The team's achievements include winning the Balkan Championships in 1980, Runners-Up (1970, 2025), and Third Place (1949, 1952, 1986, 2006) at the
World Championship. At the
European Championships, Bulgaria has one Runners-Up (1951) and four Third Place (1955, 1981, 1983, 2009) finishes. Bulgaria has also achieved Runners-Up at the
1980 Summer Olympic Games in
Moscow. The team has one third place at the
World Cup (2007) and five Semi-Final appearances in the
World League (1994, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2013). The team's most significant recent results include earning a silver medal at the
2025 World Championship, Third Place at the
2006 World Championship, the
2007 World Cup and
2009 European Championship as well as achieving Runners-Up at the first
European Games in 2015. Bulgaria first took part in the
World League in
1994. During the debut season in the tournament, the team went all the way to the semi-finals, led by players like
Lubo Ganev, Dimo Tonev, and
Martin Stoev. In the next four editions, Bulgaria took part but did not manage to surpass its prior performance by reaching fifth in
1995, eight in
1996, sixth in
1997, and seventh in
1998. Under the guidance of Milorad Kijac, the new wave of players, including Teodor Salparov, Danial Mihaylov, etc., mixed well with the more experienced
Evgeni Ivanov,
Plamen Konstantinov, Nikolay Ivanov,
Vladimir Nikolov,
Hristo Tsvetanov to result in the fifth-place rank in 2003. The next year, once again under Kijac, the team played some impressive games and succeeded in tying its best performance of reaching the Semi-Finals. The team included more players from the Under-21 team that the previous year won a medal at the World Championships, such as
Matey Kaziyski and Milushev. In
2005 with a new coach,
Martin Stoev, the team finished in fifth place, followed by another tied best-ever performance of reaching the Semi-Finals in
2006, and another fifth place in
2007. In
2011, Bulgaria qualified for the first time in the Final Round after four years, and they finished in fifth place. The
2012 Final Round was held in the newly opened
Armeets Arena in
Sofia, and the host reached the Semi-Finals once again. ==Competition record==