FC Sheriff Tiraspol

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FC Sheriff

Full name

Football Club
Sheriff

Founded

1997

Ground

Sheriff Stadium
Tiraspol, Transnistria (Moldova)
(Capacity 14,300)

Chairman

Victor Gusan

Manager

Leonid Koutchouk

League

Divizia Naţională

2006-07

1st





Home colours





Away colours

FC Sheriff Tiraspol (in Cyrillic: ФК Шериф Тирасполь) is a Moldovan football club, playing in the city of Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria. The team is sometimes referred to as simply FC Sheriff and should not be confused with FC Tiraspol which is a different (and competing) team.

1 History
2 Fans and rivals
3 Achievements
4 Playing squad
5 Coaching staff
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1997 by the Sheriff company, which in 2002 constructed the luxurious Sheriff Stadium in Tiraspol to serve as the team's home ground.

It has dominated Moldavan football since 2001, winning all the championship titles in the Divizia Naţională since then.

The team also won the Moldavian Cup five times 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006 and 2008.

The team won the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup in 2003, becoming the first team from Moldova to win an international title.

FC Sheriff was the first club in Moldova to sign contract players from Brazil and Africa.^[1] From the 2001/2002 season onwards, the club has tried to reach the group stage in the UEFA Champions League every year, but failed in the second qualifying round every time.

[edit] Fans and rivals

The team has a big fan-base in the whole region of Transnistria, and the team has friendly relations with all the teams from that region. The team has a certain rivality with FC Tiraspol, but that never got into serious levels between the fans and the rivality is a natural rivality between two big clubs from the same city.

With the Moldovan non-Transnistrian teams, Sheriff has rival relations, and in those matches many fans of the team hold banners calling for independence of Transnistria from Moldova.

[edit] Achievements

Divizia Naţională: 8

2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

Moldavian Cup: 5

1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008

CIS Cup: 1

2003

[edit] Playing squad

As of June, 2008:

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Stanislav Namasco
3	DF	Kennedy Chimezie Chinwo
4	DF	Ion Testimitanu
5	DF	Vazha Tarkhnishvili
6	MF	George Daniel Negruţ
7	MF	Andrei Corneencov
8	MF	Evgheni Gorodetchi
9	FW	Aliaksei Kuchuk
10	FW	Serghei Alexeev
11	FW	Igor Picusceac
14	MF	Wilfred Benjamen Balima
15	DF	Eninful Kwami Akoete

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Florent Rouamba
18	DF	Constantin Dorian Arbănaş
19	FW	Saša Kajkut
20	FW	Alberto Thiago
21	FW	Ionut Stelian Radu
22	MF	Luis Antonio Rodríguez
23	MF	Nelson de Oliveira Fred
24	DF	Abdoul-Gafar Mamah
25	GK	Alexandru Melenciuc
28	DF	José Nadson
29	MF	Alexandr Erokhin