FC Balkany Zorya

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FC Balkany Zorya (Ukrainian: ФК Балкани Зоря, romanized: FK Balkany Zorya) is a professional Ukrainian football team that is based in the village of Zorya, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion in the region of Budjak, Odesa Oblast.

Old logo of FC Balkany

Old logo of FC Balkany

The club was founded in 2007 as FC Zorya in the ethnically Bulgarian village of Zorya that was founded in 1831 by resettlers from Bulgaria which is located on the Balkan peninsula.

In the first year of the founding of the club managed to take second place in the championship of Sarata Raion. Between 2008–2011, Balkany became Champions of the Raion, also winning the cup and tournaments. In 2011, the team Odesa Oblast cup with the winning goal was scored by Oleksandr Raychev thereby winning the right to build a stadium in the urban-type settlement of Sarata. The following year began the construction of the stadium with two standard fields with grass. The ground is now named after former footballer from Zorya Boris Tropaneț as the Borys Tropanets Stadium.

In 2013, the team for the first time in its history, won the championship of Odesa Oblast Championship, and in 2014 made their debut in the Ukrainian Football Amateur League.

Two years later in 2015, became the fourth in the history of the club of Odesa region (after the FC Odesa, FC Ivan Odesa and FC Bastion Chornomorsk) to become amateur champions of Ukraine. Also the club was the runners-up in the 2015 Ukrainian Amateur Cup.

The club qualified for the domestic 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup. In the Preliminary Round, the club defeated Skala Stryi and in the next round lost 1–0 on a late goal to Ukrainian Premier League club FC Dnipro before a crowd of 10,000 spectators.

In 2016, Balkany repeated as Amateur Champions of Ukraine.

The club successfully passed attestation and will compete in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League season.

As of 28 August 2022

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

Amateur Championship of Ukraine

• Winners (2): 2015, 2016

Ukrainian Amateur Cup

• Runners-up (1): 2015

Odesa Oblast Championship

• Winners (1): 2013

Trusevych Cup (Odesa Oblast Cup)

• Winners (2): 2014, 2015

Sarata Raion Championship

• Winners (6): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014

Sarata Raion Cup

• Winners (4): 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
• Governor's Cup of Odesa Oblast: 2011
• Cup Winners' Cup Odesa Oblast: 2015
• Super Cup Odesa Oblast: 2015

Season

Div.

Pos.

Pl.

W

D

L

GS

GA

P

Domestic Cup

Other

Notes

2014

4th

1

8

4

1

3

14

9

13

4

3

1

0

2

4

4

3

2015

4th

1

6

4

2

0

11

6

14

1

10

7

2

1

14

10

23

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UAC

Runners-up

Champions

2016

4th

1

6

5

0

1

19

6

15

Champion

2016–17

3rd

4

32

16

9

7

54

32

57

1⁄32 finals

Promoted

2017–18

2nd

11

34

9

13

12

30

35

40

1⁄32 finals

2018–19

2nd

8

28

10

8

10

28

31

38

1⁄32 finals

2019–20

2nd

14

30

5

10

15

27

51

25

1⁄16 finals

Relegated

2020–21

3rd

1⁄64 finals

• 2013 Andriy Parkhomenko

• 2014-2015 Dmytro Holubev

• 2015-2020 Andriy Parkhomenko

• 2020- Denys Kolchin

• Official Team website