FC Ararat Yerevan

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Ararat

Full name

Football Club Ararat Yerevan

Founded

1935

Ground

Hrazdan Stadium,
Yerevan
(Capacity 69,000)

Chairman

Hratch Kaprielian

Manager

Dušan Mihić

League

Armenian Premier League

2007

Armenian Premier League, 4th





Home colours





Away colours

FC Ararat Yerevan (Armenian: Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Արարատ Երեւան), is an Armenian football club that won the Soviet championship in 1973. Currently the club plays in the Armenian Premier League and is one of the most popular teams in Armenian football.

1 History
- 1.1 Soviet championships
- 1.2 Modern history
2 Current squad 2007
3 Notable Former Players
4 Managers
5 UEFA club competition record
6 Honours
7 Notable achievements
8 External links

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.

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 SSSR. 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.

In Soviet time the club was a part of VSS Ashkhatank.

Since the 1991 independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union, FC Ararat has attained the Armenian Championship Title (in 1993), three Silver prizes (in 1997, 1999 and 2000) and one Bronze prize (in 1994). Furthermore, FC Ararat has won the Armenian Cup four times (1993, 1994, 1995 and 1997) and were finalists in 2001. The club has won the Armenian Premier League twice (1993 and 1995).

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Garnik Hovhannisyan
2	FW	Sargis Movsisyan
3	MF	Renato de Morais
4	DF	Hovhannes Harutyunyan
5	DF	Hrayr Mkoyan
6	MF	Mkhitar Grigoryan
7	MF	Artur Minasyan (captain)
8	MF	Artur Voskanyan
9	MF	Sergey Erzrumyan
10	FW	Nshan Erzrumyan
11	MF	Gagik Simonyan
12	DF	Emilio Palucci

No.	Position	Player
14	MF	Harutyun Hovhannisyan
15	MF	Markos Piñeiro Pizelli
16	GK	Nikolay Sargsyan
17	FW	Gevorg Nranyan
18	MF	Artur Petrosyan
19	DF	Vahagn Minasyan
20	DF	Vahe Mehrabyan
21	FW	Slavko Vuckovic
22	FW	Steven Hazarian
24	MF	Armen Babayan
-	FW	Samvel Petrosyan
-	MF	Grigor Grigoryan

Name	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
Albert 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
Alexander Ponomaryov	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	Present