PFC Ludogorets Razgrad II

Ludogorets II
Full name	Professional Football Club Ludogorets Razgrad II
Nickname(s)	The Eagles;
Short name	Ludogorets II
Founded	2015; 9 years ago
Ground	Eagles' Nest, Razgrad
Capacity	2,000
Owner	Kiril Domuschiev
Chairman	Aleksandar Aleksandrov
Head coach	Zahari Sirakov
League	Bulgarian Second League
2023–24	Second League, 12th
Website	http://www.ludogorets.com/all_news.php

Ludogorets II (Bulgarian: Лудогорец II) or Ludogorets 2 is a Bulgarian professional football team based in Razgrad. Founded in 2015, it is the reserve team of PFC Ludogorets Razgrad, and currently plays in Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football.

Obliged to play one level below their main side, Ludogorets II is ineligible for promotion to First League and also cannot compete in the Bulgarian Cup.

History

Foundation

In the beginning of 2015, the Bulgarian Football Union discussed the idea to add the reserve sides of several A Group clubs in the B Group or in the lower regional divisions. Ludogorets Razgrad, Litex Lovech, Levski Sofia, CSKA Sofia, Cherno More Varna and Botev Plovdiv expressed such interest to have a team in the B Group. At the beginning of June 2015, the BFU announced that only Litex and Ludogorets have sent such applications. Eventually, Ludogorets II and Litex II were added to the 2015-16 B Group.

2015–present: Second League

The team finished on 7th position in their first season. The team started the 2016–17 season precariously and finished in the relegation^{[clarification needed]} zone after the half season. That's why on 12 January 2017, the team announced Radoslav Zdravkov, a Bulgarian football legend and also frequent assistant coach in the Bulgarian national team in recent age.^[1] 2 days later from Ludogorets announced that in order to get better results from second team, they would apply big changes. Radoslav Zdravkov was announced as a head coach with Galin Ivanov and Marcelo Chagas for assistants and one other Bulgarian legend, Spas Dzhevizov, was announced as a selectionist, and will look after for youth talents from Ludogorets Academy and other academies to join the team.^[2]

On 29 March 2017, the new youth stadium, Eagles' Nest was finished and the second team would play on it. The stadium has 2,000 seats.^[3]

From the 2017–18 season, Ludogorets change the politic about the second team by taking the decision to play with only youth players of the club in the Bulgarian Second League.^[4] The team started the season against Lokomotiv Sofia and beat them with 2:1 result with a team average age being 19 years.^[5]

In the 2020–21 season, the team finished on their highest league position and ended the season on 4th place.^[6]

Players

As of 10 September 2024^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	FW	BRA	Raí
29	MF	BUL	Nikolay Nikolov
34	FW	BUL	Branimir Kostadinov
35	FW	BUL	Petar Kirev
40	MF	BUL	Aleksandar Marinov
42	DF	BUL	Simeon Shishkov
45	MF	BUL	Petar Karaangelov
50	MF	BUL	Antonio Popov
53	DF	BUL	Dimitar Gospodinov
58	DF	BUL	Dimitar Iliev
59	DF	BUL	Aleks Lukanov
61	MF	BUL	Rosen Ivanov
62	MF	BUL	Dimitar Ivanov
63	DF	BUL	Anastas Pemperski


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
67	GK	BUL	Damyan Hristov
68	GK	BUL	Umut Habil
69	GK	BUL	Zlatomir Stoimenov
70	FW	BUL	Nikola Todorov
72	MF	BUL	Rosen Ivanov
73	MF	BUL	Filip Gigov
74	FW	BUL	Hyusein Kelyovluev
75	MF	BUL	Elisey Sarov
76	DF	BUL	Konstantin Dimitrov
80	MF	BUL	Metodiy Stefanov
81	MF	BUL	David Georgiev
83	MF	BUL	Rayan Ivanov
93	FW	BUL	Yoan Yordanov
98	FW	BUL	Nasko Yanev

For recent transfers, see Transfers winter 2023–24 and Transfers summer 2024.

For first team players, see Ludogorets Razgrad.

Personnel

Manager history

Dates	Name	Honours
2015	Veselin Branimirov
2015–2017	Galin Ivanov
2017–2019	Radoslav Zdravkov
2019	Radoslav Komitov
2019–2023	Todor Zhivondov
2024–	Zahari Sirakov

Current technical body

Position	Name	Nationality
Selectionist	Ivan Tsvetkov
Head coach	Todor Zhivondov
Assistant coach	Valeri Venkov
Goalkeeper coach	Viktor Georgiev
Physiotherapist	Detelin Maslov
Doctor	Ivaylo Yakimov
Administrator	Nikolay Tsonev

Past seasons

Results of league and cup competitions by season
Season	League											Top goalscorer
Season	Division	Level	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Pos	Top goalscorer
2015–16	B Group	2	30	12	5	13	41	41	+0	41	7th	Yanaki Smirnov	11
2016–17	Second League	2	30	13	5	12	39	33	+6	44	8th	Tsvetelin Chunchukov	6
2017–18		2	30	11	7	12	40	50	-10	40	9th	Denislav Aleksandrov	8
2018–19		2	30	9	5	16	31	43	-12	32	11th	Denislav Aleksandrov	6
2019–20		2	21	5	9	7	20	35	-15	24	12th	Dimitar Mitkov	10
2020–21		2	30	14	8	8	56	38	+18	50	4th	Dimitar Mitkov	14
2021–22		2	36	18	7	11	70	48	+22	61	6th	Vladislav Naydenov	12
2022–23		2	34	17	6	11	42	35	+7	57	4th	Vladislav Naydenov Hyusein Kelyovluev	9
2023–24		2	34	11	11	12	39	39	+0	44	12th	Yoan Yordanov	8
2024–25		2										Hyusein Kelyovluev	7

Key

GS = Group stage
QF = Quarter-finals
SF = Semi-finals

Champions	Runners-up	Promoted	Relegated

Statistics

Second League matches

As of 3 June 2024

Ranking	Nationality	Position	Name	Years	Matches	Goals
1	Bulgaria	MF	Hyusein Kelyovluev	2017–	149	26
2	Bulgaria	MF	Metodiy Stefanov	2019–	147	3
3	Bulgaria	MF	Tsvetoslav Petrov	2017–2024	140	29
4	Bulgaria	DF	Dimitar Iliev	2017–2021 2022–	136	0
5	Bulgaria	MF	Branimir Kostadinov	2019–	133	17
6	Bulgaria	FW	Vladislav Naydenov	2019–	112	24
7	Bulgaria	DF	Tihomir Dimitrov	2017–2023	110	6
8	Bulgaria	MF	Velislav Minkov	2019–2023	102	6
9	Bulgaria	MF	Ilker Budinov	2018–2022	101	14
10	Bulgaria	DF	Preslav M. Petrov	2015–2020	99	4

Players in bold are still playing for Ludogorets.

Second League goals