# 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.

## Current squad

As of 28 August 2022
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | MF | UKR | Bohdan Prybluda |
| 12 | GK | UKR | Serhiy Lukash |
| 19 | MF | UKR | Mykhaylo Popov |
| 21 | MF | UKR | Serhiy Platunov |
| 33 | MF | UKR | Vadym Zlatov |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 69 | MF | UKR | Oleksandr Mykhaylichenko |
| 71 | GK | UKR | Mykhaylo Bilousov |
| 77 | MF | UKR | Ruslan Ivanchenko |
| 80 | DF | UKR | Serhiy Novikov |
| 89 | DF | UKR | Oleksandr Ilnytskyi |

## Honors
### Amateur Championship of Ukraine

* Winners (2): 2015, 2016

### Ukrainian Amateur Cup

* Runners-up (1): 2015

### Odesa Oblast Championship

* Winners (1): 2013

### Trusevych Cup (Odesa Oblast Cup)

* Winners (2): 2014, 2015

### Sarata Raion Championship

* Winners (6): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014

### Sarata Raion Cup

* Winners (4): 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
* Governor's Cup of Odesa Oblast: 2011
* Cup Winners' Cup Odesa Oblast: 2015
* Super Cup Odesa Oblast: 2015

## League and cup history

    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 UAC Runners-up Champions 2016 4th 1 6 5 0 1 19 6 15 Champion 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

## Managers

* 2013 Andriy Parkhomenko
* 2014-2015 Dmytro Holubev
* 2015-2020 Andriy Parkhomenko
* 2020- Denys Kolchin