Starts BrocÃÂni is a Latvian football club. Currently it plays in the Latvian Third LeagueWestern Zone under the name of Saldus SS/BrocÃÂnu BJSS. It was one of the leading Latvian clubs in the 1960s and 1970s.
Since the establishment of the town in 1938, amateur factory worker teams from BrocÃÂni started competing in regional tournaments without much success.
The first permanent football club in BrocÃÂni was founded in 1961 during the Soviet occupation of Latvia as Cà  K BrocÃÂni. The abbreviation Cà  K stood for Cementa un à ¡Ã«fera kombinÃÂts in Latvian ('Cement and Slate Combine), as its sponsor was the large factory (combine) located in BrocÃÂni since 1938. In its first year the club won the Latvian Cup and finished 4th in the league. The following years were less successful for the club. In 1965âÂÂ1967 it got three tenth-place finishes in a row.
In 1968, CÃ Â K was renamed to Starts, and instantly made history under its new name, winning both the Latvian championship and the Latvian Cup, beating FK Venta Ventspils in the final and becoming the first team from outside Riga or LiepÃÂja to win the league title.
In 1980 Starts finished last in the Latvian league and was relegated. In 1982, they were back but faced another relegation as they earned 11 points over 24 matches. The 1980s were a bad decade for the club from BrocÃÂni which played in lower Latvian leagues. Only in 1991 Starts again played in the top Latvian league and after finishing 9th among 20 clubs it earned a place in the first season of the newly independent Virslëga.
The first Virslëga season in 1992 was not a big success for BrocÃÂni - only 11th place among 12th teams and relegation to 1. lëga. In 1994 Starts finished second in the first league and together with KvadrÃÂts Rëga returned to Virslëga. The return proved quite successful as Starts finished in 4th place, in 1996 they were 6th (as FC Starts BrocÃÂni) but the club couldn't fulfill the financial requirements for the 1997 Virslëga season, so it was relegated to 1. liga.
In 1997 when BrocÃÂni had lost its place in Virslëga it relocated to the nearby city of Saldus and changed the club name to FK Saldus. From 1997 to 2000 Saldus played in the first league but before the 2001 it withdrew from the league and moved to the 2nd league, where the club played until the 2000s.
In 2004, the club (also known at the time as Saldus FK/BrocÃÂni) changed its name again by adding BrocÃÂni to its name, thus proving the connection with the formerly popular name of Starts BrocÃÂni. In 2005, the club earned a promotion to 1. lëga but declined it because of its financial limitations.
By the late 2000s, the team was in effect succeeded by BrocÃÂni NBJSS (the BrocÃÂni Municipality Children and Youth Sports School, later renamed BrocÃÂnu BJSS), a municipal football academy, fielding amateur teams in the Second and Third Latvian Leagues. Later it teamed up with the Saldus Sports School (Saldus SS).
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