FC Balkany Zorya

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, Sarata Raion in the region of Budjak, Odesa Oblast.

FC Balkany
Full nameFootball Club Balkany
Founded2007
GroundBoris Tropanets Stadium
Capacity1,600
Chairman Radoslav Zlatov
Head Coach Andriy Parkhomenko
LeagueUkrainian First League
2019–20First League, 14th
WebsiteClub website

History
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 Odessa Oblast cup with the winning goal was scored by Oleksandr Raychev thereby winning the right to build a stadium in the village 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 Odessa 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 Odessa region (after the FC Dniester Ovidiopol, FC Ivan Odessa and FC Bastion Illichivsk) 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 Dnipropetrovsk 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]

First team squad

As of 22 June 2020[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
2 DF  UKR Roman Nykolyshyn
5 DF  UKR Anatoliy Opria
7 MF  UKR Andriy Fayuk
9 MF  BRA Dodô
10 DF  UKR Demian Pyenov
11 MF  BRA Lucas
14 MF  UKR Vladyslav Sydorenko
15 MF  UKR Viktor Serdenyuk
17 DF  UKR Ihor Yurechko
20 FW  UKR Dmytro Bolokan
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 MF  UKR Vladyslav Shukhovtsev
25 MF  UKR Serhiy Platunov
29 MF  UKR Vasyl Tropanets
33 MF  UKR Vadym Zlatov
42 GK  UKR Dmytro Demskyi
46 MF  UKR Kostyantyn Parkhomenko
71 GK  UKR Serhiy Lukash
77 MF  BRA Luiz Fernando
89 MF  UKR Oleksandr Ilnytskyi
99 MF  UKR Volodymyr Havryliuk

Honors
Amateur Championship of Ukraine
  • Winners (2): 2015, 2016
Ukrainian Amateur Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2015
Odessa Oblast Championship
  • Winners (1): 2013
Trusevych Cup (Odessa 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 ​1⁄16 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. 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. "Balkany - Dnipro". Ukrainian Premier League (in Ukrainian). 25 August 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  4. 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. http://fcbalkans.com.ua/ua/players
  7. http://pfl.ua/teams/5156-balkanu
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