# 1953 A Group

The 1953 A Group was the fifth season of the A Football Group, the top Bulgarian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948.

## Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.

## League standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Relegation |
| 1 | Levski Sofia (C) | 28 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 48 | 22 | +26 | 43 | |
| 2 | CSKA Sofia | 28 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 64 | 23 | +41 | 42 | |
| 3 | Cherno More Varna | 28 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 29 | 20 | +9 | 31 | |
| 4 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 28 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 30 | 29 | +1 | 31 | |
| 5 | Slavia Sofia | 28 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 42 | 33 | +9 | 30 | |
| 6 | Spartak Pleven | 28 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 30 | |
| 7 | Lokomotiv Sofia | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 30 | 32 | −2 | 29 | |
| 8 | Minyor Pernik | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 33 | 35 | −2 | 28 | |
| 9 | Spartak Plovdiv | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 27 | |
| 10 | Akademik Varna (R) | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 26 | 43 | −17 | 25 | Relegation to 1954 B Group |
| 11 | Botev Plovdiv (R) | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 29 | 31 | −2 | 24 | Relegation to 1954 B Group |
| 12 | Spartak Sofia (R) | 28 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 24 | 34 | −10 | 24 | Relegation to 1954 B Group |
| 13 | Stroitel Sofia (R) | 28 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 22 | 29 | −7 | 22 | Relegation to 1954 B Group |
| 14 | VVS Sofia (R) | 28 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 26 | 35 | −9 | 21 | Relegation to 1954 B Group |
| 15 | Marek Dupnitsa (R) | 28 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 23 | 60 | −37 | 13 | Relegation to 1954 B Group |
| – | Unified team of VSO (R) | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 37 | 8 | +29 | 0 | Relegation to 1954 B Group |
* ↑ "Unified team of volunteer's sport organisations" is the name of the national football team of Bulgaria which participated in the league
* ↑ Results annulled

## Results

| Home \ Away | AVA | BPD | CHM | CSK | LEV | LPL | LSO | MAR | MIN | SLA | SPL | SPD | SSF | STR | VVS |
| Akademik Varna | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 |
| Botev Plovdiv | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 |
| Cherno More | 0–1 | 2–0 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–2 |
| CSKA Sofia | 7–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | | 0–1 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 7–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 |
| Levski Sofia | 4–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–5 | | 5–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | | 0–0 | 4–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Lokomotiv Sofia | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 2–2 | | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–5 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| Marek Dupnitsa | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–1 | | 1–2 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 |
| Minyor Pernik | 2–0 | 1–4 | 3–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–1 | | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Slavia Sofia | 1–1 | 5–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–3 | | 2–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Spartak Pleven | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| Spartak Plovdiv | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Spartak Sofia | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Stroitel Sofia | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | | 0–0 |
| VVS Sofia | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | |
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Marek Dupnitsa was excluded after spectator riots in the match against Minyor Pernik. The remaining eight matches were rated 0–3 for the opponents.

## Top scorers

| Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Dimitar Minchev | Spartak Pleven VVS Sofia | 15 |
| 2 | Dimitar Andonov | Levski Sofia | 12 |
| 3 | Kiril Nikolov | Marek Dupnitsa | 11 |
| 4 | Vasil Spasov | Levski Sofia | 10 |