title: 1944 Bulgarian State Football Championship
text: # 1944 Bulgarian State Football Championship
  
  Statistics of Bulgarian State Football Championship in the 1944 season.
  
  ## Overview
  
  It was contested by 26 teams. The championship was not finished. Besides teams from the present borders of Bulgaria, the 1944 season was the last season to involve teams from the areas under Bulgarian administration during much of World War II. Football clubs from Skopje in Vardar Macedonia and Kavala in Greek Macedonia took part in the competition.
  
  ## First round
  
  | Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Shipchenski sokol Varna | 1–0 | ZhSK Varna | 1–0 | 1–0 |
  | Orel-Chegan 30 Vratsa | $6–7^1$ | Knyaz Simeon Tarnovski Pavlikeni | 3–3 | 3–4 |
  | ZhSK Plovdiv | 5–3 | PFC Botev Plovdiv | 3–1 | 2–2 |
  | Botev Yambol | $8–3^2$ | ZhSK Stara Zagora | 5–1 | 3–2 |
  | Slavia Dupnitsa | 8–6 | Makedonska slava Gorna Dzhumaya | 4–2 | 4–4 |
  | Levski Dobrich | 5–1 | Vihar Silistra | 2–1 | 3–0 |
  | Momchil yunak Kavala | $4–1^3$ | Bulgaria Haskovo | 1–1 | 3–0 (w/o) |
  | Levski Sofia | 5–3 | Slavia Sofia | 4–3 | 1–0 |
  | Benkovski Sofia | 10–2 | AS 23 Sofia | 3–1 | 7–1 |
  | Han Kubrat Popovo | bye | | | |
  | Dobrudzha Ruse | bye | | | |
  | Etar Veliko Tarnovo | bye | | | |
  | SP 39 Pleven | bye | | | |
  | Viktoria 23 Vidin | bye | | | |
  | Makedonia Skopie | bye | | | |
  | ZhSK Skopie | bye | | | |
  | Levski Burgas | bye | | | |
  
  * $^1Orel-Chegan$ 30 Vratsa were originally qualified to the second round because Knyaz Simeon Tarnovski Pavlikeni were withdraw from the competition, but they were also withdraw.
  * $^2ZhSK$ Stara Zagora were qualified to the second round because Botev Yambol were withdraw from the competition.
  * $^3Bulgaria$ Haskovo were qualified to the second round because Momchil yunak Kavala were withdraw from the competition.
  
  ## Second round
  
  | Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Viktoria 23 Vidin | 2–12 | Levski Sofia | 2–9 | 0–3 (w/o) |
  | Benkovski Sofia | 9–0 | Slavia Dupnitsa | 6–0 | 3–0 |
  | SP 39 Pleven | 5–3 | Etar Veliko Tarnovo | 3–0 | 2–3 |
  | Makedonia Skopie | ?–? | ZhSK Skopie | 0–1 | ?–? |
  | ZhSK Plovdiv | ?–? | Bulgaria Haskovo | 4–3 | ?–? |
  | ZhSK Stara Zagora | 0–5 | Levski Burgas | 0–2 | 0–3 (w/o) |
  | Levski Dobrich | $3–3^1$ | Shipchenski sokol Varna | 2–1 | 1–2 |
  | Dobrudzha Ruse | 0–8 | Han Kubrat Popovo | 0–5 | 0–3 |
  
  * $^1Shipchenski$ sokol Varna were qualified to the quarter-finals because Levski Dobrich were rejected participation in the replay match.
  
  ## Quarter-finals
  
  | Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Benkovski Sofia | cancelled | Han Kubrat Popovo | – | – |
  | Shipchenski sokol Varna | cancelled | Levski Sofia | – | – |
  | Levski Burgas | cancelled | Bulgaria Haskovo | – | – |
  | SP 39 Pleven | cancelled | Makedonia Skopie | – | – |
  