The women's under-14 team of FCM Ungheni secured a convincing 7-0 victory in a friendly match played at Zimbru Stadium in Chișinău. The result confirms the growth of women's football at Ungheni — a club that has been investing in girls' and youth teams for several years.
57 crews from 10 clubs competed on 22–23 August in Ungheni district at Stage III of the National Off-Road Championship. Saturday — GPS track, Sunday — the Trial event, open to the public.
The Ungheni District Council announced on 20 August that the town will host the third stage of the National Off-Road Championship, organised by the 'Bizon Off Road Ungheni' Public Association. The ministry's sports calendar had scheduled the stage for 29–30 August; the District Council indicates 22–23 August.
FCM Ungheni claimed their first win of the season on Saturday, at the town stadium, beating CF Univer 6-2 in the third round of Liga 1. The town's side led 5-1 by the break — Dmitri Maneacov scored twice, with Florin Cojocaru, Stanislav Sarain and Andrei Stratan completing the first half — before Bogdan Placinta set the final score in stoppage time. The three points lift them from 5th to 3rd in the group, two points off the top two. Next up is an away game at Zimbru-2 on Friday, 21 August.
Gabriel Mironiuc, an 11-year-old pupil at the “Alexandr Pușkin” Lyceum in Ungheni, was the best-placed player from the Republic of Moldova in his section at the “Open Bohumín” international chess festival, held in July in the Czech Republic. The section — a classical FIDE-rated tournament — had 26 participants. Ungheni City Hall announced a bronze medal for him. He trains at the Ungheni Sports School — a town with a chess tradition that hosted, in 2021, a simultaneous exhibition with former world champion Anatoly Karpov.
The athletes of the Ungheni Sports School won 17 medals — 8 gold, 3 silver and 6 bronze — at the international “Nicolae and Andrian Pascaru” freestyle wrestling tournament, hosted on Sunday, 9 August, by the village of Semeni in Zagarancea commune. The sixth edition of the children's and juniors' competition brought together athletes from five countries — the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia and the United States — and had a commemorative character. The tournament is organized by the Ungheni Sports School and the Zagarancea commune town hall, with the support of the Ungheni District Council.
In the second round of Liga 1, FCM Ungheni led from the last minute of the first half until the very last minute of the match: Florin Cojocaru converted a penalty in the 45+1 minute, and the equaliser came from the penalty spot too, in the 90+1 minute, through Devonte Marlon J Richards. 1:1 at the end of a 'home' match moved to a neutral ground in Chișinău. It is the season's first point for the town's team, which remains 5th in the group. The next match is at home, on Saturday, 15 August, against CF Univer.
On August 15, from 14.30, the Ungheni Deal riding school hosts the seventh edition of the “Iacob Ciachir” Cup — the town’s only equestrian competition. The name is no accident: Iacob Ciachir was the director of the “Prut” state farm, the man under whom Ungheni had, from 1967, a stud of over 120 horses, some of them English thoroughbreds — a stud that, according to local history, had made the town famous across the entire Soviet space. The equestrian tradition, extinguished after the Soviet period, was revived in 2018 by the young people of JCI Ungheni, together with the Republican Riding School.
The town's team opened its season on Saturday, at the municipal stadium, in front of 300 spectators — the biggest attendance of the round in Group A. Andrei Stratan opened the scoring in the 12th minute, but Vulturii Cutezători turned the match around with two goals in the 45+1 and 45+4 minutes, then sealed it in the 60th. After the first round, FCM Ungheni has zero points. Next match: Saturday, 8 August, away.
