A career as a Coach:
Head Coach at Thanh Hóa FC (Vietnam) 🇻🇳 2022 - Present…
Head Coach at Myanmar Olympic National Team U-23 🇲🇲 2019-2022
Head Coach at Sur SC (Oman) 🇴🇲 2018 �
Head Coach at Sisaket FC (Thailand) 🇹🇭 2017�
Head Coach at Kelantan FA (Malaysia) 🇲🇾 2016�
Head Coach at Maldives National Team 🇲🇻 2015�
Head Coach at Suphanburi FC (Thailand) 🇹🇭 2014�
Head Coach at Sur SC (Oman) 🇴🇲 2013
– 2014�
Head Coach at New Radiant SC (Maldives)🇲🇻 2013�
Head Coach at FC Costuleni Moldova (Moldova) 🇲🇩 2011 – 2012�
Head Coach at FC Liberika (Horsens, Denmark)🇩🇰 2010 – 2011�
Head Coach at PFC Cherno More ( Bulgaria) 🇧🇬 2002 – 2010
Head Coach at PFC Spartak (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) 🇧🇬 2000 – 2002
Achievements:
2023 🏆 Winner Vietnamese Super Cup 🇻🇳
2023 🏆 Winner Vietnamese National Cup 🇻🇳
2023 TOP 4 Vietnam League 1 🇻🇳
2023 The Best Coach of the Regular Season In Vietnam League 1 🇻🇳
2023 Runner-up Vietnam League 1 Regular Season 🇻🇳
2021 Runner-up AFC U-23 Asian Cup Qualification 🇲🇲
2019 TOP 3 Sea Games 🇲🇲 Bronze Medal🥉
2019 Sea Games Group Stage Winner 🇲🇲
2019 Runner-up AFC U-23 Championship Qualification 🇲🇲
2016 TOP 4 Malaysian Super League 🇲🇾
2014 TOP 6 Thailand Premier League 🇹🇭
2013 Treble Winner 🏆🏆🏆
2013 🇲🇻 Dhivehi Premier League Champion 🥇
2013 🇲🇻 FA Cup Winner 🏆
2013 🇲🇻 Charity Shield Super Cup Winner 🏆
2013 🇲🇻 Maldives Haveeru Awards- Best Coach of The Year Award Winner
2013 🇲🇻 The Special Excellence Award of New Radiant SC for the historical season winning all domestic titles with a 100% record
2013 - AFC Cup Group Stage Winner with the best-attacking record and qualified for the AFC Cup Quarterfinals
2011 - FC Liberika - Horsens, Denmark- Promotion Winner 🇩🇰
2008 - Bulgarian Cup Runner-up 🇧🇬
2006 - The Best Youth Coach-BFU Varna 🇧🇬
2005 - The Best Youth Coach-BFU Varna 🇧🇬
Record-Breaking Achievements :
🇻🇳 2023 For the first time in the history of the club the team is unbeaten in 13 consecutive away games - 12 in Vietnam League and 1 in the Super Cup Final
2023 The first and only Head Coach in Thanh Hoa FC history with Double Winner Trophies in one season - National Cup and Super Cup
🇻🇳 2023 Winner of Vietnam National Cup for the first time of the history of the club Thành Hoa FC
🇻🇳 2023 with Thành Hoa FC - the only one undefeated team in away games during the whole season
🇻🇳 2023 with Thanh Hoa FC - the best start in the history of the club In Vietnam League 1 unbeaten after first 10 games with 6 wins and 4 draws reaching the Top of the League Table for 5 consecutive rounds
🇲🇲 2019 with Myanmar National Olympic Team U’23 - the biggest ever win in official match / Myanmar-Timor Leste 7:0 in AFC ASEAN Cup Qualifiers
🇲🇾 2016 with TRW Kelantan - the biggest win ever in the history of the club in away official match for against their biggest rival Terengganu 6:1 in Kuala Terengganu in the East Coast derby for the Malaysian Super League
🇲🇻 2015 with Maldives National Team - in the Indian Ocean Islands Games the first and only ever win in this competition after 3 participations so far beating the old rival Seychelles 2:1
🇹🇭 2014 with Suphanburi FC - the first and only semi final in Thai FA Cup ever in the history of the club
🇲🇻 2013 with New Radiant SC - becoming the first team ever in the Maldivian football history to finish off the whole season with a 100 percent record winning all 4 domestic trophies / Dhivehi Premier League Champions , FA Cup Winner, Charity Shield Super Cup Winner, President Cup Winner
