba (Kardzhali)	12,000
Bdin	Vidin	Georgi Benkovski	12,000
Chernomorets	Burgas	Deveti Septemvri	18,000
Cherveno Zname	Pavlikeni	Gradski	8,000
Dobrudzha	Dobrich	Druzhba (Dobrich)	16,000
Haskovo	Haskovo	Dimitar Kanev	14,000
Hebar	Pazardzhik	Lyuben Shkodrov	8,000
Lokomotiv	Ruse	Lokomotiv (Ruse)	8,000
Lokomotiv	Stara Zagora	Lokomotiv (St. Zagora)	10,000
Ludogorets	Razgrad	Dyanko Stefanov	8,000
Osam	Lovech	Hristo Karpachev	12,000
Rila	Dupnitsa	Bonchuk	22,000
Shumen	Shumen	Panayot Volov	28,000
Spartak	Pleven	Spartak (Pleven)	15,000
Spartak	Plovdiv	Spartak (Plovdiv)	10,000
Tundzha	Yambol	Nikola Laskov	12,000
Vihren	Sandanski	Vihren	8,000
Yantra	Gabrovo	Hristo Botev	12,000

Personnel

Team	Manager	Captain
Akademik Sofia	Milen Goranov	Biser Velkov
Akademik Svishtov	Asen Milushev	Todor Borisov
Arda	Vasil Ankov	Hristo Topalov
Bdin	Ivan Tsvetkov	Toshko Borisov
Chernomorets	Evgeni Yanchovski	Lyubomir Sheytanov
Cherveno Zname	Kiril Furnigov	Angel Stefanov
Dobrudzha	Kurti Nedev	Ivan Georgiev
Haskovo	Pavel Panov	Yuliyan Minchev
Hebar	Kiril Vaglarov	Lazar Dimitrov
Lokomotiv Ruse	Nikola Hristov	Iliya Yankov
Lokomotiv Stara Zagora	Ivan Tanev	Tanko Tanev
Ludogorets	Grigor Petkov	Ruzhin Ananiev
Osam	Kiril Ivkov	Petar Hubchev
Rila	Sasho Pargov	Vasil Gizdov
Shumen	Todor Todorov	Stoyan Cheshmedzhiev
Spartak Pleven	Stefan Velichkov	Ventsislav Gochev
Spartak Plovdiv	Atanas Marinov	Ivan Marinov
Tundzha	Petko Nikolov	Ivan Penchev
Vihren	Todor Nikolov	Todor Mechev
Yantra	Todor Todorov	Vesko Ganchev

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Hebar Pazardzhik (P)	38	23	6	9	66	38	+28	52	Promotion to 1989–90 A Group
2	Chernomorets Burgas (P)	38	20	10	8	63	32	+31	50
3	Osam Lovech	38	21	5	12	50	27	+23	47
4	Dobrudzha Dobrich	38	18	10	10	46	31	+15	46
5	Akademik Svishtov	38	16	12	10	45	30	+15	44
6	Shumen	38	16	9	13	49	37	+12	41
7	Haskovo	38	14	12	12	59	41	+18	40
8	Yantra Gabrovo	38	18	4	16	47	52	−5	40
9	Vihren Sandanski	38	15	9	14	43	47	−4	39
10	Lokomotiv Stara Zagora	38	17	4	17	56	61	−5	38
11	Spartak Pleven	38	16	5	17	61	48	+13	37
12	Tundzha Yambol	38	14	9	15	43	46	−3	37
13	Bdin Vidin	38	13	11	14	41	50	−9	37
14	Ludogorets Razgrad	38	15	4	19	51	62	−11	34
15	Cherveno Zname Pavlikeni	38	13	7	18	45	62	−17	33
16	Rila Dupnitsa	38	15	3	20	39	59	−20	33
17	Akademik Sofia (R)	38	9	14	15	38	48	−10	32	Relegation to 1989–90 V Group
18	Spartak Plovdiv (R)	38	11	8	19	43	60	−17	30
19	Lokomotiv Ruse (R)	38	12	2	24	39	56	−17	26
20	Arda Kardzhali (R)	38	8	8	22	38	75	−37	24

Source: 1989 Football retro-football.bg
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Vladimir Stoyanov	Chernomorets Burgas	24
2	Stanimir Stoilov	Haskovo	23
3	Blagovest Petkov	Spartak Pleven	18
4	Plamen Linkov	Osam Lovech	16
	Kostadin Avramov	Shumen / Lokomotiv Ruse
	Simeon Chilibonov	Chernomorets Burgas
7	Yuliyan Minchev	Haskovo	14
	Georgi Tsvetanov	Spartak Pleven
	Valentin Ignatov	Akademik Svishtov
	Rafi Rafiev	Ludogorets
	Demir Demirev	Ludogorets

External links

• 1988–89 Bulgarian B Group season