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FC Ararat Yerevan (Armenian: Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Արարատ Երեւան), is an Armenian football club, based in Yerevan. Currently, the club plays in the Armenian Premier League and is one of the most popular teams in Armenian football.
[edit] History
Football Club Ararat Yerevan was founded in 1935. It was called Spartak from 1935 to 1937 and from 1954 to 1962, and Dynamo from 1938 to 1953. In 1963, the club was renamed Ararat, the current name in use by the football club.
[edit] Soviet championships
By 1945-1947, Ararat swept the Armenian SSR Cup which propagated the club into the Soviet Top League by 1949. The team played in the Soviet Top League in 1949-1950, 1960-1963, and 1965-1991. In 1971, FC Ararat won Silver Prize in the Championships of the USSR. In 1973 Ararat won the championship of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Cup (in a memorable final game against Dynamo Kyiv). This feat was repeated in the Soviet Union Cup again in 1975. In 1971 and 1976 Spring (there were two Soviet championships in 1976 -- Spring and Fall) they were the league runners-up. In 1974-75, after their title in the Soviet league, Ararat played in the European Cup, reaching the quarterfinals, losing to defending and future champion Bayern Munich with a 2-1 aggregate (0-2 in Munich and 1-0 in Yerevan). Since their debut in the EuroCup in 1972, they have won 16 of their 36 matches with 4 draws.
[edit] Modern history
Since the 1991 independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union, FC Ararat has attained the Armenian Championship title twice (1993, 1995), three silver prizes (1997, 1999 and 2000) and one bronze prize (1994). Besides, Ararat has won the Armenian Cup five times (1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 and 2008) and were finalists in 2001 and 2007.FC Ararat was very close to take Armenian title in 2007. However, unexpected resignation of head coach Varuzhan Sukiasyan changed the atmosphere in the team and FC Ararat ended up in the 4th place. In March 2008 former coach Varuzhan Sukiasyan was on the rule of the team ounce again. The team started their season under former coach sensationally well by wining Armenian Cup which earned them the right to play in Uefa Cup.
[edit] Current squad: 2008 Season
[edit] Notable former players
[edit] Managers
| Name |
Nat |
From |
To |
| Vramshapuh Merangulyan |
 |
1935 |
1938 |
| Suren Atanesyan |
|
March 1939 |
October 1939 |
| Yuri Yesenin |
 |
March 1940 |
October 1944 |
| Viktor Andreev |
|
March 1945 |
October 1945 |
| Mikhail Suchkov |
|
March 1946 |
October 1946 |
| Viktor Grechishnikov |
|
March 1947 |
October 1947 |
| Hayk Andreasyan |
|
March 1948 |
October 1948 |
| Boris Spukhtin |
|
March 1949 |
July 1949 |
| Viktor Filipov |
|
July 1949 |
October 1949 |
| Gleb Ryabikov |
|
March 1950 |
October 1951 |
| Ilya Evranov |
|
March 1952 |
October 1952 |
| Hayk Andreasyan |
|
March 1953 |
October 1954 |
| Abraham Dangulov |
|
March 1955 |
October 1956 |
| Hayk Andreasyan |
|
March 1957 |
October 1957 |
| Boris Smyslov |
|
March 1958 |
October 1960 |
| Hayk Andreasyan |
|
March 1961 |
October 1961 |
| Anatoliy Akimov |
|
March 1962 |
October 1962 |
| Hayk Andreasyan |
|
March 1963 |
October 1963 |
| Georgiy Zharkov |
|
March 1964 |
October 1964 |
| Artyom Falyan |
|
March 1965 |
October 1967 |
| Eduard Grigoryan |
|
March 1968 |
October 1968 |
| Aleksandr Ponomarev |
 |
March 1969 |
October 1970 |
| Nikolay Glebov |
|
March 1971 |
October 1972 |
| Nikita Simonyan |
|
March 1973 |
October 1974 |
| Viktor Maslov |
|
March 1975 |
October 1975 |
| Eduard Markarov |
|
March 1976 |
October 1977 |
| Nikolay Gulyaev |
|
March 1978 |
July 1978 |
| Leonid Zakharov |
|
July 1978 |
October 1978 |
| Iosif Betsa |
|
March 1979 |
October 1981 |
| Arkady Andreasyan |
|
March 1982 |
October 1983 |
| Nikita Simonyan |
|
March 1984 |
June 1985 |
| Leonid Zakharov |
|
June 1985 |
June 1986 |
| Arkady Andreasyan |
|
June 1986 |
June 1989 |
| Nikolay Kazaryan |
|
June 1989 |
October 1989 |
| Armen Sarkisyan |
 |
March 1990 |
October 1994 |
| Samvel Darbinyan |
|
March 1995 |
October 1995 |
| Arkady Andreasyan |
|
January 1996 |
November 2003 |
| Sevada Arzumanyan |
|
November 2003 |
November 2004 |
| Abraham Khashmanyan |
|
November 2004 |
June 2006 |
| Varuzhan Sukiasyan |
|
June 2006 |
July 2007 |
| Dušan Mihić |
 |
July 2007 |
March 2008 |
| Varuzhan Sukiasyan |
|
March 2008 |
Present |
[edit] Ararat in Eurocups
| Season |
Competition |
Round |
|
Club |
Score |
| 1972/73 |
UEFA Cup |
1R |
 |
EPA Larnaca FC |
1-0, 1-0 |
|
|
2R |
 |
Grasshopper-Club Zürich |
3-1, 4-2 |
|
|
3R |
 |
1. FC Kaiserslautern |
2-0, 0-2 (4-5 pen.) |
| 1974/75 |
European Cup |
1R |
 |
Viking FK |
2-0, 4-2 |
|
|
2R |
 |
Cork Celtic F.C. |
2-1, 5-0 |
|
|
1/4 |
|
FC Bayern Munich |
0-2, 1-0 |
| 1975/76 |
European Cup Winners' Cup |
1R |
|
Anorthosis Famagusta FC |
9-0, 1-1 |
|
|
2R |
 |
West Ham United F.C. |
1-1, 1-3 |
| 1994/95 |
UEFA Cup |
Q |
 |
PFC CSKA Sofia |
0-3, 0-0 |
| 1995/96 |
European Cup Winners' Cup |
Q |
 |
GKS Katowice |
0-2, 2-0 (5-4 pen.) |
|
|
1R |
 |
FC Dynamo Moscow |
1-3, 0-1 |
| 1997/98 |
European Cup Winners' Cup |
Q |
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FC Dinamo Batumi |
3-0, 0-2 |
|
|
1R |
 |
F.C. Copenhagen |
0-3, 0-2 |
| 1999 |
Intertoto Cup |
1R |
 |
FCM Bacău |
1-0, 1-0 |
|
|
2R |
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K. Sint-Truidense V.V. |
0-2, 1-3 |
| 2000/01 |
UEFA Cup |
Q |
 |
MFK Košice |
2-3, 1-1 |
| 2001/02 |
UEFA Cup |
Q |
 |
Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. |
0-2, 0-3 |
| 2007 |
Intertoto Cup |
1R |
 |
FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk |
1-4, 2-0 |
[edit] Honours
( 1973 )
( 1965 )
( 1973, 1975 )
( 1993, 1995 )
( 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2008 )
[edit] Notable achievements
[edit] Notes and References
- ^ Marcos Pizzelli has dual citizenship, Brazilian being the second one.
[edit] External links
