Full name | Football Club Lovech | ||
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Nickname(s) | Люляците (The Lilacs) | ||
Founded | 1921 | (as Hisarya Sports Club)||
Ground | Gradski Stadion, Lovech, Bulgaria | ||
Capacity | 8,000 | ||
Manager | Hristo Arangelov | ||
League | Second League | ||
2023–24 | Second League, 11th | ||
Website | http://pfclitex.com/ | ||
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FC Lovech (Bulgarian: ФК Ловеч; formerly Litex Lovech) is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Lovech, that competes in the Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Sports Club and was known as Litex Lovech from 1996 to 2024.
The club's home ground is the Gradski Stadion, which has a capacity of 8,100 seats, electric floodlights and permission to stage European matches. As one of the successful Bulgarian clubs outside the capital Sofia, Lovech have won the domestic championship four times and the Bulgarian Cup on four occasions. Together with CSKA Sofia and Levski Sofia, Lovech was also the third football club to represent the country regularly in the European Club Association.