This article is about the currect club FC Pirin Blagoevgrad. For the defunct club, see PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad.
Football club
Pirin Blagoevgrad
Full name
Футболен клуб Пирин АД Football club Pirin AD (Pirin Football Club)
Nickname(s)
Орлетата (The Eagles)
Founded
1922; 102 years ago (1922)
Ground
Stadion Hristo Botev
Capacity
7,500
Chairman
Petar Zanev
Head coach
Oleksandr Babych
League
First League
2022–23
First League, 11th of 16
Website
Club website
Home colours
Away colours
Hristo Botev Stadium
Football club Pirin (Bulgarian: Футболен клуб „Пирин“), also known as Pirin Blagoevgrad is a Bulgarian football club based in Blagoevgrad, which currently competes in the First League, the top division of Bulgarian football.
The club was founded in 2008, after a merger between two clubs from Blagoevgrad, Pirin 1922 and PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad. By an official court decision later that year, the club was announced as a historical successor of the club records of the former FC Pirin, founded in 1922. In 2011, following the bankruptcy of the entity, which represented the football club, Pirin's football department was merged once again with Perun Kresna, to eventually become OFC Pirin.
The club's name is adopted from Pirin, a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria. Their home ground is the Stadion Hristo Botev in Blagoevgrad with a capacity of 7,500 spectators. Pirin's nickname is Orletata (The Eaglets) and their kit colours are green and white.
To date, the club has four domestic cup finals and most notably, enjoys high praise for its development of football players, as several noted Bulgarian footballers were produced by Pirin's youth academy. Among them are the 1994 FIFA World Cup bronze medallists Petar Mihtarski and Ivaylo Andonov, as well as former Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov, who won two Premier League titles and was the 2010-11 Premier League top goalscorer.
Pirin share a regional rivalry with Marek Dupnitsa, as the two clubs are among the most successful ones from Southwestern Bulgaria.
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