Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Spartak Varna & Arda face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Bulgarian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Spartak and Arda.
Spartak Varna form and stats
Last season, Spartak Varna's Bulgarian Cup journey ended in the 16th finals.Perfect 3. League Northeast season at home so far for Spartak Varna 3 wins from 3 appearances. Ever since the Botev Galabovo game Spartak has been unbeatable here at Stadion Spartak producing four straight wins.
As indicated by the result mentioned above, Spartak played a great game against Kubrat and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Chernomorets Balchik are coming to town in four days.
Spartak always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Stadion Spartak with 12 goals in 3 league games. Spartak Varna have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 0 goals.
Arda form and stats
They also participated in Bulgarian Cup last season. This ended in the 8th finals.The story so far for the visiting team on their Parva Liga travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.
Arda play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Beroe. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against CSKA Sofia in the Parva Liga.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Arda manager N. Kirov as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Etar.
Arda have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 6 league away games 6 goals have been scored. Arda are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 5 times in 6 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  I. Kokonov 5 goals | S. Delev 3 goals | S. Kovachev 2 goals |
Spartak Varna missing players
Arda missing players
| Spartak Varna | Arda | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 6 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 6 | 9 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 33 | 20 | Scored | S | 17 | 30 | ||
| 39 | 18 | Conceded | C | 12 | 23 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 84% | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 44% | 60% | ||
| 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 19% | 28% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 19% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 19% | 16% | ||
| 28% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 40% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | ||
| 44% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 36% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 74 | 54 | Total Shots | T S | 105 | 211 | ||
| 25 | 18 | Shots on Target | S O | 42 | 82 | ||
| 12% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 30% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Svetkavitsa Targovishte | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 19 | 27 |
| 2 | Chernomorets Balchik | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 21 | 23 |
| 3 | Spartak Varna | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 20 | 23 |
| 4 | Dunav 2010 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 20 |
| 5 | Chernolomets | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 19 |
| 6 | Shumen 2007 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 19 |
| 7 | Septemvri Tervel | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 19 |
| 8 | Ustrem Donchevo | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
| 9 | Ludogorets III | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 16 |
| 10 | Botev Novi Pazar | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 17 | -13 | 12 |
| 11 | Dorostol | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -12 | 10 |
| 12 | Sportist General Toshevo | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 34 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 24 | -20 | 10 |
| 13 | Kubrat | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 16 | -14 | 8 |
| 14 | Topolite | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 19 | -20 | 7 |
| 15 | Inter Dobrich | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 46 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 23 | -35 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ludogorets | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 23 |
| 2 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 23 |
| 3 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 19 |
| 4 | Beroe | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 18 |
| 5 | CSKA Sofia | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 18 |
| 6 | Arda | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| 7 | Cherno More | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 14 |
| 8 | Tsarsko selo | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 13 |
| 9 | Botev Plovdiv | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -4 | 12 |
| 10 | Botev Vratsa | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -5 | 12 |
| 11 | Montana | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -9 | 12 |
| 12 | Levski Sofia | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| 13 | Slavia Sofia | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 13 | -12 | 7 |
| 14 | Etar | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -18 | 2 |