FC Ararat Yerevan
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| Full name | Football Club Ararat Yerevan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1935 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 75,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Hratch Kaprielian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Varuzhan Sukiasyan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Armenian Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Armenian Premier League, 4th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Ararat Yerevan (Armenian: Արարատ) 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.
The club was founded in 1935. It was called Spartak in 1935-37 and 1954-62, and Dynamo in 1938-53. In 1963 the club was renamed Ararat. The team played in the Soviet Top League in 1949-1950, 1960-1963, and 1965-1991. In 1973 Ararat won the championship and the Soviet Cup (in a memorable final game against Dynamo Kyiv). In 1971 and 1976 Spring (there were two Soviet championships in 1976 -- Spring and Fall) they were the league runners-up. Another Cup was won in 1975. 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).
In Soviet time the club was a part of VSS Ashkhatank.
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[edit] 2007 squad
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[edit] Previous players
- Alesha Abramyan
- Alexandr Kovalenko
- Sergey Bondarenko
- Oganes Zanazanyan
- Khoren Hovhannisyan
- Arkady Andriasyan
- Levon Ishtoyan
- Eduard Markarov
- José André Bilibio
Arin Markarian
[edit] Managers
| Name | Nat | From | To |
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| 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 Andriasyan | |
March 1982 | October 1983 |
| Nikita Simonyan | |
March 1984 | June 1985 |
| Leonid Zakharov | |
June 1985 | June 1986 |
| Arkady Andriasyan | |
June 1986 | June 1989 |
| Nikolay Kazaryan | |
June 1989 | October 1989 |
| Armen Sarkisyan | |
March 1990 | October 1994 |
| Samvel Darbinyan | |
March 1995 | October 1995 |
| Arkady Andriasyan | |
January 1996 | November 2003 |
| Sevada Arzumanyan | |
November 2003 | November 2004 |
| Abraham Khashmanyan | |
November 2004 | June 2006 |
| Varuzhan Sukiasyan | |
June 2006 | Present |
[edit] Honours
- Soviet Top League: 1973
- Soviet Cup: 1973, 1975
- Armenian Premier League: 1993, 1995
- Armenian Cup: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997
[edit] Notable achievements
- Soviet Top League runner-up: 1971, 1976
- Soviet Cup runner-up: 1954, 1976
- European Cup quarterfinalist: 1974-1975
- European Cup Winners' Cup 1/8 finalist: 1975-1976
- UEFA Cup 1/8 finalist: 1972-1973
[edit] External links
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