FC Olympic Varna

Olympic Varna was established in the summer of 2016 as a feeder academy of Spartak Varna.^[1] Following the changes in Spartak, the academy separetad from them in 2017 leaded by Dian Genchev, Marin Petrov, Ivan Naydenov, Zhivko Boyadzhiev and Ivan Karadzhov, all of them footballers, most of them born and raised in Varna.^[2] The team joined several youth leagues and operated as an academy team.^[3]

In 2022 the team joined Bulgarian B Regional Varna league and won promotion in their first season. On 15 October, in a match against Devnya, Karadzhov pulled the squad off the field in the halftime, after their goalkeeper's cheekbone was broken and two other Olympic players were physically abused. The team was expelled from the league and Karadzhov was banned for 1 year, but later the team was restored.^[4][5] They finished the 2024-25 season on 2nd place, but as the only team with interest to promote, they were promoted to Third League.^[6] The team started with 2 wins and a lost in the first 3 games with all of the players being from the academy, except the one.

As of 12 August 2024^[update]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  UKR Igor Klopka 2 DF  BUL Ivan Borislavov 3 DF  BUL Vladislav Georgiev 4 MF  BUL Dimitar Kolev 5 DF  BUL Todor Kolev 6 DF  BUL Georgi Dimitrov 7 MF  BUL Mihael Nikolov 8 MF  BUL Ivan Markov 9 FW  BUL Aleksandar Grozev 10 FW  BUL Rosen Kosev 11 DF  BUL Nikola Stoyanov 12 GK  BUL Nikola Terziev 13 DF  BUL Toma Todorov

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  BUL Stanimir Minkov 15 DF  BUL Momchil Radev 17 FW  BUL Vladimir Georgiev 19 DF  BUL Ivan Dimitrov 20 MF  BUL Svetlozar Popov 23 DF  BUL Dzhem Beytulov — GK  BUL Petar Yordanov — DF  BUL Pavel Gerdzhikov — MF  BUL Samuil Gichkov — MF  BUL Dimitar Hristov — FW  BUL Boyan Nikolov — FW  UKR Oleksiy Mazhynskyi