The season has been a rollercoaster for these contenders so far, both rise and fall leading to mid-table places so far. Clear the decks for CSKA 1948 Sofia - Botev Plovdiv!
- CSKA 1948 Sofia have not yet lost a game at home.
- Botev Plovdiv have won significantly less corners away then at home.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Botev Plovdiv have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 8-9-18 (win-draw-loss) from 35 matches.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
CSKA 1948 Sofia form and stats
The story so far in the First League for CSKA 1948 Sofia at their home stadium (Stadion Vitosha) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats.
It's back home for CSKA 1948 Sofia, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Botev Vratsa away with the result 2-1. Chochev (2) found the net in that victory. Finally, a league win after three matches without. Some amazing scenes last match, when Chochev scored the winning goal two minutes into stoppage time.
Before that, CSKA 1948 Sofia played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Beroe.A decent goal production from CSKA 1948 Sofia in their home games so far, with 6 goals from 4 league matches. From these home matches, Sofia have conceded only 2 goals.
Botev Plovdiv form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Botev Plovdiv so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-2 (win-draw-lose).
Botev Plovdiv are travelling after their nice 4-1 home win in the game against Beroe (placed 8th). Those three points felt sweet as this side had gone three league games without winning. It's hard not to mention Baroan's lethal finishing against Beroe. three goals were a big reason for the important victory.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Cherno More wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Botev Plovdiv when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 4 matches with the visitors losing 3 times, drawing 0 and winning 1 game.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 6 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the previous nine meetings featuring these two squads are: three wins for Sofia, one draw and five wins for Botev Plovdiv. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: one game.
Top Goalscorers
  I. Popov 5 goals |  A. Baroan 4 goals |
CSKA 1948 Sofia missing players
Botev Plovdiv missing players
| CSKA 1948 Sofia | Botev Plovdiv | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 6 | 17 |
| 90% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| 70% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 75% |
| 30% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 33% | 58% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 17% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 67% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 30% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 5.2 | 5.2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.2 | 5.2 |
| 3.9 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 16 | 6.3 | 4.9 |
| 2.2 | 1.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 5 | 3.8 | 3.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.3 | 14.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 10 | 11.2 |
| 4.8 | 4.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.2 | 4.2 |
| 25% | 32% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 26% | 30% |
| 10 | 7.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 23 | 14 | 12.8 |
| 3.7 | 2.5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 10 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
- Botev Plovdiv have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- CSKA 1948 Sofia have not yet lost a game at home.
- CSKA 1948 Sofia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- CSKA 1948 Sofia have scored in all their home matches so far.
- CSKA 1948 Sofia haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 29 |
| 2 | Cherno More | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 28 |
| 3 | Arda | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 22 |
| 4 | Levski Sofia | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 22 |
| 5 | CSKA Sofia | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 21 |
| 6 | Ludogorets | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 18 | 20 |
| 7 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 18 |
| 8 | Beroe | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 16 | -8 | 14 |
| 9 | Levski Krumovgrad | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -6 | 13 |
| 10 | Botev Plovdiv | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 12 |
| 11 | Hebar 1918 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 12 |
| 12 | OFK Pirin | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -8 | 10 |
| 13 | Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 12 | -14 | 10 |
| 14 | Botev Vratsa | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | -15 | 10 |
| 15 | Etar | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -14 | 4 |
| 16 | Slavia Sofia | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -17 | 4 |
