F.C. Levski

The Sports Club “LEVSKI” - Sofia was officially registered on 24th May 1914. That date is considered to be its birthday date. The name of the club was given in memoriam to the Apostle of freedom Vassil Levski. It was proposed by one of its founders - Boris Vassilev (Borkisha).
The name of the club has been changed by force three times during the totalitarian communist regime, from 1950 till 1957 - “Dinamo”, from 1969 till 1985 - “Levski - Spartak” (after the union of the club with “Spartak” - Sofia) and from 1985 till 1989 - “Vitosha”.
The name of the club for its true friends has always been “Levski”.

At the beginning the sports club “LEVSKI” did not possess a field of its own and the training was held on the empty place called “the hillock” (eventually the National Palace of Culture has been built there) and afterwards the training was moved on the drill ground of 6th infantry regiment. Not until 1924, the Sofia Municipality provides the club with a football field which was finally built in 1933. Today the Vassil Levski National Stadium is situated there.

Levski lost its first official match with FC 13, Sofia with the score of 0:2.
Until 1921 no football championship was carried on. In the summer of 1921, when the Sofia Sports League was founded out, which united 11 clubs from Sofia, the official Championship chronicle of the “Blue Gods”, as fans call them, has begun.
Levski won the first match in the championship for the season 1921/22, held on 18 September 1921, with Atletic, Sofia, scoring 3:1.