# FC Bălți

Fotbal Club Bălți, commonly known as Bălți, is a Moldovan professional football club based in Bălți, founded in 1984 as FC Zaria Bălți and refounded in 2020 as FC Bălți. They play in the Super Liga, the top division of Moldovan football. Between 1992 and 2014, the team was known as FC Olimpia Bălți.

## History

The club was founded in 1984 as FC Zaria Bălți (Russian: ФК Заря Бельцы), and in 1992, when Moldova gained its independence, the club was renamed to FC Olimpia Bălți. In July 2014 it was decided to return to the old name – FC Zaria Bălți.
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. 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. In April 2010 the club called for a new bidding round. The winner was never announced, though.

### Name history

* FC Zaria Bălți (1984–1991)
* FC Olimpia Bălți (1991–2014)
* FC Zaria Bălți (2014–2019)
* FC Bălți (2020–)

## Honours

Moldovan Cup:
    Winners (1): 2015–16
    Runners-up (3): 2010–11, 2016–17, 2022–23
Moldovan Super Cup:
    Runners-up (1): 2016
Divizia A:
    Winners (1): 2020–21

## Current squad

    As of 6 October 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | MDA | Lucian Cebotari |
| 2 | MF | ARG | Álvaro Bely |
| 3 | DF | MDA | Vladislav Boico |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Igor Cesar |
| 6 | DF | MDA | Alexandru Gau |
| 7 | MF | EQG | Federico Nsue |
| 8 | MF | MDA | Ivan Urvanțev |
| 9 | MF | KAZ | Vadim Yakovlev |
| 10 | FW | BRA | Andrézinho |
| 11 | DF | MDA | Evgheni Usatenco |
| 14 | DF | MDA | Radu Rogac |
| 16 | GK | MDA | Razvan Perju |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | FW | MDA | Dan-lucian Burlacu (captain) |
| 18 | FW | MDA | Eugeniu Rebenja |
| 20 | DF | MDA | David Cemschi |
| 22 | FW | MDA | Nichita Picus |
| 23 | FW | BRA | Caio Ferreira |
| 24 | FW | MDA | Dumitru Rogac |
| 28 | MF | CMR | Marius Obekop |
| 31 | DF | MDA | Danila Ignatov |
| 33 | GK | MDA | Artur Nazarciuc |

## European record
### UEFA Europa League

| Season | Round | Opponents | Home leg | Away leg | Aggregate |
| 2010–11 | Q1 | Khazar Lankaran | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 (a) |
| 2010–11 | Q2 | Dinamo București | 0–2 | 1–5 | 1–7 |
| 2016–17 | Q1 | Videoton | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–3 |
| 2017–18 | Q1 | Sarajevo | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–3 (6–5 p) |
| 2017–18 | Q2 | Apollon Limassol | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–5 |
| 2018–19 | Q1 | Górnik Zabrze | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 |

### Notes

* Q1: First qualifying round
* Q2: Second qualifying round

## List of seasons

| Season | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | Cup | Super Cup | Ref |
| Season | Division | Pos | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Cup | Super Cup | Ref |
| 1992 | Divizia Națională | 9th | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 24 | 17 | DNE | – | |
| 1992–93 | Divizia Națională | 7th | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 40 | 28 | 34 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 1993–94 | Divizia Națională | 5th | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 35 | 41 | 34 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 1994–95 | Divizia Națională | 3rd | 26 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 53 | 24 | 57 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 1995–96 | Divizia Națională | 5th | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 55 | 25 | 63 | Round of 32 | – | |
| 1996–97 | Divizia Națională | 5th | 30 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 75 | 34 | 60 | Semi-finals | – | |
| 1997–98 | Divizia Națională | 6th | 26 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 40 | 21 | 44 | Round of 16 | – | |
| 1998–99 | Divizia Națională | 5th | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 22 | 30 | Semi-finals | – | |
| 1999–2000 | Divizia Națională | 6th | 36 | 13 | 7 | 16 | 42 | 51 | 46 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 2000–01 | Divizia Națională | ↓ 8th | 28 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 49 | 14 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 2001–02 | Divizia A | 4th | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 60 | 45 | 53 | — | – | |
| 2002–03 | Divizia A | 4th | 26 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 47 | 29 | 49 | — | – | |
| 2003–04 | Divizia A | 8th | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 55 | 31 | 50 | Round of 16 | – | |
| 2004–05 | Divizia A | 3rd | 30 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 63 | 22 | 69 | Round of 16 | – | |
| 2005–06 | Divizia A | ↑ 3rd | 28 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 66 | 23 | 59 | Round of 16 | – | |
| 2006–07 | Divizia Națională | 6th | 36 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 38 | 50 | 42 | Round of 16 | – | |
| 2007–08 | Divizia Națională | 8th | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 46 | 27 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 2008–09 | Divizia Națională | 6th | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 30 | 32 | 40 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 2009–10 | Divizia Națională | 3rd | 33 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 45 | 23 | 60 | Semi-finals | – | |
| 2010–11 | Divizia Națională | 6th | 39 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 59 | 31 | 74 | Runners-up | – | |
| 2011–12 | Divizia Națională | 5th | 33 | 10 | 15 | 8 | 26 | 27 | 45 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 2012–13 | Divizia Națională | 10th | 33 | 10 | 5 | 18 | 31 | 50 | 35 | Round of 16 | – | |
| 2013–14 | Divizia Națională | 11th | 33 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 26 | 77 | 18 | Round of 16 | – | |
| 2014–15 | Divizia Națională | 9th | 24 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 66 | 12 | Round of 16 | – | |
| 2015–16 | Divizia Națională | 4th | 27 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 36 | 29 | 42 | Winners | – | |
| 2016–17 | Divizia Națională | 4th | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 56 | 21 | 65 | Runners-up | Runners-up | |
| 2017 | Divizia Națională | 5th | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 28 | 20 | 24 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 2018 | Divizia Națională | ↓ 8th | 28 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 26 | 46 | 22 | Quarter-finals | – | |
| 2019 | Divizia A | 10th | 28 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 65 | 60 | 31 | First round | – | |
| 2020–21 | Divizia A | ↑ 1st | 26 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 85 | 17 | 69 | Second round | – | |