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| Full name | Професионален спортен футболен клуб Черноморец Бургас (Professional sports football club Chernomorets Burgas) | ||
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| Nickname | Акулите (The Sharks) | ||
| Founded | 6 July 2005; 20 years ago (2005-07-06) | ||
| Dissolved | 5 June 2019; 6 years ago (2019-06-05)[1] | ||
| Ground | Chernomorets Stadium, Burgas | ||
| Capacity | 1,037 | ||
| 2018–19 | B RFG, 7th | ||
PSFC Chernomorets Burgas (Bulgarian:ПСФК Черноморец Бургас) or simplyChernomorets (Bulgarian:Черноморец) was a Bulgarianfootball club from the city ofBurgas. The club never won any major competition, its most notable achievement being a second-place finish in theUEFA Intertoto Cup competition in 2008.
The club was founded in 2005, following the folding of the historicalFC Chernomorets Burgas, which played numerous seasons in the first tier of Bulgarian football. The new Chernomorets quickly ascended to the first tier and remained there until the2013–14 season. Financial problems followed, which led to instability and relegations to lower leagues, ultimately to the fifth tier, where the team played last in 2018–19, before being dissolved. Fans and former players from the original club foundedFC Chernomorets 1919 Burgas as the successor of the club.
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In the summer of 2005, the club was founded by the mayor ofBurgas. Despite the protests of the owner ofFC Chernomorets Ivaylo Drazhev, the new club was namedOFC Chernomorets 919 and was named as a successor of the current then FC Chernomorets. At the same time, Drazhev formed another club in the capital Sofia under the namePFC Chernomorets Burgas Sofia which only lasted one season and reached many anti-records.
After a one-season stay in the amateur division, the club easily won theBulgarian South-East V AFG withDian Petkov as a head coach, finishing in the 1st place. In June 2006, OFC Chernomorets 919 won the Bulgarian Amateur Cup. In the final at theVasil Levski National Stadium, Chernomorets won with 4–0 againstBenkovski Kostinbrod.
The same summer,Mitko Sabev, a famous Bulgarian oil magnate and owner of the rival football club in the cityNaftex Burgas, bought the club from the municipality and renamed it toPSFC Chernomorets Burgas. (the club is registered in theBulgarian Football Union asPFC Chernomorets Burgas and is known by that name to the people.) The football club was used as a reserve team forNaftex Burgas. And the owner appointed for manager the famous Bulgarian managerDimitar Dimitrov.
In 2007, the Sharks won theEast B PFG and were promoted to theA PFG. The next season Chernomorets finished 6th and qualified for theIntertoto Cup. In the second round, the Sharks defeatedND Gorica from Slovenia with 3–1 on aggregate to set up a third round clash with SwissGrasshopper Zurich, but were eliminated with a 0–4 on aggregate.
In December 2008, Chernomorets's owner appointed for manager of the football club the notable Bulgarian playerKrassimir Balakov, after being sacked fromFC St. Gallen.[2][3] At the end of that season, Mitko Sabev dissolved Naftex Burgas and boughtPFC Chernomorets Pomorie fromPomorie, making the new club from the nearby town a reserve team for the main football club.
On 14 January 2010, Chernomorets Burgas was named as the most progressive club in 2009 in Bulgaria.[4] In July 2010, after differences between the owners ofPetrol AD the club's budget was severely reduced and many employees from the staff were released. However, on 6 December 2010,Krassimir Balakov was released from Chernomorets Burgas after mutual consent. Second half of the2010–11 A PFG season was a nightmare for Chernomorets Burgas and the team collapsed to eighth place in the standings while being managed by two more coaches -Anton Velkov andGeorgi Vasilev.
On 30 May 2011,Mitko Sabev appointed as manager for the second timeDimitar Dimitrov – Hero. He founded high quality players for free likeJugurtha Hamroun,Lourival Assis,Aatif Chahechouche, andYannick Boli, with Chernomorets Burgas having his best season in club history in theBulgarian A PFG – a 4th place with real chances to reach theEuropa League until the end. However, little was not enough and the club eventually didn't qualify.
