2000 in Armenian football

2000 in Armenian football
Premier League champions
Araks Ararat
First League champions
Armenicum
Armenian Cup winners
Mika Ashtarak

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.

Premier League

• FC Dinamo Yerevan and FC Mika-Kasakh are promoted.
• FC Mika-Kasakh is renamed FC Mika
• Tsement changed their name to FC Araks Ararat.
• FC Yerevan and Erebuni-Homenmen both withdrew before the start of the season. As a result, Kilikia FC who were originally relegated kept their place.
• FC Lernagorts Kapan are additionally promoted to have an eight team competition.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Araks Ararat (C)	28	19	4	5	65	33	+32	61	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Ararat Yerevan	28	18	5	5	50	23	+27	59	Qualification for the UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Shirak	28	17	7	4	64	21	+43	58	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup first round
4	Mika	28	15	4	9	45	31	+14	49	Qualification for the UEFA Cup qualifying round
5	Zvartnots-AAL	28	11	8	9	44	41	+3	41
6	Kilikia	28	9	3	16	49	56	−7	30
7	Lernagorts Kapan	28	3	3	22	29	82	−53	12
8	Dinamo Yerevan (R)	28	1	4	23	19	78	−59	7	Relegation to First League
9	Yerevan (W)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew
10	Erebuni-Homenmen (W)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated; (W) Withdrew
Notes:

Top goalscorers

		Player	Team	Goals
1		Ara Hakobyan	Araks Ararat	21
2		Tigran Yesayan	Ararat Yerevan	17
3		Samvel Nikolyan	Mika Ashtarak	15
		Artur Petrosyan	Shirak	15
		Arman Karamyan	Kilikia	15

First League

• FC Armenicum and Tavush Ijevan are introduced to the league.
• Kotayk returned to professional football.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Armenicum	16	12	3	1	55	12	+43	39	Champions, promotion to Armenian Premier League.
2	Karabakh Yerevan	16	12	2	2	36	14	+22	38	Promotion to Armenian Premier League.
3	Lori	16	9	2	5	34	24	+10	29
4	Kotayk	16	9	1	6	36	27	+9	28
5	Arpa	16	7	5	4	28	16	+12	26
6	Dinamo-2 Yerevan	16	5	3	8	23	32	−9	18
7	FIMA	16	3	3	10	25	35	−10	12
8	Tavush	16	2	4	10	22	52	−30	10
9	Gyumri	16	1	1	14	11	58	−47	4
10	Dvin	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0	Withdrew before start of the season.
11	Moush Kasakh	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0
12	Nairit	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0
13	Alashkert	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0
14	Karabakh-2 Yerevan	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0	Dropped since its parent team will participate instead.

Source:

Armenia Cup

Quarter finals
FC Shirak	1 - 1 0 - 1	Kilikia Yerevan
FC Zvartnots	3 - 0 1 - 2	Dinamo Yerevan
Mika FC	0 - 1 2 - 0	Araks Ararat
Lernagorts Kapan	0 - 4 X - X	FC Ararat Yerevan
Semi finals
FC Zvartnots	1 - 0 X - X	FC Kilikia Yerevan
Ararat Yerevan	1 - 1 3 - 4	Mika FC
Final
Mika FC	2 - 1	FC Zvartnots

External links

• RSSSF: Armenia 2000