--- title: Watch Star Wars' Fans Put On A Stormtrooper Show at a Soccer Match description: For the Bulgarian soccer team, CSKA Sofia canonical: https://time.com/4146001/star-wars-stormtroppers-soccer/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-11T20:36:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:57.979Z og:title: Watch 'Star Wars' Fans Put On A Stormtrooper Show at a Soccer Match og:description: For the Bulgarian soccer team, CSKA Sofia og:url: https://time.com/4146001/star-wars-stormtroppers-soccer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch 'Star Wars' Fans Put On A Stormtrooper Show at a Soccer Match twitter:description: For the Bulgarian soccer team, CSKA Sofia twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch _Star Wars_ Fans Put On A Stormtrooper Show at a Soccer Match ## Video: Photographing TIME's Star Wars Cover [Watch (HLS stream): Photographing TIME's Star Wars Cover](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/KXrQmNTF.m3u8) (3:31)  _Published 2015-12-03. For the latest issue of TIME, Marco Grob photographed the cast members of_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 11, 2015 8:36 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 11, 2015 8:36 PM UTC Stormtroopers invaded a soccer stadium in Bulgaria this week. It wasn’t an incursion by the Galactic Empire, but a _Star Wars-_themed display of support by fans of the Bulgarian soccer team, CSKA Sofia. It was an impressive showing of both _Star Wars_ fandom and soccer support as the stands were filled with Sofia fans wearing stormtrooper masks and singing along to Darth Vader’s Theme. They even held up a homemade poster of the Sith Lord himself. The Force must have been strong with the CSKA Sofia players, because during the match, they smashed their enemies with a 3-0 victory. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4146001/star-wars-stormtroppers-soccer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4146001/star-wars-stormtroppers-soccer/"},"headline":"Watch Star Wars Fans Put On A Stormtrooper Show at a Soccer Match","datePublished":"2015-12-11T20:36:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:02:57.979Z","description":"For the Bulgarian soccer team, CSKA Sofia","url":"https://time.com/4146001/star-wars-stormtroppers-soccer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","movies","Star Wars topic","Soccer","Viral Videos","Bulgaria"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4146001/star-wars-stormtroppers-soccer/","name":"Watch Star Wars Fans Put On A Stormtrooper Show at a Soccer Match"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Photographing TIME's Star Wars Cover","description":"For the latest issue of TIME, Marco Grob photographed the cast members of","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/KXrQmNTF/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-12-03T11:59:55.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/KXrQmNTF.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4146001/star-wars-stormtroppers-soccer/","duration":"PT3M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4146001/star-wars-stormtroppers-soccer/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```