Levski Sofia (sports club)

The club is named after Vasil Levski, the national hero of Bulgaria.

Its football team, PFC Levski Sofia, is its most popular section.

Other important sections are BC Levski Sofia, the basketball team, and VC Levski Sofia, the volleyball team.

Levski is the only Bulgarian club, and one of the few in Europe, to have won the European Champions' Cup in three different team sports – basketball, volleyball and athletics.

The athletes of Levski have won almost 1,000 medals from Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships,[1] which makes Levski one of the most successful European sports clubs of all-time.

Vasil Levski , club's patron
Pavel Panov , Levski's top goalscorer in European competitions
Stefan Aladzhov , Levski's most capped player
Dobromir Zhechev , played in four FIFA World Cups
Krassimira Banova with the European Champions Cup (1984)
Aaron Harper with the 2010 Balkan League
Vassil Evtimov representing Bulgaria
Vladimir Nikolov , 2006 FIVB World Championship Bronze medalist
Plamen Konstantinov , 2007 FIVB World Cup Bronze medalist
Ivet Lalova
The Cyrillic letter L , symbol of Levski
Monument, marking the place of creation of Sport Club Levski Sofia, near the National Palace of Culture in the city center