UEFA Europa League

1st Qualifying Round• 16 Jul 2026

Derry City 1–2 CSKA Sofia

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Goals

47'

E. Chapman

Assist: B. Fleming

62'

I. Pittas

Assist: D. Evtimov

74'

I. Pittas

Assist: D. Evtimov

90'

B. Cotter

Match Recap

CSKA Sofia beat Derry City 2–1 in the UEFA Europa League (1st Qualifying Round) on 16 July 2026. The goals came from E. Chapman 47', I. Pittas 62', I. Pittas 74', B. Cotter 90'. Relive the Derry City vs CSKA Sofia UEFA Europa League highlights on Daily Goal: watch every goal and the full match below, free, with each strike timestamped so you can jump straight to the moment it happened.

Match Statistics

Derry City

CSKA Sofia

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1 Yellow Cards 4

0 Red Cards 0

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Lineups

Derry City

Tiernan Lynch 4-3-3

CSKA Sofia

Hristo Yanev 3-5-2

1Maher

19Fleming 3McClean

25Grogan

22Barr

14Chapman 28Olayinka

8O'Reilly

21Santos

7Duffy 2Cotter

9Godoy 28Pittas

17Martino

8Sensi 6Jordão

94Solet

2Pastor

32Rodríguez 30Panayotov 14Ivanov

25Evtimov

Substitutes — Derry City

26Shea Callister 13Tom Norcott 4Jamie Stott 6Robert Slevin 23Cameron Dummigan 15James Clarke 16James McClean 17Nick Twisk 35Liam Kelly 32Terence Doherty

Substitutes — CSKA Sofia

31Daniel Nikolov 91Aleks Tunchev 5Jean-Philippe Gbamin 19Andrey Yordanov 3Tamimou Ouorou 34Vasil Kaymakanov 11Mohamed Amine Brahimi 38Léo Pereira 77Alejandro Piedrahita 80Georgi Chorbadzhiyski 99James Eto'o 10Joël Zwarts