Football Club Pyunik, commonly known as Pyunik, is an Armenian professional football club based in Yerevan. Pyunik is one of the most popular football clubs in Armenia.
The Armenian Premier League is the top football competition in Armenia. From 1936 to 1991, the competition was held as a regional tournament within the USSR. After independence, the Football Federation of Armenia has been the unit in charge. Over the years, the league has evolved into a small league consisting of nine teams. The winner of the league is awarded a spot in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.
Football Club Ararat Yerevan, commonly known as Ararat Yerevan, is an Armenian football club based in Yerevan, capital and largest city Currently, they play at the Armenian Premier League.
Karen Dokhoyan is a former Armenian football defender. He currently is one of the coaches and scouts of the Armenian Premier League club Pyunik Yerevan. Karen was also a member of the Armenia national team, and has participated in 48 international matches and scored 2 goals since his debut in an away friendly match against Estonia on 18 August 1999. He is most famous for scoring his goal against Romania to draw 1-1 in a 2006 World Cup qualification match. Karen played for the defunct clubs Malatia Yerevan, Erebuni Yerevan, FC Yerevan, Araks Ararat,for the Russian Krylia Sovetov Samara,and for the Armenian Pyunik F.C.
Artur Voskanyan is an Armenian football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of Armenia national under-21 football team.
Hrayr Mkoyan is an Armenian football player who currently plays defender for the Armenian national team and the Armenian Premier League side FC Alashkert.
1993 in Armenian football was the second season of independent football after the split-up from the Soviet Union. Professional football existed of two divisions, the Armenian Premier League and the Armenian First League. Out of the 16 Premier League teams, three would relegate, while the two First League group winners along with the better runner-up would promote for the 1994 season.
1995 in Armenian football was a transitional season. For this season the Armenian Premier League was composed of twelve clubs in two groups of six. No championship was awarded, and no teams were relegated or promoted.
2000 in Armenian football was the ninth season of independent football after the split-up from the Soviet Union. The Armenian Premier League for 2000 existed of 8 teams of which the lowest ranked teams would relegate to the Armenian First League. The seventh ranked team would enter the promotion/relegation play-off with the second ranked team of the First League. However it was decided that none of the Premier League teams would be relegated and four clubs were promoted from the First League, as well as FC Banants that was given a place at the highest level for the 2001 season. In the last few weeks Ararat, Zvartnots-AAL, Dinamo and Mika all refused to play once or more times as they were demanding fair play and claiming that referees penalised them repeatedly in favour of Araks that eventually won the title due to the awarded 3-0 victories in their favour.
Varuzhan Sukiasyan, is an Armenian association football manager and former player. He is the brother of Yervand Sukiasyan.
Statistics of Armenian Premier League in the 1993 season.
Statistics of Armenian Premier League in the 2000 season.
In the 2001 Armenian Premier League, FC Pyunik were the champions.
Tigran Yesayan is an Armenian football former player and coach. He played striker for the Armenian national team and for several Armenian Premier League clubs.
Spartak Yerevan FC, is a defunct Armenian football club from the capital Yerevan. The club played in the Armenian Premier League.
FC Lernagorts Kapan, is a defunct Armenian football club from Kapan, Syunik Province.
The 2004 Armenian First League season started on 1 May 2004. The last matches were played on 15 November 2004. Pyunik-2 became the league champions, but because they are a reserve team they were unable to promote to the Armenian Premier League. As a result, the second placed team Lernayin Artsakh FC was given promotion.
The 2002 Armenian First League is the 12th season of the Armenian First League. It started on the 25th of April and ended November 17. FC Armavir from Armavir became the league champions, and were promoted to the 2003 Armenian Premier League.
