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BULGARIA
 

Bulgaria Squad

Goalkeepers
Dimitar Ivankov (Levski Sofia)
Stoyan Kolev (CSKA Sofia)
Zdravko Zdravkov (Litex Lovech)
Defenders
Vladimir Ivanov (Lokomotiv Plovdiv)
Rosen Kirilov (Litex Lovech)
Kiril Kotev (Lokomotiv Plovdiv)
Predrag Pazin (Shakhter Donetsk)
Ivaylo Petkov (Fenerbahce)
Iliyan Stoyanov (Levski Sofia)
Zlatomir Zagorcic (Litex Lovech)
Midfielders
Velizar Dimitrov (CSKA Sofia)
Marian Hristov (Kaiserslautern)
Georgi Peev (Dynamo Kiev)
Milen Petkov (AEK Athens)
Stilyan Petrov (Celtic)
Forwards
Dimitar Berbatov (Bayer Leverkusen)
Valeri Bojinov (Lecce)
Daniel Borimirov (Levski Sofia)
Georgi Chilikov (Levski Sofia)
Zdravko Lazarov (Gaziantepspor)
Vladimir Manchev (Lille)
Martin Petrov (Wolfsburg)
Zoran Yankovic (Litex Lovech)

Perfect opening
Bulgaria showed the importance of a good start in their qualifying group as three straight wins in their opening games set them on course for triumph in Group 8.By no means the favourites in a pool also containing Belgium and Croatia, Bulgaria were given confidence ahead of their opener in Brussels by drawing 2-2 with World Cup finalists Germany in an August friendly. The next month Bulgaria won 2-0 against the Belgians, Zoran Jankovic and Stilian Petrov scoring in each half.

Home wins
October saw a home double-header for Plamen Markov's team. They started by beating Croatia 2-0, Stilian Petrov and Dimitar Berbatov scoring in a 15-minute first-half spell. Surprisingly, Andorra gave them a tougher game four days later, but despite Berbatov's absence through injury, Gueorgui Chilikov and Krassimir Balakov were on target before Antonio Lima's late goal pulled the score back to 2-1.
Bulgaria ended 2002 three points clear of Belgium, and although November saw a 1-0 friendly defeat in Spain, the last week of March brought happy news as they won 2-1 in Serbia and Montenegro in a warm-up game and were helped as struggling Croatia beat Belgium 4-0. April began with a frustrating 0-0 draw in freezing Estonia, but Croatia's simultaneous 2-0 win against Andorra still left Bulgaria three points ahead.

Mixed fortune
After beating Albania in a late April friendly, Bulgaria were held again in June, as they needed to equalise twice through Petrov and a Svetoslav Todorov penalty to draw 2-2 at home against Belgium. Four days later Belgium beat Andorra 3-0 and Croatia overcame Estonia 1-0. Bulgaria were now just a point ahead of Croatia, with only three games left.
However, the 2003/04 season began with Bulgaria rediscovering the form of the previous autumn, as in August they cruised to a 3-0 friendly triumph against Lithuania and on 6 September, Martin Petrov and Berbatov scored to see off Estonia 2-0. They travelled to Andorra four days later knowing victory combined with defeat for Croatia in Belgium would take them to Portugal.

Qualification sealed
Berbatov's early double and Marian Hristov's second-half strike ensured Bulgaria's end of the bargain had been kept, and Belgium's 2-1 win ensured that a 1-0 defeat in their final qualifier Croatia was academic for Markov's side.