site.btaCourt Stays Borislav Mihaylov's Re-election as Bulgarian Football Union President

(BTA) - Two Sofia City Court panels stayed the registration of the decisions of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) Extraordinary Congress of October 12, the team of Dimitar Berbatov, who was runner up in the elections, said.

At an Extraordinary Congress on October 12, Borislav Mihaylov was re-elected President of the Bulgarian Football Union. Of the 480 delegates who voted, 241 supported Mihaylov and 230 backed his main opponent Dimitar Berbatov.

Three amateur football clubs - Balkan Varvara FC, Ventsi Iskar FC and Rusokastro FC have submitted applications over suspected violations of the BFU Congress procedures and BFU rules.

BFU is still concealing the Congress protocol, which confirms the suspicions that the protocol could have been falsified, Berbatov's team said. 

Mihaylov resigned in the autumn of 2019 amidst a scandal over racism during a Bulgaria-England match in 2019 after which Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that his government did not want to work with him. In April 2021 Mihaylov withdrew his resignation and resumed his functions to prepare the Union for a regular congress in 2022. In September 2021, the Sofia City Court scheduled the extraordinary congress for October 12, 2021, granting an appeal lodged by Berbatov against the BFU Executive Committee's refusal to call it.