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Predictions and Tips
Botev head to Stadion Spartak on Sunday for the First League clash with home team Spartak Varna.
Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Spartak Varna v Botev game including the latest game odds.
📊 Form Guide

Spartak Varna
WLLLLL 🔻
Spartak Varna will be wanting a better result here following a 5-0 First League loss in their previous game against CSKA Sofia.
Stanislav Shopov (28'), Ioannis Pittas (53'), Sainey Sanyang (55'), Ilian Iliev (61') and Zymer Bytyqi (83') scored for CSKA Sofia.
It’s been seldom in recent games where Spartak Varna have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Spartak Varna have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 13 goals in the process.
Coming into this contest, Spartak Varna are without a win at home for the past 2 league games.
Botev
WDDWLW
Botev will go into the game after a 0-6 First League win in the defeat of Beroe Stara Zagora in their most recent game.
For Botev, the goals were scored by Nikolay Minkov (6'), Samuel Akere (24'), Ivelin Popov (65', 68'), Yanis Karabelyov (77') and Vinni Triboulet (85').
The stats don’t lie, and Botev have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals in total. In defence, Botev can certainly do much better. That kind of trend might not be carried forward here, though.
🤜🤛 Head to head
Looking over their past head to head clashes dating back to 04/05/2009 shows that Spartak Varna have won 3 of them and Botev 2, with the number of drawn results being 1.
A sum of 15 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 8 for The Falcons and 7 belonging to The Canaries. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.
The last league fixture featuring these sides was First League match day 2 on 04/05/2025 when it finished Botev 3-2 Spartak Varna.
The referee was Georgi Davidov.
📋 Team News: Botev
Botev manager Dušan Kerkez has to choose a team with limited availability. Anthony Ujah (Patellar tendon rupture) and Georgi Nikolov (Shoulder injury) can’t be considered.
💭 Prediction
We’re of the view that Spartak Varna may find it difficult to breach the defence of this Botev outfit who will likely score at least once to put them ahead.
We therefore think that it’s going to be a narrow 0-1 winning margin for Botev at the conclusion of the game.
Little in this one.
Lucas Pereira, 13:10 18/05/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

🏟️ Team Focus:
Spartak Varna
Formed: 1918
Stadium: Stadion Spartak (10,000)
Captain: Viktor Mitev
Chairman: Pavlin Nikolov
Manager: Nikolay Kirov
Competitions: First League position 7
⭐ Star Player: Berna
Regularly deployed in the Centre Midfield position, Berna was born in Portugal. After having played his first senior match for Braga in the 2021 - 2022 season, the dangerous Midfielder has accumulated 4 league goals in the First League 2024 - 2025 season so far coming from a total of 32 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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35 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 48 | 82 | WDDLD |
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35 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 35 | 71 | DDWWD |
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34 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 57 | DLDLW |
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34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 56 | LDDDL |
5 |
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35 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 26 | 62 | WWWWW |
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34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 56 | DDWLW |
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34 | 14 | 6 | 14 | -7 | 48 | LLLLL |
8 |
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35 | 13 | 7 | 15 | -4 | 46 | DLWLL |
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35 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 49 | WLLDW |
10 |
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35 | 13 | 3 | 19 | -13 | 42 | WLWLW |
11 |
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35 | 11 | 8 | 16 | -13 | 41 | WDWDW |
12 |
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35 | 10 | 11 | 14 | -5 | 41 | LWDWL |
13 |
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35 | 9 | 8 | 18 | -12 | 35 | LDWWL |
14 |
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35 | 8 | 9 | 18 | -22 | 33 | LWLLL |
15 |
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35 | 9 | 6 | 20 | -31 | 33 | WWLWW |
16 |
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35 | 3 | 9 | 23 | -34 | 18 | LLDLL |
Beroe Stara Zagora |
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CSKA Sofia |
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CSKA Sofia |
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CSKA Sofia |
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CSKA Sofia |
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Krumovgrad |
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Botev Vratsa |
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Septemvri Sofia |
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CSKA Sofia |
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Lokomotiv Sofia |
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Levski Sofia |
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Goals scored | 1.4 |
Goals conceded | 1.1 |
Time first goal scored | 41 |
Time first goal conceded | 21 |
Yellow cards | 2.8 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.1 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Goals scored | 1.2 |
Goals conceded | 0.9 |
Time first goal scored | 48 |
Time first goal conceded | 39 |
Yellow cards | 3.2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.8 |
Biggest victory | 6-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Ahmed Ahmedov | 16 |
Antonio Vutov | 7 |
Berna | 5 |
Romeesh Ivey | 3 |
Dimitar Mitkov | 2 |
Aleksa Maraš | 7 |
Ehije Ukaki | 7 |
Samuel Akere | 6 |
Ivelin Popov | 6 |
Vinni Triboulet | 5 |
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