Honours and history
The Sofia Bears are Bulgaria's most successful American football club: five-time Bulgarian champions, with four titles in a row from 2022 to 2025.
Bulgarian champions (Bulbowl)
- 2025 – 26–23 against the Varna Sharks in the final (Bulbowl VI)
- 2024 – 35–13 against the Sofia Knights (Bulbowl V)
- 2023 – 26–8 against the Varna Sharks (Bulbowl IV)
- 2022 – 12–6 against the Varna Sharks (Bulbowl III)
- 2018 – 19–6 against the Sofia Bulldozers (Bulbowl I, the championship's first edition)
Other honours
- Serbian Third League champions – 2016 (28–0 in the final against the Novi Sad Wild Dogs)
- Federation Cup – 2014
- Balkan Arena League – 2013 (48–7 in the final against the Sofia Pack)
- Bulgarian flag football champions – 2011 and 2012
Flag football tournaments
- Griffin Bowl – 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
- Sofia Cup – 2010, 2011 and 2013
- Bulgaria Cup – 2011 (spring and autumn) and 2012
- Vitosha Cup – 2012
- Seven Hills Cup – 2014
- June Bowl – 2011
- 5-on-5 tournament – 2010
Finals and placings
- Bulgarian championship runners-up – 2021 (6–20 against the Sofia Knights)
- Serbian Arena League runners-up – 2011 (18–32 against the Sirmium Legionaries)
- Balkan American Football League (BAFL) runners-up – 2013 and 2014
- Danube American Football League (DAFL) semi-finalists – 2026, the league's first edition
Every game and season: Results.
History
- 1991 – Bulgaria's first team, the Sofia Lions, is formed. Their veterans later start the Bears.
- 2007 – Team Sofia is founded on 3 May, the first team in Bulgaria to play in full equipment.
- 2010 – the team becomes the Sofia Bears.
- 2011–2016 – games in Serbia and across the Balkans, up to the Serbian Third League title in 2016.
- 2018 – first Bulgarian title.
- 2022–2025 – four titles in a row.
- 2026 – first season in the Danube American Football League (DAFL).
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