At the end of season 2012-1013 the first two teams of the second division of Bulgarian football were promoted to the top division (A PFG).
Tulio Played for PFC Lokomotiv Mezdra in the Bulgarian A PFG in 2009 but left in January 2010 to return to Brazil signing with Uberlandia Esporte Clube.
In the 2006–07 season he was promoted to the first team of Lokomotiv and on May 4, 2007 he made his A PFG debut in a 3–0 away loss against Belasitsa Petrich.
A PFG - Bulgaria's top-level football league ("A" Professional Football Group); B PFG is the second-level league
During the 1997-98 A PFG season, he was found to have been ineligible for two of Litex's games - an away fixture against PFC Velbazhd Kyustendil and a home one vs. Levski Sofia - due to not being properly registered following his transfer from Bursaspor, but despite suffering 3-0 default losses, the team from Lovech won their first title.
In February 2012, Ivanov was close to signing with A PFG club Vidima Rakovski, but eventually put pen to paper on a contract with second division side Akademik Sofia.
He played for CSKA Sofia form the spring of 1966 to the 1976 having 231 match and 36 goals for the A PFG.