This list of football teams in Bulgaria, contains football clubs that have recently been and/or still are members of the Bulgarian Football Union.
Overview
The list consists of sports clubs that in recent years have been members of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU). For a club to be a member of the BFU it has to endeavour in practising and/or developing football on the territory of Bulgaria. Thus, for a club to be a member of the BFU it is sufficient for it to have an active football youth academy, without sustaining any football team to participate in the tournaments organised by the BFU. Nevertheless, most members of the union do form a football team and almost all of them have a representative team for the men's football tournaments organised by the BFU.
Names
Some clubs in the list have undergone slight name changes for administrative or technical purposes but still have the same representative team. (For example Lokomotiv 1926 (Plovdiv) in the list throughout the years has been officially named NFC Lokomotiv (Plovdiv), FC Lokomotiv Plovdiv 1936, PFC Lokomotiv 1926 Plovdiv, etc.) Thus, the official name of a football club may differ slightly from the one in the list.
Membership and Participation
For a football club to be a member of the Bulgarian Football Union it is sufficient to engage in activities developing the sport, but not actively participating in the tournaments organised by the governing body. Thus a club may not have a participating team in the men's football leagues considered in the list but still be a member of the union. A club may have its membership revoked by the executive committee of the BFU if it has not practised and/or developed football in Bulgaria for more than two years.
In the list, teams marked as Does Not Participate in the Level tab, may only have a youth academy, or women's or children's teams, or have stopped engaging in football altogether since the last Assembly of the executive committee of the BFU. Also, there were 182 clubs with revoked memberships and 103 clubs accepted as members of the union on the Assembly that was held on 14 February 2014,
;Level 4 - A Oblast Football Groups
:There are forty-five (45) divisions from the different districts in Bulgaria that run in parallel, forming 45 A OFGs. The number of teams varies by division.