FC Balkany Zorya

FC Balkany

Full name	Football Club Balkany
Founded	2007
Ground	Boris Tropanets Stadium
Capacity	1,600
Chairman	Radoslav Zlatov
Head Coach	Denys Kolchin
League	Ukrainian Second League
2019–20	First League, 14th (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

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.

History[]

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 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 Odessa region (after the FC Dniester Ovidiopol, FC Ivan Odesa 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]

Current squad[]

As of 4 August 2021^[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 1 GK  UKR 7 MF  UKR 9 MF  UKR Volodymyr Pryyomov 10 DF  UKR 11 MF  UKR 12 GK  UKR 13 DF  UKR 17 DF  UKR 19 MF  UKR 20 FW  UKR 21 MF  UKR 22 MF  UKR 27 MF  UKR

No. Pos. Nation Player 33 MF  UKR 69 MF  UKR 70 FW  UKR Pavlo Fedosov 71 GK  UKR 77 MF  UKR 79 MF  UKR 80 DF  UKR 88 MF  UKR Viktor Serdenyuk 89 DF  UKR 91 DF  UKR 96 MF  UKR 99 MF  UKR

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[]

• 2013 Andriy Parkhomenko
• 2014-2015
• 2015-2020 Andriy Parkhomenko
• 2020- Denys Kolchin

References[]

External links[]

• Official Team website