FC Ararat Yerevan
FC Ararat Yerevan (Armenian Արարատ Երեւան; Russian Арарат Ереван ) is an Armenian football club. The club from the capital, Yerevan, currently plays in the chumb Bardsragujn, the top league in the country.
Ararat Yerevan was the time of the Soviet Union, the most successful club of Armenia and could even win the 1973 Soviet double. Since the independence of Armenia, however, the traditional club lost its supremacy, the last championship was won in 1993.
History
The Ararat FC was founded in 1935. The name refers to Mount Ararat, which is the national symbol of the Armenians. In 1949 the first team rose to the highest Soviet league on, but increased in the following year already again. The return to the top flight then succeeded to the 1960 season, with 1963 again the descent had to be commenced. Already in the next season, however, succeeded in the immediate resurgence. From 1965 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ararat Yerevan remained then in the highest Soviet league.
Their most successful times the team had in the 1970s. In the 1973 season, she won under coach Nikita Simonyan, the Soviet double, consisting of Soviet and Soviet Cup championship. In addition to Dinamo Tbilisi it was thus the only Soviet team from the Caucasus, who could ever win the championship. The team coached by Simonyan was celebrated in Yerevan as heroes, players Eduard Markarow, Alyosha Abramjan, Alexander Kovalenko, Oganes Sanasanjan, Levon Ischtojan, Arkadi Andriasjan and Norair Mesropjan were included in the list of the 33 best Soviet player of the season.
The following year the club reached the quarter final of the European Champions' Cup 1974/75, where he narrowly defeated by eventual winners FC Bayern München 0:2 and 1:0.
In 1975, Ararat gain with coach Victor Maslow once the cup and moved therefore into the European Cup Winners' Cup 1975/76. After then record-breaking winning in the first round with 10:1 against the Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta, would retire in the second round with 2:4 (1:1 in Yerevan, 1:3 in London) against the eventual finalists West Ham United from.
1976 Ararat defeated under the leadership of coach and former player Eduard Markarow in the cup final against Dinamo Tbilisi and finished the season as runners- behind Dynamo Moscow. Especially from the 1980s belonged Ararat but only to the middle of the Soviet League, was at times even danger of relegation. The last season of the Soviet Championship ended the team in seventh place.
After the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union, they played in the newly founded Bardsragujn chumb. After two title wins in 1993 and 1995, as well as some gains of the Armenian Football Cup, the former top club lost its supremacy in Armenian football.
In the 2009 season the club was relegated as Table of the Premier League from the Armenian First League. However, in 2010 and failed to re- ascent. The Ararat extremely weak runny season 2011 is finished on the bottom of the table ( only two victories, 22 defeats). We skirted the descent only, since 2011, all teams from the second division were second teams of first division and therefore had no authority ascent. 2012/2013 we completed on the 7th of 8 places in the table.
Title profits
- Soviet champion: 1973
- Soviet Cup winner: 1973, 1975, 1992 ( the last time to deliver)
- Armenian champion: 1993, 1995
- Armenian Cup Winners: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2008
- Armenian Supercup: 2009
Well-known former players
- Albert Sarkisyan
- Alyosha Abramjan
- Arkadi Andreasjan
- Arsenic Awetissjan
- Giorgi Krassowski
- Alexander Kovalenko
- Eduard Markarow
- Hamlet Mchitarjan
- Norair Mesropjan
- Alexander Mirzoyan
- Wahagn Minasjan
- Hrajr Mkojan
- Marcos Pizzelli
- Alexander Podshivalov
- Boris Rasinski
- Schak Suprikjan
- Vladimir Vasiliev