Bulgaria national badminton team

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Bulgaria
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Association Bulgarian Badminton Federation
Confederation Badminton Europe
President Volodya Zlatev
BWF ranking
Current ranking 31 Increase 6 (4 April 2023)
Highest ranking 16 (5 July 2018)
Sudirman Cup
Appearances 12 (first in 1989)
Best result Group stage
Uber Cup
Appearances 1 (first in 2016)
Best result Group stage
European Mixed Team Championships
Appearances 17 (first in 1986)
Best result Quarter-finals (2000, 2011)
European Men's Team Championships
Appearances 7 (first in 2006)
Best result Quarter-finals (2020)
European Women's Team Championships
Appearances 8 (first in 2006)
Best result Runners-up (2016)
Helvetia Cup
Appearances 5 (first in 1987)
Best result Runners-up (1995)

The Bulgaria national badminton team (Bulgarian: Националния отбор на България по бадминтон) represents Bulgaria in international badminton team competitions and is controlled by the Bulgarian Badminton Federation (Bulgarian: Българска Федерация Бадминтон).[1] The Bulgarian women's team achieved second place in the 2016 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships, they were semifinalists two years prior.

The Bulgarian team have won a gold and a bronze medal at the European Games. National women's doubles specialists Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva are the first Bulgarian players to enter the top 10 in the BWF World Ranking. The women's team made its Uber Cup debut in 2016.

Competitive record

European Team Championships

Helvetia Cup

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Balkan Team Championships

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Year Result
1995 1st Champions
1996 1st Champions
1997 1st Champions
1998 1st Champions
1999 1st Champions
2000 1st Champions
2001 1st Champions
2002 1st Champions
2003 1st Champions
2004 1st Champions
2005 1st Champions
2006 1st Champions
2007 1st Champions
2008 1st Champions
2009 1st Champions
2010 1st Champions
2011 1st Champions
2012 2nd Runner-up
2018 1st Champions

Summer Universiade

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Mixed team

Year Result
2007 Group stage

Junior competitive record

World Junior Team Championships

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Suhandinata Cup

Year Result
China 2000 Did not compete
South Africa 2002 Group stage - 15th of 23
Canada 2004 Did not compete
South Korea 2006 Group Y2 - 22nd of 28
New Zealand 2007 Group Y1 - 11th of 25
India 2008 Did not compete
Malaysia 2009
Mexico 2010
Taiwan 2011
Japan 2012 Group W2 - 27th of 30
Thailand 2013 Group X2 - 17th of 30
Malaysia 2014 Group X2 - 22nd of 33
Peru 2015 Did not compete
Spain 2016 Group G2 - 33rd of 52
Indonesia 2017 Group B1 - 34th of 44
Canada 2018 Did not compete
Russia 2019
New Zealand 2020 Cancelled
China 2021 Cancelled
Spain 2022 Did not compete

European Junior Team Championships

Mixed team

Year Result
2007 12th place
2009 Group stage
2011 Group stage
2013 Quarter-finalist
2015 Group stage
2017 Group stage
2018 Group stage
2022 Group stage

Finlandia Cup

Year Result
1990 12th place
1992 15th place
1994 1st Champions

Balkan Junior Team Championships

Mixed team

Year Result
2006 2nd Runner-up
2008 2nd Runner-up
2011 1st Champions
2013 1st Champions
2015 2nd Runner-up
2016 2nd Runner-up
2017 2nd Runner-up
2019 3rd Semi-finalist

Players

Current squad

Men's team

Name DoB/Age Ranking of event
MS MD XD
Daniel Nikolov (1998-08-26)26 August 1998 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 157 373 -
Dimitar Yanakiev (1998-11-05)5 November 1998 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 220 373 -
Ivan Rusev (1993-05-06)6 May 1993 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 335 119 -
Iliyan Stoynov (2001-01-25)25 January 2001 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 382 119 108
Alex Vlaar (1996-07-31)31 July 1996 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) - 279 1187
Tsvetomir Stoyanov (2001-08-06)6 August 2001 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 1510 - 1038
Evgeni Uzunov (2004-06-11)11 June 2004 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 1322 975 -
Stefan Zeirov (2005-04-11)11 April 2005 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 1510 1001 -

Women's team

Name DoB/Age Ranking of event
WS WD XD
Hristomira Popovska (2000-09-05)5 September 2000 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 125 - 108
Kaloyana Nalbantova (2006-03-06)6 March 2006 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 133 402 1012
Mariya Mitsova (1996-11-21)21 November 1996 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 437 - -
Gergana Pavlova (2003-07-27)27 July 2003 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 312 188 -
Gabriela Stoeva (1994-07-15)15 July 1994 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) - 14 822
Stefani Stoeva (1995-09-23)23 September 1995 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 1009 14 -
Mihaela Chepisheva (2004-11-27)27 November 2004 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 636 343 -
Tsvetina Popivanova (2005-07-01)1 July 2005 (aged Expression error: Missing operand for -.) 733 343 639

Previous squads

Uber Cup

European Team Championships

References

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