Marek beat Pirin 3-0 in the Second League's Regular Season round 9 at their home ground on 13 September 2026. The hosts moved up from their ninth-place position while Pirin remain bottom of the table with zero points from nine games.
And here's the thing — Marek put the tie beyond doubt in a twenty-minute spell. M. Miletic opened the scoring in the 22nd minute, D. Goranov doubled the lead one minute later, and Goranov added a second of his own in the 28th. Pirin had no answers before the break.
To be fair, the match settled after that early flurry. Marek made three changes at the interval — A. Bachev, M. Georgiev and I. Ivanov came on — while Pirin responded with T. Tasev's yellow card in the 69th minute before he was substituted. G. Dimanchev picked up a booking in the 72nd minute and was also replaced.
The statistics tell you what we saw. Marek held 62 per cent possession and hit the target eight times from eighteen attempts, while Pirin managed only one shot on target from three. Eight corners compared with four for the visitors. We had tipped the home side to win, and the confidence was there from the start.
By then Pirin's run of nine defeats without a win stretched further. Marek's recent results had been uneven — a loss to Yantur 2019, a narrow win over Nesebar, a draw with Sportlist Svoge — but they found rhythm here. Goranov was eventually replaced by E. Ayoku in the 86th minute, and M. Miletic came off in the 60th.
The result keeps Marek in the middle of the table on thirteen points after four wins, one draw and four losses. Pirin's position at eighteenth place with zero points says little about the season's trajectory, but it confirms they have work to do.