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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| Full name | Ulisses Football Club | |||
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| Founded | 2000 | |||
| Dissolved | 2016 | |||
| Ground | Vazgen Sargsyan Stadium, Yerevan | |||
| Capacity | 14,403 | |||
| Owner | Valeri Hovhannisyan | |||
| Chairman | Genrikh Ghazandzhyan | |||
| Manager | Gagik Simonyan | |||
| League | Armenian Premier League | |||
| 2015–16 | 8th (last) | |||
| Website | http://www.fculisses.am/ | |||
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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
edit- 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
editThe 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
editIn 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
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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
edit| Season | League | Armenian Cup | Top goalscorer | Managers | |||||||||
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| Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Name | League | |||
| 2001 | 1st | 9th | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 48 | 16 | First round | |||
| 2002 | 1st | 10th | 22 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 19 | 63 | 12 | Quarterfinal | |||
| 2003 | 1st | 6th | 28 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 69 | 19 | Quarterfinal | |||
| 2004 | 1st | 5th | 20 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 41 | 8 | Quarterfinal | |||
| 2005 | 1st | 6th | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 23 | 51 | 27 | First round | |||
| 2006 | 1st | 8th | 28 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 31 | 66 | 17 | - | |||
| 2007 | 1st | 7th | 28 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 46 | 30 | Quarterfinal | |||
| 2008 | 1st | 6th | 28 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 19 | 29 | 29 | Quarterfinal | |||
| 2009 | 1st | 3rd | 28 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 47 | 25 | 53 | Semifinal |  Artur Kocharyan
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| 2010 | 1st | 3rd | 28 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 44 | 23 | 55 | Semifinal | |||
| 2011 | 1st | 1st | 28 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 38 | 22 | 53 | Semifinal |  Giorgi Krasovski
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| 2012–13 | 1st | 6th | 42 | 11 | 12 | 19 | 41 | 50 | 45 | Semifinal Quarterfinal |
Arsen Balabekyan
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| 2013–14 | 1st | 7th | 28 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 21 | 46 | 25 | Quarterfinal | |||
| 2014–15 | 1st | 2nd | 28 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 43 | 32 | 50 | Quarterfinal | Hovhannes Goharyan
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| 2015–16 | 1st | 8th | 28 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 8 | 76 | 2 | Quarterfinal |  Milutin Ivanović
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European history
edit- As of match played 9 July 2015
| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA |
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| UEFA Champions League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| UEFA Europa League | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| Total | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 2010–11 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q |  Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv
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0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| 2011–12 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q |  Ferencvárosi
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0–2 | 0–3 | 0–5 |
| 2012–13 | UEFA Champions League | 2Q |  Sheriff Tiraspol
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0–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 |
| 2015–16 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q |  Birkirkara
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1–3 | 0–0 | 1–3 |
- Home results are noted in bold
Honours
edit- Armenian Premier League:
- Champions (1): 2011
- Runners-up (1): 2014–15
Last squad
edit- As of 30 September 2015[3]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Ulisses FC-2 (reserves)
editThe Ulisses FC reserve squad played as Ulisses FC-2 in the Armenian First League. They played their home games at the Kasakhi Marzik Stadium in the town of Ashtarak.
- As of 1 August 2015
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Manager: Ara Azaryan
Managers
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Vagharshak Aslanyan (2000–01)- Albert Sarkisyan (2002)
- Vachagan Khachataryan (2002)
- Alesha Antonyan (2002–03)
- Ashot Kirakosyan (2004–05)
- Sevada Arzumanyan (July 1, 2005 – June 30, 2006)
- Arsen Chilingaryan (2006–07)
- Souren Barseghyan (2007–08)
- Sevada Arzumanyan (2008–Sept 7, 2012)
- Karen Barseghyan (Sept 8, 2012–July 24, 2014)
- Suren Chakhalyan (July 25, 2014–Oct 6, 2014)
- Gagik Simonyan (interim) (Oct 6, 2014–Feb 28, 2015)
Fyodor Shcherbachenko (Feb 28, 2015–Apr 17, 2015)- Suren Chakhalyan (April 18, 2015–Sep 1, 2015)
- Gagik Simonyan (interim) (Sep 1, 2015–Feb 3, 2016)
References
edit- ^ "Armenia, clubs". Archived from the original on 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
- ^ Armenian Premier League Standings 2011 Archived 2018-06-24 at the Wayback Machine ScoresPro.com
- ^ "Ulisses FC squad for 2015-16 season". Archived from the original on 2018-06-24. Retrieved 2015-08-01.