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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kaloyan Ivaylov Krastev | ||
| Date of birth | (1999-01-24) 24 January 1999 (age 25) | ||
| Place of birth | Sofia, Bulgaria | ||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
| Current team | CSKA 1948 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2007–2010 | CSKA Sofia | ||
| 2010–2016 | Slavia Sofia | ||
| 2018–2019 | Bologna | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2018 | Slavia Sofia | 53 | (3) |
| 2018–2020 | Bologna | 0 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | → Slavia Sofia (loan) | 21 | (2) |
| 2020–2021 | Slavia Sofia | 34 | (5) |
| 2021–2023 | CSKA Sofia | 22 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | → Beroe (loan) | 17 | (1) |
| 2023–2024 | Lokomotiv Sofia | 29 | (1) |
| 2024 | Hebar | 15 | (1) |
| 2025– | CSKA 1948 | 0 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2015–2016 | Bulgaria U17 | 5 | (1) |
| 2017 | Bulgaria U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 2016–2018 | Bulgaria U19 | 15 | (8) |
| 2017–2020 | Bulgaria U21 | 20 | (2) |
| 2021 | Bulgaria | 5 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:30, 1 January 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 October 2020 | |||
Kaloyan Krastev (Bulgarian: Калоян Кръстев; born 24 January 1999) is a Bulgarian footballer who currently plays as a forward for CSKA 1948.
Career
Slavia Sofia
Krastev made his senior debut for Slavia on 7 December 2015, coming on as a substitute for Daudet N'Dongala in a 3–0 win against Lokomotiv Plovdiv.
On 3 April 2017 he signed a professional contract with the team until 31 July 2020.
He scored his debut goal for the team in the league on 15 April 2017 in a match against Montana, won by Slavia with 4:3.
Bologna
On 24 January 2018, Krastev signed a 4-year contract with the Serie A team Bologna with the transfer fee reported to be a 1.5 million euro.
Bеroe
After seeing limited action with CSKA Sofia, in September 2022 Krastev was loaned out to Beroe.
International career
Youth levels
Krastev was called up for the Bulgaria U19 team for the 2017 European Under-19 Championship qualification from 22 to 27 March 2017. He scored the first goal in the match against France U19 which was won by Bulgaria 2–1. He became a hero for the team in the next match against Bosnia and Herzegovina U19, scoring 2 goals for the 3–1 win and qualifying Bulgaria for the knockout phase.
Senior
He made his debut for Bulgaria national football team on 2 September 2021 in a World Cup qualifier against Italy that ended in a 1–1 away draw. He substituted the goal-scorer Atanas Iliev in the 79th minute.
Career statistics
Club
- As of 9 December 2024
| Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club | League | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |
| Bulgaria | League | Bulgarian Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||||
| Slavia Sofia | A Group | 2015–16 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 10 | 0 | |||
| First League | 2016–17 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 | ||
| 2017–18 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 23 | 3 | ||||
| Slavia Sofia (loan) | 2019–20 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | 1 | 0 | 23 | 4 | |||
| Slavia Sofia | 2020–21 | 28 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | 34 | 7 | |||
| 2021–22 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Total | 107 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 126 | 17 | |||
| Bologna | Serie A | 2017–18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2018–19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||||
| CSKA Sofia | First League | 2021–22 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 25 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |||
| Beroe (loan) | First League | 2022–23 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 19 | 2 | |||
| Lokomotiv Sofia | 2023–24 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 27 | 1 | ||||
| Hebar | 2024–25 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 16 | 1 | ||||
| CSKA 1948 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Career statistics | 188 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 220 | 21 | |||
- Includes Bulgarian Supercup matches.
- Relegation Play-offs
- European_play-offs
References
- "Профил на Калоян Ивайлов Кръстев" (in Bulgarian). fpleague.bg. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- "Славия" се разигра за 3:0 срещу "Локомотив", Камбуров беше изгонен куриозно
- Славия подписа с трима от героите на България
- Феноменален обрат остави Славия в борбата за Европа, герой на България с първи гол
- "Bologna sign Krastev". football-italia.net. 24 January 2018.
- "ЦСКА прати двама футболисти под наем в Берое". topsport.bg. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
- Съставът на България (U19) за Елитния кръг във Франция
- Юношите напомниха за "Парк де Пренс" със звучен успех над Франция по пътя към Евро 2017
- Футболът ни възкръсна! 19-годишните лъвове "изядоха" всички, България с нов грандиозен успех
- "Italy v Bulgaria game report". FIFA. 2 September 2021.
External links
- Kaloyan Krastev at Soccerway
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- Living people
- 1999 births
- Footballers from Sofia
- Bulgarian men's footballers
- Bulgaria men's youth international footballers
- Bulgaria men's under-21 international footballers
- Bulgaria men's international footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- PFC Slavia Sofia players
- Bologna FC 1909 players
- PFC CSKA Sofia players
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- Bulgarian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- 21st-century Bulgarian sportsmen
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