FC Balkany Zorya () is a professional Ukrainian

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team that is based in the village of Zorya,

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in the region of

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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

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. 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

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

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, the club defeated Skala Stryi and in the next round lost 1–0 on a late goal to

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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

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

Managers

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

References

External links

Official Team website
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