FC Ararat Yerevan

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Ararat

Full name

Football Club Ararat Yerevan

Founded

1935

Ground

Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia

Capacity

75,000

Chairman

Hratch Kaprielian

Manager

Varuzhan Sukiasyan

League

Armenian Premier League

2006

Armenian Premier League, 4th





Home colours





Away colours

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.

1 2007 squad
2 Previous players
3 Managers
4 Honours
5 Notable achievements
6 External links

[edit] 2007 squad

GK Nikolay Sargsyan
GK Garnik Hovhannisyan
DF Grigor Grigoryan
DF Hovhannes Harutyunyan
DF Vahe Megrabyan
DF Vaagn Minasyan
DF Luis Ricardo
DF Hrayr Mkoyan
MF Armen Babayan
MF Artur Minasyan
MF Sergei Erzrumyan
MF Gor Mirzakhanyan

MF Artur Petrosyan
MF Markus Pizeli
MF Gagik Simonyan
MF Arthur Voskanyan
MF Andranik Tadevosyan
MF Luis Fernando
MF Hrachya Vardazaryan
FW Karen Asatryan
FW Rafael Mkrtchyan
FW Renato Morais
FW Nshan Erzrumyan
FW Samvel Petrosyan

[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	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 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