PFC Ludogorets Razgrad II


Ludogorets II or Ludogorets 2 is a Bulgarian professional football team based in Razgrad. Founded in 2015, it is the reserve team of PFC Ludogorets Razgrad, and currently plays in Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football.
Obliged to play one level below their main side, Ludogorets II is ineligible for promotion to First League and also cannot compete in the Bulgarian Cup.

History

Foundation

In the beginning of 2015, the Bulgarian Football Union discussed the idea to add the reserve sides of several A Group clubs in the B Group or in the lower regional divisions. Ludogorets Razgrad, Litex Lovech, Levski Sofia, CSKA Sofia, Cherno More Varna and Botev Plovdiv expressed such interest to have a team in the B Group. At the beginning of June 2015, the BFU announced that only Litex and Ludogorets have sent such applications. Eventually, Ludogorets II and Litex II were added to the 2015-16 B Group.

2015–present: Second League

The team finished on 7th position in their first season. The team started the 2016–17 season precariously and finished in the relegation zone after the half season. That's why on 12 January 2017, the team announced Radoslav Zdravkov, a Bulgarian football legend and also frequent assistant coach in the Bulgarian national team in recent age. 2 days later from Ludogorets announced that in order to get better results from second team, they would apply big changes. Radoslav Zdravkov was announced as a head coach with Galin Ivanov and Marcelo Chagas for assistants and one other Bulgarian legend, Spas Dzhevizov, was announced as a selectionist, and will look after for youth talents from Ludogorets Academy and other academies to join the team.
On 29 March 2017, the new youth stadium, Eagles' Nest was finished and the second team would play on it. The stadium has 2,000 seats.
From the 2017–18 season, Ludogorets change the politic about the second team by taking the decision to play with only youth players of the club in the Bulgarian Second League. The team started the season against Lokomotiv Sofia and beat them with 2:1 result with a team average age being 19 years.
In the 2020–21 season, the team finished on their highest league position and ended the season on 4th place.

Players

''For recent transfers, see Transfers winter 2024–25 and Transfers summer 2025.''

Past seasons

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ChampionsRunners-upPromotedRelegated

League positions


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Statistics

Second League matches

RankingNationalityPositionNameYearsMatchesGoals
1MFHyusein Kelyovluev2017–202518540
2MFMetodiy Stefanov2019–1817
3DFDimitar Iliev2017–2021
2022–2024
1410
MFBranimir Kostadinov2019–202414117
5MFTsvetoslav Petrov2017–202414029
6FWVladislav Naydenov2019–202411224
7DFTihomir Dimitrov2017–20231106
8MFVelislav Minkov2019–20231026
9MFIlker Budinov2018–202210114
10DFPreslav M. Petrov2015–2020994

  • Players in bold are still playing for Ludogorets.

Second League goals

RankingNationalityPositionNameYearsMatchesGoals
1MFHyusein Kelyovluev2017–202518540
2FWDimitar Mitkov2019–20226432
3FWTsvetoslav Petrov2017–202414029
4MFVladislav Naydenov2019–202411224
5FWDenislav Aleksandrov2015–20197719
6FWBranimir Kostadinov2020–202414117
7FWYoan Yordanov2022–9015
8MFIlker Budinov2018–202210114
9FWYanaki Smirnov2015–20162811
10MFSvetoslav Kovachev2015–20185410

  • Players in bold are still playing for Ludogorets.

Notable players

Note: This list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 top league games and/or have reached international status and have played at least 10 games for Ludogorets II. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries.Denislav Aleksandrov