FC Bălți

Bălți
Full nameFotbal Club Bălți
Founded
  • 1984 (1984)
    as Zaria Bălți
GroundStadionul Orășenesc Bălți
Capacity5,953
OwnerPrimăria Bălți
PresidentVladimir Țaranu[1]
Head coachVeaceslav Rusnac
LeagueLiga
2024–25Super Liga, 5th of 8
Websitefcbalti.md

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 Liga, the top division of Moldovan football. Between 1992 and 2014, the team was known as FC Olimpia Bălți.

History

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.

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. In 2018,the club would relegate into the Divizia A after finishing last in the league. However they would return to the top-flight only 2 seasons later.[5]

Name history

  • FC Zaria Bălți (1984–1991)
  • FC Olimpia Bălți (1991–2014)
  • FC Zaria Bălți (2014–2019)
  • FC Bălți (2020–)

Players

As of 18 June 2025[6]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  MDA Lucian Cebotari
2 MF  ARG Álvaro Bely (captain)
3 DF  MDA Vladislav Boico
5 DF  BRA Igor Cesar
7 MF  EQG Fede Nguema
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 Răzvan Perju
17 FW  MDA Dan-Lucian Burlacu
19 DF  MDA Vladimir Ghinaitis
20 DF  MDA David Cemschi
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 FW  MDA Nichita Picus
24 FW  MDA Dumitru Rogac
25 MF  MDA Andrei Sosnovschi
28 MF  CMR Marius Obekop
31 DF  MDA Danila Ignatov
33 GK  MDA Artur Nazarciuc
96 MF  MDA Andrei Rusnac
99 FW  BRA Zé Flores
— MF  MDA Dumitru Bivol
— MF  MDA Vladislav Costin
— MF  MDA Nicolai Covalschi
— FW  MDA Dmitri Maneacov
— FW  MDA Dan-Angelo Boțan

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

League history

Season League Cup Super Cup Europe Ref
Division Pos Pld W D L GF GA Pts
1992 1st 9th 22 5 7 10 19 24 17 DNE – – [7]
1992–93 7th 30 14 6 10 40 28 34 Quarter-finals – – [8][9]
1993–94 5th 30 13 8 9 35 41 34 Quarter-finals – – [10][11]
1994–95 3rd 26 17 6 3 53 24 57 Quarter-finals – – [12]
1995–96 5th 30 19 6 5 55 25 63 Round of 32 – – [13][14]
1996–97 5th 30 18 6 6 75 34 60 Semi-finals – – [15]
1997–98 6th 26 12 8 6 40 21 44 Round of 16 – – [16]
1998–99 5th 26 7 9 10 14 22 30 Semi-finals – – [17]
1999–2000 6th 36 13 7 16 42 51 46 Quarter-finals – – [18]
2000–01 ↓ 8th 28 3 5 20 19 49 14 Quarter-finals – – [19]
2001–02 2nd 4th 30 15 8 7 60 45 53 — – – [20]
2002–03 4th 26 14 7 5 47 29 49 — – – [21]
2003–04 8th 30 15 5 10 55 31 50 Round of 16 – – [22]
2004–05 3rd 30 21 6 3 63 22 69 Round of 16 – – [23]
2005–06 ↑ 3rd 28 18 5 5 66 23 59 Round of 16 – – [24][25]
2006–07 1st 6th 36 12 6 18 38 50 42 Round of 16 – – [26]
2007–08 8th 30 7 6 17 24 46 27 Quarter-finals – – [27]
2008–09 6th 30 11 7 12 30 32 40 Quarter-finals – – [28]
2009–10 3rd 33 17 9 7 45 23 60 Semi-finals – – [29]
2010–11 6th 39 21 11 7 59 31 74 Runners-up – UEL 2Q [30]
2011–12 5th 33 10 15 8 26 27 45 Quarter-finals – – [31]
2012–13 10th 33 10 5 18 31 50 35 Round of 16 – – [32]
2013–14 11th 33 5 3 25 26 77 18 Round of 16 – – [33]
2014–15 9th 24 4 0 20 10 66 12 Round of 16 – – [34]
2015–16 4th 27 12 6 9 36 29 42 Winners – – [35]
2016–17 4th 30 20 5 5 56 21 65 Runners-up Runners-up UEL 1Q [36]
2017 5th 18 7 3 8 28 20 24 Quarter-finals – UEL 2Q [37]
2018 ↓ 8th 28 4 10 14 26 46 22 Quarter-finals – UEL 1Q [38]
2019 2nd 10th 28 9 4 15 65 60 31 First round – – [39]
2020–21 ↑ 1st 26 23 0 3 85 17 69 Second round – – [40]
2021–22 1st 5th 28 11 3 14 39 39 36 Quarter-finals – –
2022–23 6th 24 5 7 12 18 26 22 Runners-up – –
2023–24 5th 24 9 3 12 33 44 30 Semi-finals – –
2024–25 5th 24 7 7 10 27 33 28 Quarter-finals – –

European record

Competition Played Won Drew Lost GF GA GD Win%
UEFA Champions League 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !—
UEFA Europa League 12 3 3 6 9 21 −12 025.00
UEFA Conference League 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !—
Total 12 3 3 6 9 21 −12 025.00

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2010–11 UEFA Europa League 1Q Khazar Lankaran 0–0 1–1 1–1 (a)
2Q Dinamo București 0–2 1–5 1–7
2016–17 UEFA Europa League 1Q Videoton 2–0 0–3 2–3
2017–18 UEFA Europa League 1Q Sarajevo 2–1 1–2 3–3 (6–5 p)
2Q Apollon Limassol 1–2 0–3 1–5
2018–19 UEFA Europa League 1Q Górnik Zabrze 1–1 0–1 1–2

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