FC Ararat-Armenia

Former logo when the club was known as FC Avan Academy

It was founded in 2017 as FC Avan Academy by Ruben Hayrapetyan, on the basis of the young players of the Yerevan Football Academy graduates, as well as many young players from FC Pyunik.[1]

They club's inaugural match took place in July 2017 against Erebuni SC. The friendly match ended up with a score of 3–1 in favour of Avan Academy.

At the beginning of 2018, the club was taken over by the Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan who renamed the football club as Ararat-Moskva, from Mount Ararat. The club was reorganized as soon as FC Ararat Moscow in Russia was denied certificate for the next season.[2] Artak Oseyan managed the club during the 2017–18 Armenian First League season.[3]

After being promoted to the Armenian Premier League, it was again renamed, this time to Ararat-Armenia, and will participate in the Premier League with this name.

On 2 August 2018, Vadim Skripchenko was appointed as the new head coach of Ararat-Armenia,[4] before being sacked on 25 September 2018, and Ararat-Armenia-2 manager Artak Oseyan being appointed as caretaker manager.[5]

On 1 October 2018, Vardan Minasyan was appointed as the new head coach of Ararat-Armenia.

On 30 May 2019, Ararat-Armenia defeated Banants 1–0 to win their first Armenian Premier League title.[6] As a result of winning the 2018–19 Armenian Premier League, Ararat-Armenia qualified for the UEFA Champions League.

On 14 July 2020, Ararat-Armenia defended their Armenian Premier League title, securing their second league title, after defeating FC Noah 2-0. Three days later, 17 July 2020, Manager Vardan Minasyan left the club after his contract expired.[7] On 22 July 2020, Ararat-Armenia announced David Campaña as their new manager.[8] On 5 March 2021, David Campaña left his role as Head Coach by mutual consent,[9] with Armen Adamyan being appointed as the Caretaker Head Coach.[10] On 24 March 2021, Ararat-Armenia announced Anatoly Baidachny as their new Head Coach.[11] Baidachny would leave Ararat-Armenia two and a half months later, on 8 June 2021 by mutual consent, having won just three of his twelve games in charge.[12] On 14 June 2021, Ararat-Armenia announced that Dmitri Gunko had been appointed as the clubs new Head Coach.[13]

League and cup

Season	League									Armenian Cup	Top goalscorer		Managers
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2017–18	2nd	3rd	27	14	4	9	65	41	46	Quarterfinal	Armen Hovhannisyan	15	Artak Oseyan
2018–19	1st	1st	32	18	7	7	52	28	61	Semifinal	Anton Kobyalko	15	Vadim Skripchenko Artak Oseyan (Caretaker) Vardan Minasyan
2019–20	1st	1st	28	15	7	6	45	23	52	Runners-up	Mailson Lima	8	Vardan Minasyan
2020–21	1st	5th	24	10	8	6	32	17	38	Semifinal	Yusuf Otubanjo	10	David Campaña Armen Adamyan (Caretaker) Anatoly Baidachny
2021–22	1st									Quarterfinal			Dmitri Gunko

The second team of the club Ararat-Armenia-2 has been playing in the first league (2nd division) since the 2018–19 season.

European

As of match played 1 October 2020

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
UEFA Champions League	3	1	0	2	3	5	–2
UEFA Europa League	9	6	0	3	16	11	+5
Total	12	7	0	5	19	16	+3

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2019–20	UEFA Champions League	1QR	AIK	2–1	1–3	3–4
	UEFA Europa League	2QR	Lincoln Red Imps	2–0	2–1	4–1
		3QR	Saburtalo Tbilisi	1–2	2–0	3–2
		PO	F91 Dudelange	2–1	1–2	3–3 (p)
2020–21	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Omonia	0–1 (aet)	N/A	N/A
	UEFA Europa League	2QR	Fola Esch	4–3 (aet)	N/A	N/A
		3QR	Celje	1–0 (aet)	N/A	N/A
		PO	Red Star Belgrade	1–2	N/A	N/A

As of 7 March, 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  BRA Alemão 3 DF  COL Junior Bueno 5 DF  ARM Davit Terteryan 6 MF  ARM Wbeymar 7 MF  ARM Zhirayr Shaghoyan 8 MF  COL Jonathan Duarte 10 MF  ARM Armen Ambartsumyan (captain) 11 DF  UKR Yehor Klymenchuk 12 DF  BEL Thibaut Lesquoy 14 MF  CPV Mailson Lima 17 FW  BFA Zakaria Sanogo 18 FW  ARM Artyom Avanesyan

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  ARM Karen Muradyan 20 MF  KEN Alwyn Tera 21 MF  ARM Solomon Udo 24 FW  NGA Yusuf Otubanjo 27 MF  NED Furdjel Narsingh 30 DF  BRA Romércio 33 GK  RUS Dmitry Abakumov 77 GK  ITA Valerio Vimercati 79 DF  UKR Serhiy Vakulenko 81 DF  URU Diego Barboza 88 FW  CIV Wilfried Eza

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 5 MF  ARM Sargis Shahinyan (at Noah)

Ararat-Armenia-2

Ararat Yerevan-2

Founded	2018 (2018)
Ground	Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan
Owner	Samvel Karapetyan
President	Poghos Galstyan
Manager	Tigran Petrosyants
League	Armenian First League
2018–19	3rd
Home colours Away colours

Ararat-Armenia's reserve squad play as Ararat-Armenia-2 in the Armenian First League. They currently play their home games at the Yerevan Football Academy Stadium in the Avan District of northern Yerevan.

• Owner: Samvel Karapetyan
• Director General: Poghos Galstyan
• Press secretary: Diana Ghazaryan
• Head coach: Dmitri Gunko
• Assistant coaches: Arthur Mkrtchyan, Razmik Grigoryan
• Chief scout: Mher Pilosyan

As of match played 25 April 2022. Only competitive matches are counted.

Name	Nat.	From	To	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	%W	Honours	Notes
Artak Oseyan	Armenia	1 July 2017	30 June 2018	29	14	4	11	65	48	048.28
Andranik Babayan	Armenia	1 July 2018	30 July 2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Vadim Skripchenko	Belarus	2 August 2018[4]	25 September 2018[5]	9	4	2	3	16	12	044.44
Artak Oseyan Caretaker	Armenia	25 September 2018[5]	1 October 2018	1	0	1	0	0	0	000.00
Vardan Minasyan	Armenia	1 October 2018	17 July 2020[7]	68	40	15	13	130	56	058.82	Armenian Premier League (2) Armenian Supercup (1)
David Campaña	Spain	22 July 2020[8]	5 March 2021[9]	17	7	4	6	23	16	041.18
Armen Adamyan Caretaker	Armenia	5 March 2021[10]	24 March 2021[11]	3	2	1	0	5	1	066.67
Anatoly Baidachny	Russia	24 March 2021[11]	8 June 2021[12]	12	3	4	5	10	13	025.00
Dmitri Gunko	Russia	14 June 2021[13]		28	20	4	4	52	20	071.43

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