Bulgarian Doubles Football Group

Bulgarian Doubles Football Group

Founded	2008[1]
Folded	2010[2]
Country	Bulgaria
Confederation	UEFA
Number of clubs	16
Most championships	PFC Levski Sofia B & PFC Litex Lovech B (1)

The Bulgarian Doubles Football Group (Bulgarian: Дублираща футболна група) was a Bulgarian football reserve team league. It existed for just two seasons – 2008–09 and 2009–10.

The 16 clubs that used to form the Doubles Groups were the 16 reserve teams of the clubs currently playing in the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group (A Group). They played their matches each Monday following the official fixtures of A Group but with a reverse home team (if Club A entertains Club B in their A Group match, Club B entertains Club A in their Doubles Groups match).

League tables

Season 2008–09

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Levski Sofia B[a]	30	21	4	5	91	34	+57	67
2	CSKA Sofia B	30	20	6	4	73	30	+43	66
3	Pirin Blagoevgrad B	30	19	5	6	87	40	+47	62
4	Litex Lovech B	30	18	4	8	69	40	+29	58
5	Slavia Sofia B	30	17	6	7	68	42	+26	57
6	Chernomorets Burgas B	30	17	4	9	83	46	+37	55
7	Cherno More Varna B	30	14	5	11	45	50	−5	47
8	Lokomotiv Mezdra B	30	13	6	11	67	71	−4	45
9	Lokomotiv Plovdiv B	30	13	3	14	73	67	+6	42
10	Lokomotiv Sofia B	30	12	4	14	51	60	−9	40
11	Sliven B	30	11	4	15	54	65	−11	37
12	Vihren Sandanski B[b]	30	10	3	17	55	72	−17	33
13	Botev Plovdiv B	30	9	2	19	67	73	−6	29
14	Minyor Pernik B	30	6	1	23	36	96	−60	19
15	Spartak Varna B[b]	30	5	3	22	25	101	−76	18
16	Belasitsa Petrich B[b]	30	2	6	22	15	72	−57	12

Source: Bulgarian-football.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head matches; 3rd goal difference; 4th number of goals scored.
Notes:

1. Levski Sofia made a double league win as the club's first team also won the respective A Group season.
2. The clubs lose their places in next season's Doubles Football Group as their first teams were relegated during the 2008–09 A Group season.

Season 2009–10

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Litex Lovech B[a]	30	24	2	4	83	22	+61	74
2	Sliven B	30	20	3	7	74	36	+38	63
3	Levski Sofia B	30	19	5	6	85	22	+63	62
4	Cherno More Varna B	30	19	4	7	60	32	+28	61
5	Pirin Blagoevgrad B	30	17	5	8	65	46	+19	56
6	Beroe Stara Zagora B	30	16	6	8	61	31	+30	54
7	Slavia Sofia B	30	14	7	9	52	37	+15	49
8	CSKA Sofia B	30	14	6	10	62	36	+26	48
9	Chernomorets Burgas B	30	13	4	13	51	42	+9	43
10	Sportist Svoge B[b]	30	8	6	16	39	68	−29	30
11	Lokomotiv Mezdra B[b]	30	8	5	17	46	87	−41	29[c]
12	Montana B	30	9	2	19	43	69	−26	29[c]
13	Minyor Pernik B	30	9	2	19	55	86	−31	29[c]
14	Lokomotiv Plovdiv B	30	7	7	16	48	68	−20	28
15	Lokomotiv Sofia B	30	8	3	19	47	98	−51	27
16	Botev Plovdiv B[b]	30	1	1	28	13	104	−91	4[d]

Source: Bulgarian-football.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head matches; 3rd goal difference; 4th number of goals scored.
Notes:

1. Litex Lovech made a double league win as the club's first team also won the respective A Group season.
2. The clubs lose their places in next season's Doubles Football Group as their first teams were relegated during the 2009–10 A Group season.
3. Head-to-head: LMZ 3–1 MON; MON 0–3 LME; LME 6–0 MIN; MIN 2–3 LME; MON 6–0 MIN; MIN 4–0 MON
4. In February 2010 Botev Plovdiv were expelled from both A Group and Doubles Group because they were unable to meet the criteria required to continue the season. All of their remaining matches of the second half of the season were counted as a 3–0 win for their opponents.[3]

References

1. "БФС: Ето ви дублиращи отбори, тежко ви ако не играят (BFU: Here are the doubles, you'll have hard times if they don't play)". sportni.bg. 21 April 2008. Archived from the original on 25 April 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2010.
2. "Дублиращата група остана в историята (The Double Group Goes Down in History)". sportline.bg. 3 June 2010. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2010.
3. "Изхвърлиха официално Ботев Пловдив от "А" група (Botev Plovdiv Officially Kicked out of A Group)". sportal.bg. 24 February 2010. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2010.