| Clubname: | Botev Plovdiv II |
| Upright: | 0.8 |
| Fullname: | PFC Botev Plovdiv II |
| Nickname: | Канарчетата (The Canaries) Жълто-черните (The Yellow-Blacks) |
| Ground: | Sport Complex Nikola Shterev - Starika |
| Capacity: | 3,500 |
| Owntitle: | Shareholders |
| Owner: | PFK Botev Association (100%) |
| Founder: | Daniel Cerejido |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Dominik Beršnjak |
| League: | Second League |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Position: | Third League, 7th (promoted) |
| Website: | http://www.botevplovdiv.bg/ |
| Kit Alt1: | Yellow jersey, black shorts and yellow socks |
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Botev Plovdiv II (Bulgarian: Ботев Пловдив II) or Botev 2 is a Bulgarian professional football team based in Plovdiv. Founded in 2021, it is the reserve team of Botev Plovdiv, and currently competes in the Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football league system.
Obliged to play one level below their main side, Botev II is ineligible for promotion to First League and also can not compete in the Bulgarian Cup.
Since 2015, the Bulgarian Football Union allowed Bulgarian teams to have reserve sides in the lower regional divisions. In the beginning of 2021 Botev Plovdiv announced their intentions to create a reserve team in Second league. In May 2021, the team had doubts about starting the team,[1] but eventually the team was officially announced on 4 June.[2] On 7 June, Daniel Cerejido announced Stefan Stoyanov as the manager of the team, with Botev U19 team, joining the reserve team.[3]
For recent transfers, see Transfers summer 2024.
For first team players, see Botev Plovdiv.
Bulgarian teams can register up to five players without EU citizenship, and use all of them during match days. Those non-EU nationals with European ancestry can claim citizenship from the nation their ancestors came from. If an individual doesn't have European ancestry, he can claim Bulgarian citizenship after playing in Bulgaria for 5 years.
EU NationalsEU Nationals (Dual citizenship)
Non-EU Nationals
Samuel Akere Umeh Emmanuel Tochukwu Nadi
Abdoulaye Traoré| Dates | Name | Honours | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–2022 |  Stefan Stoyanov | ||
| 2022 |  Artur Hovhannisyan | ||
| 2022 |   Nemanja Miljanovic | ||
| 2023 |  Daniel Cohen | ||
| 2023–2024 | Iliyan Garov | ||
| 2024– | Dominik Beršnjak |
| Season | League | Top goalscorer | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=col | Division | scope=col | Level | scope=col | P | scope=col | W | scope=col | D | scope=col | L | scope=col | F | scope=col | A | scope=col | GD | scope=col | Pts | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | Pos |
| scope=row rowspan=1 | 2021–22 | Second League | 2 | 36 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 34 | 47 | rowspan=1 | -13 | 38 | 16th | Ivan Vasilev | 10 | ||||||
| scope=row rowspan=1 | 2022–23 | 2 | 34 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 52 | rowspan=1 | -27 | 28 | 18th | Abdoulaye Traoré | 9 | |||||||
| scope=row rowspan=1 | 2023–24 | Third League | 3 | 38 | 18 | 7 | 13 | 84 | 55 | +29 | 61 | 7th | Emil Naydenov | 15 | |||||||
| scope=row rowspan=1 | 2024–25 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Champions | Runners-up | Promoted | Relegated |
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