Ararat
Full name	Football Club Ararat Yerevan
Founded	1935
Ground	Kotayk Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia
Capacity	6,000
Chairman	Hratch Kaprielian
Manager	Varuzhan Sukiasyan
League	Armenian Premier League
2005	Armenian Premier League, 8th
Home colours Away colours

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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, FC Ararat Yerevan played in the European Cup, reaching the quarterfinals, losing to defending and future champion FC Bayern Munchen with a 2-1 aggregate (0-2 in Munich and 1-0 in Yerevan). 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Soviet Top League (Russian: , Ukrainian: ) was the top division of Soviet Union football. ... The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup, was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union. ... FC Dynamo Kyiv is a professional football club from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev (Kyiv). ... The season 1974-75 of the European Cup football club tournament was won by for the second consecutive time by Bayern Munich in the final against Leeds United. ...

In Soviet time the club was a part of VSS Ashkhatank. Voluntary Sports Societies (VSS) of the USSR (Russian: ) were the main structural parts of the universal sports and physical education system, that existed in the USSR between 1935 and 1991, together with Dinamo and Armed Forces sports societies. ...

2006 squad

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Previous players

• Alesha Abramyan
• Alexandr Kovalenko
• Oganes Zanazanyan
• Khoren Hovhannisyan
• Arkady Andriasyan
• Levon Ishtoyan
• Eduard Markarov

Khoren Hovhannisyan. ...

Managers

Name	Nat	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

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Honours

• Soviet Top League: 1973

• Soviet Cup: 1973, 1975

• Armenian Premier League: 1993

• Armenian Cup: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997

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External links

Official websites

• F.C. Ararat.com
• F.C. Ararat.am

Armenian Premier League 2006
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