Armenian Premier League 2005

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The 2005 Armenian Premier League season was the the fifteenth since its establishment, and started on 12 April 2005. The last matches were played on 6 November 2006. FC Pyunik successfully defended their title won in 2004.

1 Participating teams
2 League table
3 Promotion/Relegation play-off
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Participating teams

Club	City	Stadium	2004 season
FC Ararat Yerevan	Yerevan	Hrazdan Stadium	4th in Premier League
FC Banants	Yerevan	Banants Stadium	3rd in Premier League
FC Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan	Yerevan	Hanrapetakan Stadium	5th in Premier League
Esteghlal Kotayk	Yerevan		7th in Premier League
FC Kilikia Yerevan	Yerevan	Hrazdan Stadium	6th in Premier League
Lernayin Artsakh	Yerevan		2nd in First League (P)
FC MIKA	Yerevan	Mika Stadium	2nd in Premier League
FC Pyunik	Yerevan	Hanrapetakan Stadium	1st in Premier League (C)
FC Shirak	Gyumri	Gyumri City Stadium	8th in Premier League

Kotayk Abovian were renamed to Esteghlal Kotayk

[edit] League table

[edit] First stage

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	FC Pyunik	16	11	5	0	32	6	+26	38
2	FC MIKA	16	10	5	1	27	11	+16	35
3	FC Banants	16	10	4	2	32	17	+15	34
4	Esteghlal Kotayk	16	7	7	2	28	15	+13	28
5	FC Kilikia Yerevan	16	6	3	7	29	25	+4	21
6	FC Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan	16	4	3	9	20	26	-6	15
7	FC Shirak	16	3	2	11	18	34	-16	11
8	FC Ararat Yerevan	16	3	1	12	9	38	-29	10
9	Lernayin Artsakh	16	3	0	13	14	37	-23	9

	Top 6 qualify for Championship stage
	Promotion/Relegation play-off.
	Withdrew after 11 matches, remaining matches awarded 0-3 against them.

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

[edit] Championship stage

The qualified teams only keep their head-to-head results to participate in the Championship stage, resulting in the following table.

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	FC Pyunik	10	6	4	0	16	4	+12	22
2	FC MIKA	10	4	5	1	15	9	+6	17
3	FC Banants	10	4	4	2	14	13	+1	16
4	Esteghlal Kotayk	10	2	6	2	12	11	+1	12
5	FC Kilikia Yerevan	10	1	3	6	10	20	-10	6
6	FC Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan	10	1	2	7	8	18	-10	5

[edit] Final classification

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	FC Pyunik	20	11	6	3	35	15	+20	39
2	FC MIKA	20	9	8	3	30	16	+24	35
3	FC Banants	20	9	6	5	31	27	+4	33
4	Esteghlal Kotayk	20	8	7	5	22	19	+3	31
5	FC Kilikia Yerevan	20	4	5	11	20	32	-12	17
6	FC Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan	20	2	2	16	12	41	-29	8

Champions

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

[edit] Relegation stage

The qualified teams kept their complete results before entering the stage. The team finishing in 7th position remained in the Premier League, the 8th ranked team played the Promotion/Relegation play-off, while the 9th team was relegated.

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
7	FC Ararat Yerevan	18	4	2	12	11	39	-28	14
8	FC Shirak	18	3	3	12	19	36	-17	12
9	Yerevan United	16	3	0	13	14	37	-23	9

	Promotion/Relegation play-off.
	Withdrew and relegated to Armenian First League

[edit] Promotion/Relegation play-off

Date	Venue	PL Team	FL Team	Result	Information
22 October	unknown	FC Shirak	FC Gandzasar Kapan	5-1	FC Shirak remains in Premier League

Later, Gandzasar Kapan and Yerevan United were promoted after all (together with FC Ararat Yerevan 2), to extend the top level to 10 teams for 2006.
FC Ararat Yerevan was disbanded at the end of the season and the promoted FC Ararat Yerevan 2, took their place and were renamed to FC Ararat Yerevan again.