FC Lovech
Bulgarian football club / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FC Lovech (Bulgarian: ФК Ловеч) is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Lovech, which currently competes in the Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Sports Club and was known as Litex Lovech from 2001 to 2024.
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Full name | Football Club Lovech | ||
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Nickname(s) | Люляците (The Lilacs) | ||
Founded | 1921; 103 years ago (1921) as Hisarya Sports Club | ||
Ground | Gradski Stadion, Lovech, Bulgaria | ||
Capacity | 8,000 | ||
Manager | Zhivko Zhelev | ||
League | Second League | ||
2023–24 | Second League, 11th | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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The club's home ground is the Gradski Stadion, which has a capacity of 8,100 seats, electric floodlights and permission to stage European matches. As one of the successful Bulgarian clubs outside the capital Sofia, Lovech have won the domestic championship four times and the Bulgarian Cup on four occasions. Together with CSKA Sofia and Levski Sofia, Lovech was also the third football club to represent the country regularly in the European Club Association.