text: Sport The two main football clubs are Sheriff Tiraspol and FC Tiraspol. Sheriff is the most successful Moldovan football club of recent history, winning 14 league titles since the 2000–2001 season, and 6 Moldovan Cups. The team gained world notoriety for their last-minute 2–1 victory during the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League edition against later tournament winners Real Madrid on 28 September 2021. A third club, CS Tiligul-Tiras Tiraspol, withdrew from competition prior to the 2009–2010 season. Tiraspol is home to the Sheriff Stadium, the largest capacity stadium in the region, with a capacity of 14,300 seats.
  International relations
  Twin towns – sister cities
  Bălți, Moldova
  Comrat, Moldova
  Trondheim, Norway (2000)
  Volgograd, Russia
  Kaluga, Russia
  Kursk, Russia
  Obninsk, Russia
  Severodvinsk, Russia
  Novosibirsk , Russia
  Mykolaiv, Ukraine
  Kherson, Ukraine
  Cherkasy, Ukraine
  Ternopil, Ukraine
  Ashdod, Israel
  Leninsky District, Minsk, Belarus
  Sukhumi, Abkhazia
  Tskhinvali, South Ossetia
  Santarem, Portugal
  Notable people
  Nikolay Zelinsky (1861 in Tiraspol – 1953 in Moscow) Russian and Soviet chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences, invented the first filtering activated charcoal gas mask
  Georgi Stamatov (1869 in Tiraspol – 1942 in Sofia) a Bulgarian writer.
  Mikhail Larionov (1881 in Tiraspol – 1964) an avant-garde Russian painter.
  Abraham Rabinovitch (1889 in Tiraspol – 1964 in New South Wales) an Australian-Russian property developer and pioneer of the Sydney Modern Orthodox Jewish community; emigrated to Australia in 1915