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Fotbal Club Dacia Chișinău, commonly known as Dacia Chișinău or simply Dacia, was a Moldovan
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club based in
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, which last played in the village of Speia, Anenii Noi. They participated in the Divizia Națională, the top division in Moldovan football. The club's name came from
Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus ro ...
, an ancient civilization which covered parts of modern Moldova. Established in 1999, it entered the
Moldovan "A" Division Liga 1 is the second-level division of Moldovan Football league system, The championship is composed of 12 teams and the top two teams are promoted to the Moldovan Liga, while the bottom two teams are relegated to the Moldovan Liga 2 Liga 2 i ...
in 2000 and was promoted to the first division two years later. They won their first league title in the 2010–11 season, thereby qualifying for the preliminaries of the
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. The team has also taken part in the
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on five occasions, but never reached the group stage. The club was disbanded after the 2017 Moldovan National Division season.


History


Early history (1999–2002)

FC Dacia was founded in 1999 by Marin Livadaru, Igor Ursachi, Valeriu Plujnic and Alexandru Șcaruba. The team was composed of goalkeeper Ghenadie Gariuc and outfield players including Alexandru Golban, Cornel Popov, Ruslan Rașcu, Serghei Coșciug, Cornel Gafton, Veaceslav Titov, Alexandru Tracalov. The club's initial aim was to compete in the
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(second tier). Dacia debuted in this league during the 2000–01 season, while Gabriel Stati took over as president in autumn 2000. The club came 4th in its first season before being promoted to the top-flight
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the following season.


National Division (2002–10)

Dacia won their first National Division match 1–0 against Nistru Otaci, and ended the 2002–03 season in 4th with qualification to the
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as a result. Here they defeated the Faeroese club GÍ Gøta and Albanian side
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, against whom they five unanswered goals over the two-legged fixture (2–0 and 3–0). Dacia were subsequently eliminated by Germans
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, losing both legs (1–0 and 2–1). Before the 2003–04 season, former Dacia player and second-team coach
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took over as head coach, leading the side to 5th place in the league and a Moldovan Cup semi-final defeat against fellow Chișinău-based side Zimbru Chișinău. Durfing that cup-run, Dacia recorded the victory in its history, 9–0 against FC Florești. The 2004–05 season saw Dacia qualify for the
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for the first time after a third-place finish in the league. The Wolves also finished as runners-up in the Moldova Cup after a dramatic loss to Nistru Otaci. Dacia were knocked out of the 2005-06 UEFA Cup in the first round against the
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team
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, losing 2–0 away but winning the home leg 1–0 though Vladimir Jăpălău. The subsequent league campaign ended in sixth position, along with defeat in the Moldova Cup semi-finals against Nistru Otaci. However, Dacia was the winner of a friendly tournament named the Turkmenistan President's Cup in February 2006, winning 4–3 in the final and collecting $20,000
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as a prize. After finishing 4th in the 2006–07 season, Dacia qualified for the 2007 Intertoto Cup, and advanced past the Azerbaijani club Baku FC in the first round via a penalty shoot-out, with Dacia's goalkeeper Mihai Moraru saving. It took another shoot-out in the second round to defeat Swiss club
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. Dacia's third-round opponents were German club
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, whose team of internationals revolving around Dutch playmaker
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drew 1–1 in Moldova, but won 4–0 in the return leg to knock Dacia out. The Yellow Wolves received a high assessment from local experts and Dacia were named the Top Team of 2007 by the Moldova Football Association. The subsequent 2007–08 league campaign brought Dacia's highest-placed finish as of then, partly due to new vice-president Timur Kuriev who found Russian investors. After the mid-season break, Dacia won five matches in a row to cut their deficit behind holders and league leaders
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to a single point before their encounter on 30 March, which was won by Sheriff. By finishing in second, Dacia made the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Cup and were defeated 4–2 on aggregate by Serbian club Borac Čačak in the first round. Dacia finished as runners-up to Sheriff again in 2008–09, and also reached their second Moldovan Cup final, which they lost 2–0 to Sheriff on 23 May. During the season, manager
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moved to
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and was replaced by the Ukrainian Roman Pilipchuk, while at the end of the season Victor Bulat received the People's Choice Award. Dacia started the
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in the second qualifying round where they were defeated 3–0 on aggregate by Slovak team
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. In the 2009–10 season, Dacia were in the third place over the mid-season break, two points off first, but ended the season in 5th. Pilipchuk was replaced as manager by Veaceslav Semionov, and Rustam Polonkoev took over as president. The team made the Moldovan Cup final for the second consecutive season, and were again defeated 2–0 by Sheriff Tiraspol.


