April 2006
After the Levski and Beroe match in Sofia, Zahari Dimitrov from Stara Zagora team Beroe tested positive for clenbuterol. He was banned from playing for two years in July 2006.

August 2006
Weightlifter Rumiana Petkova tested positive after she was caught with stenozol, a forbidden drug. The test was done during training before the European championships. She was banned from playing for two years.

May 2005
Tennis star Sesil Karatancheva was caught with the forbidden substance neandrolon after the quarterfinal at the Rolan Garros Tournament in France and just before the Fed Cup match against Japan. In January 2006 she received a two-year-ban.

April 2005
After the European Wrestling Championship in Varna, classical-style wrestler Nikola Stoynov tested positive.  He won silver in the competition but returned it amid scandal. Stoynov was banned for four months.

September 2004
Weightlifter Alan Tsagaev tested positive just before the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. After a second doping test confirmed the first, he was banned for two years.

December 2004
Stefan Vasilev, a bobsleigher and president of the Bobsleighing Federation, tested positive for metinolon. He was banned two years but was absolved soon after because the medicine was prescribed after a lifesaving operation.

November 2003
Weightlifters Galabin Boevski, Zlatan Vanev and Georgi Markov tested positive and were banned. Boevski received eight months while the other two athletes were banned for 1.5 years.

August 2000
Iva Prandjeva tested positive twice for drugs and was banned for life. The first test took place four years before during the Atlanta Olympic Games.

April 1998
Ilia Gruev was the first football player to mess with doping. He played in Neftohimik and in the Bulgarian national team. He was banned from sport for eight months.

October 1997
Bulgarian volleyball player Antonina Zetova was banned for a month because of high levels of caffeine in her blood during the Euro 1997 games in the Czech Republic.