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	http://fcbalkans.com.ua
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, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion in the region of Budjak, Odesa Oblast.

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]

As of 28 August 2022^{[update][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 11 MF  UKR Bohdan Prybluda 12 GK  UKR Serhiy Lukash 19 MF  UKR Mykhaylo Popov 21 MF  UKR Serhiy Platunov 33 MF  UKR Vadym Zlatov

No. Pos. Nation Player 69 MF  UKR Oleksandr Mykhaylichenko 71 GK  UKR Mykhaylo Bilousov 77 MF  UKR Ruslan Ivanchenko 80 DF  UKR Serhiy Novikov 89 DF  UKR Oleksandr Ilnytskyi

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	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

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

• Official Team website