page_title: Bulgarian Cup
section_title: Tsar's Cup
hierarchical_section_title: Bulgarian Cup / History / Tsar's Cup
caption_attribution_description: English: Football trophy awarded in the Bulgarian State Football Championship (1924-1937) and the Tournament for the Tsar's Cup (1938-1942)Български: Купата на Царя (или "Царската купа") използвана за трофей за победителя в Държавното футболно първенство (1924-1937), както и в турнира за Купата на Царя (1938-1942).
context_page_description: The Bulgarian Cup is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it.
  The tournament's format is single-elimination, with all matches being one-legged, except the semi-finals. The competition's winner gets the right to take part in the UEFA Europa League. If the winner has already secured a place through the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group, the team that has come fourth in the championship substitutes it.
  The competition has been dominated by Sofia-based teams. The Sofia teams have won together a total number of 63 titles. The three most successful teams are Levski Sofia, CSKA Sofia and Slavia Sofia. The most recent winner of the Bulgarian Cup is Lokomotiv Plovdiv, who beat CSKA Sofia in the 2020 Bulgarian Cup Final.
context_section_description: The first Bulgarian national tournament was the Tsar's Cup (Bulgarian: Царска купа). The competition is officially recognized as the foundation of the modern domestic cup by the Bulgarian Football Union. From 1924 until 1937 the tournament was the de facto state championship to determine the Bulgarian national football champions and winners of the tournament for those years are recognized as such by the BFU). The trophy was decided over a series of direct knock-out matches in which the champions of the country's oblasts played in one-legged single-elimination rounds.
  In 1937 the first national league was created to determine the football champion of Bulgaria. The tournament for the Tsar's Cup, however, remained a prestigious competition in the country. The winners of the trophy between 1938 and 1942 are officially recognized as domestic cup holders by the BFU.
caption: Sketch of the Tsar's Cup
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