Interesting Facts
- Only in the second half of season 2009/2010 in A Group, the championship ended with 15 teams, because Botev (Plovdiv) had problems with their budget and didn't received license to continue playing in A Group. The teams that were going to play against Botev had won their matches respectively with result of 3-0.
- There is only one team which has finished a full season of A Football Group without a loss. That is the most successful club in the history of A Group - PFC CSKA Sofia (31 championships). They finished with 24 wins and 6 draws out of 30 games in season 2007/2008 when they became champions for the record-breaking 31st time. And that is the last league title the club had won.
- Litex Lovech and Ludogorets Razgrad are the only two teams in Bulgarian football history, who have won the title in A Group in their first year after promotion from B Group.
- In the years of A Group there were formed many derbies between teams. The two biggest derbies in Bulgarian football are known as Eternal Derby of Bulgarian football (between PFC CSKA Sofia and PFC Levski Sofia) and The Plovdiv Derby (between Botev Plovdiv and Lokomotiv Plovdiv).
- In the first nine fixtures of season 2012/2013 none of the matches were broadcasted on TV, except the Eternal Derby between CSKA Sofia and Levski Sofia in fixture 9. The broadcasting rights for A Group for the season were sold after fixture 10. The TV-debut match was between Botev and CSKA.
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