Bulgarian Basketball Cup

The Bulgarian Basketball Cup is an annual cup competition, organized by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation since 1951. The cup was not held in 1957, 1958, 1960 and 1961. PBC CSKA Sofia is the all-time record holder with 18 titles.

Bulgarian Basketball Cup

Current season, competition or edition: 2020 Bulgarian Basketball Cup
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1951
Country	Bulgaria
Continent	FIBA Europe (Europe)
Most recent champion(s)	Levski (13 title)
Most titles	PBC CSKA Sofia (18 titles)
TV partner(s)	BNT
Related competitions	NBL

Format

Since 2009, except from 2017-2019, the Final Eight format has been used and from 2010 only teams from the first tier participate in it. The eight teams play a play-off at one venue, over four days, eventually producing a winner. From 2017 to 2019, the quarterfinals and semifinals are played in a double-legged format, while the final was played in one game on a neutral venue. The top six teams, from NBL, have an automatic bye to quarterfinals, while the other three and five teams from A Group League (second tier) play preliminary rounds for a place in the quarterfinals.

Title holders

1951 Spartak Sofia 1952 Academic Sofia 1953 CDNA 1954 Academic Sofia 1955 CDNA 1956 Transport High School 1957 Not held 1958 Not held 1959 Slavia Sofia 1960 Not held 1961 Not held 1962 CDNA 1963 CDNA 1964 VIF 1965 Botev Burgas 1966 Lokomotiv Sofia 1967 Spartak Sofia

1968 Spartak Sofia 1969 Levski-Spartak 1970 Balkan Botevgrad 1971 Levski-Spartak 1972 Levski-Spartak 1973 CSKA 1974 CSKA 1975 Chernomorets 1976 Levski-Spartak 1977 CSKA 1978 CSKA 1979 Levski-Spartak 1980 CSKA 1981 CSKA 1982 Levski-Spartak 1983 Levski-Spartak 1984 CSKA

1985 CSKA 1986 Balkan Botevgrad 1987 Balkan Botevgrad 1988 Balkan Botevgrad 1989 CSKA 1990 CSKA 1991 CSKA 1992 CSKA 1993 Levski Totel 1994 CSKA 1995 Kompact Dimitrovgrad 1996 Plama Pleven 1997 Slavia Sofia 1998 Cherno More Sodi 1999 Cherno More 2000 Cherno More 2001 Levski

2002 Lukoil Academic 2003 Lukoil Academic 2004 Lukoil Academic 2005 CSKA 2006 Lukoil Academic 2007 Lukoil Academic 2008 Lukoil Academic 2009 Levski 2010 Levski 2011 Lukoil Academic 2012 Lukoil Academic 2013 Lukoil Academic 2014 Levski 2015 Cherno More Port Varna 2016 Rilski Sportist 2017 Beroe

2018 Rilski Sportist 2019 Levski 2020 Levski

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Recent finals

Year	Venue	Final			Third place
		Gold Medalists	Score	Silver Medalists	3rd	Score	4th place
Final Four
1999	Balkan Hall, Botevgrad	Cherno More		Fikosota Shumen	Levski	91 – 64	Yambolgas
2000	Stroitel Hall, Plovdiv	Cherno More	84 – 74	Levski	Yambolgas	68 – 57	Spartak Pleven
2001	Balkanstroy Hall, Pleven	Levski	92 – 70	Cherno More	Yambolgas	90 – 72	CSKA
2002	PCS "Vasil Levski", Veliko Turnovo	Lukoil Academic	97 – 84	Levski	Yambolgas	84 – 80	CSKA
2003	Sports Hall "Dan Kolov", Sevlievo	Lukoil Academic	98 – 73	Cherno More	Levski	98 – 86	Yambolgas
2004	Vasil Levski Hall, Pazardzhik	Lukoil Academic	89 – 74	CSKA	Levski	72 – 64	Spartak MVR
2005	Municipal Hall, Stara Zagora	CSKA	86 – 80	Lukoil Academic	Cherno More	107 – 75	Spartak Pleven
2006	Dunav Hall, Ruse	Lukoil Academic	86 – 81	Cherno More	Spartak Pleven	61 – 57	Yambol
2007	Boris Gyuderov Hall, Pernik	Lukoil Academic	85 – 75	Levski	CSKA	91 – 88	Spartak Pleven
2008	Arena Samokov, Samokov	Lukoil Academic	102 – 83	Cherno More	Levski	78 – 77	CSKA
Final Eight
2009	Balkanstroy Hall, Pleven	Levski	89 – 81	Lukoil Academic	Spartak Pleven	85 – 73	Rilski Sportist
2010	Diana Hall, Yambol	Levski	81 – 78	Rilski Sportist	Cherno More	90 – 88	Balkan Botevgrad
2011	Universiada Hall, Sofia	Lukoil Academic	81 – 80	Levski	Rilski Sportist	83 – 75	Yambol
2012	Arena Samokov, Samokov	Lukoil Academic	83 – 81	Levski	Cherno More	74 – 70	Yambol
2013	Congress Hall (PCS), Varna	Lukoil Academic	84 – 73	Levski	Rilski Sportist	81 – 72	Yambol
2014	Universiada Hall, Sofia	Levski	100 – 97	Cherno More	Rilski Sportist	81 – 72	Balkan Botevgrad
2015	Balkanstroy Hall, Pleven	Cherno More	96 – 90	Lukoil Academic	Rilski Sportist	74 – 69	Yambol
2016	Arena Botevgrad, Botevgrad	Rilski Sportist	90 – 80	Lukoil Academic	Beroe	71 – 59	Balkan Botevgrad
2017	Kolodruma Hall, Plovdiv	Beroe	78 - 62	Lukoil Academic	Balkan Botevgrad	83 - 62	Academic Bultex 99
Final after Two-legged games
2017-18	PCS "Vasil Levski", Veliko Turnovo	Rilski Sportist	89 - 80	Levski Lukoil	Academic Bultex 99 and Balkan Botevgrad
2018-19	Arena Asarel, Panagyurishte	Levski Lukoil	70 - 61	Beroe	Academic Bultex 99 and PBC Academic
Final Eight
2020	Universiada Hall, Sofia	Levski Lukoil	86 - 78	Balkan Botevgrad	Beroe and Rilski Sportist

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Titles by team

Team	Winners	Winning years
CSKA	18	1953, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2005
Levski	14	1969, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1993, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2019, 2020
Lukoil Academic	11	1952, 1954, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013
Balkan Botevgrad	4	1970, 1986, 1987, 1988
Cherno More	4	1998, 1999, 2000, 2015
Spartak Sofia	3	1951, 1967, 1968
Lokomotiv Sofia	2	1956, 1966
Slavia Sofia	2	1959, 1997
Chernomorets	2	1965, 1975
Rilski Sportist	2	2016, 2018
NSA	1	1964
Kompact Dimitrovgrad	1	1995
Spartak Pleven	1	1996
Beroe	1	2017

References

1. list of league and cup winners
2. http://yambolbasketball.com/games/scores/scores_cup01.php
3. http://bgbasket.com/en//results.php?group_id=1&season=3
4. http://www.eurobasket.com/Bulgaria/basketball-League-NBL_2000-2001.asp
5. 2002 final
6. 2003 final