# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stiliyan-petrov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:11:56.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stiliyan-petrov"
name: "Stiliyan Petrov"
slug: "stiliyan-petrov"
description: "Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Petrov joined Celtic from CSKA Sofia in 1999, and won ten trophies in his time at Celtic Park, including four Scottish Premier League titles. In 2006, he moved to Aston Villa in the Premier League, along with his former manager Martin O'Neill. Petrov became club captain at Villa Park, and was an inductee to the Aston Villa Hall of Fame in 2013 having made 219 competitive appearances for the club."
tagline: "Bulgarian footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stiliyan_Petrov_-_2011_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1979-07-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.91
  momentum:             19.80972656563746
  historical:           21.95132533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stiliyan Petrov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stiliyan Petrov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sztilijan Petrov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiliyan_Petrov"
    title: "Stiliyan Petrov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilijan_Petrov"
    title: "Stilijan Petrov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "스틸리얀 페트로프"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilijanas_Petrovas"
    title: "Stilijanas Petrovas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166263"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump