PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad

This article is about the defunct club PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad . For the currect club, see FC Pirin Blagoevgrad.

Pirin Blagoevgrad

Full name	PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad
Founded	1931 2000 (After union)
Dissolved	2008

PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad was a Bulgarian professional football club based in Blagoevgrad.

Club was founded in 1931 as Makedonska Slava ("Macedonian Glory"). In 1948 the club joined the newly established FD Julius Dermendzhiev and cease its independent existence. In 2000 Makedonska Slava was restored after unification with Granit Stara Kresna.^[1]

Several years later, under the hand of the new owner Nikolay Galchev, the football club renamed to Pirin 1922 in the 2004/05 season and returned again to top flight football for the next, 2005/06 season. In autumn 2006 the club's name was once again renamed to PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad.^[1] The following 2007/08 season, Pirin Blagoevgrad won the Western B PFG and the club joined the A PFG.

In December 2008, club was merged with FC Pirin, which played in the Western B PFG. The new club was named FC Pirin Blagoevgrad and is officially the rightful holder of the club records of the former Pirin, which has played more than 20 seasons in the top flight.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Пирин Бл, Благоевград". pfl.bg. http://stat.pfl.bg/cgi/players.cgi?DB:c07;!ID:9!!teamD06_bul@. Retrieved 11 October 2011. 
2. ^ "История". pirinfc.com. http://www.pirinfc.com/history.php?news_tip=4. Retrieved 11 October 2011.