FC Zaria Bălți

Zaria Bălți
Full name Fotbal Club Zaria Bălți
Founded 1984 (1984)
Ground Stadionul Orășenesc
Capacity 5,953
Owner Primăria Bălți
President Andrian Bogdan
Head Coach Vlad Goian
League Divizia Naţională
2017 5th

Fotbal Club Zaria Bălți, commonly known as Zaria Bălți or simply as Zaria, is a Moldovan football club based in Bălți, currently playing in the Divizia Națională. Between 1992 and 2014 the team was known as Olimpia Bălți.

History

Old logo

Football professional clubs existed in Bălți before 1984 playing in the Ukrainian Class B (Soviet lower division of football competitions). Among those clubs was FC Piscevic Bălți (originally as FC Stroiindustriya). In 1966 Stroiindustriya Bălți became a champion of the Moldavian SSR and was admitted to the Class B competitions. Following liquidation of the Class B competitions in 1970, FC Piscevik disappeared.

The club was founded in 1984 as FC Zarya (Russian: ФК Заря Бельцы), and in 1991, 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.

The Zaria 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.[1] 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.[2] In April 2010 the club called for a new bidding round.[3] The winner was never announced, though.

European record

UEFA Europa League
Season Round Opponents Home leg Away leg Aggregate
2010–11 Q1 Azerbaijan Khazar Lankaran
0–0
1–1
1–1
Q2 Romania Dinamo București
0–2
1–5
1–7
2016–17 Q1 Hungary Videoton
2–0
0–3
2–3
2017–18 Q1 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
2–1
1–2
3–3 (p: 6–5)
Q2 Cyprus Apollon Limassol
1–2
0–3
1–5
2018–19 Q1 Poland Górnik Zabrze
1–1
0–1
1–2
Notes
  • Q1: First qualifying round
  • Q2: Second qualifying round

Current squad

As of 31 July 2018[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Moldova GK Vladimir Livșiț (captain)
33 Moldova GK Vladislav Chiaburu
3 Moldova DF Ion Burlacu
6 Brazil DF Lucas Silva
13 East Timor DF Diogo Rangel
16 Moldova DF David Cemschi
20 Ukraine DF Oleh Yermak
23 Moldova DF Alexandru Tofan
25 Moldova DF Cristian Dros
5 Moldova MF Daniel Danu
No. Position Player
7 Moldova MF Rodrigo Bostan
8 Brazil MF Guilherme Silva
21 Brazil MF Filipe Alves
22 Argentina MF Rubén Gómez
99 Brazil MF Jean Patric
9 Moldova FW Gheorghe Ovseanicov
10 Brazil FW Conrado
11 Moldova FW Dumitru Rogac
18 Moldova FW Vadim Gulceac
80 Moldova FW Serghei Alexeev

Club officials

Coaching staff

As of 31 July 2018[5]
Position Name
Head coach Moldova Vlad Goian
Assistant coach Moldova Nicolae Panu

Managers

Achievements

References

  1. ↑ "Футбольный клуб "Олимпия" (Бельцы)". Fcolimpia.md. 2009-12-21. Retrieved 2010-11-16.
  2. ↑ Thiago Lavinas Rio de Janeiro. "Globoesporte.com > Futebol Internacional – NOTÍCIAS – Brasileiro vence leilão para jogar na Moldávia, mas avisa que vai dar bolo". Globoesporte.globo.com. Retrieved 2010-11-16.
  3. ↑ "Футбольный клуб "Олимпия" (Бельцы)". Fcolimpia.md. 2010-04-10. Retrieved 2010-11-16.
  4. ↑ "Игроки - ФК «Заря»". fczaria.md. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Тренеры - ФК «Заря»". fczaria.md.
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