FC Balkany
Full nameFootball Club Balkany
Founded2007
GroundBoris Tropanets Stadium
Capacity1,600
ChairmanUkraine Radoslav Zlatov
Head CoachDenys Kolchin
LeagueUkrainian Second League
2019–20First League, 14th (relegated)
WebsiteClub website

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.

History

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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[2]

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.[2]

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.[3]

In 2016, Balkany repeated as Amateur Champions of Ukraine.[4]

The club successfully passed attestation and will compete in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League season.[5]

Current squad

As of 28 August 2022[6][7]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
7 MF Ukraine UKR Vasyl Tropanets
11 MF Ukraine UKR Bohdan Prybluda
12 GK Ukraine UKR Serhiy Lukash
19 MF Ukraine UKR Mykhaylo Popov
21 MF Ukraine UKR Serhiy Platunov
33 MF Ukraine UKR Vadym Zlatov
No. Pos. Nation Player
69 MF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Mykhaylichenko
71 GK Ukraine UKR Mykhaylo Bilousov
77 MF Ukraine UKR Ruslan Ivanchenko
80 DF Ukraine UKR Serhiy Novikov
89 DF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Ilnytskyi

Honors

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

League and cup history

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 1⁄16 finals[3] UAC Runners-up Champions
2016 4th 1 6 5 0 1 19 6 15 Champion[4]
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

Managers

References

  1. ↑ Аматорские имена. ФК Балканы (Одесская область) [Amateur names. FK Balkany (Odesa Oblast)]. UA-Football (in Russian). 7 July 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Команда "Балкани" (Зоря, Одеська обл.) [Team "Balkany" (Zorya, Odesa Oblast)]. Ukrainian Football Amateur League Official website (in Ukrainian). 2016. Archived from the original on 18 July 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Balkany - Dnipro". Ukrainian Premier League (in Ukrainian). 25 August 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  4. 1 2 ФК Балкани - чемпіон України серед аматорів 2016 року [FC Balkany - Champions amongst amateurs in 2016]. UA-Football (in Ukrainian). 9 July 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  5. ↑ В Першій лізі можуть стартувати 18 команд [16 teams may compete in the First League]. UA-Football (in Ukrainian). 24 June 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Игроки ФК Балканы".
  7. ↑ "Професіональна футбольна ліга України".
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