PFC Chernomorets Balchik
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PFC Chernomorets Balchik is a Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n football club from the town of Balchik
Balchik
Balchik is a Black Sea coastal town and seaside resort in the Southern Dobruja area of northeastern Bulgaria. It is located in Dobrich Oblast and is 42 km northeast of Varna...

, last played in the Bulgarian B Professional Football Group
Bulgarian B Professional Football Group
The Bulgarian B Professional Football Group or simply B PFG is the second level of the Bulgarian football league system, below the A PFG and above the Bulgarian V AFG. The B PFG is formed by two groups, running in parallel , where in each group are participating 10 teams...

, the second division of Bulgarian football. The team played its home games at the local "Balchik Stadium" with 6,000 seats.

History

Chernomorets were founded as Sport Club Strela in late 1918 by English
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 and Italian
Italy
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 soldiers after World War I
World War I
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. The team finally became known as Chernomorets in 1957.

In his history Chernomorets plays mainly in Bulgarian amateurs divisions
Bulgarian V AFG
The Bulgarian V Amateur Football Group is the third level of the Bulgarian football league system. While the first division and the second division are professional, the third division V AFG is amateur division...

. Until the 1976/77 season, the team participated in either the third Bulgarian division, but gained a promotion to the Bulgarian B PFG for the 1977/78 season. The next season was not so successful and the team was relegated back to the Third Division (The club finishing on 17th place in the group).

Chernomorets qualified for second time in his history for the second division by finishing on 3rd place in Bulgarian V AFG
Bulgarian V AFG
The Bulgarian V Amateur Football Group is the third level of the Bulgarian football league system. While the first division and the second division are professional, the third division V AFG is amateur division...

 in the 2007-08 season. In this period in the club worked as an assistant coach former famous football player Ilian Kiriakov
Ilian Kiriakov
Ilian Ivanov Kiriakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer.A player of great energy, he was equally at ease as right and left defender...

.

The club has withdrawn from B PFG in February 2011 for a big finance debt.

Last squad

As of August 1, 2010

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