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| Full name | Професионален Футболен Клуб Черно море Варна (Professional Football Club Cherno More Varna) | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Моряците (The Sailors) | |||
| Short name | Черно море (Cherno More) | |||
| Founded | 3 March 1913[1][2] | |||
| Ground | Stadion Ticha | |||
| Capacity | 8,250 | |||
| Owner | Chimimport[3] | |||
| Chairman | Plamen Andreev | |||
| Head coach | Ilian Iliev | |||
| League | First League | |||
| 2023–24 | First League, 2nd of 16 | |||
| Website | http://chernomorepfc.bg/ | |||
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Cherno More (Bulgarian: Черно море) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in the city of Varna, which currently competes in Bulgaria's primary football competition, the First League. Founded on 3 March 1913, as an association football branch of the larger sports society SC Galata, the club has spent the majority of its existence playing in the top tier of Bulgarian football. Cherno More is named after the Black Sea, and the football club is also known by its nickname The Sailors. Cherno More's home ground is the Stadion Ticha, which has a seating capacity of 8,250 spectators, with plans to move to a new all-seater stadium by 2020, although due to financial issues, the construction has been put on hold. Cherno More previously hosted their games at the Yuri Gagarin Stadium, sharing it with fellow Varna club, Spartak. As one of the relatively successful clubs in Bulgarian football outside the capital Sofia, the Sailors have won the Bulgarian championship on four occasions,[4] as well as the Bulgarian Cup once in 2015.
The club has a long-standing rivalry with neighbouring Spartak Varna, with matches between the two being commonly referred to as The Derby of Varna.
- ^ "История на ПФК "Черно море" до 1945 г. - ПФК Черно море". chernomorepfc.bg. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ "PFC Cherno More Varna - Retro - football". www.retro-football.bg. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ "Organizational structure of Chimimport". chimimport.bg. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ "Futbol 89" (PDF). retro-football.bg (in Bulgarian). pp. 33, 61. Retrieved 7 July 2023.