Bulgaria coach Ilian Iliev announced the full list of players he will rely on for the first two matches of the 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign.

On September 4, the "Lions" will host Spain at the Vasil Levski Stadium in Sofia at 9:45 p.m., and on September 7, they will visit Georgia at the Boris Paichadze Stadium in Tbilisi at 5:00 p.m. local time (4:00 p.m. Bulgarian time).

Here is the full list of players called up:

Goalkeepers:

Dimitar Mitov (Aberdeen), Ivan Dyulgerov (Sheriff), Svetoslav Vutsov (Levski)

Defenders:

Alex Petkov (Kifisia), Rosen Bozhinov (Royal Antwerp), Hristian Petrov (Heerenveen), Fabian Nurnberger (Darmstadt), Kristian Dimitrov (Levski), Anton Nedyalkov (Ludogorets), Nikolay Minkov (Botev Plovdiv), Zhivko Atanasov (Cherno More), Emil Tsenov (CSKA 1948)

Midfielders:

Iliya Gruev (Leeds), Andrian Kraev (Apoel Tel Aviv), Georgi Milanov (Dinamo Bucharest), Stanislav Shopov (Osijek), Marin Petkov (Levski), Vasil Panayotov (Cherno More), Ivaylo Chochev (Ludogorets), Svetoslav Kovachev (Arda)

Forwarders:

Kiril Despodov (PAOK), Martin Minchev (Krakow), Lukas Petkov (Elversberg), Alex Kolev (Nanton), Vladimir Nikolov (Korona), Radoslav Kirilov (Levski). |BGNES