FC Shirak

Shirak

Full name	Shirak Football Club
Founded	1958 (1958)
Ground	Gyumri City Stadium Gyumri
Ground Capacity	2,761
Chairman	Arman Sahakyan
Manager	Ararat Harutyunyan
League	Armenian Premier League
2012–13	Armenian Premier League, 1st (Champions)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Shirak Football Club (Armenian: Շիրակ Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ), is an Armenian football club from Gyumri of Shirak Province.

History

Shirak F.C. was founded in the city of Gyumri in the Armenian SSR, in 1958. During the 1970s, the club played under the name Olympia. They were playing in the Soviet First League until Armenia's independence in 1991. The club's home ground is the Gyumri City Stadium with a capacity of around 3000 spectators.

Shirak F.C. is one of the oldest football clubs in Armenia and has produced many talented players who have represented the Armenian national team with Artur Petrosyan and Harutyun Vardanyan being the most notable players in the club's history. Both of them had gained enviable reputation as talented players and went on to play for the Armenian national football team and several European clubs.

The club is the second most titled team in the country, having won 4 championships, 1 cup title and 3 super-cups. The club had struggled financially between 2005 and 2010. In 2012 Shirak F.C. won Armenian Independence Cup for the first time in their history.

The team participated in 3 different European cups: Champions League, UEFA Cup and Intertoto Cup. In 2012-13 Shirak F.C. played in the UEFA Europa League and advanced to the second round with a 2-1 aggregate victory over FK Rudar Pljevlja.

Stadium

Gyumri City Stadium

Club crests and colours

Club Colours

1999

until 2009

2010

since 2011

Honours

Armenian Premier League

• 1 ! Winner (4) – 1992, 1994, 1999, 2012–13;
• 2 ! Runner-up (5) – 1993, 1995-96, 1997, 1998, 2002;
• 3 ! Third (2) – 2000, 2003;

Armenian Cup

• Winner (1) – 2011-12;
• Runner-up (5) – 1993, 1994, 1999, 2011, 2012–13;

Armenian Super Cup

• Winner (4) – 1997, 2000, 2003, 2013;
• Runner-up (1) – 1999;

Shirak F.C. in European Cups

As of 24 July 2013

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
1995–96	UEFA Cup	PR	Zagłębie Lubin	0–0	0–1	0–1
1996–97	UEFA Cup	PR	Anorthosis Famagusta	0–4	2–2	2–6
1998–99	UEFA Cup	1Q	Malmö	0–2	0–5	0–7
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	1Q	HJK Helsinki	0–2	1–0	1–2
2000–01	UEFA Champions League	1Q	BATE Borisov	1–1	1–2	2–3
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Tatabánya	3–2	1–3	4–5
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Santa Clara	0–2	3–3	3–5
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QR	Nordsjælland Farum	0–4	0–2	0–6
2004–05	UEFA Cup	1Q	Tiraspol	1–2	0–2	1–4
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Rudar Pljevlja	1–0	1–1	2–1
		2Q	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv	0–2	0–1	0–3
2013–14	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Tre Penne	3–0	0–1	3–1
		2Q	FK Partizan	1–1	0–0	1–1

• Home results are noted in bold

Current squad

As of 22 August 2013.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Norayr Abrahamyan 4 DF Didier Kadio 5 MF Tigran Davtyan 7 FW Aram Muradyan 9 FW Boti Goa Demel 10 MF Davit Hakobyan 11 MF Jacob Apau Aseidu 12 FW Andranik Barikyan 15 MF Karen Aleksanyan 16 MF Arman Aslanyan 17 DF David Marikyan

No. Position Player 19 MF Karen Muradyan 21 DF Gevorg Hovhannisyan 22 GK Artur Harutyunyan 23 DF Artyom Mikaelyan 25 MF Aghvan Davoyan 27 FW Aram Tosunyan 29 MF Dame Diop 31 MF Edvard Panosyan 34 FW David Ghandilyan

Managers

External links

• Official website
• Shirak at FFA.AM
• Shirak at UEFA.COM
• Shirak at EUFO.DE
• Shirak at Weltfussball.de