I would do my university assignments but im going to spend my Tuesday morning watching a documentary about Bulgarian football

Alfie. Just one wrong thing. Last year Ludogorets had an unbeaten campaign until the final day where thay lost to a mediocre team so their rivals couldn't qualify for the Europa League. Those rivals are also financially unstable and could've really used the money

I used to work with a Bulgarian guy, his name was Atanas Dimov and turns out he used to coach Ludogorets reserves a while ago. I found him doing a press conference online for Bulgarian TV. Obviously I was amazed but he didn't really seem bothered. From football coach to unloading lorries!

A very nice video, thank you a lot! And actually here is some back story of Kiril Domuschiev-when growing up, he was a CSKA fan(even though I don’t consider him as such after what he has done to our club). At some point when CSKA Sofia’s owners were a company called TITAN, who almost killed the club btw, Domuschiev was a part of the board directors or something and his job was something to do with finances. At some point when he discovered that TITAN’s model was wrong, he went to the owners and asked them to buy the club, saying that he had an idea how to turn CSKA into a big team once again and his management of the club would involve fewer spending and most importantly-smart spending of money. The owners however rejected his offer and said that they need more money from him, in order to give him the ownership of the club. Then he said something like ,,OK, OK then...I will satisfy myself with Ludogorets...”

I'm from Bulgaria and I can confirm the story at 12:30. Commentator's name is Iliyan Enev.

They certainly are the most hated club in Bulgaria, but they are too insignificant to be the most hated club in Europe.

As a Bulgarian, I cannot thank you enough for this video! You told facts that even I didn't know. Very well researched video and tbh it even made me laugh.

The only dislike is from the president of Ludogorets.

I’m a second generation Bulgarian-American in the US and I’ve found it amazing that you’re covering Bulgarian football to the extent that you are. Furthermore, my local team is the Richmond Kickers, the third division US team mentioned at 13:57. Please stop stalking me, Alfie.

He beat Berbatov to POTY he must be some player looks like he moves less than Berbatov did on the pitch

Just the last gameweek Levski lost 1-0 to Ludogorets to a stupid offside call behind the middle of the field, also the tv scandal is correct and Domuschiev is a criminal who launders his money through the club although they develop youth players and have top 3 academy in the country. Great video which gave me as a bulgarian some perspective of our country, but the next generation has a lot of talent(we had a player in the man city youth academy) but the young footballers are not interested in football as much as they should be.

In fact some of the players that used to play for Bulgaria at the 1994 World Cup when Bulgaria reaches the semi final are quite guilty for that decline. Borislav Mihaylov, who is Levski Sofia legend and was the goalkeeper saving 2 of the penalties against Mexico in 1994, was a president of BFU until last year when Bulgaria lost with 6-0 by England and he resigned, Emil Kostadinov, who is former CSKA and Bayern Munich player also big part of the 1994 tean, is vice-president and Yordan Letchkov, who is former CSKA and Hamburger playrr, also part of the 1994 team is a member of the executive committee of BFU.

I appreciate your effprt to pronounce Bulgarian Cities. Love from Bulgaria 🇧🇬. Been following you for 2 years

Good story - years ago in the 2nd tier of Bulgarian football there was a match . 3-3 and in the 92th minute the coach puts on very young lad to get his first match for the first team. A lazy long ball by the keeper into the opposition half two bounces and the ball comes to the youngster. He tries an absurd 35 meter backscissors shot...and scores an absolute stupendous goal! The referee blows the final whistle. Everyone jumps on the young player...to beat him. The match was set up to be a draw. The kid never played again. Bulgarian football in a nutshell.

Brilliant content as usual regarding you're documentary style videos.

Bulgaria looks a beautiful country and full of passionate people , such a shame the gangsters steal all the wealth, i hope they flushed out along with the dodgy politicians , they have always `produced some special footballers over the years , they will be back hopefully

Everything great in the Bulgarian football is in the past

Our league is a complete mess the scary thing is Ludogorets will continue to win in the future 4-5 years in my opinion owner of the club is Cska Sofia fan who got kicked out and this is probably his little revange by humiliating all the clubs in Bulgaria.

I just love the fact that the office block you show in Sofia at the start is one I went to on a business trip

I am Bulgarian, everything here is true... Unfortunately... Totally spot on, good video! Cheers mate!!!

