FC Sheriff Tiraspol
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| Full name | Fotbal Club Sheriff |
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| Founded | 4 April 1997 |
| Ground | Sheriff Stadium, Tiraspol, Moldova |
| Capacity | 12,746 |
| Owner | Sheriff |
| President |
 Victor Gușan |
| Head Coach |
 Roberto Bordin
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| League | Divizia Naţională |
| 2015–16 | 1st |
FC Sheriff Tiraspol (Russian: ФК Шериф Тирасполь), known simply as Sheriff, is an association football club located in Tiraspol, Moldova. The club has dominated Moldovan football since 2001, winning fourteen championship titles in the Moldovan National Division out of sixteen in this time frame.
The club was founded in 1997 by former policeman Victor Gușan, and employee of the Sheriff company in Moldova. The club entered the second tier of Moldovan football, the Divizia A later that year and won its championship by 14 points to gain promotion to Divizia Națională. The club won its first major honour with the 1999 Moldovan Cup. In the final at the Republican Stadium, Sheriff scored an injury-time equaliser before winning the match against Constructorul Chisinau 2–1 after extra time. Sheriff's first National Division title came in the 2000–01 season, which also included their second Moldovan Cup triumph as they beat Nistru Otaci on penalties after a goalless match. The league triumph was the first of a run of ten consecutively up to 2010, also including league-cup doubles in 2002, 2006 and 2008–10. Sheriff won each Moldovan Super Cup from 2004 to 2010, but did not have to play a match on four occasions due to winning it on default through a double. Sheriff were denied an eleventh successive title by Dacia Chişinău in 2010–11, but reclaimed the title the following season. In 2014–15, they lost the title again, to FC Milsami Orhei in spite of having a superior goal difference, due to their head-to-head record.
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