1942 Bulgarian State Football Championship

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Bulgarian State Football Championship
Season1942
Champions Levski Sofia
1941
1943

The 1942 Bulgarian State Football Championship was the 18th season of the Bulgarian State Football Championship.

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Defending champions were Slavia Sofia. It was contested by 22 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship, as well as its first domestic double. Besides teams from the present borders of Bulgaria, the 1942 season also involved teams from the areas under Bulgarian administration during much of World War II. The football clubs from Prilep, Bitola and Skopje in Vardar Macedonia took part in the competition, with Makedonia Skopie even reaching the final.

First round

Team 1 Score Team 2
Ticha Varna 4–0 Tsar Boris III Dobrich
Han Kubrat Popovo 1–2 Pobeda Varna
Knyaginya Maria Luisa Lom 3–1 Botev Sofia
Atletik Dupnitsa 1–0 Knyaz Kiril Preslavski Sofia
Botev Plovdiv 2–5 Levski Sofia
Botev Haskovo 1–4 Sportklub Plovdiv
SP 39 Pleven 0–1 ZhSK Sofia
Slavia Sofia 6–0 Georgi Drazhev Yambol
ZhSK Skopie 8–0 Gotse Delchev Prilep
Makedonia Bitolya 4–1 Vardar Skopie
ZhSK Ruse bye
Makedonia Skopie bye

Second round

Team 1 Score Team 2
Slavia Sofia 1–0 Makedonia Bitolya
Ticha Varna 4–0 ZhSK Ruse
ZhSK Sofia 3–0 (w/o) ZhSK Skopie
Levski Sofia 5–2 Atletik Dupnitsa
Sportklub Plovdiv 0–2 Makedonia Skopie
Pobeda Varna 4–0 Knyaginya Maria Luisa Lom

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd legPlay-off
Levski Sofia 6–0 Ticha Varna 4–02–0
Pobeda Varna 2–4 Slavia Sofia 1–10–0 (a.e.t.)1–3
Makedonia Skopie 6–1 ZhSK Sofia 3–13–0 (w/o)

Semi-finals

Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Makedonia Skopie 5–4 Slavia Sofia 5–10–3
Levski Sofia bye

Final

First game

Makedonia Skopie 0–2 Levski Sofia
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Second game

Levski Sofia 1–0 Makedonia Skopie
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Levski Sofia won 3–0 on aggregate.

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