FC Bălți

Fotbal Club Bălți, commonly known as Bălți, is a Moldovan professional football club based in Bălți, 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.

Bălți

Full name	Fotbal Club Bălți
Founded	1984; 40 years ago (1984) as Zaria Bălți
Ground	Stadionul Orășenesc Bălți
Capacity	5,953
Owner	Primăria Bălți
President	Vladimir Țaranu[1]
Head coach	Veaceslav Rusnac
League	Super Liga
2023–24	Super Liga, 5th of 8
Website	https://fcbalti.md/
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

Old logo

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.

Old logo

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.^[2] 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.^[3] In April 2010 the club called for a new bidding round.^[4] 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:

Winners (1): 2015–16

Runners-up (3): 2010–11, 2016–17, 2022–23

Moldovan Super Cup:

Runners-up (1): 2016

Divizia A:

Winners (1): 2020–21

Current squad

As of 6 October 2024^[5]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  MDA Lucian Cebotari 2 MF  ARG Álvaro Bely 3 DF  MDA Vladislav Boico 5 DF  BRA Igor Cesar 6 DF  MDA Alexandru Gau 7 MF  EQG Federico Nsue 8 MF  MDA Ivan Urvanțev 9 MF  KAZ Vadim Yakovlev 10 FW  BRA Andrézinho 11 DF  MDA Evgheni Usatenco 14 DF  MDA Radu Rogac 16 GK  MDA Razvan Perju

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  MDA Dan-lucian Burlacu (captain) 18 FW  MDA Eugeniu Rebenja 20 DF  MDA David Cemschi 22 FW  MDA Nichita Picus 23 FW  BRA Caio Ferreira 24 FW  MDA Dumitru Rogac 28 MF  CMR Marius Obekop 31 DF  MDA Danila Ignatov 33 GK  MDA Artur Nazarciuc

European record

UEFA Europa League

Season	Round	Opponents	Home leg	Away leg	Aggregate
2010–11	Q1	Khazar Lankaran	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
	Q2	Dinamo București	0–2	1–5	1–7
2016–17	Q1	Videoton	2–0	0–3	2–3
2017–18	Q1	Sarajevo	2–1	1–2	3–3 (6–5 p)
	Q2	Apollon Limassol	1–2	0–3	1–5
2018–19	Q1	Górnik Zabrze	1–1	0–1	1–2

Notes

• Q1: First qualifying round
• Q2: Second qualifying round

List of seasons

Season	League									Cup	Super Cup	Ref
	Division	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1992	Divizia Națională	9th	22	5	7	10	19	24	17	DNE	–	[6]
1992–93	Divizia Națională	7th	30	14	6	10	40	28	34	Quarter-finals	–	[7][8]
1993–94	Divizia Națională	5th	30	13	8	9	35	41	34	Quarter-finals	–	[9][10]
1994–95	Divizia Națională	3rd	26	17	6	3	53	24	57	Quarter-finals	–	[11]
1995–96	Divizia Națională	5th	30	19	6	5	55	25	63	Round of 32	–	[12][13]
1996–97	Divizia Națională	5th	30	18	6	6	75	34	60	Semi-finals	–	[14]
1997–98	Divizia Națională	6th	26	12	8	6	40	21	44	Round of 16	–	[15]
1998–99	Divizia Națională	5th	26	7	9	10	14	22	30	Semi-finals	–	[16]
1999–2000	Divizia Națională	6th	36	13	7	16	42	51	46	Quarter-finals	–	[17]
2000–01	Divizia Națională	↓ 8th	28	3	5	20	19	49	14	Quarter-finals	–	[18]
2001–02	Divizia A	4th	30	15	8	7	60	45	53	—	–	[19]
2002–03	Divizia A	4th	26	14	7	5	47	29	49	—	–	[20]
2003–04	Divizia A	8th	30	15	5	10	55	31	50	Round of 16	–	[21]
2004–05	Divizia A	3rd	30	21	6	3	63	22	69	Round of 16	–	[22]
2005–06	Divizia A	↑ 3rd	28	18	5	5	66	23	59	Round of 16	–	[23][24]
2006–07	Divizia Națională	6th	36	12	6	18	38	50	42	Round of 16	–	[25]
2007–08	Divizia Națională	8th	30	7	6	17	24	46	27	Quarter-finals	–	[26]
2008–09	Divizia Națională	6th	30	11	7	12	30	32	40	Quarter-finals	–	[27]
2009–10	Divizia Națională	3rd	33	17	9	7	45	23	60	Semi-finals	–	[28]
2010–11	Divizia Națională	6th	39	21	11	7	59	31	74	Runners-up	–	[29]
2011–12	Divizia Națională	5th	33	10	15	8	26	27	45	Quarter-finals	–	[30]
2012–13	Divizia Națională	10th	33	10	5	18	31	50	35	Round of 16	–	[31]
2013–14	Divizia Națională	11th	33	5	3	25	26	77	18	Round of 16	–	[32]
2014–15	Divizia Națională	9th	24	4	0	20	10	66	12	Round of 16	–	[33]
2015–16	Divizia Națională	4th	27	12	6	9	36	29	42	Winners	–	[34]
2016–17	Divizia Națională	4th	30	20	5	5	56	21	65	Runners-up	Runners-up	[35]
2017	Divizia Națională	5th	18	7	3	8	28	20	24	Quarter-finals	–	[36]
2018	Divizia Națională	↓ 8th	28	4	10	14	26	46	22	Quarter-finals	–	[37]
2019	Divizia A	10th	28	9	4	15	65	60	31	First round	–	[38]
2020–21	Divizia A	↑ 1st	26	23	0	3	85	17	69	Second round	–	[39]

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External links

• Official website (in Russian)
• FC Bălți on divizia-a.md (in Romanian and Russian)
• FC Bălți on Soccerway