The truth is somewhere in the middle really. On one hand while their owner is a member of the football union, as he is not the only owner there, which is baffling really, and there such that are a lot more vocal then him, and that are downright disgusting - like the one of Slavia Sofia. In terms of organizational level, they are probably the one team in Bulgaria that actually has a strategy and a plan on how to run a club, and are the only one with actual finances for a... relatively high quality players, at least by Bulgarian standards. They are also currently the country's best option when it comes to having a team in international club tournaments (of course, traditionally CSKA Sofia have also been good there - including this year so far, again by Bulgarian standards). On the other hand, even as a person who does not really care about Bulgarian football all that much (I have no club preferences here), even I can see that some of their titles were not really... cleanly won. While they are playing the best over all, when there had to be a close call in the title race, they have had what could easily be described as help. Something else that is factor when it comes to the hate they get - Bulgarian fans are very loyal to their old clubs, and anything that challenges them is pretty much the antichrist to a lot of them, regardless of whether their team was beaten fair or not. Ludogoretz are in a way a necessary evil - they have not always been clean, they have no history (which, in general when it comes to clubs, is a really stupid argument to invalidate them), they have more money then probably the rest of the teams combined in recent years, and yet they are still the closest that Bulgaria has to a properly managed football club. Yes, it is sad.

Would love a video about Hungarian football's decline, too! After the Mighty Magyars and good match attendances until 1965, Hungary's best league went from 14k+ attendances to

These features you do are some of the best football videos on youtube. Anyone can set up a highlight reel video but you have an interest in the less glamorous sides of things and its very much appreciated

I actually love these videos. They are very entertaining and informative. Keep them up Alfie 🙂👍🏻👍🏻

0:26 a lot of people in Bulgaria would disagree that this was the peak of Bulgarian football.For some of the older people in our country, Bulgarian football actually peaked in the 60s. At that time we had players like Georgi Asparuhov-Gundi, who you already made video about, Peter Zhekov(Golden Boot winner), Dimitar Yakimov(called the Bulgarian Garrincha and touted as the best Bulgarian player ever by Gundi himself), Ivan Kolev(finished 8th for the Ballon dor) and other legends like Dimitar Penev, Georgi Naydenov, Dinko Dermendzhiev, Ivan Vutsov, Boris Gaganelov, who are not as popular of non-Bulgarians. This team managed to qualify for 4 straight World Cups(from 1962 to 1974) and at that time qualifying for a World Cup was harder, because fewer teams played in it.

As a Bulgarian, I thought this was going to be just another video where there would be a lot of trash talking and hate about Bulgaria most of which would have nothing to do with the truth. Well, I couldn't be more wrong. Very well done video, a lot of facts and correct statements and no hateful comments just for the sake of it. Congrats to the uploader, good job!

Yet another Alfie masterclass, great content as always!

Dear HITC Seven, you are doing God’s work! This video is journalistic accountability. We need our media to shine light on corruption and abuses of power and this goes all the way to the top. People outside of Bulgaria may not care, but I hope some within Bulgaria, or close to Bulgarian football see this and it spurs them on to make change.

I do remember my team Tottenham will be playing against them in the Europa League group stage this week.

There are two interesting facts about Ludogorets most people don't know about: 1. In 1964 Lev Yashin and his Dynamo Moscow team went to Razgrad during a run of friendly games across Bulgaria. The entire stadium was full, just like how the stadium was full when Inter came to Razgrad. History repeats itself. 2. In 1984 they reached the Cup of The Soviet Army semi-final, losing 5-4 on penalties to Dorostol Silistra.

Thank you for this video. I was pleasantly surprised to see a video about Bulgarian football on your channel! Your commentary was 🔥 I laughed so much.

hey alfie to answer your text, yes we do have math homework. It’s page 57 #4-16, and page 58 #8-28 evens

nice content HITC, loving the vids lately

I always admire how well researched these are

Great video! Very nice that you digged so deep in Bulgaria to make this video.Keep it like this!

Mate, you are a king of documentary making about football, I really like the tone of your deliveries. And I am not a hardcore football fan. Kudos to you!

Thank you for making this video! I appreciate your effort in pronouncing Bulgarian names!

Its interesting to see the point of view of a non-bulgarian. Nice Video 😁

I really love these documentaries you're doing recently ngl.

Love these videos. Cheers for all the hard work all these videos no doubt take

0:39 also Nottingham Forest(when they were current European champions) and Ajax(when they were current European champions with Johan Cruyff and the ,,total football”)

Manchester City: hold my plastic flag RB Leipzig: hold my red bull PSG: hold my oil money Leeds: hold my fanbase

Love the content, been looking for a channel like this for a while. Subscribed 👍

Video had been made very well Keep up the great work Alfie!

Thank you for the constant love Bulgaria is getting on this channel. It's actually mental how corrupt our league is and it speaks volumes about our country.

I've said it before, i'll say it again I love these documentaries You should do more of them 😛👌👌

Amazing video Alfie! Greetings from Plovdiv,Bulgaria

I really enjoy these videos. Keep up the good work, and not let your channel get diminished to "Top 10 haircuts in the premier league era" all though i suspect that video would be quite enjoyable.

