Nikolay Kostov

Nikolay Kostov

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Personal information
Full name	Nikolay Kostov
Date of birth	(1963-07-02) 2 July 1963
Place of birth	Dobrich, Dobrudzha, Bulgaria
Position(s)	Manager
Team information
Current team	Botev Plovdiv (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1981–1988	Dobrudzha Dobrich
1988–1989	Levski Sofia	6	(0)
1989	Slavia Sofia
1990–1993	Anorthosis
1994	Levski Sofia	2	(0)
Managerial career
1996–1999	Dobrudzha Dobrich
2001–2002	Anorthosis
2003–2004	Onisilos Sotira
2004–2005	Olympiakos Nicosia
2005–2006	AEK Larnaca
2006–2007	Olympiakos Nicosia
2007–2008	Banants Yerevan
2008–2010	Metalurh Donetsk
2011–2012	Levski Sofia
2012–2013	Karpaty Lviv
2014	Tavriya Simferopol
2014–2015	Tosno
2015–	Botev Plovdiv
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nikolay Kostov (Bulgarian: Николай Костов; born 2 July 1963) is a Bulgarian football manager and former footballer who manages Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv. Much of his coaching career has taken place in Cyprus. His first coaching role in the country was at Anorthosis, where he won the Cypriot Cup in 2002. In 2006 he joined Olympiakos Nicosia, but was replaced by Juan Ramon Rocha in October 2006. He was the coach for Metalurh Donetsk from 2008 to 2010, a role from which he resigned in November 2010.

On the 4 November 2011 he was revealed as the new manager of Levski Sofia. His contract ran until the end of the 2011-2012 season. He resigned from his position on 26 March 2012, after enduring his first and only defeat with the club - a 0:1 home loss against Minyor Pernik. In late July 2012, Kostov was appointed as the new head coach of Karpaty Lviv.

Botev Plovdiv

On 11 November 2015 Nikolay Kostov was appointed at the new head coach of Botev Plovdiv.

Honours

• Anorthosis – Cypriot Cup (1): 2002

External links

• Profile at LevskiSofia.info