PFC Pirin 1922 Blagoevgrad

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Pirin Blagoevgrad (ПФК Пирин Благоевград) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Blagoevgrad, currently playing in the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group, the first division of Bulgarian football.

The club was founded as Granit Stara Kresna, then changed its name to Makedonska Slava ("Macedonian Glory") to imply a connection with the old Makedonska Slava (PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad), then playing its home matches in Simitli.

The team played a season in the top division as Makedonska Slava in the 2000s, then was relegated, they became know as Pirin 1922 in the 2004/2005 season,they returned to top flight football as Pirin 1922 for the 2005/06 season only to once again return to the B PFG.

Pirin 1922 (Blagoevgrad) changed name to Pirin Blagoevgrad before the start of the 2006/2007 season; they are not to be confused with the "original" (PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad), playing currently at 3rd level

[edit] Current squad 2007/08

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Atanas Arshinkov
		GK	Ivan Ivanov
		GK	Antonio Penchev
		GK	Vencislav Cacev
		DF	Stoyne Iliev (captain)
		DF	Krum Kostadinov
		DF	Bogdan Stoyanov
		DF	Radoslav Stanoev
		DF	Petar Kepov
		DF	Krasimir Stoyanov
		MF	Lubomir Vasev

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Stoyan Dramov
		MF	Kiril Zakov
		MF	Vladimir Shumantov
		MF	Aleksandar Yakimov
		MF	Nikolay Cvetkov
		MF	Dimitar Trenevski
		MF	Goran Gocevski
		FW	Filip Vodenicharov
		FW	Petar Bandev
		FW	Spas Delev
		FW	Mladen Zaechki

[edit] Former lineup

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Ivaylo Ivanikov
2	DF	Dimitar Koemdzhiev
3	DF	Velik Irmiev
4	DF	Nikolay Bodurov
5	DF	Lachezar Dafkov
7	MF	Andrey Stoev
8	MF	Svetoslav Dyakov
9		Mario Metushev
11		Stanko Stoychev
12	GK	Blagoy Makendzhiev
14	MF	Dragan Kotsev
15	DF	Georgi Georgiev

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Ivan Stoychev
17	FW	Pavlin Todorov
18	FW	Krasimir Shapkarov
19	FW	Veselin Stoykov
20	MF	Yulian Popev
21	DF	Cvetelin Ralchovski
22	GK	Ivan Carvarishki
24	MF	Lubomir Vitanov
25	DF	Vasil Ognyanov
27	MF	Vangel Stoyanov
30	DF	Faik Tairov