--- 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: 2026-08-19T07:41:32.785Z 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 > Sponsored content. 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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. 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