FC Mika

Mika

Full name	Mika Football Club
Nickname(s)	Lions
Founded	1985
Ground	Mika Stadium Yerevan (Capacity: 8,000)
Owner	Mikhail Bagdasarov
Chairman	Karlos Khazaryan
Manager	Zsolt Hornyák
League	Armenian Premier League
2011	Armenian Premier League, 5th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Mika Football Club (Armenian: Միկա Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ – Mika Futbolayin Akumb), is an Armenian professional football club, playing in the capital, Yerevan.

History

It was originally founded as "Olimpia" in 1985. The club Kasakh Ashtarak is renamed in 1999 to Mika by the owner of Armavia Airlines, Mikhail Baghdasarov. Under the merger, the name of the new club became Mika-Kasakh Ashtarak. However, the merger only lasted for 1 year, and starting year 2000, the two clubs separated. Kasakh Ashtarak kept its name, logo, history and statistics, while Mika settled for being a new club. This began the era of Mika F.C. Ashtarak.

In 2007, Mika was relocated from Ashtarak to Yerevan. The club has already built its own stadium in the heart of Yerevan and uses it for domestic and European competitions. It has won 5 Armenian Cups and 1 Armenian Supercup since its foundation and is considered to be one of Armenia's top teams. As a Cup holder, Mika participated several times in UEFA Cup qualification matches, the best result was 2-nd qualifying round in 2007, as the club passed MTK Budapest, however did not advance by losing to Slovak club FC Artmedia.

Achievements

• 'Armenian Cup: 6

2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2011

• Armenian Supercup: 1

2005

Mika in European Cups

As of July, 2011.

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
UEFA Cup/Europa League	20	3	4	13	10	32
UEFA Intertoto Cup	2	0	2	0	2	2
Total	22	3	6	13	12	34

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg
2000/01	UEFA Cup	QR	Rapid Bucureşti	0–3	1 – 0
2001/02	UEFA Cup	QR	Braşov	1–5	0 – 2
2004/05	UEFA Cup	1Q	Honvéd Budapest	0 – 1	1–1
2005/06	UEFA Cup	1Q	Mainz 05	0–4	0 – 0
2006/07	UEFA Cup	1Q	Young Boys Berne	1 – 3	0–1
2007/08	UEFA Cup	1Q	MTK Budapest	1–2	1 – 0
		2Q	Artmedia Petržalka	2 – 1	0–2
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Tiraspol	2 – 2	0–0
2009/10	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Helsingborgs IF	1–3	1 – 1
2010/11	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Rabotnički	0–1	0 – 0
2011/12	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Vålerenga	0–1	0 – 1

• Home results are noted in bold

Current squad

As of 29 January, 2012‎.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Gevorg Kasparov 2 MF Armen Petrosyan 3 MF Andranik Voskanyan 8 FW Andranik Shahgeldyan 9 MF Grigor Mkrtchyan 13 DF Gevorg Poghosyan

No. Position Player 14 FW Semion Muradyan 16 FW Armen Avakyan 17 DF Aghvan Mkrtchyan 22 DF Alex MF Diong Mendy

Out on loan 2011–12

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player FW Narek Beglaryan (at 1. FC Tatran Prešov)

Notable former players

• Armen Shahgeldyan
• Cleber
• Cléber
• Aleksandr Antipenko
• Sergei Gorlukovich
• Ivan Ristić
• Boti Goa
• Dong Fangzhuo

Managers

• Felix Veranyan (1990)
• Arshavir Shazizyan (1991)
• Souren Barseghyan (1992)
• Arshavir Shazizyan (1993)
• Azat Mangasaryan (1993–??)
• Rafael Galstyan (1999)
• Eduard Markarov (2000–01)
• Samvel Petrosyan (2001)
• Valeriy Gladilin (2001–02)
• Eduard Markarov (2002)
• Aramais Tonoyan (2002)
• Vagarshak Aslanyan (2002)

• Souren Barseghyan (2002–05)
• Armen Adamyan (2005–07)
• Arkady Andreasyan (2007–08)
• Ishtvan Sekech (2008)
• Souren Barseghyan (2008–09)
• Ivo Šušak (2009)
• Samvel Darbinyan (2009)
• Armen Adamyan (2009–10)
• Armen Shahgeldyan (2010–11)
• Jozef Bubenko (2011)
• Zsolt Hornyák (2012–)

External links

• Official website
• Mika at FFA.Am
• Mika at UEFA.COM
• Mika at EUFO.DE
• Mika at Weltfussball.de
• Mika at Playerhistory.com
• Mika at Transfermarkt.de
• Mika at Football-Lineups.com