Anatoli Nankov

Personal information
Full name	Anatoli Aleksandrov Nankov
Date of birth	(1969-07-15) 15 July 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth	Oresh, Bulgaria
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1983–1985	Akademik Svishtov
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1989	Dunav Ruse	63	(1)
1989–1990	Slavia Sofia	27	(2)
1990–1997	CSKA Sofia	149	(11)
1997–2000	Lokomotiv Sofia	52	(2)
1998	→ CSKA Sofia (loan)	2	(0)
2000–2003	Spartak Varna	44	(3)
2002	→ Chengdu Blades (loan)	15	(6)
2003–2004	GKS Katowice	4	(0)
2004–2005	Minyor Bobov dol	2	(0)
Total		359	(47)
International career
1993–1998	Bulgaria	17	(0)
Managerial career
2005	Hebar Pazardzhik
2007–2008	CSKA Sofia (assistant)
2008–2009	Al-Ahli (assistant)
2009–2011	ENPPI Club (assistant)
2012–2015	CSKA Sofia (assistant)
2015	CSKA Sofia (interim)
2015	El Ittihad Alexandria (assistant)
2016	FC Atyrau (assistant)
2017–2020	FC Kaisar (assistant)
2021–2022	CSKA Sofia (assistant)
2023–	Strumska Slava
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anatoli Aleksandrov Nankov (Bulgarian: Анатоли Александров Нанков; born 15 July 1969) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career

Nankov spent most of his career playing in the Bulgarian A PFG, but also had a spell with GKS Katowice.^[1] On 23 July 1997, Nankov was involved in arguably one of the most dramatic matches in CSKA Sofia's recent history, scoring twice to give his team a 3:1 away lead against Romanian side FC Steaua București in the first leg of a Champions League preliminary phase match, but was ultimately sent off and the Romanians succeeded in bringing the score to 3:3. CSKA Sofia were eliminated from the competition after suffering a 0:2 home defeat in the return leg, for which Nankov was ineligible to play.^[2]

He has been capped 17 times for the Bulgaria national team, scoring 1 goal, and played two games at the 1998 World Cup, receiving a red card in the first match against Paraguay, which ended in a scoreless draw.

He acted as manager of Hebar Pazardzhik in 2005^[3] and was later employed as the assistant manager to Stoycho Mladenov at CSKA Sofia until March 2015.^[4] Following Mladenov's resignation, Nankov was head coach of the "redmen" in one match – a 0:0 draw with Beroe.