After 2013/2014 season Chernomorets Burgas was relegated after 7 years in theA PFG. In the next season, they were unable to bounce back and lost their professional status after suffering another relegation - to the V group. The team was relegated again in A Regional Group and again finished on the last place, but was administratively saved from relegate, even finishing on negative points. The next season was nevertheless better and the team finished was relegated to theB RFG after a last-place finish, marking 4 relegations in a row and moving from the top football level to the lowest. They finished the 2018–19 season in the B Regional League in 7th place and on 5 July 2019 the team declared bankruptcy, which was followed by the team dissolving.[5]
| 2005–06 | OFC Chernomorets 919 |
| 2006 | PSFC Chernomorets Burgas |
| Season | League | Level | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Notes |
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| 2005–06 | V AFG | 3 | 1 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 122 | 9 | 88 | 1/16 | Promoted |
| 2006–07 | B PFG | 2 | 1 | 26 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 57 | 20 | 63 | 1/8 | Promoted |
| 2007–08 | A PFG | 1 | 6 | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 39 | 32 | 47 | 1/8 | |
| 2008–09 | A PFG | 1 | 7 | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 41 | 37 | 43 | 1/8 | |
| 2009–10 | A PFG | 1 | 5 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 44 | 29 | 51 | 1/8 | |
| 2010–11 | A PFG | 1 | 8 | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 19 | 28 | 37 | 1/4 | |
| 2011–12 | A PFG | 1 | 4 | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 57 | 23 | 60 | 1/8 | |
| 2012–13 | A PFG | 1 | 6 | 30 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 32 | 28 | 47 | 1/8 | |
| 2013–14 | A PFG | 1 | 11 | 38 | 13 | 5 | 20 | 56 | 62 | 44 | 1/4 | Relegated |
| 2014–15 | B PFG | 2 | 14 | 30 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 40 | 28 | 1/16 | Relegated |
| 2015–16 | V AFG | 3 | 17 | 34 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 42 | 100 | 19 | DNQ | Relegated |
| 2016–17 | A RFG | 4 | 13 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 21 | 107 | –2 | DNQ | |
| 2017–18 | A RFG | 4 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 34 | 80 | 12 | DNQ | Relegated |
| 2018–19 | B RFG | 5 | 7 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 66 | 61 | 22 | DNQ | Dissolved |
Intertoto Cup
| 2008 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 2nd Round |  | ND Gorica | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 |
| 3rd Round |  | Grasshopper | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–4 |
Chernomorets plays its home games at theLazur Stadium.Lazur Stadium is a multi-use stadium inBurgas, Bulgaria. It is currently used mostly forfootball matches. The stadium holds 18,037 people and it is 3 star rated by UEFA. The stadium was opened in 1967 and was renovated in 1997 and 2009.
Chernomorets Arena[6] is a future modern stadium inBurgas, which is going to be the new home ground of Chernomorets Burgas. The new venue will be built in the place of the old home ground of FC Chernomorets, theChernomorets Stadium, and will have a capacity of 30,000 spectators and a possible expansion to 55,000. It is scheduled to be opened in 2017. Construction was delayed to the summer of 2013, because of the demolishing process of the old stadium and the2008 financial crisis, and will cost 500 million euros, making it one of the most expensive stadiums in Europe. The stadium will be probably rated with an elite ranking byUEFA and will hostChampions League andEuropa League matches inBurgas andEastern Bulgaria.
In July 2009, the owner of the club announced an ambitious plan to build a modern sports complex for the club in the Sarafovo neighborhood of Burgas. The sports complex will be namedSharks Nest and will include two training pitches and one training pitch with artificial turf, an administrative building for the team and one building for the management of the football club. The construction of the sports complex started the same month and was finished in July 2010 at a cost of €20 million.[7]
Diyan Petkov (2005–06)Dimitar Dimitrov (1 July 2006 – 17 December 2008)Krasimir Balakov (17 December 2008 – 7 December 2010)Anton Velkov (5 January 2011 – 23 March 2011)Georgi Vasilev (23 March 2011 – 30 May 2011)Dimitar Dimitrov (30 May 2011 – 15 May 2014)Todor Kiselichkov (13 June 2014 – 5 October 2014)Erolin Kyuchukov (18 July 2015 – present)| League competitions | |
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