Maritza Plovdiv volleyball club was founded in 1950. It bears the name of the river passing through the city of Plovdiv. The nickname is based on the club colors – the Yellow-and-Blues. Metodi Batselov, Marko Shivarov and the coach-player and captain Irina Garbucheva are the club's first functionaries. Maritza earns promotion to the 1st division of Bulgarian volleyball in 1957. The club's first professional coach, Georgi Markov creates the first girls', youth and junior teams in 1960. The first national titles in these three categories come in 1961, 1963 and 1964, respectively. Maritza’s first women’s national medal, a bronze, comes in 1979. In 1997, Maritza plays its first Bulgaria Cup final. 2009 marks the beginning of beach volleyball at Maritza as Diana Malinova & Rusena Slancheva win the title at the women’s Balkan Championship. The start of the cooperation between Maritza and Intercomplex in 2009 sets off a new era of growth and development. In 2011, a Maritza pair wins the club's first women’s national championship title in beach volleyball. In 2012, Maritza’s women’s volleyball team triumphs with its first national trophy, the Bulgaria Cup. 2013 brings Maritza the first U22 and U18 national beach volleyball gold medals. In 2015, Maritza wins its second national cup, its historic first women’s volleyball national title and the super cup, shaping up the only golden treble in the history of Bulgarian volleyball. In 2016, Maritza’s women’s beach volleyball team wins silver in the National Club League. Also in 2016, Maritza becomes the first Bulgarian team in the women’s Champions League since its creation in 1999. A year later, Maritza reaches the pool stage for the first time. It has been playing in the pool stage ever since. In 2017 a Maritza pair wins the club's first U20 national beach volleyball gold. Maritza has won a total of seven national titles and seven national cups in volleyball and two national titles in beach volleyball.
