Marto Boychev

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Lokomotiv Plovdiv
12 Nov 2026
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4 Edition

The CSKA 1948 Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match19 Aug 2026

Marto Boychev sends CSKA 1948 through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Marto Boychev obliged against Spartak Pleven. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is CSKA 1948.

Market24 Aug 2026

Levski come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and CSKA 1948 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Kaloyan Strinski at 20 — 8.18

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kaloyan Strinski did not need any: 8.18, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match22 Aug 2026

CSKA 1948 cannot stop winning

5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Dimitar Sheytanov keeps CSKA 1948 in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A move Nikolay Yankov would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nikolay Yankov is living that version at CSKA 1948, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Aka David was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market24 Aug 2026

Marto Boychev moves on

Lokomotiv Plovdiv pay $190.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Berna falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

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3 Edition

The CSKA 1948 Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match15 Aug 2026

CSKA 1948 run riot against Cherno More

7‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market17 Aug 2026

CSKA 1948 turn down Ludogorets for André Hoffmann

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Frédéric Maciel scores twice — 8.46

Two goals and a mark of 8.46 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Borislav Tsonev takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Asen Mitkov due for a CSKA 1948 medical

Everything agreed with Levski, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Match15 Aug 2026

CSKA 1948 cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Lokomotiv Plovdiv tell CSKA 1948: Bojan Milosavljević is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match15 Aug 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about CSKA 1948 and Cherno More in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at CSKA 1948

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Berna was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

3 Edition

The Lokomotiv Plovdiv Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Lokomotiv Plovdiv say no — this time

The offer from CSKA Sofia for Bojan Milosavljević was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Supporters turn on the $950.0K sale of Julien Lamy

He is going to Botev Plovdiv, the club has $950.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Filip Kaloč

Lokomotiv Plovdiv asked and Ludogorets said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Lokomotiv Plovdiv go back to the board over Simeon Slavchev

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $33.4K — a club that wants Simeon Slavchev enough to be asked twice.

Market17 Aug 2026

Julien Lamy moves on

Botev Plovdiv pay $950.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Lokomotiv Plovdiv bid $190.0K for Marto Boychev

The offer went to CSKA 1948 this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Dyego Sousa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Lokomotiv Plovdiv make their move for Simeon Slavchev

$29.0K on the table at Lokomotiv Sofia. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market17 Aug 2026

Lokomotiv Plovdiv sell Parvizjon Umarbaev for $430.0K

Parvizjon Umarbaev has left for CSKA Sofia in a $430.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

In brief

2 Edition

The CSKA 1948 Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Both of them Atanas Iliev's — 8.92

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.92, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market10 Aug 2026

CSKA 1948 turn down Levski for Marto Boychev

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

No thanks: Carlos Eduardo rejects the move

CSKA 1948 had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Gil Vicente, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Yohann Magnin signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yohann Magnin and CSKA 1948 agree another 4 years.

Market10 Aug 2026

CSKA 1948 sell Fourat Soltani for $1.1M

Fourat Soltani has left for Levski in a $1.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at CSKA 1948

André Hoffmann and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Michael Kelly arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Michael Kelly has, at CSKA 1948, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Ivaylo Ivanov

CSKA 1948 asked and Lokomotiv Plovdiv said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match8 Aug 2026

CSKA 1948 get the job done against Botev Vratsa

A 2‑1 win over Botev Vratsa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

2 Edition

The Lokomotiv Plovdiv Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Andrei Chindriş hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiv Plovdiv can pretend not to have heard.

Market10 Aug 2026

Lokomotiv Plovdiv say no — this time

The offer from Levski for Parvizjon Umarbaev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Dinis Rodrigues turns down Lokomotiv Plovdiv

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Napoli keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Home is on Andrei Chindriş's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Lokomotiv Plovdiv are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Parvizjon Umarbaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Konstantin Kostadinov arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Konstantin Kostadinov has, at Lokomotiv Plovdiv, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Lokomotiv Plovdiv rebuffed over Marto Boychev

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA 1948 have kept their man, and Lokomotiv Plovdiv go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Martin Ruskov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martin Ruskov and Lokomotiv Plovdiv agree another 4 years.

Market10 Aug 2026

Valentin Atanasov steps up from the Lokomotiv Plovdiv academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentin Atanasov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief