Dimitar Berbatov

Dimitar Berbatov
Personal information
Full name	Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov
Date of birth	30 January 1981 (1981-01-30)
Place of birth	Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth clubs
	Pirin Blagoevgrad CSKA Sofia
Senior clubs
Years	Club	App (Gls)
1998–2001 2001 2001–2006 2006–2008 2008–2012 2012–2014 2014–2015 2015–16	CSKA Sofia Bayer Leverkusen II Bayer Leverkusen Tottenham Hotspur Manchester United Fulham AS Monaco PAOK	050 0(25) 007 00(6) 154 0(68) 070 0(27) 108 0(48) 051 0(19) 038 0(13) 017 00(4)
National team
1999 1999–2000 1999–2010	Bulgaria U18 Bulgaria U21 Bulgaria	002 00(2) 003 00(3) 078 0(48)

Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov (born 30 January 1981) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who is currently a free agent. A striker, he captained the Bulgaria national team from 2006 to 2010, and is the country's all-time leading goalscorer. He has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of wins by Hristo Stoichkov.

Born in Blagoevgrad, Berbatov started out with home-town club Pirin before joining CSKA Sofia as a 17-year-old in 1998. He was signed by Bayer Leverkusen of Germany in January 2001 and played in his first Champions League final 18 months later, coming on as a substitute in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final, which Leverkusen lost 2–1 to Real Madrid.

After five-and-a-half years with Leverkusen, he joined English club Tottenham Hotspur in July 2006, where he spent two years before moving to Manchester United. He played in his second Champions League final in 2009, during his side's 2–0 defeat against Barcelona. Berbatov became the only non-Englishman in Premier League history to have scored five goals in a single match, having done so in Manchester United's 7–1 win over Blackburn Rovers at Old Trafford in November 2010.

After four seasons with Manchester United he joined Fulham in August 2012, where during his first season he established himself as the club's leading goalscorer. He joined Monaco from Fulham in January 2014.

Honours

Clubs

CSKA Sofia

• Bulgarian Cup: 1998–99

Tottenham Hotspur

• Football League Cup: 2007–08

Manchester United

• Premier League: 2008–09, 2010–11
• Football League Cup: 2009–10
• FA Community Shield: 2010, 2011
• FIFA Club World Cup: 2008

External links

• Official personal website
• Dimitar Berbatov FIFA competition record
• Dimitar Berbatov profile at Soccerbase
• Fulham F.C. profile

Template:Bulgaria squad (UEFA Euro 2004)