RB Leipzig: Hold my Redbull

An idea for a video similar to that of the CSKA Sofia video: One about the rise and Fall of Steaua Bucharest. They won a champions league against Barcelona in 1986. Crazy story altogether. If you already did a video like this, I am sorry, I just feel like it would be interesting. Another idea could be possibly the rise and fall of Politechnica Timisoara, I grew up hearing stories of European nights my dad got to experience as he was growing up, and how now there are 2 Politechnica Timisoara teams, with the one my family supports in the second division. I feel like these would be interesting!

My second home is plovdiv and I now follow the BFL. Im a lokomotiv plovdiv fan and would love to see more content around bulgarian football.

This is hilarious. I love these videos bro, you are on all day long in the background while I work now. :)

The videos on Bulgarian football are some the best in the channel and am not even from bulgaria

I posted on that video saying Bulgaria was the most corrupt league, so I feel like I’ve had a hand in this video. Not from Bulgaria myself but when I was in university a Bulgaria exchange student and part-time Sofia Ultra explained to me the corruptness in the game so I spent a few nights researching into the topic, it’s actually crazy stuff and I appreciate you doing a video on this!

Truly spectacular research and presentation. Well done sir!

Brilliant video as always. Great combination of comedy and we'll researched facts and figures. Thank you

Има ли българи тука🔥🔥?

Thanks for this once again brilliant video on my country's football. It is a sad state of affairs, but one can only go up, right? Love from Bulgaria!

Such good research in these videos, love it!

To say I was surprised by a Richmond Kickers shout-out is an understatement. Love to hear my horrible local team mentioned in an HITC Sevens video!

Bragantino is a Brazilian team not Portuguese broo

7 Stadiums that can hold more people than the city/town they live in (Dingwall in County Ross)

Everything is absolutely true. There are even things not mentioned in the video. Bribed referees, bribed football officials, threatening football clubs he's not gonna pay TV rights (Domuschiev owns them), and so much more. Good video mate. Sadly, as everything else in Bulgaria, nothing will change.

Glad to see someone talking about Bulgarian football's history since I'm a bulgarian myself

Bulgaria were one of Europe's best national sides back in the mid 90's.......now they're about as good as Luxembourg. Shows how vastly things can change in 25 years.

I’ve seen some people in the comments talking about how Levski and CSKA both hate Ludogorets equally, but I will argue with that. Most of the Levski fans don’t like Ludogorets and what they have done to our football, but there their hate is no where near as the hate of the CSKA fans. You can even search in Google of choreographies of Sektor G(from 2017,2020 and more not directly at Domuschiev), which show the hate of the CSKA fans toward Domuschiev. On one of the choreos the owner of Ludogorets had his head nailed on a sword by some imperator and under that scene it said ,,YOUR GOD ENDS HERE!”. This was a 2 months ago. On the other choreo from 2017 made by Sektor G, Domuschiev was shown how he is using his 3 companies to steal the CSKA emblem, but next to that there is a CSKA ultra, ready to fight and under that said ,,I WILL DEFEND THE EMBLEM EVEN WITH MY BLOOD!”. So as you can see that comparing the hate of the CSKA fans to Ludogorets and that of Levski is pathetic. The reason for that is is that Domuschiev is giving everything to kill CSKA.

Great vid as always, but holy crap, you mentioned my local club the Richmond Kickers!

Great video! Thanks for tackling the subject. Your CSKA video was great too. To borrow a regionalism, Bulgarian football has been corrupt “since ever,” or at least since Soviet dominance began; CSKA & Levski got all the support from the State, Army, and Police respectively.

Video idea: why the soviet union was bad for people but good for football? I mean just look at the former East German clubs languishing in the 4th division of germany Could even make a case for an unified league "Super league" for these former Soviet bloc and how entertaining it would be off the pitch

Can you make video about Red Star Belgrade and Partiazn rivalry please?

Great video as usual Alfie. Since you have done a video on both Istanbul and Ludogoret's status as the most hated clubs in their respective countries, why not make this a series? If you do I would like to request one on MK Dons. I feel the downfall and relocation of Wimbledon would be an interesting watch for those who don't know about it.

Bit late to this, but I just wanted to say that you've really done your homework here. Good stuff, you got my sub!

Day 16: Final East German First League Teams, where are they now?

Day 66 : Ranking every barca signing since Neymar's sale

Read in the news they won their tenth consecutive league after promoting to first league 10 years ago. Then went to check YT for context and found this, great content thanks!

Great job on this video . Everything in the video is spot on . Excelent job 👍👍👍👍

You should do a video on FC Nordsjaelland ! A very interesting club. Loved the video, I always fancy a fm save with cska-Sofia in order to dethrone Ludogorets.

“Broke into a morgue and took a 💩 on the floor.” 😄 I’m really looking forward to running a Bulgarian club in FM21.

Your research is exemplary. I enjoy your channel.

