Bulgaria EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2016/18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski - Sunday 13 November 2016 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Group A - Matchday 4 Belarus EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Squad list 3 Head coach 5 Match officials 6 Competition facts 7 Match-by-match lineups 8 Legend 10 1
Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA EURO 2008 Date Stage reached Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/06/2007 QR (GS) 2-1 M.Petrov 10, Yankov 40; Vasilyuk 5 (P) 02/06/2007 QR (GS) Belarus - Bulgaria 0-2 Minsk Berbatov 28, 46 Total Qualifying Home Away Final tournament Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Bulgaria 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 - - - - 5 4 0 1 10 4 Belarus 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 - - - - 5 1 0 4 4 10 2
Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Squad list Bulgaria Current season Qual. No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Nikolay Mihaylov 28/06/1988 28 Mersin - 0 0 0 0 - Vladislav Stoyanov 08/06/1987 29 Ludogorets - 3 0 0 0 - Georgi Kitanov 06/03/1995 21 Defenders CSKA- FT - 0 0 0 0 - Petar Zanev 18/10/1985 31 Amkar - 0 0 0 0 - Daniel Zlatkov 06/03/1989 27 Cherno More - 0 0 0 0 - Aleksandar Aleksandrov 13/04/1986 30 Levski * 2 0 0 0 - Vasil Bozhikov 02/06/1988 28 Kasımpaşa - 1 0 0 0 - Atanas Zehirov 13/02/1989 27 Beroe - 0 0 0 0 - Strahil Popov 31/08/1990 26 Kasımpaşa - 3 0 0 0 - Anton Nedyalkov 30/04/1993 23 - Bozhidar Chorbadzhiyski 30/11/1995 20 Midfielders - Ivelin Popov 26/10/1987 29 CSKA- CSKA- Spartak Moskva * 2 0 0 0-1 0 0 0 * 3 1 0 0 - Svetoslav Dyakov 31/05/1984 32 Ludogorets - 3 0 0 0 - Georgi Milanov 19/02/1992 24 CSKA Moskva - 3 0 0 0 - Ivaylo Chochev 18/02/1993 23 Palermo - 2 0 0 0 - Simeon Slavchev 25/09/1993 23 Lechia - 1 0 0 0 - Todor Nedelev 07/02/1993 23 Forwards - Nikolay Dimitrov 15/10/1987 29 Botev Plovdiv Slavia - 1 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 - Alexandar Tonev 03/02/1990 26 Crotone * 2 1 0 0 - Preslav Yordanov 21/07/1989 27 CSKA- - 0 0 0 0 - Spas Delev 22/09/1989 27 Pogoń - 0 0 0 0 - Radoslav Kirilov 29/06/1992 24 Beroe - 0 0 0 0 - Bozhidar Kraev 23/06/1997 19 Levski - 0 0 0 0 Coach - Petar Houbtchev 26/02/1964 52-2 0 0 0 3
Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Belarus Current season Qual. No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Aleksandr Gutor 18/04/1989 27 Orenburg - 0 0 0 0 - Andrei Gorbunov 29/05/1983 33 Atromitos - 3 0 0 0 - Sergei Chernik 20/07/1988 28 Nancy - 0 0 0 0 Defenders - Aleksandr Martynovich 26/08/1987 29 Ural * 1 0 0 0 - Yegor Filipenko 10/04/1988 28 M. Tel-Aviv - 1 0 0 0 - Igor Shitov 24/10/1986 30 Astana - 0 0 0 0 - Sergei Politevich 09/04/1990 26 Gençlerbirliği - 2 0 0 0 - Roman Begunov 22/03/1993 23 Dinamo Minsk - 0 0 0 0 - Denis Polyakov 17/04/1991 25 BATE - 3 0 0 0 - Evgeni Klopotski 12/08/1993 23 Midfielders Torpedo Zhodino FT - 0 0 0 0 - Aleksandr Hleb 01/05/1981 35 BATE - 2 0 0 0 - Sergei Kislyak 06/08/1987 29 Gaziantepspor - 1 0 0 0 - Pavel Nekhaychik 15/07/1988 28 Orenburg - 0 0 0 0 - Aleksei Rios 14/05/1987 29 BATE * 1 1 0 0 - Ivan Maevski 05/05/1988 28 Anji * 3 0 0 0 - Yuri Kendysh 10/06/1990 26 BATE - 0 0 0 0 - Maksim Volodko 10/11/1992 24 BATE - 3 0 0 0 - Nikita Korzun 06/03/1995 21 Dynamo Kyiv * 3 0 0 0 Forwards - Sergei Kornilenko 14/06/1983 33 Krylya Sovetov * 3 0 0 0 - Mikhail Gordeichuk 23/10/1989 27 BATE - 3 0 0 0 - Pavel Savitski 12/07/1994 22 Jagiellonia - 1 1 0 0 - Nikolai Signevich 20/02/1992 24 BATE * 2 0 0 0 - Denis Laptev 01/08/1991 25 Shakhtyor - 0 0 0 0 Coach - Aleksandr Khatskevich 19/10/1973 43-3 0 0 0 4
Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Head coach Petar Hubchev Date of birth: 26 February 1964 Nationality: Bulgarian Playing career: PFC Litex Lovech, PFC Levski, Hamburger SV, Eintracht Frankfurt Coaching career: PFC Slavia, Chernomorets Pomorie, PFC Botev Plovdiv, PFC Beroe Stara Zagora Made debut for Bulgaria while playing in the second tier in a friendly against Greece in 1984, the first of 35 caps. Hubchev was one of the mainstays of the great Bulgaria side that reached the 1994 FIFA World Cup semi-finals. He also played at EURO '96. Hubchev came through the ranks of Osum Lovech (now known as Litex Lovech). He was a right-back before establishing himself as a central defender. In 1989 he moved to Levski, winning the league and cup double in 1993 before departing at the end of that year for Hamburg. In 1996 he moved on to Eintracht, helping them back to the Bundesliga. Hubchev began his coaching career at Eintracht in 2001, and after a six-month stint as head coach at Slavia in 2005 he returned to Germany for spells with the reserve sides of Eintracht and Wolfsburg. In 2009 he was back in Bulgaria at Chernomorets Pomorie, guiding the second division side to the cup final in his first season. Following a brief spell at Botev Plovdiv he had four seasons at Beroe Stara Zagora, leading them to the Bulgarian Cup in 2013. On 3 October 2016 Hubchev succeeded Ivaylo Petev as Bulgaria coach. Aleksandr Khatskevich Nationality: Belarus Date of birth: 19 October 1973 Playing career: FC Dinamo Minsk (twice), FC Dynamo Kyiv, Tianjin Teda FC, FK Venta Coaching career: FC Dinamo Minsk, Belarus Under-18, FC Vitebsk, Ukraine (assistant), FC Dynamo Kyiv (reserves), Belarus Born in the Belarusian capital, Khatskevich was schooled at FC Dinamo Minsk where he won four national championships before moving abroad. Khatskevich made his name as a central midfielder with FC Dynamo Kyiv, collecting seven Ukrainian titles from 1996 2003. Reached the UEFA Champions League semi-finals with Dynamo in 1998/99 and was Belarusian Player of the Year in 1998 and 2000. Capped 38 times between 1993 and 2005, Khatskevich's playing career wound down with spells in China and Latvia, before a closing shift back at Dinamo Minsk. He went straight into coaching with periods in charge of Dinamo Minsk, Belarus's Under-18s and FC Vitebsk before once more returning to Ukraine. Worked on Myron Markevich's coaching staff with the Ukraine national team, and under his successor Yuriy Kalytvyntsev; replaced Georgi Kondratyev as Belarus coach in December 2014 after a stint with Dynamo Kyiv's youth and reserve sides. 5
Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Match officials Referee Assistant referees Fourth official FIFA Match Commissioner Referee observer Stephan Klossner (SUI) Remy Zgraggen (SUI), Marco Zürcher (SUI) Alain Bieri (SUI) Orkhan Huseynzade (AZE) Karen Nalbandyan (ARM) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches Stephan Klossner 30/05/1981 1 27 FIFA Wold Cup matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match No such matches refereed Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Date Competition Stage reached Home Away Result Venue 26/03/2013 U21 QR Belarus Iceland 1-2 Zhodino 23/07/2013 UCL 2QR FC Shakhter Karagandy FC BATE Borisov 1-0 Karagandy 6
Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Competition facts The Week of Football concept enables fans around the world to enjoy the very best action from the European Qualifiers which will determine UEFA's representatives at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup comprises nine groups of six teams, with matches played on a home-andaway basis. Qualifying takes place under the 'Week of Football' concept, introduced ahead of the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying campaign, in which games are spread out from Thursday to Tuesday, shining the spotlight on more teams on the road to the finals in Russia. Moreover, thanks to the Week of Football, at least 43% of matches will be played on weekends, giving fans a better chance to follow the action on television, in the stadiums and on UEFA.com. Kick-off times will be set mainly at 18:00CET and 20:45CET on Saturdays and Sundays and at 20:45CET for Thursdays, Fridays, Mondays and Tuesdays. In double-header matchweeks, sides will play on Thursday/Sunday, Friday/Monday or Saturday/Tuesday. Each day of the Week of Football will feature eight to ten games. The nine group winners will qualify directly for the final tournament. The eight best runners-up will contest play-offs to decide the last four qualifiers for the finals. The 13 qualifiers then join hosts Russia in the finals to make it 14 UEFA member associations represented. How qualification works The other confederations have the following qualifying berths: Africa: 5 Asia: 4.5 North and Central America and Caribbean: 3.5 Oceania: 0.5 South America: 4.5 7
Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Match-by-match lineups Bulgaria FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Group A Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts France 3 2 1 0 5 1 7 Sweden 3 2 1 0 5 1 7 Netherlands 3 1 1 1 5 3 4 Bulgaria 3 1 0 2 5 10 3 Belarus 3 0 2 1 2 5 2 Luxembourg 3 0 1 2 4 6 1 Matchday 1 (06/09/2016) Bulgaria 4-3 Luxembourg Goals: 1-0 Rangelov 16, 1-1 Joachim 60, 1-2 Joachim 62, 2-2 Marcelinho 65, 3-2 Popov 79, 3-3 Bohnert 90+1, 4-3 Tonev 90+2 Bulgaria: Stoyanov, Popov, Nedyalkov, Chorbadzhiyski, Alexandrov (56 Chochev), Rangelov, Popov (85 Bozhilov), Marcelinho, Ivanov, Milanov (64 Tonev), Dyakov Matchday 2 (07/10/2016) France 4-1 Bulgaria Goals: 0-1 Alexandrov 6 (P), 1-1 Gameiro 23, 2-1 Payet 26, 3-1 Griezmann 38, 4-1 Gameiro 59 Bulgaria: Stoyanov, Popov, A. Aleksandrov, Alexandrov (76 Nedelev), Kostadinov, Popov (68 Tonev), Marcelinho (62 Rangelov), Pirgov, Milanov, Milanov, Dyakov Matchday 3 (10/10/2016) Sweden 3-0 Bulgaria Goals: 1-0 Toivonen 39, 2-0 Hiljemark 45, 3-0 Nilsson Lindelöf 58 Bulgaria: Stoyanov, Popov, A. Aleksandrov, Bozhikov, Slavchev (89 Rainov), Kostadinov (53 Alexandrov), Popov, Nedyalkov, Milanov, Chochev (72 Marcelinho), Dyakov Matchday 4 (13/11/2016) Bulgaria-Belarus Matchday 5 (25/03/2017) Bulgaria-Netherlands Matchday 6 (09/06/2017) Belarus-Bulgaria Matchday 7 (31/08/2017) Bulgaria-Sweden Matchday 8 (03/09/2017) Netherlands-Bulgaria Matchday 9 (07/10/2017) Bulgaria-France Matchday 10 (10/10/2017) Luxembourg-Bulgaria Belarus FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Matchday 1 (06/09/2016) Belarus 0-0 France Belarus: Gorbunov, Polyakov, Politevich, Korzun, Stasevich (69 Krivets), Gordeichuk (85 M. Volodko), Sivakov, 8
Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Maevski, Bordachev, Signevich (81 Kornilenko), Kalachev Matchday 2 (07/10/2016) Netherlands 4-1 Belarus Goals: 1-0 Promes 15, 2-0 Promes 31, 2-1 Rios 47, 3-1 Klaassen 56, 4-1 Janssen 64 Belarus: Gorbunov, Polyakov, Politevich, Korzun, Kornilenko, Gordeichuk (74 M. Volodko), Krivets (67 Kislyak), Rios, Sivakov, Maevski (46 Hleb), Bordachev Matchday 3 (10/10/2016) Belarus 1-1 Luxembourg Goals: 1-0 Savitski 80, 1-1 Joachim 85 Belarus: Gorbunov, Martynovich, Polyakov, Korzun, Hleb, Gordeichuk, Maevski (71 Savitski), Bordachev (78 M. Volodko), Signevich (60 Kornilenko), Filipenko, Kalachev Matchday 4 (13/11/2016) Bulgaria-Belarus Matchday 5 (25/03/2017) Sweden-Belarus Matchday 6 (09/06/2017) Belarus-Bulgaria Matchday 7 (31/08/2017) Luxembourg-Belarus Matchday 8 (03/09/2017) Belarus-Sweden Matchday 9 (07/10/2017) Belarus-Netherlands Matchday 10 (10/10/2017) France-Belarus 9
Legend Competitions Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Club competitions UCL: UEFA Champions League ECCC: European Champion Clubs' Cup UEL: UEFA Europa League UCUP: UEFA Cup UCWC: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup SCUP: UEFA Super Cup UIC: UEFA Intertoto Cup ICF: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Other abbreviations National team competitions EURO: UEFA European Football Championship WC: FIFA World Cup CONFCUP: FIFA Confederations Cup FRIE: Friendly internationals U21FRIE: Under-21 friendly internationals U21: UEFA European Under-21 Championship U17: UEFA Under-17 Championship U16: UEFA European Under-16 Championship U19: UEFA Under-19 Championship U18: UEFA European Under-18 Championship WWC: FIFA Women's World Cup WEURO: UEFA European Women's Championship (aet): After extra time pens: Penalties No.: Number og: Own goal ag: Match decided on away goals P: Penalty agg: Aggregate Pld: Matches played AP: Appearances Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition Pts: Points D: Drawn R: Sent off (straight red card) DoB: Date of birth Res.: Result ET: Extra Time sg: Match decided by silver goal GA: Goals against t: Match decided by toss of a coin GF: Goals for W: Won gg: Match decided by golden goal Y: Booked L: Lost Y/R: Sent off (two yellow cards) Nat.: Nationality N/A: Not applicable Statistics -: Denotes player substituted +: Denotes player introduced *: Denotes player sent off +/-: Denotes player introduced and substituted Squad list D: Disciplinary *: Misses next match if booked S: Suspended Overall: Total appearances in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament only Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com. 10