Petar Ivanov Shopov 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 professional football player, who currently plays for Vihren

FC Vihren Sandanski

FC Vihren is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Sandanski, currently playing in the West B PFG, the second division of Bulgarian football. The club's home ground is the Sandanski Stadium in Sandanski with a capacity of 6,000. Vihren Sandanski's team colours are green and...

 in the West B PFG.

Career

He started his career playing with Levski Sofia however during the 1996-97 season he only made one official appearance in the 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....

 being loaned in the next season to Pirin Blagoevgrad, where he scored 10 goals in 25 games and became top scorer of the team. Soon he had a chance back at the Bulgarian giants Levski but after one season he returned to his previous club on loan again. But he will be back to the capital, in January 2000, this time to play in Slavia Sofia where he stayed for two years. Petar Shopov's first adventure abroad was in January 2002, when he signed for the Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n top league club FK Železnik

FK Železnik

FK Železnik was a football club from Belgrade, Serbia.Founded in 1930, the club merged into FK Voždovac in June 2005 and thus ceased activities.-History:...

 from Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

. In two years he scored 12 goals. After spending another season in Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 with Slavia again, he signed with the Slovenia

Slovenia

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n club NK Mura

NK Mura

Nogometni Klub Mura was a Slovenian association football club based in Murska Sobota. The club was founded on 16 August 1924 as one of the first clubs in the Prekmurje region. Through its history Mura was widely considered one of the giants of Slovenian football and had one of the biggest fan bases...

 where he played one season before returning to his first professional club Pirin in 2005. In 2006 he had a short spell in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

 first league club FC Kairat Almaty

FC Kairat Almaty

FC Kairat Almaty is a Kazakh football club, playing in Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty.Like many clubs in the Soviet Union they went through a number of name changes in their history. They were known Dinamo Almaty when founded in 1952, before changing in 1954 to Lokomotiv Almaty, and later Urozhai...

, before moving to Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 to play first in Kastoria F.C.

Kastoria F.C.

Kastoria FC, or AGS Kastoria , the Athletic and Gymnastic Association of Kastoria, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Kastoria, Macedonia, Greece.-History:...

,where he became top scorer of the team and then in Anagennisi Karditsa

Anagennisi Karditsa

Anagennisi Karditsa, or Anagennisi Karditsa 1904 , is a Greek association football club based in the city of Karditsa, Greece.The club currently competes in Football League.-History:...

. In the middle he had a stint in Cypros with Digenis Morphou

Digenis Morphou

Digenis Akritas Morphou is a Cypriot sports club from Morphou, founded on April 23, 1931. The club takes its name from the medieval Greek hero Digenis Akritas who is depicted on the club's emblem...

. In the summer of 2009, Shopov returned to Bulgaria, signing a contract with Sportist Svoge

FC Sportist Svoge

FC Sportist Svoge is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Svoge, which currently competes in the West B PFG, the second level of Bulgarian football. The club was founded in 1924. Sportist's home ground is the Chavdar Tsvetkov Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 3,500 spectators...

. However he left at the end of the year.
In 2010, Petar signed a contract with West B PFG club Septemvri Simitli

Septemvri Simitli

FC Septemvri is Bulgarian football club from the town of Simitli.Founded in 1942. From 1961 to 1975 called "Pirin miner". Currently, the team is in the west part of B PFG. The players are mostly young boys from the age of 18 to 20, with the exception of goalkeeper Dimitar Atanasovski...

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External sources

• Petar Shopov at Playerhistory.
• Stats at Soccerterminal.
• Petar Shopov at BDFA.
• Petar Shopov at Transfermarkt.