CSF Balți

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

History

The club was founded in 1984 as FC Zaria Balți (Russian: ФК Заря Бельцы), and in 1992, when Moldova gained its independence, the club was renamed to FC Olimpia Balți. In July 2014 it was decided to return to the old name - FC Zaria Balți.

CSF Balți 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 Balți (1984–1991)
• FC Olimpia Balți (1991–2014)
• FC Zaria Balți (2014–2019)
• CSF Balți (2020–)

Honours

• Moldovan Cup

Winners (1): 2015–16

Runners-up (2): 2010–11, 2016–17

• Moldovan Super Cup

Runners-up (1): 2016 Divizia A:

Winners (1): 2020–21

• Moldovan ussr cup:

Winners (1): 1986-87

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