The CSKA 1948 Chronicle
Match1 Oct 2026
A European night to remember for CSKA 1948
0‑0 against Basel, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for CSKA 1948
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around CSKA 1948 are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at CSKA 1948
Yohann Magnin was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at CSKA 1948 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Amarilla is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Berna
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad5 Oct 2026
No place for Atanas Iliev on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at CSKA 1948 pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Brian Sobrero runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
Honours even between CSKA 1948 and Arda
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A day to forget for Lasha Dvali
Marked 4.59, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Lasha Dvali
- Player ratings Vladimir Ignatenko changes it off the bench
- The terraces The press have found their man in Dimitar Sheytanov