2018 Bulgarian Supercup Explained

2018 Bulgarian Supercup
Other Titles:	Финал за Суперкупата на България 2018
Team1:	Ludogorets
Team1association:	First League
Team1score:	1
Team2:	Slavia Sofia
Team2association:	Bulgarian Cup
Team2score:	0
Date:	5 July 2018
Stadium:	Trace Arena
City:	Stara Zagora
Referee:	Georgi Kabakov (Plovdiv)
Attendance:	850
Weather:	Mostly Cloudy 81°F
Previous:	2017
Next:	2019

The 2018 Bulgarian Supercup was the 15th Bulgarian Supercup, an annual Bulgarian football match played between the winners of the previous season's First Professional Football League and Bulgarian Cup. The game was played between the champions of the 2017–18 First League, Ludogorets Razgrad, and the 2018 Bulgarian Cup winners, Slavia Sofia.^{[1] [2]}

This was Ludogorets's sixth Bulgarian Supercup appearance and Slavia's first. Ludogorets lost their previous two Supercup appearances in 2015 and 2017.

Match details

GK 33 Renan RB 4 Cicinho CB 30 Cosmin Moți CB 90 Rafael Forster LB 6 Natanael CM 10 CM 18 Svetoslav Dyakov (c) RW 88 AM 84 Marcelinho LW 93 CF 28 Substitutes: GK 12 Daniel Naumov DF 5 Georgi Terziev MF 8 Lucas Sasha DF 25 Tsvetomir Panov FW 37 FW 70 MF 92 Manager: Paulo Autuori

GK 32 Antonis Stergiakis RB 25 CB 55 Andrea Hristov CB 38 LB 19 Dimitar Velkovski DM 10 DM 27 Emil Martinov (c) RM 33 Galin Ivanov CM 8 LM 17 CF 7 Substitutes: GK 1 Georgi Petkov DF 5 Dimitar Burov FW 9 Tsvetelin Chunchukov FW 14 DF 15 Aleksandar Stanisavljević MF 20 MF 23 Manager: Zlatomir Zagorčić

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MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Martin Margaritov (Plovdiv) Martin Venev (Sofia) Fourth official: Ivaylo Stoyanov (Petrich)

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MATCH RULES 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes, of which three may be used

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bulgarian Supercup 2018/19. Bulgarian-football.com. 30 June 2018. 30 June 2018.
2. Web site: Ето кога и къде ще е мачът за Суперкупата. Sportal.bg. 27 June 2018. 30 June 2018. Bulgarian.