2004 European Football Championship - Bulgaria

On May 19, 2004 Bulgaria coach Plamen Markov named a 23-man squad for the Euro 2004 championships which took place in Portugal from June 12 to July 4.

Contents

1 Squad 2 Qualifying 2.1 Group 8 3 Final tournament 3.1 Group C

Squad

#	Name	Club in 2004	Date of Birth	Age	Pld	Goals	Y	Y/R	R
Goalkeepers
1	Zdravko Zdravkov	Litex Lovech	04.10.1970	33	3	0	0	0	0
23	Dimitar Ivankov	Levski Sofia	30.10.1975	29	0	0	0	0	0
12	Stoyan Kolev	CSKA Sofia	03.02.1976	28	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	Vladimir Ivanov	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	06.02.1973	31	2	0	1	0	0
3	Rosen Kirilov	Litex Lovech	04.01.1973	31	2	0	2	0	0
6	Kiril Kotev	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	08.04.1982	22	1	0	0	0	0
4	Ivailo Petkov	Fenerbahçe	07.12.1975	28	2	0	1	0	0
18	Predrag Pazin	Shakhtar Donetsk	14.03.1973	31	2	0	0	0	0
22	Ilian Stoyanov	Levski Sofia	25.11.1977	26	2	0	2	0	0
5	Zlatomir Zagorcic	Litex Lovech	15.06.1971	33	2	0	1	0	0
Midfielders
7	Daniel Borimirov	Levski Sofia	15.01.1970	34	1	0	0	0	0
10	Velizar Dimitrov	CSKA Sofia	13.04.1979	25	2	0	0	0	0
15	Marian Hristov	Kaiserslautern	29.03.1973	31	3	0	1	0	0
17	Martin Petrov	VfL Wolfsburg	15.01.1979	25	3	1	2	0	0
19	Stilian Petrov	Celtic	05.07.1979	24	2	0	2	1	0
13	Georgi Peev	Dynamo Kyiv	11.03.1979	25	2	0	0	0	0
8	Milen Petkov	AEK Athens	12.01.1974	30	2	0	0	0	0
Forwards
9	Dimitar Berbatov	Bayer Leverkusen	30.01.1981	23	3	0	0	0	0
20	Valeri Bojinov	Lecce	15.02.1986	18	1	0	1	0	0
14	Georgi Chilikov	Levski Sofia	23.08.1978	25	0	0	0	0	0
21	Zoran Jankovic	Dalian Shide	08.02.1974	30	3	0	1	0	0
11	Zdravko Lazarov	Gaziantepspor	31.08.1980	23	3	0	1	0	0
16	Vladimir Manchev	Lille	06.10.1977	26	1	0	0	0	0
Coach
	Plamen Markov		11.09.1957	46

• Key: Pld - Games played; Y - Yellow cards; Y/R - Yellow/Red cards; R - Red cards
• Date format: dd.mm.yyyy

Qualifying

Group 8

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Bulgaria	17	8	5	2	1	13	4	+9
2. Croatia	16	8	5	1	2	12	4	+8
3. Belgium	16	8	5	1	2	11	9	+2
4. Estonia	8	8	2	2	4	4	6	-2
5. Andorra	0	8	0	0	8	1	18	-17

September 7, 2002 Belgium 0 – 2 Bulgaria October 12, 2002 Bulgaria 2 – 0 Croatia October 16, 2002 Bulgaria 2 – 1 Andorra April 2, 2003 Estonia 0 – 0 Bulgaria

June 7, 2003 Bulgaria 2 – 2 Belgium September 6, 2003 Bulgaria 2 – 0 Estonia September 10, 2003 Andorra 0 – 3 Bulgaria October 11, 2003 Croatia 1 – 0 Bulgaria

Final tournament

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Sweden	5	3	1	2	0	8	3	+5
2. Denmark	5	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2
3. Missing image Italy_flag_large.png Italy Italy	5	3	1	2	0	3	2	-1
4. Bulgaria	0	3	0	0	3	1	9	-8

June 14, 2004
Sweden	5 – 0 (1-0)	Bulgaria	19:45	Estádio José Alvalade	Details
June 18, 2004
Bulgaria	0 – 2 (0-1)	Denmark	17:00	Estádio Municipal de Braga	Details
June 22, 2004
Italy	2 – 1 (0-1)	Bulgaria	19:45	Estádio D. Afonso Henriques	Details