About FC Sliven

FC Sliven is a Bulgarian football club from the city of Sliven, with its football tradition dating back to 1914 when the first local team “Sportist” was founded. Over the decades, the club evolved through many reorganisations and name changes, including Asenovets, DNA, General Zaimov, and Mlada Gvardia, before becoming FC Sliven in the 1960s. It became the main representative of football in the city and established itself as a stable participant in Bulgaria’s national competitions.

The club’s strongest period came between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, when it spent many consecutive seasons in Bulgaria’s top division. Its peak achievement was in the 1983–84 season, when Sliven finished 3rd in the league and qualified for European competition for the first time. The club’s greatest trophy success came in 1990, when it won the Bulgarian Cup after defeating CSKA Sofia in the final, which marked the highest point in its history.

After the early 1990s, FC Sliven entered a period of decline due to financial problems and successive relegations, eventually leading to bankruptcy and disappearance from professional football. The club was later re-founded as OFC Sliven 2000 in 2000, continuing the football tradition of the city but as a new legal entity. Since then, Sliven has moved between divisions and lower tiers, remaining an active but unstable presence in Bulgarian football.