About Stanimir Stoilov
Stanimir Kolev Stoilov (Bulgarian: Станимир Колев Стоилов; born 13 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former footballer and football manager who is head coach of Göztepe in the Süper Lig. He is best known for two successful spells at Levski Sofia, reaching the 2005–06 UEFA Cup quarter-finals and, in 2006, taking Levski to the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time in Bulgarian club history; domestically he won league titles in 2005–06 and 2006–07, the Bulgarian Cup in 2004–05 and 2006–07, and the Bulgarian Supercup in 2005 and 2007. Abroad, Stoilov led FC Astana to multiple domestic honours and, in 2015, to the UEFA Champions League group stage—the first Kazakh club to do so—after eliminating NK Maribor, HJK Helsinki and APOEL. At international level he was caretaker of Bulgaria in June 2007 and head coach from 2009 to 2010, and later coached the Kazakhstan national football team (2018–2019), guiding them through the inaugural UEFA Nations League before being succeeded by Michal Bílek. Since taking over Göztepe in November 2023, he won promotion to the Süper Lig in April 2024, led the club to the Turkish Cup semi-finals in 2024–25, and signed a contract extension in February 2025. As a player he appeared for Levski Sofia, Fenerbahçe, CSKA Sofia, S.C. Campomaiorense and Slavia Sofia, and earned 14 caps and three goals for Bulgaria between 1992 and 2000. In April 2007, Stanimir Stoilov was appointed caretaker of the Bulgaria national football team for two UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches against Belarus; Bulgaria won 2–0 in Minsk on 2 June and 2–1 in Sofia on 6 June. Under his management, Levski reached the quarter-finals of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup, and in August 2006 became the first Bulgarian club to qualify for the UEFA Champions League group stage.
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