Ivaylo Rumenov Petkov (born March 24, 1976 in Dolni Dabnik

Dolni Dabnik

Dolni Dabnik is a town in Pleven Province in the Danubian Plain of central northern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of Dolni Dabnik municipality and lies to the west of the city of Pleven. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 4,761 inhabitants.Dolni Dabnik was first...

, Pleven Province

Pleven Province

Pleven Province is a province located in central northern Bulgaria, bordering the Danube river, Romania and the Bulgarian provinces of Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech. It is divided into 11 subdivisions, called municipalities, that embrace a territory of 4,333.54 km² with a population, as...

) is a Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player who plays for PFC Litex Lovech

PFC Litex Lovech

PFC Litex Lovech or simply Litex is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Lovech, which currently competes in the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group, the top division of Bulgarian football...

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Career

Petkov start to play football in Spartak Pleven and in 1995 made his official debut for the first team. He started to make his name in season 1997-98 when played for the present team Litex Lovech. After that he played for İstanbulspor, Fenerbahçe SK

Fenerbahçe SK

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 and Ankaragücü

Ankaragücü

MKE Ankaragücü is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Ankara. The club wears a yellow and navy kit and play their home matches at Ankara 19 Mayis....

 football clubs in Turkey

Turkey

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 and Kuban Krasnodar in Russia

Russia

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In January 2009 Petkov returned in Bulgaria and signed with Litex Lovech.

Awards

• Litex Lovech
  • Bulgarian A PFG 1997-1998,2009/2010
  • Bulgarian Cup
    Bulgarian Cup
    The Bulgarian Cup is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. It is sponsored by the Bulgarian Corporate Commercial Bank....
    
     2009
  • Bulgarian Supercup
    Bulgarian Supercup
    The Bulgarian Supercup is an annually held football match between the football club that has won the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group and the club that has won the Bulgarian Cup...
    
     2010
• Fenerbahçe
  • Süper Lig 2003/2004

International career

Petkov was part of the Bulgarian national team which qualified for the 1998 FIFA World Cup

1998 FIFA World Cup

The 1998 FIFA World Cup, the 16th FIFA World Cup, was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. France was chosen as host nation by FIFA on 2 July 1992. The tournament was won by France, who beat Brazil 3-0 in the final...

 and the UEFA Euro 2004. The defender played for Bulgaria

Bulgaria national football team

The FIFA Bulgaria national football team is an association football team fielded by the Bulgarian Football Union, a member association of UEFA. The team's home ground is Vasil Levski in Sofia and Luboslav Penev is in charge manager after replacement of Lothar Matthäus...

between 1997 and 2007. For Bulgaria, Petkov was capped 63 times, scoring 3 goals.