The Levski Chronicle
Match12 Sep 2026
A 4-goal lead gone for Levski
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Spartak 1918 kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Levski will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Vintage Radoslav Kirilov — 8.19
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.19, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A move António Ribeiro 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. António Ribeiro is living that version at Levski, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everton Bala raises the bar for Levski
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Levski heard it as anything else.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Levski
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Levski
Svetoslav Vutsov 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Álex Centelles 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
António Ribeiro signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” António Ribeiro and Levski agree another 4 years.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Maicon was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Player ratings Everton Bala in the eights
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Serginho at his very best
- Match Levski and Spartak 1918 take a point apiece