Ludogorets dismissed their coach Ivaylo Petev. The decision was made on Sunday evening after 0-0 draw against Arda in Kardjali.
Petev was re-appointed as head coach in the beginning of March this year. He led the team to a golden double – 12th consecutive league title and third Bulgarian Cup. In his second stint as manager, Ludogorets won 26 matches, draw six and lost another seven in 39 games across all competitions.
The draw against Arda was Petev’s last match as the Bulgaria’s champions head coach, but signs were for that were already given, when Bosnia and Herzegovina’s former coach and his staff, alongside with Ludogorets’s board resigned after the catastrophic 1:7 loss from Danish team Nordsjaelland on 5th October in the Europa Conference League.
Afterwards Petev led the team for two more matches – a 4:0 win against Pirin Blagoevgrad and the 0:0 draw with Arda. The team has a difficult visit against Fenerbahce on Thursday evening in ECL.
It remains unclear who will be the next head coach of Ludogorets, but different sources claim that former coach Georgi Dermendzhiev, who also led Levski and the Bulgarian national team, will return at the helm. /BGNES