🇲🇻 2013 with New Radiant SC - first time AFC Cup Group stage Winner with the best attacking record and qualified for the AFC Cup quarterfinals
🇲🇻 2013 with New Radiant SC - the biggest win ever for any Maldivian club in international competition in AFC Cup 7:0 against FC Persib in Indonesia
🇲🇻 2013 with New Radiant SC - the biggest win ever in local domestic competition 10:1 against VB Sports in the Dhivehi Premier League
🇧🇬 2009 with PFC Cherno More - the biggest win ever against their biggest domestic rival FC Levski Sofia 4:1 in Bulgarian Cup
Education:
🇪🇺 UEFA PRO License at Bulgarian Football Union Coaching Academy
2012-UEFA PRO Diploma License Nº 000000147
2007-UEFA A Diploma License Nº 0325-2007
�2005-UEFA B Diploma License Nº 0664-2005�
2004-Royal Netherlands Football Association KNVB Academy course ''Coaching Football''�
2003-Royal Netherlands Football Association KNVB Academy course ''Coaching Youth Football''�
2000-Bulgarian Football Union - BFU U Coaching
License
Languages:
🇬🇧 English -Full professional working proficiency�
🇵🇹🇧🇷 Portuguese -Full professional working proficiency
🇪🇸 Spanish -Full professional working proficiency�
🇮🇹 Italian -Professional working proficiency�
🇷🇺 Russian -Professional working proficiency
�🇧🇬 Bulgarian -Native proficiency
Velizar Emilov Popov (Велизар Емилов Попов), born 7
February 1976, is a former Bulgarian football player and current
UEFA PRO Licensed Football Head Coach. In his Career as a player he has played for PFC Lokomotiv
Plovdiv, FC Armeec Sliven, PFC Hebar Pazardzhik and PFC
Spartak Plovdiv. Velizar Popov is the only Bulgarian Head Football Coach to have managed abroad 10 different teams in 8 different countries including 2 National Teams and one of the best ambassadors of the Bulgarian football coaching guild abroad. He is known for an aggressive attacking high intensity football style which brings in results and development to his players and teams. Popov is the first Bulgarian Head Coach who won historic treble with 100% winning record in 2013 abroad and won the group stage in AFC Cup reaching the quarterfinals and top 8 in AFC Cup. He is also the first Bulgarian who has ever worked in Moldova Premier League in 2011, Thailand Premier League in 2014 and 2017, Malaysian Super League in 2016, and Vietnam League 1 in 2022-2024. In 2019 Velizar Popov became the first Bulgarian Head Coach to win the Group Stage and a medal from South East Asian Games. In 2023 Velizar Popov once again writes his name in the history as the first and only coach in the club's history of the modest Vietnamese team Thanh Hoa FC who won 2 historic trophies for the club - Vietnamese National Cup and Vietnamese Super Cup. Popov is highly qualified and ambitious professional head coach with over 24 years experience coaching across the world with extensive stints in Europe, Asia and Middle East, gained tremendous experience with more than 250 official games as a Professional Head Coach in senior Premier Leagues and international competitions last 15 years, in Europe - Bulgarian Premier League, Denmark, Moldova Premier League, in Asia - Thailand Premier League, Malaysian Super League, Vietnam League 1, Maldives National Team, Myanmar Olympic National Team, and in the Middle East - Oman Premier League. He participated in highest level of international competitions such as World Cup Qualifiers,UEFA Europe League, AFC Cup, AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers, AFF Championship and South East Asian Games - an incredible career journey and forged a formidable reputation for improving players and transforming teams.
