Todor Batkov

[2] Batkov has been the president of Levski Sofia since the summer of 1998, becoming the de facto owner as the majority shareholder of the team in March 2004 when he officially replaced Michael Cherney in that capacity.

[3] Batkov stepped down on 24 June 2015, with three businessmen (Ivo Tonev, Aleksandar Angelov and Nikolay Iliev) obtaining his shares in the team.

[3] On 30 March 2006, Batkov caused controversy when in the post-match interview following Levski Sofia's 1–3 home defeat against German side FC Schalke 04, he said that English referee Mike Riley was a "British homosexual [who] broke the game!"

[4] Batkov was subsequently fined 5000 Swiss francs and banned from attending the next 2 Levski games in any UEFA tournaments.

[5] In August 2008, some of his remarks in relation to the identity of the BATE Borisov football team as well as the country of Belarus attracted criticism among the press and a number of politicians in the former Soviet state.