Chernomorets Varna and Ludogorets met in the First League's Regular Season round 4, with the visitors claiming a 2:3 victory on 9 August 2026. The result leaves the hosts in 12th place with four points from eight games, while Ludogorets remain second, twenty points clear at the top of the table.
G. Lazarov opened the scoring in the thirtieth minute, giving the home side an early lead. Rwan Cruz pulled level just after the interval, then I. Chochev restored Chernomorets' advantage in the fifty-third. And here's the thing — you'd have expected the home side to carry that momentum through.
Ludogorets responded in the eighty-fourth when N. Zlatev found the net to complete the turnaround. Substitutions followed for both sides, with A. Salido Tajero, Z. Atanasov, and V. Panayov among those brought on. By then the match had settled into something more tactical than the opening exchanges suggested.
The statistics tell a familiar story. Ludogorets dominated possession at 61 per cent and registered 119 attacks compared to Chernomorets' 85. Yet they managed only four shots on target to the hosts' six, and shots accuracy sat at 40 per cent for the visitors against 60 for the home side.
For Chernomorets this is another defeat to add to six losses in eight matches. Ludogorets extend their unbeaten run, though the two draws against Hapoel Tel-Aviv suggest they are not entirely unassailable. The gap at the top remains substantial, but the match itself offered more than the table might imply.