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Dimitar Yakimov

Yakimov at the 1970 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name	Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov
Date of birth	(1941-08-12) 12 August 1941 (age 83)
Place of birth	Šlegovo, Kingdom of Bulgaria (now North Macedonia)
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder, forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1960	Septemvri Sofia	21	(10)
1960–1974	CSKA Sofia	287	(141)
Total		308	(151)
International career
1959–1973	Bulgaria	67	(9)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov (Bulgarian: Димитър Николов Якимов; born 12 August 1941) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. He represented Septemvri Sofia and CSKA Sofia at club level, and the Bulgaria national team internationally.

International career

Yakimov was part of the Bulgaria under-18 team that won the 1959 UEFA European Under-18 Championship. On 11 October 1959, he first played for the Bulgarian senior squad, in a match versus France. Yakimov played for Bulgaria at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Honours

Septemvri Sofia

• Bulgarian Cup: 1959–60

CSKA Sofia

• Bulgarian League (7): 1960–61, 1961–62, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73
• Bulgarian Cup: 1960–61, 1964–65, 1968–69, 1971–72

Individual

• Bulgarian League top scorer: 1970–71
• World XI: 1966, 1967

References

1. player stats EU Football. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
2. "Bulgaria 1–0 France 11.10.1959". eu-football.info.
3. "Dimitar Yakimov Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
4. "Dimitar Yakimov". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
5. "Eric Batty's World XI – The Sixties". Beyond The Last Man. 29 April 2013. Archived from the original on 22 June 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

Bulgaria squads

v t e Bulgaria football squad – 1960 Summer Olympics 1 Abadzhiev 2 Debarksi 3 Diev 4 Dimitrov 5 Tsanev 6 Iliev 7 Kirchev 8 Kitov 9 Kolev 10 Kovachev 11 Largov 12 Manolov 13 G. S. Naydenov 14 G. Y. Naydenov 15 Nikolov 16 Parchanov 17 Penchev 18 Rakarov 19 Yakimov Coach: Ormandzhiev v t e Bulgaria squad – 1962 FIFA World Cup 1 Naydenov 2 Rakarov (c) 3 I. Dimitrov 4 Kitov 5 D. Kostov 6 Kovachev 7 Diev 8 Dimov 9 Iliev 10 Kolev 11 Yakimov 12 Zhechev 13 Velichkov 14 Sokolov 15 Asparuhov 16 A. Kostov 17 P. Dimitrov 18 Ivanov 19 Dermendzhiev 20 Parchanov 21 Panayotov 22 G. Dimitrov Coach: Pachedzhiev v t e Bulgaria squad – 1966 FIFA World Cup 1 Naydenov 2 Shalamanov 3 Vutsov 4 Gaganelov (c) 5 Penev 6 Zhekov 7 Dermendzhiev 8 Kitov 9 Asparuhov 10 Zhechev 11 Kolev 12 Metodiev 13 Yakimov 14 Kotkov 15 Largov 16 Kostov 17 Abadzhiev 18 Yanchovski 19 Apostolov 20 Davidov 21 Simeonov 22 Deyanov Coach: Vytlačil v t e Bulgaria squad – 1970 FIFA World Cup 1 Simeonov 2 Shalamanov 3 Dimitrov (c) 4 Aladzhov 5 Davidov 6 Penev 7 Popov 8 Bonev 9 Zhekov 10 Yakimov 11 Dermendzhiev 12 Gaydarski 13 Yordanov 14 Zhechev 15 Gaganelov 16 Nikodimov 17 Kolev 18 Marashliev 19 Asparuhov 20 Mitkov 21 Grigorov 22 Kamenski Coach: Bozhkov

• 1941 births
• Living people
• Bulgarian men's footballers
• Bulgaria men's international footballers
• First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
• PFC Septemvri Sofia players
• PFC CSKA Sofia players
• Olympic footballers for Bulgaria
• Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• 1962 FIFA World Cup players
• 1966 FIFA World Cup players
• 1970 FIFA World Cup players
• Men's association football forwards
• Men's association football midfielders
• Macedonian Bulgarians
• People from Kratovo Municipality