The ('''BFU''') ( in
Bulgaria . It organizes the football league,
Bulgarian A Professional Football Group , and the
Bulgaria National Football Team .
The Bulgarian Football Union is based in
Sofia and was founded in
1923 as the football department of the Bulgarian National Sports Federation, which existed until the revolution of
1944 . The football governing body was then known as the Central Football Committee until
1948 , the Republican Section for Football from 1948 until
1962 and the Bulgarian Football Federation from 1962 until
1985 . On
27 June 1985, the organization was renamed to the Bulgarian Football Union, the name that it carries today.
- ''World Football Encyclopedia, 1st edition''. Rumen Paytashev. Trud, 2001. ISBN 9545285001
