Flashy Botev Plovdiv come to Levski Sofia after their 1-0-result against Cherno More. Get out our comprehensive match preview!
- Levski Sofia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
Levski Sofia are done competing for places this season; they will remain in 5th place whatever happens now. Botev Plovdiv have already sealed their fate; they will finish in 3rd place no matter what happens. 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 6-12-17 (win-draw-loss) from 35 matches.
Both squads have had adequate rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's aim for an enthusiastic fixture!
Levski Sofia form and stats
When playing at home in the Parva Liga, Levski Sofia have managed 7 wins, 3 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 13 games. Levski has recorded two wins in a row here at Vivacom Arena - Georgi Asparuhov, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Nikolay Borislavov Mihaylov not having conceded a league goal in 360 minutes.
Levski Sofia's previous fixture was a Bulgarian Cup game also played at their home, ending 1-0 against Ludogorets. The home team hope to to repeat that performance.
Preceding that game was the away draw at CSKA Sofia that finished 0-0.Levski Sofia has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. Levski have only conceded 11 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Botev Plovdiv form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Botev Plovdiv so far with only 13 points returning home. The records show 2-7-4 (win-draw-lose).
The Botev Plovdiv goalkeeper Georgi Argilashki is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 213 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Botev Plovdiv won their last game, 1-0 versus Cherno More played at home.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Lokomotiv Sofia 1929.The attacking power of Botev Plovdiv when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 13 league matches away. As opposed to that, Plovdiv have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Levski Sofia - Botev Plovdiv 2-0 was the story when these two participants last played each other, earlier this season. Last ten meetings between these participants: Levski Sofia won four, Botev Plovdiv triumphed in four and we saw two draws. six games with more than 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Bari 6 goals |   T. Nedelev 6 goals |  A. Baroan 5 goals |
Levski Sofia missing players
Botev Plovdiv missing players
| Levski Sofia | Botev Plovdiv | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 27 | 13 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 13 | 27 |
| 12 | 7 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 33 | 18 | 4 | Scored | S | 4 | 10 | 35 |
| 25 | 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 4 | 15 | 28 |
| 81% | 77% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 77% | 89% |
| 67% | 69% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 69% | 78% |
| 44% | 46% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 23% | 44% |
| 15% | 15% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 15% | 19% |
| 4% | 8% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 4% |
| 41% | 38% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 38% | 52% |
| 48% | 54% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 38% | 33% |
| 30% | 31% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 46% | 26% |
| 5.2 | 5 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.8 | 3.6 | 4.2 |
| 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 6.5 | 6.1 |
| 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11.7 | 13.2 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 10.3 | 11.4 |
| 5 | 5.1 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.5 | 5.1 |
| 25% | 27% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 17% | 25% |
| 8.8 | 7.3 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 13.8 | 12.3 |
| 3.7 | 3.1 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.9 | 4 |
- Levski Sofia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| 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 | 26 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 64 | 23 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 14 | 41 | 64 |
| 2 | CSKA Sofia | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 39 | 25 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 52 |
| 3 | Botev Plovdiv | 26 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 34 | 28 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 46 |
| 4 | Cherno More | 26 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 35 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 17 | 45 |
| 5 | Levski Sofia | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 33 | 25 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 42 |
| 6 | Slavia Sofia | 26 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 30 | 26 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 36 |
| 7 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 30 | 35 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 20 | -5 | 34 |
| 8 | Beroe | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 23 | 27 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 19 | -4 | 32 |
| 9 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 26 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 36 | 37 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 20 | -1 | 30 |
| 10 | Arda | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 34 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 18 | -7 | 29 |
| 11 | OFK Pirin | 26 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 34 | 41 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 21 | -7 | 27 |
| 12 | Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 | 26 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 42 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 25 | -20 | 25 |
| 13 | Botev Vratsa | 26 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 48 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 31 | -25 | 22 |
| 14 | Tsarsko selo | 26 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 15 | 36 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 19 | -21 | 16 |
