PFC Akademik Sofia
sports club
Akademik Sofia (Bulgarian: Академик) is a Bulgarian football club from Sofia, which competes in the B RFG Sofa Capital South, the fifth division of the Bulgarian football league system.The team's stadium is located in the Slatina municipality of Sofia and its capacity is 10,000.
Akademik was founded in 1947 by students from the Sofia University and debuted in A PFG in 1949. The team would quickly establish itself as a top flight team in Bulgarian football in the next decades. Akademik became one of the top Bulgarian teams in the 1950s and 1970s, performing strongly in the domestic and European competitions alike, having been crowned Balkans Cup champion in 1974, among other achievements. Akademik's last appearance in the Bulgarian First League came in 2010-11, after which the club experienced financial problems and folded after the 2011–12 season. In August 2026 the team was restored and started from fifth league.
History
Akademik was founded in the 1947, by Sofia University (the oldest higher education institution in Bulgaria, founded on 1 October 1888) students as a football club. Two years later, Akademik were promoted for the first time to the Bulgarian A Group. The 1950 season in the domestic league was very successful for the team, which finished 3rd in the top division. In the next campaign, Akademik finished fourth and reached the final of Bulgarian Cup, losing 0–1 to CSKA Sofia.
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