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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
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.
Balkany Sorya hat in seiner Geschichte noch keinen großen Titel gewonnen, erreichte aber zweimal das Finale des ukrainischen Pokals (2008 und 2016). Der Verein hat auch mehrfach an europäischen Wettbewerben teilgenommen, unter anderem an der UEFA Europa League und der UEFA Champions League.
Zu den bekanntesten Spielern, die für Balkany Sorya gespielt haben, gehören:
* Oleksandr Kucher
* Artem Fedetskyi
* Dmytro Chyhrynskyi
* Taras Stepanenko
* Vladyslav Kucheruk
Balkany Sorya ist bekannt für sein starkes Mittelfeldspiel und seine gefährliche Offensive. Der Verein ist auch für seine leidenschaftlichen Fans bekannt, die eine lautstarke Unterstützung bieten.