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Slavia Sofia welcome FK Septemvri Sofia on Wednesday evening in the First Professional League relegation round, with both sides still trying to steady themselves after a messy run through spring. There’s no glamour here, but there is pressure. Points in this phase matter because every slip drags a club closer to a damaging finish, and both teams arrive with plenty to prove after a season that’s offered more frustration than certainty.
The meeting also comes with a bit of recent history attached. These two know each other well, and the balance has been tight enough to keep everyone honest. Slavia have already lost 2-1 at home to Septemvri on 10 April, so Ratko Dostanić’s side won’t be walking into this feeling like favourites in any comfortable sense. Still, the bookmakers are leaning their way on the double chance market, and that says plenty about the way the form lines have split over the past few weeks.
Slavia’s latest run has been patchy, then poor, then a little more worrying. They went to Cherno More Varna on 5 April and pulled off a fine 3-1 away win, a result that briefly suggested they’d found some rhythm. Since then, though, the wheels haven’t stayed on for long. A home defeat to FK Septemvri Sofia followed four days later, then a goalless draw away to PFK Montana 1921, then a 1-1 draw at home to Botev Vratsa. The most recent outing was the ugliest of the lot: a 3-0 loss away to Beroe Stara Zagora on 2 May, a match they never really got hold of after conceding early.
That sequence leaves Slavia without a win in four. It’s not a complete collapse, but it’s hardly convincing either. They’ve scored in three of those four games, which tells you they’re rarely dead and buried, yet they’ve also failed to turn decent moments into control. The away win at Cherno More stands out because it showed they can still hurt opponents on the break or in open play. The problem is that the follow-up has been weak. A team that can beat Cherno More away from home should not be losing their grip so quickly.
The home picture, where they’ll try to make the difference here, is less than ideal even without the exact split in front of us. In their last two at home they drew 1-1 with Botev Vratsa and lost 1-2 to Septemvri. Before that, they were beaten 0-1 by Botev Plovdiv at this ground. That’s not the profile of a side that’s turning home matches into a safe source of points. The bigger issue is simple enough: Slavia are giving opponents a way into games, and if they don’t sharpen up at both ends, they’ll keep living on the edge. You can see why the double chance appeal is there, but the outright confidence isn’t.
FK Septemvri Sofia come in with a different kind of momentum. They’re not flying, and nobody would mistake this for dominant form, but they’ve become awkward to beat. Their last six have brought three straight draws before a win over Slavia on 10 April, then another draw, and then a 1-1 home result with PFK Montana 1921 on 1 May. That’s five matches unbeaten now, even if the winning touch has gone missing. They’ve drawn too much for comfort. They’ve also stopped losing. In this phase of the season, that matters.
The home draw with Montana summed them up neatly. Septemvri were never reckless, they kept the game under control for long stretches, and they found a response after going in front. Nicolas Fontaine’s 58th-minute goal gave them the lead, and Boris Dimitrov’s late penalty rescued a point after Montana had levelled. It wasn’t pretty. It didn’t need to be. The wider point is that Hristo Arangelov’s team are staying in matches, even when they don’t fully control them. The 0-0 with Spartak Varna and 0-0 with Botev Vratsa before that underlined the same thing: they’re organised, stubborn, and not easy to break down.
Away from home, Septemvri have shown enough to make Slavia cautious. They won 2-1 at this same ground on 10 April, and before that they drew 1-1 with Lokomotiv Sofia on 27 April in another away trip that asked questions of their resilience. The road form isn’t spectacular, but it’s reliable enough to keep them in the contest. Their biggest strength is that they don’t seem to panic when the game gets messy. The flip side is obvious: they’re not scoring in bunches. If they’re going to take anything here, they’ll probably have to do it the hard way, with patience and a bit of efficiency in the final third.
These two have been trading blows for a while, and the recent meetings have been lively. Septemvri beat Slavia 2-1 on 10 April, which came after Slavia had edged them 1-0 in Sofia on 1 November 2025. Before that, the results were full of narrow margins and swings either way: Septemvri won 3-1 in May 2025, then took a wild 3-2 win in April 2025, while Slavia also managed a 2-1 victory away in April 2023.
There’s a clear pattern in that short timeline. Games between them tend to be tight but not tame. Five of the last seven meetings have gone over 2.5 goals, and both teams have scored in five of the seven too. That doesn’t guarantee another open match, but it does tell you these sides know how to get at each other. Clean sheets are the exception, not the rule.
We’re backing Double Chance 1X at 2/5 for this one. If you want a few more angles around BTTS tips, our BTTS tips page pulls together BTTS tips with more both-teams-to-score angles across the schedule. Slavia aren’t in sparkling form, but they’re at home and they’ve still got enough about them to avoid defeat against a Septemvri side that’s drawing far too often for its own good. The visitors are five unbeaten, yes, but four of those five have ended level. That’s the key detail. They’re hard to beat, not easy to trust.
The recent head-to-head also nudges this way. Septemvri won the last meeting, but the two teams have been trading close results for years, and Slavia’s need for a response after the 3-0 loss at Beroe should sharpen them up a bit. A 2-1 home win feels the most likely scoreline, though 1-1 wouldn’t shock anyone. If you want a bolder angle, both teams to score has a decent shout given how often this fixture opens up.
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