Fotbal Club Bălți, commonly known asBălți, is aMoldovan professionalfootball club based inBălți, founded in 1984 asFC Zaria Bălți and refounded in 2020 asFC Bălți. They play in theLiga, the top division of Moldovan football. Between 1992 and 2014, the team was known asFC Olimpia Bălți.
The club was founded in 1984 asFC Zaria Bălți (Russian:ФК Заря Бельцы), and in 1992, when Moldova gained its independence, the club was renamed toFC Olimpia Bălți. In July 2014 it was decided to return to the old name –FC Zaria Bălți.
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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 theDivizia A after finishing last in the league. However they would return to the top-flight only 2 seasons later.[5]
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