Bulgaria first joined the FIVB World Grand Prix in 2013 and the very next year topped Group 3 and were promoted to Group 2. They ranked 5th in the Group in 2015 and last year finished fourth in the Intercontinental Round and then lost to Poland in the semifinals and to Puerto Rico in the bronze medal match. In 2014 Bulgaria finished 11th in the FIVB World Championship – their first appearance since 2002. A year earlier they had claimed their third bronze medal in the European League for a fifth consecutive appearance on the podium. They won silver in 2010 and 2012. Bulgaria competed in the inaugural European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2015 finishing ninth. The same year the team finished thirteenth in the European Championship.

The team’s greatest successes came more than three decades ago when Bulgaria won bronze at the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games and gold at the 1981 European Championship.