Trenera
Dimitar Gavrilov was the club's first captain and the man who gave it his life. The stadium and the tournament carry his name.
Dimitar Genkov Gavrilov was born on 10 October 1958. He finished the Dr Ivan Panov secondary school in Berkovitsa and worked at the Kom plant. In 1974 he became the first captain of the new team.
In 1987 he took over all the coaching at the club. For a few years at the end of the 1990s his pupil Ivan Stoyanov, known as Bari, followed him, and in 2001 Gavrilov came back. His youth sides won title after title. In 2004 the men's team was formed again on his initiative.
He died on 7 September 2009, aged 50. His wife Tanya, his daughter Zina and his son Georgi stayed close to rugby in the town. Georgi plays for the club.
The tournament
After his death the town's rugby community came together to honour him with a rugby 7 tournament. Since 2010 the club has invited teams from across the country and abroad to the Berkovitsa stadium every autumn.
The tournament, year by year
| 2010 | Vitosha Bistritsa. Balkanski Kotki second. |
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| 2011 | "Berkovitsa", a side of local players studying at NSA. The new stand opens before the tournament. |
| 2012 | Balkanski Kotki. NSA second. |
| 2013 | Balkanski Kotki. |
| 2014 | Not held because of the floods in early September. |
| 2015 | Balkanski Kotki. Dunarea Galati second. |
| 2016 | Balkanski Kotki, 26:14 against NSA in the final. |
| 2017 | NSA, 42:7 against Balkanski Kotki in the final. |
| 2019 | Balkanski Kotki. Maya Ilieva of NSA becomes the first woman to play in the tournament. |
| 2020 | Balkanski Kotki, 35:7 against Yantra in the final. The tenth edition. |
| 2021 | Balkanski Kotki. The tournament doubles as the national rugby 7 championship. |
| 2024 | The 14th edition, on the day of the club's 50th anniversary. |
| 2025 | The 15th edition, 7 September. |
| 2026 | Balkanski Kotki. Played together with the Bulgarian Cup in rugby 7. |