BULGARIA vs. TURKEY - Rugby Union 54-13

7 May 2022 - a Big International Game of RUGBY!
Played on the National stadium "Vassil Levski" in Sofia, Bulgaria

Commentators on Bulgarian National TV: Vassil Varbanov & Dimiter Petrov
Director: Andrey DOCHEV
Interviews with Romain BALMISSE, Ivaylo IVANOV, MAxim JOACHIMSMANN, Trifon KOSTADINOV and Pavel VELKOV.


Referee: Norbert MATRAI (Hungary)
assistants: Ivan Baltov (Bulgaria), Servet Uslu (Turkey)

BULGARIA scores 8 tries by: Ivaylo IVANOV (hattrick), Borislav TODOROV, Vassil BORISOV, Alex TENEV, Kristian PAVLOV and Dimiter GEORGIEV.
conversions by: Petar NIKOLOV (6) and Alex TENEV (1)

TURKEY scores 1 try by: Sefa KAPTAN and 3 penalty kicks.

Teams:

BULGARIA

1. Ludovic ALEXANDROV
2. Kostadin PETKOV
3. Georgi GIDIONOV
4. Ivan FILIPOV
5. Dimitar GEORGIEV
6. Vladislav MIHOV
7. Vesselin PEYCHEV
8. Аlexander Tenev
9. Vassil BORISOV
10. Petar NIKOLOV
11. Borislav TODOROV
12. Smilko DEBRENLIEV
13. Ricardo ATTYE
14. Tsvetostin TSVETKOV
15. Ivailo IVANOV

SUBSTITUTES:

16. Nicolas ALEXANDROV
17. Denis IVANOV
18. Dimo DIMOV
19. Deyan PARVANOV
20. Anguel MANCHEV
21. Kristian PAVLOV
22. Dimitar KOCEV
23. Ivan PETROV

HEAD COACH: Romain BALMISSE
MANAGER: Zdravko TODOROV

TURKEY

16. Mehmet YILMAZ
04. Eren ASLAR
22. Yusuf TUNCER
25. Mehmet CELIK
03. Tolgahan TAMER
07. Yasin BAKAR ©
11. Bedirhan AKTAS
08. Aykut KANACLAR
20. Yusuf SARICAN
19. Arin GULSEN
23. Sefa KAPTAN
13. Etem SEYDIOGLU
15. Eyup DAS
21. Burak OZKAN
24. Mustafa KAPLAN

SUBSTITUTIONS

01. Ugur BAS
06. Eyup KARAMAN
02. Hamza CAKIN
09. Caner ARK
17. Mert GUNEY
05. Mesut AKCA
14. Kerim COMERT
12. Ukbe CELIK

HEAD COACH: Cherokee Sylvain NGUE