After losing 0-3 to Dacia Buiucani and 0-10 to Academia Rebeja-UTM, the U17 team of Ungheni District Sports School drew at home against FC Zimbru U17, the league's second-placed side. The crowd made the difference, the Sports School wrote.
Young people from Romania, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Portugal gathered in Ungheni for a three-day exchange organized by the Municipal Youth Center. Among the guests — Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu and the mayors of Cluj-Napoca, Reghin, and Tulcea.
From 10 to 16 August, the Ungheni city hall and the Municipal Youth Centre are holding "Youth Week" (ZiT 2026) around International Youth Day on 12 August. Ungheni has good reason to call itself a "city of youth" — it held the national title of Youth Capital twice, in 2011 and 2023. But the celebration takes place in a district the young leave first: the number of people aged 15–34 has halved over the past decade, faster than the national average. We explain what the event is, where the "city of youth" identity comes from, and why, here, a youth week is more than a summer party.
From July 20 to 24, the city of Ungheni brings together 25 young people aged 15–19 from Ungheni, Tulcea and Thermi for the "Green Deal" Camp: five days on climate change, renewable energy and green infrastructure. The camp is part of the European UCare project, with a budget of more than 1.4 million euros.
Children from the commune of Zagarancea, Ungheni district, have won the second edition of the international youth tournament «Cupa Prieteniei» (the Friendship Cup), held between 29 June and 6 July in Montmorillon, France. FC Zagarancea beat the host team, UES Montmorillon, 3–2 in the final, repeating its win from the first edition in 2025. This is the second part of a story we told when the boys set off: a team gathered by teacher Sebastian Andriuța, which reached France through a Zagarancea–Putna–Montmorillon chain of twinnings.
The young district councillors have launched a book-donation drive: anyone with volumes in good condition — for children, teenagers or adults — can offer them through a message on the council's Facebook page, until July 25. The books go to a community library that the announcement does not name. The gesture lands on a local nerve: the district's book stock has thinned by a quarter over two decades.
Eugen Șarpațchii, a name from the town team's squad two decades ago, has given back to the football he grew up in: he donated 16 pairs of boots and 12 training bibs to the girls of Măcărești and 2,000 lei to FCM Ungheni's U11 and U12 groups. This is no donation to a „charity case” — the girls' team of the „Elada” high school in Măcărești reached the national final of the „Speranța” tournament this spring. A former player helping those who come after him, and a village girls' side that already plays in the country's age-group elite.
The Ungheni District Sports School announces that its U16 youth team has qualified for the National League (Liga Națională) — the top tier of youth football in the Republic of Moldova. The federation confirms that the team played in the promotion round at this age group. From the new season, youngsters from a district school with a minimal budget will go up against the academies of the capital and Tiraspol — Sheriff, Zimbru, Dacia Buiucani, Rebeja.
Athletes from Ungheni's Town Station of Young Tourists (SOTT) won all four events of the National Sport Tourism Championship for cadets and juniors, held on 24–28 June near the village of Trebujeni, Orhei district: hiking, mountain, water and cycling tourism. They gathered team gold and a string of individual medals, under the guidance of their coaches.