Very nice video. From the same perspective as your video, I'd love to see a video on the relationship (aka. the owner) between Royal Excelsior Virton, F91 Düdelingen and Swift Hesperingen. :)

This is an absolutely Ludogorets situation!

You should have mentioned that Ludogorets' owner tried to buy CSKA Sofia's emblem for his lower league side when they went bankrupt so that possibly in the future he could convert Ludogorets into CSKA.... scary sight. There's a very interesting video by Copa 90 about this bizarre incident and how CSKA's Sector G Ultras stopped this from happening, it's called "The Billionaire That F**cked With The Wrong Ultras". Other than that, great video!

You really do your research!! I liked this chanel before this video, but now I am in love with it!! All things you said are 100% true and that journalist who was fired by mr. Domuschiev just shows the level of corruption not only in our football, but in our whole country! Really appreciated video! Keep going 👏

Sorry if you've already done it in the past, but would love to see a video of the top 7 players with the longest hiatuses between international call-ups! (was inspired by reading about Fabio Quagliarella)

The thing about the fired commentator is completely true.

CSKA Sofia may have gone down but are in this season europa league group stage so could it be the first sign of an upward curve even if it’s too early to say that!

🇧🇬 🇧🇬 🇧🇬 Day 1 - Alfie, please do a video on the pitiful situation the Bulgarian national football team is currently in. Here are a couple of points to give you an idea about what I'm talking about: - Currently, the team is in a streak of 8 winless games, at the bottom of its qualification group for the 2024 Euro, with no chances of qualifying, after losing to opponents such as Montenegro and Lithuania. - The team's last win was almost a year ago - on 16.11.2022 in a friendly against Cyprus. Our last win in an official match was more than a year ago - on 26.09.2022 against North Macedonia. - The national football team of Bulgaria has been constantly performing bad for at least the last 20 years. The last big tournament we played was the 2004 Euro in Portugal, where we were humiliated in the group stage. - Many supporters blame the current bosses of the Bulgarian Football Union for this downfall. The most notable of them are Borislav Mihaylov, Emil Kostadinov and Yordan Lechkov - 3 players who were part of the great 1994 WC team which reached the semi-finals of the tournament. Sadly, those people's success as players has been overshadowed by their lack of capability or willingness to resolve many of the problems in our football - the out-of-date training systems, the poor football infrastructure etc. What's worse is that they refuse to resign a failure after another and they have changed the rules of the union in a way that makes them irremovable for more than 18 years. - Recently a couple of players from the next generation - Dimitar Berbatov, Stiliyan Petrov and Martin Petrov started a campaign, trying to overthrow the aforementioned but as I said the rules are in the bosses' favour. - Meanwhile fans are getting really angry with the situation and are starting to take measures. Last weekend, during many matches of the First and Second Football Leagues the fans were chanting against Mihaylov and company and displayed banners against them. Of course, the BFU fined the clubs for "obscene chants and banners". - There is a campaign on social media calling fans of all local clubs to put their differences aside and come to the Euro qualifier with Hungary on 16.11 and show their disapproval of the current BFU leaders. That's the main points, I'm sure that if you dig a little you'll find much more. Please consider doing such a video, the anti-BFU sentiments are getting stronger and we need to disturb those self-serving ex-legends in every way possible. Thank you and keep up the good work!

I’d never heard of Ludogorets until about a year ago when I played them in Europe on Football Manager! Now I can’t stop hearing about them lol Bader-meinhoff phenomenon activated

Ludogorets is a world phenomenon. They have won the Bulgarian championship 13 times in a row. With every new title, their fans become less and less...

Video idea: Ranking every team that has won the European continental treble since 1967

It was a great video. Since you made this one you could also do one about Dinamo Zagreb.

Every hitc sevens video is a history lesson it's well good

On the same theme can you do a vid on John delaney and the corruption of the fai please

You should do a video about Greek football corruption especially olympiacos and panathinaikos

You might of done a video like this before and if so I apologize for missing it but I would love to see a video highlighting the best players in the world currently who represent a country that are unlikely to qualify for a World Cup

Good job with the video and research.

Haven't seen the whole vid yet but just wanna say that in the past 10 years every time Levski play Ludogorets they don't give us penalties and don't give them red cards on a regular. Not to mention the biased highlights as the owner of Ludogorets owns the tv station on witch the games are watched

my father used to work at one of the companies of Domuschiev, I remember a few years ago, they offer him a free day off + transport, ticket and food expensed to go watch a football game of Ludogoretz in Lige Europe. Just because no one else will go to these games. My dad rejected the offer since is not football fan and does not care. BUT basicly this is the way Ludogorets work

Amazing video!

this video (like literally all of your other videos) is fascinating and super informative!! i love them but i do have one question. Why would they be considered the most hated club in all of Europe?