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FC Utrecht

FC Utrecht: Dutch Eredivisie football club founded 1 July 1970 from the merger of DOS, Elinkwijk, and Velox; plays at Stadion Galgenwaard (23,750 seats), won the KNVB Cup in 1985, 2003, and 2004.

FC Vaduz

FC Vaduz, Liechtenstein's only professional football club (founded 1932), plays as a guest in the Swiss league system and reaches UEFA competitions via the Liechtenstein Cup, with 47 cup wins and a 2022 Conference League group stage first.

FC Viitorul Constanța

FC Viitorul Constanța, Romanian club founded 2009 by Gheorghe Hagi, youth-academy project; Liga I champion 2016-17, Cupa României and Supercupa 2019; merged with Farul Constanța on 21 June 2021, becoming FCV Farul Constanța SA.

FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin

FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin (Viktoria Berlin, die Himmelblauen), Berlin football club formed 1 July 2013 from BFC Viktoria 1889 and LFC Berlin; predecessor won German titles 1908 and 1911; light blue-white colors, Steglitz-Zehlendorf.

FC Viktoria Plzeň

FC Viktoria Plzeň (Viktorka), Czech professional football club founded 1911 in Plzeň, playing at Doosan Arena (Štruncovy sady). Six Czech league titles 2011–2022, four Champions League group stages, first European quarterfinal in 2023/24 Conference League.

FC Wil

FC Wil 1900, also FC Wil, is a Swiss football club from Wil, St. Gallen, playing in the second-tier Challenge League; 2004 Swiss Cup winner, Lidl Arena home, known for youth development.

FC Zenit Saint Petersburg

FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (ФК «Зенит»), Russian football club founded 1925, based in Saint Petersburg, owned by Gazprom. Record 11 Russian titles (2025/26), Soviet champion 1984, UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup winner 2008.

FC Zeta Milano

FC Zeta Milano, founded May 2024 by YouTuber ZW Jackson, is Italy's first social amateur football club; from Terza Categoria it won two straight promotions to Prima Categoria, with Cristian Brocchi as General Manager.

FC Zorya Luhansk (Зоря Луганськ)

FC Zorya Luhansk (Зоря Луганськ), Ukrainian club founded 1923 in Luhansk as Metalist; 1972 Soviet champions, the first non-capital club to win the USSR title; now displaced by war, playing in the Ukrainian Premier League.

FC Zürich

FC Zürich (FCZ), Swiss Super League football club founded 1 August 1896; 13 Swiss titles, 10 cups, plays at Stadion Letzigrund; Marcel Koller head coach since 2026/27.

FC-BGA

FC-BGA, or flip chip ball grid array, is a semiconductor package that connects a face-down die to an organic substrate for CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators.

FC2 (portal)

FC2 is a portal of free web services including blogging, video, and live streaming, run by a Las Vegas company founded in 1999 and popular mainly in Japan.

FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (2012)

FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., 567 U.S. 239 (2012), also called Fox II, a Supreme Court case holding the FCC's fleeting-expletive and nudity indecency standards vague as applied for lack of fair notice, decided 8-0 on Fifth Amendment due process grounds while avoiding the First Amendment.

FCGR1A

FCGR1A (CD64, Fc gamma receptor Ia) is a human gene on chromosome 1q21.2 encoding FcγRI, the sole high-affinity human IgG Fc receptor, with three extracellular domains and pseudogenes FCGR1B and FCGR1C.

FCGR2A

FCGR2A is a human gene on chromosome 1q23.3 encoding Fc gamma receptor IIa (CD32a), found on immune cells and platelets, with the widely studied H131R polymorphism.

FCGR2B

FCGR2B (CD32B) is the human gene for FcγRIIb, the only inhibitory low-affinity IgG Fc receptor, carrying an ITIM motif. Its I232T polymorphism (rs1050501) is linked to SLE, and its isoforms b1 and b2 serve B-cell inhibition and immune complex endocytosis.

FCGR3A

FCGR3A (Fc gamma receptor IIIa, CD16a, FcγRIIIa) is a human gene on 1q23.3 encoding a low-affinity activating IgG Fc receptor on NK cells and macrophages that mediates ADCC; its V158F polymorphism (rs396991) alters IgG binding and therapeutic antibody response.

FCGR3B

FCGR3B (CD16b, HNA-1) is a human gene at 1q23.3 encoding FcγRIIIb, a GPI-anchored low-affinity IgG Fc receptor on neutrophils; it varies in copy number (0–4 copies), carries HNA-1 allotypes NA1/NA2, and low copy number raises SLE risk.

FCHL representation

The FCHL representation, short for Faber–Christensen–Huang–Lilienfeld, is a fixed numerical descriptor of atomic environments used in kernel-based quantum machine learning models that predict molecular energies and forces.

FCHL19

FCHL19 is an atom-centered molecular representation for quantum machine learning, introduced in 2019 as a faster revision of FCHL18, encoding atomic environments as discretized two- and three-body distributions.

FCI Levadia Tallinn

FCI Levadia Tallinn, also Levadia Maardu and FC LevadiaKalev Tallinn, is an Estonian football club founded in 1998, eleven-time Meistriliiga champion, 2024 treble winner, and Flora's Tallinn derby rival.

FCID Holdings, Inc. (company)

FCID Holdings, Inc. is an American company incorporated in 2020 and headquartered in Fairfield, Iowa, known almost entirely through an SEC Form D reporting a $289 million equity offering.

FCLADHAAASDFSQ trial

FCLADHAAASDFSQ (NCT07376148) is a phase 4, single-group, open-label trial at Instituto de Oftalmología Fundación Conde de Valenciana, Mexico City, testing topical hyaluronic acid, ascorbic acid, and sodium DNA after fractional CO2 laser for photoaged facial skin in 30 participants, with SASSQ as the primary outcome.

FCN-338 (LOXO-338)

FCN-338 (LOXO-338, LY3847429) is an oral selective BCL-2 inhibitor developed by Fochon Pharmaceuticals (Fosun Pharma), licensed to Eli Lilly in 2020, discontinued by Lilly in 2022, and still in Phase I/II trials in China.

FCOS

FCOS (Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detection) is an anchor-free object detector treating detection as per-pixel prediction, proposed by Zhi Tian, Chunhua Shen, Hao Chen, and Tong He at ICCV 2019.

FCSB

FCSB (Fotbal Club FCSB), formerly Steaua București, is a Bucharest football club formed in 1947, playing at the National Arena; courts removed its historic Steaua honours by 2025, leaving two league titles.

FD-Composites ArrowCopter

The FD-Composites ArrowCopter, also known as Arrow Copter, is an Austrian tandem two-seat autogyro made by FD-Composites of Zeillern, with a carbon fiber monocoque airframe and a turbocharged Rotax 914 pusher engine.

FD-SAC BAS study

FD-SAC BAS (NCT07754188) is a prospective real-world cohort study at three Chinese centers comparing 30-day stroke or death after flow diverter versus stent-assisted coiling in 274 patients with unruptured wide-neck bifurcation aneurysms.

FDIR

FDIR (Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery) is the onboard or ground function in spacecraft and aircraft that detects faults, isolates their cause, and reconfigures systems so the mission continues safely.

FDT (Field Device Tool)

FDT (Field Device Tool) is a standardized software interface for industrial automation, defined by IEC 62453, that configures and diagnoses field devices from any manufacturer.