Fotbal Club Bălți is a
Moldova
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n professional
football
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club based in
Bălți
Bălți (; russian: Бельцы, , uk, Бєльці, , yi, בעלץ ) is a city in Moldova. It is the second largest city in terms of population, area and economic importance, after Chișinău. The city is one of the five Moldovan municipalit ...
, founded in 1984 as ''FC Zaria Bălți'' and refounded in 2020 as ''FC Bălți''.
They play in the
Super Liga, the top division of Moldovan football. Between 1992 and 2014, the team was known as ''FC Olimpia Bălți''.
History
The club was founded in 1984 as FC Zaria Bălți (russian: ФК Заря Бельцы), and in 1992, when Moldova gained its independence, the club was renamed to FC Olimpia Bălți. In July 2014 it was decided to return to the old name - FC Zaria Bălți.
FC Olimpia gained worldwide notoriety in December 2009 for putting an online bid through which the winner would awarded a one-year contract as a player with the club. The winner was a Brazilian businessman who had a brief career as a footballer in his native country. Nevertheless, the winning bidder declined the position stating that, since he never paid the application fee, he assumed his bid would not be taken into account. In April 2010 the club called for a new bidding round. The winner was never announced, though.
Name history
*FC Zaria Bălți (1984–1991)
*FC Olimpia Bălți (1991–2014)
*FC Zaria Bălți (2014–2019)
*FC Bălți (2020–)
Honours
Moldovan Cup
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Finals
The finals were:
Goalscorers
Soviet time winners
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:Winners (1):
2015–16
:Runners-up (3):
2010–11
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2016–17,
2022–23
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Moldovan Super Cup
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:Runners-up (1):
2016
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Divizia A
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:Winners (1):
2020–21
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Current squad
European record
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UEFA Europa League
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* Q1: First qualifying round
* Q2: Second qualifying round
List of seasons
References
External links
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FC Bălțion divizia-a.md
FC Bălțion Soccerway
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Football clubs in Moldova
Association football clubs established in 1984
FC Balti
FC Balti
Football clubs in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic