27 May 1999 a day that went down in history of FC Sheriff as a golden date: the final match for Moldova Cup between Constructorul and Sheriff. It was an incredibly dramatic and nerve-straining game between two worthy rivals. The regulation game ended in a 1-1 draw, and in overtime, in the 109th minute, the 'golden' goal was scored. It was the first time Sheriff won Moldova Cup. In the next season, Sheriff became the runners-up of the Moldovan Championship with silver medals.         

 'Golden double' – 2000/2001

Most experts were of the opinion that Sheriff would become the main opponent to the multiple Champion of Moldova – Zimbru from Chisinau.  So it did.

   

The second round of the 11th Championship of Moldova started in spring 2002. With a high-level performance during the entire second round, Sheriff  in advance, 6 legs before the end of the Championship, became the twice Champion of Moldova.   

        
Season 2003/2004

One more year in Moldova passed under the star of Sheriff. The first trophy was won in autumn, 2003. That was the first Super Cup match in the history of Moldavian football between the best teams – Sheriff and Zimbru. The match was played at the Main Arena of the Sports Complex Sheriff and brought a 2-0 victory to our team. The autumnal part in the championship was  not entirely successful; however, Sheriff finished the first half at the standings's top. In winter, the change of the coach was for the Club's good. The team managed to reach the semifinal at the Commonwealth Cup competitions in Moscow, and regular, now the fourth Champion title was won three legs ahead of the tournament end. Sheriff could win the third trophy as well but failed to beat its old opponent – Zimbru from Chisinau – in the Moldova Cup final. On the whole, the tradition remained – Sheriff won two trophies per season.
  

Season 2004/2005

Season 2004/2005 again passed under the dominance of Sheriff in Moldova Championship. The football year started with yet another, already a second victory of the team in the Moldova Super Cup. The only goal scored by Alberto Blanco in the second half of the match against Zimbru brough another trophy to the Club – 10th in a row. Leonid Kuchuk’s team could have finished the first part of the Championship with perfect results in the National Division – 14 wins in 14 matches.

    

  

  

However, in the away match against Dacia, the home team managed to win back during the extra time. The second part of the championship did not come so easy to our team. Nevertheless, Sheriff could breakaway from Nistru for 17 points. It was the first time our team won the championship with such confidence. The only tournament  Sheriff did not won was the Commonwealth Cup in winter and the Moldova Cup. Razvan Cocis with his 12 goals managed to take the third place among top scorers and Nikolay Zhosan became the best player in making assists.              

'Golden double' - 2005/2006

2005/2006 Season became the real gallop through the Moldavian fields for the Sheriff players. Our team never played all matches of Championship in National Division so confidently and smoothly yet. Right after the first leg, our team left the opponents behind and this gap was increasing with each leg. There were ten victorious matches in a row. They only needed several matches to set the League record.

But the most important was the other: the lossless series lasted for 18 games. The only disappointment came from the neighbours. Sheriff lost against Tiligul-Tiras at the end of March, but the main game of the season was yet to come. The semifinal duel at the Moldovan Cup against Zimbru Chisinau proved again who got the upper hand.

After a 2-1 home victory over their arch-rivals in the second-leg match, Leonid Kuchuk's side proved itself as the team of character. The pitch turned into a mess, with unjust sending Alexander Epureanu off the field in the end of the first half and hostile behaviour of supporters from Chisinau that left a mark on the game. But even those circumstances did not prevent Sheriff from reaching the final. The goal scored by Razvan Cocis three minutes before the end of extra time paved the way to the main Cup match where the eternal finalist of these competitions Nistru from Ataki was beaten 2-0. In that way, Sheriff virtually won the Super Cup too. According to the Championship Regulations, in case the same team won both the Championship and the Cup, the Super Cup of Moldova was not held.
          

        

Again that season Alexey Kuchuk brought glory both to the Club and himself by scoring 13 goals as the best striker, and the top scorer of the Moldovan Cup also became the player of our team – Samuel Yeboah who scored 10 goals. It was remarkable that in the list of the Cup best scorers the first 4 places were occupied by the Sheriff players only. On the second line - Razvan Cocis with his 7 goals (the third place in the Championship top scorers' list – 10 goals), on the third one – Serghei Alexeev with 5 goals, and Alexey Kuchuk and Oleg Gumenyuk with 4 goals each. Our team had the biggest score record – 57 goals and conceded the least – 11 goals. No matches were lost at home, only Zimbru Chisinau was managed to get points in an unimportant match which ended in a 0-0 draw. Out of 28 matches of the Championship, Sheriff did not concede in 19 matches (9 of which in a row) and had more victories than others with huge score record – 7points. In addition, our Club was one of the most correct clubs. No wonder that only Sheriff became the most visited and popular team of the season.

        
In the same season, Sheriff became the Champion of Moldova for the third time, having won the title several legs before the end of the Championship in the match against Zimbru (3-0) where 13,000 spectators were present that was unusual for Moldova championships.   

  

 Season 2006/2007

 

Leonid Koutchouks’ team was close to the third qualifying round of the Champions League, scoring the same amount of points within two matches as Spartak did. But the Red-Whites scored a goal as guests and moved forward.

                         

This season ended with Sheriff as a champion, furthermore, Tiraspol team achieved a record of historical significance to the club, winning without a single match lost in the division. In 36 matches, the Yellow-Blacks scored 70 goals, missing only 6. At the end of the match, the difference between the leader  - Sheriff - and the team ranked second - Zimbru - was 21 point. The results of the Championship showed that the top scorer was Alexei Koutchouk with his 17 goals.

             

                                                                 

Unfortunately, our rival Zimbru won a return match, and summarizing both matches, won during the semifinal of the Cup of Moldova, and became the winner. The match was between the winner of the Super Cup Champion and the holder of the Moldovan Cup, it took place on the main arena of SC Sheriff. Leonid Koutchouk's team won in a very tense game, with Alberto Tiago scoring on the 84^th minute. This was the greatest event for the 10 year anniversary of the Club.

 

'Golden Double' – 2007/2008

                        

Once again, Sheriff couldn’t become victorious over the second qualifying round of Champions League. Having no trouble winning Rangers in the first round, with a score of 5-0, the Yellow-Blacks  lost to Turkish super club Beshiktash. In the Friendship Cup, Sheriff entered the quarterfinal in Saint-Petersburg, losing in penalties to  Hazar-Lenkorani, Azerbaijan.

                           

For the fourth time, Sheriff made a 'golden double', winning all the trophies in the Championship of Moldova. The champion title was won anticipatory, before several legs till the end of the Championship, the difference with the team ranked second was 19 points. The results showed that the best forward of the Yellow-Blacks was Igor Pikushak, who scored 14 goals.

                   

 

                                                      

In the finals of the Moldovan Cup, Sheriff played with Nistru, Atacks. And once again, the match was one by a single goal, scored by our defender, Ivan Testemecianu.

 

'Golden Double' – 2008/2009

                         

The results of 2008 showed the best goalkeeper of FMF Moldova was Sheriff's Stanislav Namashko. In January  2009, FC Sheriff became the champion of CIS for the second time, winning the final match in the Frienly Champions Cup against the champion of Kazakhstan Aktobe. This achievement became a historical event of the Championship, because none of the teams (except Russian and Ukrainian) managed to win this trophy two times. The achievement of the players, the coach staff, and the club's administration received the award 'For hard work'.

                                                  

 

                          

In April  2009, Sheriff won the Championship of Moldova before the last four legs of the Championship ended, scoring the same amount of awards as Zimbru. For the last nine years Tiraspol team was the best in the Championship of Moldova.

                             

In May  2009, Sheriff performed its sixth 'golden double', winning in one season both trophies in the League of Moldova – the Championship and the Cup. In the final match, Dacia was defeated by the goals of Benjamin Balima and Florent Rouamba.

 

Season 2009/2010

                       

With the high rating of Sheriff among European teams, the team earned to start not from the first, but from the second qualifying tour of the most prestigious European Club Championship. The start in the Cup was very good, winning both matches with the champion of Finland – Inter, Turkey, with a score of 1-0 for both matches. The wining streak of Sheriff wasn’t stopped by Slavia, Prague. The players showed great professional characteristics and attitude, will to fight for the victory, and managed to earn the way to the play-off round of the Champions League.

                          

 

                                                  

In August 2009, SC Sheriff was visited by a super club from Athens – Greek Olimpiakos, in which membership play world famous footballers, the champions of Europe, and the former players of European grants – Real, Juventus, Deportivo. The translation of this match was watched more that in 80 countries of the world in Europe, USA, China, Brazil and Argentina. Greeks stopped Sheriff on their way in the group stage of the Champions League.

                        

In September, Sheriff for the first time in Transnistrian football history made its way to Europa League, where we played with the best clubs from Turkey, Holland, Romania. The match Sheriff – Fenerbahche gathered full tribunes of SC Sheriff. For the first time the field of Transnistria was stepped on by the feet of worlds champions, in particular – one of the mast famous Brazilians in the world – Roberto Carlos. The team was brought by the former couch of the Germanys National Team Christof Daum.                           

                                

 

                                                     

In October 2009, an enormous event for Transnistrian football took place– when in the match of Europa League the team “Twente” lost with a score of 2:0, the team is the leader of Holland’s championship. Hollanders, under the guidance of their chief coach Steve McLaren couldn’t do anything to Tiraspols team. “Sheriff” had its chance to win the group stage, but the loss in Istanbul to “Fenerbahche” threw the team abort the championship.

                         

The results of 2009 showed that “Sheriff” is the best team of the year – in the version of FMF, in the version of sporting journalists of Moldova and in the version of the Town Deputy Council of Transnistria. FMF called Stanislav Namashko the best goalkeeper of Moldova, Vazha Tarkhnishvili – the best defenseman, and Leonid Koutchouk – the best coach.

Season 2010/2011

 

As in the previous year, this year "Sheriff" began its season with the participation in Champions League, from the second round. Our opponent was "Dinamo" Tirana, Albania. We won our first home match with a score of 3:1, and lost the away match with a minimal loss score, that's why our team continued forward in the tournament.

 

In the third round "Sheriff" again played versus "Dinamo" - this time, from Zagreb. Our opponent was the favourite of the pair, but "wasps" proved that they can play against a strong opponent. Both matches ended with a score of 1:1. Furthermore, we were in the lead for a long time, thanks to Vladimir Volkovs goal. The decisive part of the match was the penalty series, where our Bulgarian goalkeeper, Vladislav Stoyanov saved our goal and gave us the ticket to the play-offs.  Unfortunately, we didn't enter the group stage of Champions League - "Bazel" was too strong for us and won both matches. But nether the less, our performance brought Andrey Sasnitski's team the ability to perform on the group stage of Europa League.

  

  

Our opponents in the group stage were famous teams, like Kiivs "Dinamo", one of Hollands strongest clubs "AZ", and "Bate", from Belarus. Nether the less, even in such a strong group, we managed to earn 5 points. A real sansation was our two match fight versus "Dinamo". On the 30 of September our complex was full of supporters. But the goals of Aleksandr Erokhin and Jymmy Franca breached the defense of the opponent and earned our victory. Also our goalkeeper, Vladislav Stoyanov deserves a symbolic gift - his goal was secure and safe during both matches.

  

In the Championship of Moldova our club was not so lucky. We lost a lot of emotional and physical powers. Our teams main target was the National Division, because in Winter we were ranked only third. But then after the break, our team once again was on its place - on the first. But near the end of the season we made several mistakes, and were left with silver medals. Also we didn't manage to win the Cup - "Iskra-Stal" stole our last trophy in the semi-final, and evetually won the Cup.

‘Sheriff’ marked its quindecennial with returning of golden medals in the Championship of Moldova in 2012. Thus, being under the guidance of Belorussian specialist Vitaly Rashkevich the yellow-blacks became the best team in the championship of Moldova in the 11^th time. But the National Cupwas not taken by ‘Sheriff’. Our football players gave way to ‘CSKA-Rapid’ (Ghidighici) in a series of penalty shootout by the score 2:4. According to the results of the season BenjamenBalima was called the best striker who scored 18 goals. The second in this list was Alexander Pesic with 14 goals. Nevertheless, ‘Sheriff’ will start the next season 2012/2013 with the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League.


Season 2012/2013



‘Sheriff’ took its 12^th Champion’s title being ahead of ‘Dacia’ by 14 points. The team changed its coach three times. The Championship started with the guidance of the Serbian Milan Milanovich but after the defeat in Zagreb in terms of the 3^rd qualifying round of the Champions League Milanovich was dismissed. MihaiStoichita became the head of the team who took the lead of the club in 2002. In the spring 2013 Stoichitagave up the position as a head coach and was substituted by Vitaly Rashkevich. Under his guidance the yellow-blacks took golden medals and won Moldavian Super Cup and outplayed FC ‘Tiraspol’ by the score 2:0. AlexandrPascenco was called the best striker with his 9 goals. Thus, FC ‘Sheriff’ started its performance in the Champions League qualification in the 12^th time. 

Season 2013/2014



In the pre-season ‘Sheriff’ held a series of friendly matches one of which was played with ‘Tom’ from Russia. After showing poor and unsatisfactory game Vitaly Rashkevich was dismissed from the position of the head coach.
VeaceslavRusnacperformed his duties now as a head coach who was an assistant previously. Another coach assistant position was taken by the Spanish Juan Ferrando. So, the coach duet Rusnac – Ferrando took FC ‘Sheriff’ to its European journey. Besides the matches in terms of the National Championship, ‘Sheriff’ started its performance in the Champions League. The first rival of our club was FK ‘Sutjeska’ from Montenegro. During the home match the score was 1:1 but in Montenegro ‘Sheriff’ won by the score 0:5. In the 3^rd qualifying round ‘Sheriff’ played with ‘Dinamo’ (Zagreb). In both matches the Croatians won by the score 1:0 and 0:3 correspondingly. After the defeat ‘the yellow-blacks’ went to play-off round of the UEFA Europa League where our team fought with the Serbian ‘Vojvodina’ for the right to get into the group stage. The match in Serbia was played by the score 1:1 and the match in Tiraspol resulted in a win of ‘Sheriff’ by the score 2:1. This victory guaranteed to ‘Sheriff’ the right to take part in the group stage of the Europa League with the following rivals: ‘Anji’ (Russia), ‘Tromsø’ (Norway) and ‘Tottenham’ (England).



Europa League group match was opened by a match in Tiraspol between FC “Sheriff” and FC “Anji”. The game took place in heavy rain and ended in a 0:0 draw. After the first round our team shared the first line with FC “Anji”. FC “Tottenham” took the first place who won “Tromsø” in London by the score 3:0. FC “Sheriff” went to Norway behind the North Pole to have the second match of the group stage. Despite the advantage of the “yellow-blacks”, “Tromsø” were first to score. The double booking of the Spanish defender Melli worsened the situation, however thanks to the goal scored by Ricardinho FC “Sheriff” could balance the score. After two rounds the champion of Moldova had two points which allowed FC “Sheriff” to take the second place in the group. Then there were two matches against the famous “Tottenham” from London. The stands of the Main Arena of Sports Complex “Sheriff” were full at the match in Tiraspol. At the beginning of the game the Englishmen took the lead. “Sheriff” maintained resistance and could score a goal but referees cancelled the goal. The referees also did not note the moment with not awarded penalty to the goal of “Tottenham”. In the end the match ended in a score 2:0, Londoners winning. The combat at “White Hart Lane” Stadium was visited by 36 thousand people and it was a real combat. The first half ended in a 0:0 draw, but in the second half “Tottenham” scored twice. 15 minutes before the end of the match the Bulgarian Isa could score to “Tottenham”. After four rounds “Sheriff” turned out to be on the third place in the group. The decisive match for our team took place in Ramenskoe against “Anji”. Our team needed only a victory in this game. In the second half of the match Ismail Isa scored a goal but in six minutes the ex-football player of “Sheriff” Alexander Epureanubalanced the scoring. The game ended in a score 1:1 which did not allow “Sheriff” to continue playing in Europa League. The home match with “Tromsø”was of a formal character, however “Sheriff” won by the score 2:0 and finished performance in Europa League having six points, thus hitting its best personal record in collected pointsin the group stage of European Cups.
 
