OFC Nesebar

OFC Nesebar

Full name	Municipal Football Club Nesebar
Nickname(s)	The Dolphins делфините
Founded	1946; 78 years ago (1946)
Ground	Stadion Nesebar, Nesebar
Capacity	10,000
Owner	Nesebar Municipality
Chairman	Georgi Marinov
Head coach	Vasil Banov
League	Second League
2023–24	Third League, 1st (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Nesebar (Bulgarian: Несебър) is a Bulgarian municipal (Bulgarian: общински, pronounced obshtinski) association football club based in Nesebar, Burgas Province, currently competing in the Second League, the second tier of Bulgarian football.

The club’s greatest success was promotion to the A Group in 2004, where the team played one season before being relegated.

The club was established in 1946 under the name Chernomorets Nesebar. After 1949 team is divided to Dynamo and Cherveno Zname. In 1957 the company for physical culture and sport Chernomorets is refounded with the team. From 1979 to 2001 the team is called Slanchev Bryag. Еxception are the years from 1993 to 1996 when the team is called PFC Nesebar. From 2001 team is called Nesebar, as from 2012 team is OFC (Municipal football club).

Nesebar won promotion to the A Group during the 2003–04 season—the only time the club has played in the top level of Bulgarian football—with a third-place finish. In their first season in the top flight they were relegated after only five wins.

In 2009–10 season, Nesebar finished second in the B Group and qualified for the promotion play-off, but were defeated by Akademik Sofia 2–1.^[1] Two years later, they slipped into the third division.

Nesebar managed to return to the Second League in 2016, after four years of absence. The team managed to stay in the second level three seasons, with a notable fifth-place finish during the 2017–18 season. Relegation followed after the 2018–19 season, after which the club spent returned to the Third League. In 2023, Nesebar finished in first place in the Southeast Third League, but refused promotion to the Second League due to financial reasons. The club then won the league again the following year becoming back to back champions.

• Third League:
  • Winners (6): 1989–90, 1999–2000, 2002–03, 2015–16, 2022–23, 2023–24
• A Regional Group:
  • Winners (2): 1973–74, 1977–78
• Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League
  • Winners (1): 2016

As of 26 August 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BUL Martin Kaishev 3 DF  BUL Ivan Stoyanov (captain) 4 DF  BUL Todor Petrov 5 DF  BUL Plamen Dimov 6 MF  BUL Gencho Dalev 7 MF  BUL Valentin Slivov 8 MF  BUL Viktor Kunev 9 FW  BUL Nikola Gelin 10 MF  MKD Stojanco Velinov 11 MF  BUL Viktor Yanev 13 MF  BUL Dimitar Ivanov 14 DF  BUL Dimitar Balinov

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  BUL Kosta Dalev 17 MF  BUL Anton Uzunov 18 DF  BUL Nuretin Pyuskyulyu 20 DF  BUL Nikola Gavov 21 DF  BUL Aleks Minev 25 GK  BUL Plamen Kolev 27 DF  BUL Nikolay Kostov 33 GK  BUL Plamen Pepelyashev (on loan from Ludogorets) 90 DF  BUL Hristo Georgiev 91 FW  BUL Ventsislav Hristov 99 FW  BUL Kristiyan Parashkevov

For recent transfers, see Transfers summer 2024.

Had international caps for their respective countries, held any club record, or had more than 100 league appearances. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries.

• Seasons in A Group: 1
• Seasons in B Group (now Second League): 25
• Seasons in V Group: 18
• Seasons in A Regional Group: 8

• Nesebar at bgclubs.eu