FC Olimpia Balti
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FC Olimpia Bălţi is a Moldova
n football
club based in Bălţi
, Moldova
. They play in the Divizia Naţională, the top division in Moldovan football. Their home stadium is the Olimpia Bălţi Stadium
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The club 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.
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
n football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club based in Bălţi
Balti
Balti can refer to:* Balti language, a language spoken in Baltistan in Pakistan and Ladakh in Kashmir* Balti people, Muslims of Ladakhi/Tibetan origin from Baltistan in Pakistan and Ladakh in Kashmir...
, Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
. They play in the Divizia Naţională, the top division in Moldovan football. Their home stadium is the Olimpia Bălţi Stadium
Olimpia Balti Stadium
Olimpia Bălţi Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Bălţi, Moldova. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Olimpia Bălţi. The stadium holds 5,953 people.-External links:*...
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The club 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.
European record
UEFA Europa League| Season | Round | Opponents | Home leg | Away leg | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010–11 | 1 |  FK Khazar Lankaran |
0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| 2 |  FC Dinamo Bucureşti |
0–2 | 1–5 | 1–7 |
Current squad
Coaching staff
- Main trainer: Nicolai Bunea
- Goalkeeper coach: Anatol Migul
- Assistant trainer: Victor Barîşev
- Assistant trainer: Leonid Tcaci
- Assistant trainer: Valerii Chilienco
- Doctor: Nicolae Arsenii
- Masseur: Nicolae Moga
- Masseur: Ivan Cadelncic
- Press secretary: Maxim Vilcov