Stadionul Hârtop

Village football, in the plainest sense. Стадионул Хыртоп sits in Сырэц, the centre of a commune of the same name in the Стрэшенский district of Moldova, and it is the ground ФК Сырэц calls home.

The scale tells you what kind of football happens here. A thousand places, natural grass. That is a capacity built for a village turnout rather than a travelling support. It has carried the same name throughout, with no documented history of renaming behind it.

What keeps the venue on the map is the club. Сырэц have gone on fielding a side into 2025, and cup football has come to the village with them — the Кубок Молдовы has been played out on this pitch. On those days a thousand places is the whole of the occasion.

Finding the ground is a matter of finding the village. The databases hold coordinates for Сырэц itself, not for the stadium within it; there is no street and number attached to the arena in the open records.