In a few days “Sheriff” terminated a contract with the Spanish coach Juan Ferrando who could not take the team to the round of 32 of Europa League. Veaceslav Rusnac officially became a head coach of the team.

With Rusnac as a coach FC Sheriff was confidently winning their 13^th Championship title. FC Sheriff lost only five points in the second half of the championship and won 12 games. Three rounds before the end of the championship FC Sheriff became the champions after winning FC Costuleni in an away match by the score 2:0. The golden medals were presented to the team after the match against FC Veris one round before the end of the championship.



Despite winning the championship FC Sheriff wanted to make it double gold. Leaving FC Olimpia, FC Veris and FC Milsami behind, the “yellow-blacks” met FC Zimbru from Chisinau in the final of the Cup of Moldova. Being left outnumbered already in the first half, FC Sheriff could not make it a win, losing by the score 3:1. In the first official match of the new season for the Supercup of Moldova the champion of Moldova met the owner of the Cup FC Zimbru.

Season 2014/2015

The match was a tough competition. FC Sheriff could open the scoring in the end of the first half. Radu Ginsar scored that goal to his ex-team. FC Zimbru immediately responded and balanced the scoring. In the second half no goals were scored. Penalty shootout began. In the end FC Zimbru had more luck and they won by the score 4:3.



Mid July FC Sheriff started their way in in the UEFA Champions League. In the pre-season the team was strengthened by 13 new players. In the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round FC Sheriff again got FK Sutjeska as an opponent. Like in the previous season FC Sheriff won FK Sutjeska (by the total score 5:0). Ismail Isa became FC Sheriff best striker in European cups after scoring 6 goals. In the next round FC Sheriff played against the champion of Slovakia SK Slovan. The match in Bratislava ended in victory for SK Slovan – 2:1. In the second leg match out team put much strength to winning but could not convert their moments. So FC Sheriff entered the UEFA Europa League play-off round. Besides European Cups FC Sheriff started not very well in the championship.

After defeat on the part of FC Dacia Veaceslav Rusnac had to leave his position. The creation specialist Zoran Zekic who previously worked with FC Sheriff-2 was appointed as an acting head coach. In Europa League our team played against HNK Rijeka where our ex-team captain Miral Samardzic was playing at that time. An away match was about to be end successfully, however at the end of the second half HNK Rijeka managed to score, thus winning 1:0. The second leg match was not performed well since the first minutes. Marcel Metoua got injured in the first half and had to leave the pitch, later our team conceded two goals. In the second half of the match HNK Rijeka scored their third goal. FC Sheriff ended their European season not successfully.

In the course of the season Zekic was appointed as a head coach. The championship of Moldova was incredible in all ways. Before the New Year two clubs were eliminated from the tournament – FC Costuleni and FC Veris taking the first place in the championship (!). As a result of elimination of those two teams, the rest of the clubs were negatively affected and their position in the standings as well. FC Sheriff was taken six points back since they had two victories over FC Costuleni and FC Veris. FC Dacia was affected the least and took the first place before winter break. FC Milsami took the next place and FC Sheriff was on the third place. In the spring FC Sheriff lost to FC Milsami and played a draw with FC Dacia. One match day prior the end of the championship FC Sheriff lost all, even theoretic, chances for winning the championship. FC Milsami and FC Dacia played for golden medals in the last match day. FC Milsami won by the score 2:1 and became the champion for the first time in its history. FC Sheriff took the third place, FC Dacia took the second position. It is an interesting fact that all three teams had the same number of points – 55. FC Sheriff starts the UEFA Europa League from the first qualifying round.
 
