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Ulisses FC

Ulisses FC

Football club

This article is about the defunct Armenian football club. For the former English senior football club, see Ulysses F.C.

Ulisses Football Club (Armenian: Ուլիս Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ), commonly known as Ulisses, is a defunct Armenian football club from Yerevan. The club played at the Armenian Premier League, the top division in Armenian football. They regularly used the Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium in Yerevan and occasionally the City Stadium in Abovyan as their home ground.

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The club headquarters are located on Nalbandyan street 48/1, Yerevan.[1] Like most other Armenian Premier League clubs, Ulisses FC had a reserve team that played in the Armenian First League.

In 2015–16, the club was owned by the Armenian businessman Henrikh Ghazandzhyan and sponsored by the "Holiday" Group of Companies.

History

  • 2000 – Founded as Dinamo-2000 Yerevan
  • 2004 – Changed name to Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan (name change occurred as a result of a new sponsor)
  • 2006 – Changed name to Ulisses FC (name change again occurred as a result of a new sponsor)
  • 2016 – Dissolved due to both financial and non-financial shortcomings

Dinamo-2000 Yerevan

The club was founded in 2000 as Dinamo-2000 Yerevan, and made their debut at the 2001 Armenian Premier League season without initially playing in the Armenian First League.

Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan

In 2004, the club became known as FC Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan and took 5th place in the Armenian Premier League. In 2004 and 2005, 2 reserves teams of the club were represented in the Armenian First League: FC Dinamo-VZ Yerevan and FC Zenit Charentsavan.

Ulisses FC

V. Sargsyan Rep. Stadium, the last home stadium used by Ulisses FC

In 2006, the club changed their name with the arrival of new sponsor. they occupied the 8th place at the 2006 Armenian Premier League season grabbing the chance to save their place in the top league in a decisive match with FC Dinamo Yerevan. Winning the game, Ulisses FC secured their place in the top tier for the next season. In seasons 2007 and 2008 team play was much better, and there was no need of survival games.

At the beginning of 2008, the club's department was enlarged with the Shengavit football school of Yerevan, while the Vardanank-451 Stadium of Voskehat became the training base of the club.

In 2007, they played their home games in the Kasaghi Marzik Stadium in Ashtarak. In 2009, they moved to the Mika Stadium in Yerevan.

In 2011, Ulisses FC won the Armenian championship[2] for the first time in club history, and ended Pyunik dominance of 10 consecutive championships.

On 3 February 2016, the club declared that it will not participate in the second half of the 2015-16 Armenian Premier League season.

League and cup history

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European history

As of match played 9 July 2015
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  • Home results are noted in bold

Honours

Last squad

As of 30 September 2015[3]

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Ulisses FC-2 (reserves)

The Ulisses FC reserve squad play as Ulisses FC-2 in the Armenian First League. They play their home games at the Kasakhi Marzik Stadium in the town of Ashtarak.

As of 1 August 2015

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Manager: Ara Azaryan

Managers

  • Armenia Vagharshak Aslanyan (2000–01)
  • Armenia Albert Sarkisyan (2002)
  • Armenia Vachagan Khachataryan (2002)
  • Armenia Alesha Antonyan (2002–03)
  • Armenia Ashot Kirakosyan (2004–05)
  • Armenia Sevada Arzumanyan (July 1, 2005 – June 30, 2006)
  • Armenia Arsen Chilingaryan (2006–07)
  • Armenia Souren Barseghyan (2007–08)
  • Armenia Sevada Arzumanyan (2008–Sept 7, 2012)
  • Armenia Karen Barseghyan (Sept 8, 2012–July 24, 2014)
  • Armenia Suren Chakhalyan (July 25, 2014–Oct 6, 2014)
  • Armenia Gagik Simonyan (interim) (Oct 6, 2014–Feb 28, 2015)
  • Russia Fyodor Shcherbachenko (Feb 28, 2015–Apr 17, 2015)
  • Armenia Suren Chakhalyan (April 18, 2015–Sep 1, 2015)
  • Armenia Gagik Simonyan (interim) (Sep 1, 2015–Feb 3, 2016)

References

  1. [1]
    "Armenia, clubs". Archived from the original on 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  2. [2]
    Armenian Premier League Standings 2011 Archived 2018-06-24 at the Wayback Machine ScoresPro.com
  3. [3]
    "Ulisses FC squad for 2015-16 season". Archived from the original on 2018-06-24. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
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