Wikipedia - 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, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion in the region of Budjak, Odesa Oblast.

History

Old logo of FC Balkany
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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

In 2016, Balkany repeated as Amateur Champions of Ukraine.

The club successfully passed attestation and will compete in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League season.

Echipa ucraineană de fotbal "Balkany Zorya" (în ucraineană: "Зоря Луганськ") este un club de fotbal profesionist cu sediul în Lugansk, Ucraina. Clubul joacă în prezent în Prima Ligă ucraineană, prima divizie a fotbalului ucrainean.

Zorya a fost fondată în 1923 și s-a impus ca o forță majoră în fotbalul ucrainean în ultimii ani. Clubul a câștigat Cupa Ucrainei de două ori, în 2016 și 2021, și a terminat pe locul doi în Prima Ligă ucraineană în 2020.

Zorya participă în mod regulat la competițiile europene, ajungând în faza grupelor a Ligii Europa UEFA în 2016 și 2020. Echipa este cunoscută pentru stilul său ofensiv de joc și pentru fanii săi pasionați.

Stadionul de acasă al lui Zorya este Stadionul Avanhard, cu o capacitate de 22.581 de locuri. Culorile tradiționale ale clubului sunt alb și negru.