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FC Banants (Armenian: Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Բանանց Երևան), is an Armenian football (soccer) team, playing in the capital, Yerevan. The club plays in Armenian Premier League, has won 2 Armenian Cups: in 1992 and 2007.
[edit] History
FC Banants was founded in 1992 in the city of Abovyan, before the start of the first Armenian National Championship. During the same year, the club won the first Armenian Cup. In 1995, the club was moved from Abovyan to Yerevan, however, due to financial problems, it did not participate in the league championships until the season of 2001. In the beginning of 2003, Banants merged with Spartak Yerevan, but was able to limit the name of the new merger to FC Banants. Spartak became Banants's youth academy and later changed the name to Banants-2. Because of the merger, Banants acquired many of Spartak's players, including one of its top players today, Samvel Melkonyan. After the merger, Banants took a more serious approach and has finished in high ranks ever since. The club managed to lift the Armenian Cup in 2007.
Experience is making way for youth for the 2008 season. The departures of Samvel Melkonyan, Ararat Arakelyan, Ara Hakobyan and Karen Simonyan – the spine of last season's team – have all moved abroad. And the striker from Uganda, Eugene Sepuya, has been sold to FK Vojvodina Novi Sad. However the blow will be cushioned slightly with the acquisition of several seasoned professionals from Moldova, Romania and Georgia. The club have signed Bulgarian midfielder Marko Gančev while national-team midfielder Karen Aleksanyan has been brought back home from Moldova and playmaker Romik Khachatryan from Romania.
[edit] Current squad
[edit] Banants in Eurocups
| Competition |
Matches |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
| UEFA Cup |
14 |
2 |
2 |
10 |
11 |
30 |
[edit] Honours
( 1992, 2007 )
[edit] External links
Sargis Israelyan
Nedelčo Matušev
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