2013–14 season | |||
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President |
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Head Coach |
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Stadium |
Georgi Asparuhov Vasil Levski National Stadium (for derby games only) |
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A Group | 5th | ||
Bulgarian Cup | Quarterfinals | ||
UEFA Europa League | First qualifying round | ||
Top goalscorer |
League: Garry Rodrigues (11 goals) All: Garry Rodrigues (14 goals) |
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Highest home attendance | 12 000 vs Irtysh Pavlodar (4 July 2013) | ||
Lowest home attendance |
100 vs Lyubimets (4 December 2013) |
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100 vs Lyubimets (4
Levski Sofia entered season 2013–14 as runners-up in the Bulgarian A Football Group and finalists in the Bulgarian Cup. The Blues will celebrate their 100th anniversary during this season.
In June 2013 after the dramatic end of the 2012–13 season Nikolay Mitov was appointed as the manager of the club. Mitov was previously in charge as a caretaker manager. He failed to win both the championship and cup despite not losing one single game. During the summer club's president announced the return of Nasko Sirakov as general manager of the club. Sirakov was fired from the position back in 2008. Under his lead and with the coaching of Mitov the team did not succeed in European Competitions and got kicked-out in the First Round of the Europa League from Kazakh side Irtysh Pavlodar with 0–2 on aggregate. This resulted the resignation of Mitov and on the 22nd of July Serbian coach Slaviša Jokanović was appointed as the new manager of the club. The failure in Europa League lead to the release of a few players like Cristovao Ramos, Ramon Lopes and striker Joao Silva.
Levski started the campaign with 2 lost games in-a-row against Botev Plovdiv and Lokomotiv Plovdiv finding themselves on last position. After two disappointing home draws against Beroe and Cherno More Varna the team signed with 5 new players – Larsen Touré, Alex Perez, Dimitar Makriev, Miroslav Ivanov and Goran Blažević. Insensibly the team started to improve in the Championship and got up in among the first 7.