Yordan Stoykov

Yordan Stoykov
Personal information
Full name	Yordan Ivanov Stoykov
Date of birth	6 November 1951 (age 73)
Place of birth	Bulgaria
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Tsarsko Selo (assistant)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1970–1971	ZHSK Slavia
1971–1983	Lokomotiv Sofia
International career
19??–1973	Bulgaria U23
1973–1979	Bulgaria
Managerial career
1983–1985	Lokomotiv Sofia (assistant)
1985–1986	Balkan Botevgrad
1986–1989	Bulgaria U18
1991–1992	Al-Ittihad Tripoli
1992–1993	Pirin Gotse Delchev
1993–1995	Malindi
1995–1996	Shumen
1996–1997	Shanghai Shenhua
1997–1998	Kremikovtsi Sofia
1998	Hebar Pazardzhik
1999	Maldives
2002	DPMM FC
2004–2005	New Radiant
2005–2007	Maldives
2007–2008	DPMM FC
2010	Chavdar Byala Slatina
2010–2014	EEPCO
2015	Mahibadhoo
2016	New Radiant
2022–	Tsarsko Selo (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yordan Ivanov Stoykov (Bulgarian: Йордан Иванов Стойков; born 6 November 1951) is a Bulgarian professional football player and manager.

Career

Yordan Stoykov played as a defender in Lokomotiv Sofia from 1970 to 1983, as record 336 appearances for his home club. With it he became champion in 1978 and has won the Bulgarian Cup in 1982. He played in UEFA tournaments. For the youth national team has 27 games and for the Bulgaria national football team - 9 matches.^[1]

In 1979, he graduated the National Sports Academy "Vassil Levski" and began his coaching career as an assistant coach in PFC Lokomotiv Sofia from 1983 to 1985. In season 1985/1986 he was a senior coach of the PFC Balkan Botevgrad. From 1986 to 1991 he was scary coach of the youth national team. Lead the team of Al-Ittihad Club (Tripoli) in 1991/1992 and he was a senior coach of the PFC Pirin Gotse Delchev in 1992/1993, and then for two years in Tanzania (1993-1995), where local Malindi F.C. won the Tanzanian Cup and Super Cup and led the team at the seventh place at the African Club Tournaments. He was head coach of the PFC Shumen 2010 (1995/1996) and of the Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C. (China) in 1996-1997 and Kremikovtsi Sofia in 1997–1998.

In 1999, he became of the head coach of the Maldives national football team. In 2004, he worked at the New Radiant SC^[2] Since January 2005 until October 2007 he again coached the Maldives national team.^[3] Since July until September 2010 he trained PFC Chavdar Byala Slatina.^[4] On September 15, 2010, he named of the EEPCO F.C. head coach.^[5]