Milsami Orhei

Also written as Milsami.

The club

Milsami Orhei were founded in 2005 in the town of Orhei, Moldova, as Viitorul Step-Soci. The club was renamed Viitorul Orhei in 2008, took the name Milsami Orhei in 2010 after the sponsoring dairy company, briefly became Milsami-Ursidos Orhei in 2011, then reverted to Milsami Orhei in 2012. It is the same continuous club under all of these names; there is no separate reserve side or other Moldovan club sharing the Milsami name. No other currently active Moldovan club was found in the sources read here whose name could reasonably be confused with Milsami Orhei, and this dossier concerns only the Orhei-based top-flight club described above.

The club plays home matches at the CSR Orhei, which holds 3,000 spectators. Home colours are red with white change colours, and the club is nicknamed Vulturii roșii, "the Red Eagles." The club president is Ilan Shor. The head coach is Veaceslav Rusnac, appointed on 23 July 2026 after Alexei Savinov resigned on 17 July 2026 with the team seventh in the table.

Recent seasons

Milsami won the 2024/25 Moldovan Liga title across the division's two-phase format: fifth in the Phase I regular season with 21 points from 14 matches, then top of the six-team Phase II championship group with 21 points from ten matches, six wins, three draws and one defeat, 25 goals scored and 8 conceded. Combined across both phases the season read 12 wins, 6 draws and 6 defeats from 24 matches, 55 goals for and 26 against, and the title, their first since 2014/15.

In 2025/26 Milsami finished fourth: fourth in the Phase I table with 37 points from 21 matches, and fourth again in the Phase II championship group with 19 points from ten matches, finishing the season with a combined record of 13 wins, 7 draws and 11 defeats from 31 matches, 47 goals scored and 38 conceded. Fourth place carried qualification into the 2026/27 UEFA Europa Conference League.

In the 2026/27 Moldovan Liga, as read from the most recent standings available here (around 23 August 2026), Milsami sat sixth with 10 points from 9 matches, 2 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats, 8 goals scored and 14 conceded.

Honours and landmarks

Milsami are Moldovan league champions twice, in 2014/15 and 2024/25. The 2014/15 title, won with 55 points from 24 matches, 17 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats, made Milsami the first club from outside Chișinău or Tiraspol to win the Moldovan championship. The club also won the second-tier Divizia A in 2008/09 to reach the top flight.

Milsami have won the Moldovan Cup twice. The 2011/12 final was won on penalties against CSCA-Rapid Chișinău, 0-0 after extra time and 5-3 on spot kicks, played on 27 May 2012 at the Sheriff Stadium in Tiraspol and refereed by Ghenadie Sidenco. The 2017/18 final was won 2-0 after extra time against Zimbru Chișinău on 23 May 2018 at the Zimbru Stadium in Chișinău in front of 8,942 spectators, both goals scored by Maxim Antoniuc in the 99th and 102nd minutes. Milsami were also losing Moldovan Cup finalists in 2015/16 and 2024/25; the opponents and scorelines of those finals were not established from the sources read here.

Milsami have won the Moldovan Super Cup twice, both times on penalties against Sheriff Tiraspol after 0-0 draws: 6-5 on 8 July 2012 at the Sheriff Stadium in Tiraspol, and 5-4 on 10 March 2019 at the Sheriff Small Arena, also in Tiraspol.

Notable scorelines

Milsami's best-remembered European result is a 3-1 aggregate win over Ludogorets Razgrad of Bulgaria in the second qualifying round of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League, 2-1 at home and 1-0 away. Their heaviest continental defeats are a 2-9 aggregate loss to Slovan Bratislava in the first qualifying round of the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League, 2-4 at home and 0-5 away, and a 0-9 aggregate loss to Elfsborg of Sweden in the second qualifying round of the 2021/22 UEFA Europa Conference League, 0-5 at home and 0-4 away. Milsami's all-time record league win and defeat were not established from the sources read here.

European record

Milsami's first European campaign was in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League, losing 1-5 on aggregate to Dinamo Tbilisi of Georgia in the first qualifying round (1-3 home, 0-2 away). In 2012/13 they lost 4-5 on aggregate to Aktobe of Kazakhstan in the second qualifying round (4-2 home, 0-3 away). Their best run to that point came in 2013/14: a 1-0 aggregate win over F91 Dudelange of Luxembourg in the first qualifying round, then Shakhtyor Soligorsk of Belarus eliminated on penalties after a 2-2 aggregate draw, before a 0-6 aggregate defeat to Saint-Étienne of France in the third qualifying round.

In 2015/16 Milsami entered the Champions League, beating Ludogorets Razgrad 3-1 on aggregate in the second qualifying round before losing 0-4 on aggregate to Skënderbeu Korçë of Albania in the third qualifying round. Dropping into the Europa League play-off round, they lost 1-2 on aggregate to Saint-Étienne, 1-1 at home and 0-1 away, and were eliminated before the group stage; Milsami have never reached the group or league phase of a UEFA club competition in the campaigns read here.

Milsami's later European seasons were shorter. They lost in the first qualifying round to Fola Esch of Luxembourg in 2017/18 (2-3 aggregate), to Slovan Bratislava in 2018/19 (2-9 aggregate) and to FCSB of Romania in 2019/20 (1-4 aggregate). In the newly formed Europa Conference League they beat Sarajevo of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1-0 on aggregate in the first qualifying round of 2021/22 before losing 0-9 on aggregate to Elfsborg in the second round. In 2022/23 they beat Panevėžys of Lithuania 2-0 on aggregate before losing 3-6 on aggregate to KuPS of Finland. In 2023/24 they lost 2-3 on aggregate to Panevėžys in the first qualifying round. In 2024/25 they beat Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino of Belarus 4-2 on aggregate in the first qualifying round before losing 1-2 on aggregate to Astana of Kazakhstan in the second. In 2025/26 they entered the Champions League and lost 0-1 on aggregate to KuPS in the first qualifying round, then in the Conference League beat Budućnost Podgorica of Montenegro 2-1 on aggregate before losing 3-5 on aggregate to Virtus of San Marino in the third qualifying round.

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Right now (2026/27)

Veaceslav Rusnac is the head coach, appointed on 23 July 2026 after Alexei Savinov resigned with the team seventh in the Moldovan Liga table. In the 2026/27 UEFA Europa Conference League, Milsami entered as Moldova's fourth-placed team from 2025/26 and were eliminated in the first qualifying round by Velež Mostar of Bosnia and Herzegovina, losing 1-2 on aggregate, 0-1 away and 1-1 at home.

Domestically, as read from the most recent standings available here, Milsami sat sixth in the Moldovan Liga with 10 points from 9 matches, 2 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats, 8 goals scored and 14 conceded. Individual match dates and scorelines for the 2026/27 league season beyond that table were not established with confidence from the sources read here.

Sources

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