Without winning the championship FC Sheriff had to win the Cup of Moldova. In a final match against FC Dacia our team was winning 2:0 by the 50^th minute but later opponent balanced the scoring with the second goal on 95^th minute. In the second overtime FC Sheriff carried a quick attack and Ismail Isa headed in. FC Sheriff became the eightfold owner of the Cup of Moldova. In a Super Cup match FC Sheriff plays with FC Milsami.


 
Nevertheless, the contract with the Croatian specialist Zoran Zekic was terminated since the main task was not completed. Moldovan coach Lilian Popescu was appointed FC Sheriff new head coach.

Season 2015/2016

The season started with the great winning of Moldova Super Cup. Our team outplayed FC Milsami (3-1) at the FC Sheriff Main Arena and took sixth Super Cup in its history.

This lucky beginning was marred by the defeat in Europa League. Norwegian ODD BK became our opponent in the first qualifying phase. The results of match were rather unexpected. 0-3 for Norwegian team in the first half. After break FC Sheriff could not retrieve the defeat and the rematch ended with a 0-0 draw.

This elimination from the Europa League redounded on the psychological team state, which lost unnecessary point while the Championship first round. It became known about Lilian Popescu's resignation in early October. FC Sheriff head coach is Croatian specialist 54 years old  Zoran Vulic.

Season 2017

One of the most successful years in the club’s history which brought FC Sheriff two Moldova Champions titles, one Moldovan Cup and a very good performance at the international arena.
 
One season ended in May, 2017, and in the beginning of July a transitional one started. From 2018, the Moldova Championship will be played on a spring-autumn schedule. The fate of the golden medals was decided in a Golden match between Roberto Bordin’s side and Dacia, Chisinau. Everything became clear in a penalty shoot-out with excellent performance of both players who converted all chances and the goalkeeper Serghei Juric who saved all the shots.
Three days earlier, in the final of the Moldovan Cup, our team beat Zaria, Bălţi 5-0.

The transitional tournament kept everyone in suspense for some time. FC Sheriff stayed in contention on three fronts. But finally our club won their sixteenth Champions title one round before the end of the Championship by overplaying their main rivals Milsami, Orhei 2-0.

In 2017, FC Sheriff qualified for the Europa League group stage for the fourth time in its history. In the play-off round, they beat Legia, Poland. All games in group F were tough. But Roberto Bordin and his squad did their best, took the lead in the group after five rounds, where such teams as Lokomotiv, Moscow, Copenhagen, Denmark and Zlin, Czech Republic were playing. 9 points with a score difference 4-4, has become the best result of the Moldovan team during all their performances. Only in personal tiebreaker encounter with the Champions of Denmark didn’t let our guys to enter the Round of 32.

Season 2018
 
One more season which will remain in the history of FC Sheriff. The difficult and exhaustible tournament in the Championship of Moldova in the National Division ended with a victory. And it is not just a victory, but winning the 17th title 5 tours before the end of the competition. The margin in 18 points, most of all scored goals and least of all missed balls among participants of the Division.

Even despite the change of the coach in the first team, Roberto Bordin went to Azerbaijan, and instead of him the Croatian specialist Goran Sablic tool the helm, the team reached the play-off stage of the Europa League. Of course, if to compare with 2017 where our club lacked one point for continuation of fight in the spring stage of the tournament, the result is not comparable. But, considering the forced changes, the team proved itself adequately. And here, first of all, updates of a club record and a record of the Moldavian teams in Euro cups should be noted. FC Sheriff doesn’t lose on the home field during already 8 matches, and in the last 5 doesn’t miss goals.

Also in 2018 the youth team of the club, Under-19, for the second time in the history played in the youth UEFA Youth League. And only lack of experience, did not allow our trainees to pass in the second round.

Season 2019

FC Sheriff history goes on...