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| Full name | Football Club Marek Dupnitsa | ||
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| Founded | 1915 | ||
| Ground | Stadion Bonchuk | ||
| Capacity | 16,000 | ||
| Coordinates | 42°16′31.1″N 23°8′8.3″E / 42.275306°N 23.135639°E | ||
| Chairman | Tsvetan Vidinski | ||
| Manager | Tancho Kalpakov | ||
| League | Second League | ||
| 2023–24 | Second League, 3rd | ||
| Website | https://marek1915.com | ||
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FC Marek (Bulgarian: ФК Марек) is a Bulgarian football club based in Dupnitsa, currently playing in the Second League, the second level of the Bulgarian football league system. It was founded in 1947 following the unification of four local clubs. Home matches take place at Bonchuk Stadium, where Marek famously defeated Bayern Munich in 1977. Bonchuk stadium has a capacity of 16,000.[1]
Marek was founded in 1947, following the unification of four local clubs from Dupnitsa. Marek was one of the ten clubs that took part in the inaugural season of the A Group, the newly formed unified league of Bulgaria, in 1948. Since then, Marek has played a total of 29 seasons in the top level of Bulgarian football, most recently in 2015. Marek's most successful period came during the late 1970s, when the club competed in two successive European competitions. Marek managed to defeat Ferencvárosi TC and obtain a home win against FC Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup, who had been crowned European champions just two seasons before that. Marek then played in the 1978–79 European Cup Winners' Cup, virtue of winning the domestic cup, against Aberdeen, also winning at home.
- ^ UEFA Europa League History – Marek-Bayern 1977/78 UEFA.com Retrieved 17 September 2018.