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| 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 | ||
FC Balkany Zorya (Ukrainian:ФК Балкани Зоря,romanized: FK Balkany Zorya) is a professionalUkrainianfootball team that is based in the village of Zorya,Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion in the region ofBudjak,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 theBalkan peninsula.[1]
In the first year of the founding of the club managed to take second place in the championship ofSarata Raion. Between 2008–2011, Balkany became Champions of the Raion, also winning the cup and tournaments. In 2011, the teamOdesa 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 ZoryaBoris 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 theUkrainian Football Amateur League.[2]
Two years later in 2015, became the fourth in the history of the club of Odesa region (after theFC Odesa,FC Ivan Odesa andFC Bastion Chornomorsk) to becomeamateur champions of Ukraine. Also the club was the runners-up in the2015 Ukrainian Amateur Cup.[2]
The club qualified for the domestic2015–16 Ukrainian Cup. In thePreliminary Round, the club defeatedSkala Stryi and in the next round lost 1–0 on a late goal toUkrainian Premier League clubFC Dnipro before a crowd of 10,000 spectators.[3]
In 2016, Balkany repeated asAmateur Champions of Ukraine.[4]
The club successfully passed attestation and will compete in the2016–17 Ukrainian Second League season.[5]
As of 28 August 2022[update][6][7]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| 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 | |||||||||||
