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5-2 at Cioropcani: FC Barsa Ungheni reaches the district Cup and claims it won the Division B first half

The Ungheni Territorial Football Association confirmed the score: in Division B of the district championship, FC Barsa Ungheni beat FC Florești 5-2, on the pitch in Cioropcani. The club says it finished the first half of the season on top and is moving on to the district Cup, where it will play the winner of FC Start Pîrlița versus FC Haiduc Bumbăta. This is the amateur football of the district's villages — a different tier from FCM Ungheni.

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Ion Calmîș
· editor
19 June 2026
The FC Barsa Ungheni football squad, in lime-green and navy kit, poses on a grass pitch under a clear sky before a match.
The FC Barsa Ungheni squad — the Division B team in the Ungheni district championship. Photo: FC Barsa Ungheni

On the pitch in Cioropcani, FC Barsa Ungheni beat FC Florești 5-2, in a Division B match of the district football championship. The result was officially confirmed by the Ungheni Territorial Football Association (TFA), the competition’s organiser, which logged it as a postponed match from the first round.

With this win, the team says it finished the first half of the season at the top of Division B and is moving on to the district Cup.

What is confirmed and what rests on the club

Two things are firm, from an official source: the score — FC Florești 2-5 FC Barsa Ungheni — and the frame, that is, the fact that the match counted in Division B of the 2026 Ungheni district championship. The Ungheni TFA publishes results round by round on its page.

The rest comes from the club. According to the announcement made by Mihai Grosu on behalf of FC Barsa Ungheni, the goals were scored by Miron Alexandru — two, both headers — by Farima Dumitru and by Massimo Ternovschi, who got two. The club also maintains that, after this result, the team finished the first half on top. An official first-half table for Division B was not, at the time of writing, among the Ungheni TFA’s posts, so first place remains, for now, the team’s own claim.

How the district Cup looks

From here, it is knockout football. The Ungheni district Cup bracket, made public by the club, features twelve teams from the district’s villages and town — from FC Sculeni, FC Mănoilești and FC Măcărești to FC Start Pîrlița, FC Haiduc Bumbăta and FC Unirea Cetireni. FC Barsa enters in the second round, away, where the winner of FC Start Pîrlița versus FC Haiduc Bumbăta awaits — exactly the teams the club named, too.

A different tier from FCM Ungheni

For a reader who follows Ungheni football, one clarification helps. The district championship, with Division A and Division B, is amateur football: teams of the villages and the town, played at weekends, on pitches like the one in Cioropcani. It is a different tier from FCM Ungheni, the club that represents the district in Liga 1, the second level of professional football in Moldova.

That is precisely why it matters locally: behind a 5-2 scoreline stand dozens of people from a single village or neighbourhood who, every Sunday, put a team on its feet. And for them, the district Cup is their own final.


The score (FC Florești 2-5 FC Barsa Ungheni, Division B, Cioropcani Stadium) and the competition frame come from the official posts of the Ungheni Territorial Football Association. The scorers, the league position and the district Cup bracket come from the club’s announcement (Mihai Grosu, FC Barsa Ungheni) and had not, at the time of writing, been confirmed by an official table published by the Ungheni TFA. The cover photo was published by the club.