League success (2010–2018)

Dacia began the 2010–11 season in a Europa League qualifier against Montenegrin club
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, winning on the away-goals rule after a 1–1 aggregate draw, and were then knocked out 2–0 on aggregate by Swedish team
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. The Russian coach Igor Dobrovolskiy was appointed as head coach of Dacia before the league season began. Dacia were the sole unbeaten side in the league by their 17th match, which they lost 3–0 to
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. Following that result, they remained unbeaten for the remaining 22 league games of the season. Dacia won their first, and so far only, Moldovan National Division title in 2010–11, finishing 9 points ahead of runners-up Sheriff and denying the Tiraspol club an eleventh consecutive title. Also that season, Dacia signed an agreement with the Buiucani sports school to create a reserve team,
Dacia Buiucani Fotbal Club Dacia Buiucani, commonly known as Dacia Buiucani is a Moldovan football club from the Buiucani sector of Chișinău. The club competes in the Liga, the top tier of Moldovan football. The academy of the club is called CSCT Buiucani. C ...
. Before the 2011–12 season, Dacia won the revived
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against Iskra-Stal Rîbnița, with the only goal of the game coming from new signing Vasili Pavlov. In July 2011, Dacia made their
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debut in the second qualifying round, against Georgian champions
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. Despite winning the home leg 2–0, Dacia lost 3–0 in the return leg and were eliminated. Dobrovolski was replaced with Igor Negrescu during the league season, and Dacia finished as runners-up as Sheriff regained their title. Dacia entered the
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in the first qualifying round, where they beat Slovenians
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1–0 in each leg. In the second qualifying round, against
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of Sweden, Dacia won the first leg 1–0 before losing the second 2–0 away and were subsequently eliminated. On 13 March 2018, Dacia announced that they would not be participating in the 2018 Moldovan National Division.


Club rivalries


''Chișinău Derby''

Dacia's local rival has always been
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.


Domestic


European


Honours


Leagues

* Divizia Națională **Winners (1):
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**Runners-up (7): 2007–08, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 *
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**Winners (1): 2001–02


Cups

* Cupa Moldovei **Runners-up (4): 2004–05, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2014–15 * Supercupa Moldovei **Winners (1):
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Managers

* Igor Ursachi (1999–2003) *
Emil Caras Emil Caras (born 21 December 1967) is a Moldovan professional football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1985 for FC Zarya Bă ...
(2003 – 3 May 2008) * Vasile Coșelev ''(caretaker)'' (3 May 2008 – 2 October 2008) * Roman Pylypchuk (2 October 2008 – 31 August 2009) * Sergiu Botnaraș ''(caretaker)'' (1 September 2009 – 10 December 2009) * Veaceslav Semionov ''(caretaker)'' (23 December 2009 – 5 July 2010) * Igor Dobrovolski (5 July 2010 – 7 May 2012) * Igor Negrescu ''(caretaker)'' (7 May 2012 – 4 June 2012) * Igor Dobrovolski (4 June 2012 – 8 June 2013) * Igor Negrescu (8 June 2013 – 9 January 2014) *
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(9 January 2014 – 2 November 2014) * Veaceslav Semionov ''(caretaker)'' (2 November 2014 – 20 January 2015) * Oleg Kubarev (20 January 2015 – 9 March 2015) * Veaceslav Semionov ''(caretaker)'' (9 March 2015 – 26 April 2015) * Igor Dobrovolski (26 April 2015 – 4 August 2015) * Oleg Valeriyovych Bezhenar (4 August 2015 – 2017)


Chairman


References


External links


Official site
(archived 1 November 2011)
Fans website
(archived 23 August 2009)
FC Dacia Chișinău
at DiviziaNationala.com (archived 18 July 2010) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dacia Chisinau, FC
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