1995–96 in Armenian football

1995–96 in Armenian football
Premier League champions
Pyunik
First League champions
Arabkir
Armenian Cup winners
Pyunik

1995–96 in Armenian football was the fourth season of independent football after the split-up from the Soviet Union. It was the first of two seasons in Armenia that were different from the others. Including the 1996–97 season these were the only winter competitions, while all other Armenian seasons were summer competitions. The Armenian Premier League for 1995–96 consisted of 12 teams of which the lowest ranked team would relegate to the Armenian First League. The eleventh ranked team would face the second ranked team from the First League in a promotion/relegation play-off.

Premier League

  • Homenetmen Yerevan changed their name into FC Pyunik.
  • Yerazank FC disbanded and yielded its place to another Artsakh Republic-based club from Stepanakert, FC Karabakh. Karabakh, much like Yerazank, were forced to relocate from Stepanakert to Yerevan due to the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[1]
  • FC Kotayk and Banants Kotayk merged, but the name of the merger was only limited to Kotayk Abovyan.
  • Newly-founded FC Yerevan was unexpectedly promoted to replace Banants Kotayk.

League table

Pos Team
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 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Pyunik (C) 22 19 3 0 71 14 +57 60 Qualification for the UEFA Cup preliminary round
2 Shirak 22 16 3 3 67 23 +44 51
3 Yerevan 22 13 5 4 43 24 +19 44
4 Ararat Yerevan 22 12 3 7 58 28 +30 39
5 Tsement Ararat 22 12 3 7 57 33 +24 39
6 Kotayk 22 11 3 8 31 33 −2 36 Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
7 Karabakh Yerevan 22 8 5 9 29 28 +1 29
8 Van Yerevan 22 7 3 12 42 42 0 24
9 Homenmen Yerevan 22 6 3 13 30 52 −22 21
10 Zangezour 22 5 2 15 26 60 −34 17
11 Aragats (R) 22 4 3 15 35 89 −54 15 Qualification for the Relegation play-off
12 Aznavour (R) 22 0 2 20 19 82 −63 2 Relegation to First League
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Promotion and relegation play-off

Date Venue PL Team Result FL Team Information
8 June Yerevan Aragats 0-4 BKMA Yerevan BKMA Yerevan were promoted, Aragats were relegated.

Top goalscorers

Player Team Goals
1 Armenia Arayik Adamyan Shirak 28
2 Armenia Hovhannes Toumbaryan Tsement Ararat 24
3 Armenia Tigran Yesayan Yerevan 20
4 Armenia Arthur Petrosyan Shirak 13
Armenia Arthur Manukyan Zangezour 13

First League

  • Syunik Kapan returned to professional football and change their name to Kapan-81.

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or qualification
1 Arabkir 22 15 2 5 58 22 +36 47 Promoted to Armenian Premier League
2 BKMA Yerevan 22 13 5 4 63 17 +46 44 Forced to play the promotion/relegation play-off
3 Lori 22 12 6 4 33 16 +17 42
4 Astgh Vanadzor 22 11 5 6 38 27 +11 38
5 Armavir 22 10 6 6 45 33 +12 36
6 Kumayri 22 11 2 9 33 25 +8 35
7 Nairit 22 9 3 10 42 50 −8 30
8 Kapan-81 22 8 5 9 32 33 −1 29
9 Dvin Artashat 22 7 3 12 34 50 −16 24
10 BMA-Arai Echmiadzin 22 7 2 13 26 44 −18 23
11 Dinamo Yerevan 22 6 4 12 27 38 −11 22
12 Yeghvard 22 1 1 20 17 91 −74 4
13 Kasakh 0 – – – – – — 0 Withdrew from competition
14 Tufagorts 0 – – – – – — 0
15 Lernagorts Vardenis 0 – – – – – — 0
16 Tsement-2 Ararat 0 – – – – – — 0
Source: rsssf.com

Armenia Cup

Quarter finals
Yerevan 0 - 1
1 - 1		 Shirak
Karabakh Yerevan 1 - 3
1 - 0		 Ararat Yerevan
Pyunik 2 - 0
2 - 3		 Tsement Ararat
Van Yerevan 1 - 0
0 - 2		 Kotayk Abovyan
Semi finals
Shirak 0 - 1
1 - 1		 Kotayk Abovyan
Ararat Yerevan 0 - 2
1 - 4		 Pyunik
Final
Pyunik 3 - 2 Kotayk Abovyan

References

  1. ^ "Where's My Country?". RSSSF. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 8 September 2018.

External links

  • RSSSF: Armenia 1995-96
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