2005 Armenian Premier League

The 2005 Armenian Premier League season was the fourteenth since its establishment, and started on 12 April 2005. The last matches were played on 6 November 2005. FC Pyunik were the defending champions.

Participating teams

Yerevan

Shirak

Mika

Kotayk

Lernagorts-Ararat

Yerevan teams:
Banants
Dinamo-Zenit
Kilikia
Lernayin Artsakh
Pyunik

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Location of teams in the 2005 Armenian Premier League

• Lernayin Artsakh FC from Yerevan are promoted.
• FC Kotayk from Abovyan changed their name to Esteghlal-Kotayk.

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Banants	Yerevan	Nairi Stadium	6,850
Dinamo-Zenit	Yerevan	Republican Stadium	14,968
Esteghlal-Kotayk	Abovyan	Kotayk Stadium	5,500
Kilikia	Yerevan	Hrazdan Stadium	55,000
Lernagorts-Ararat Kapan	Kapan	Lernagorts Stadium	3,500
Lernayin Artsakh	Yerevan	Hrazdan Stadium	55,000
Mika Ashtarak	Ashtarak	Kasaghi Marzik Stadium	3,500
Pyunik	Yerevan	Republican Stadium	14,968
Shirak	Gyumri	Gyumri City Stadium	2,844

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pyunik	16	11	5	0	32	6	+26	38	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Mika Ashtarak	16	10	5	1	27	11	+16	35
3	Banants	16	10	4	2	32	17	+15	34
4	Esteghlal-Kotayk	16	7	7	2	28	15	+13	28
5	Kilikia	16	6	3	7	29	25	+4	21
6	Dinamo-Zenit	16	4	3	9	20	26	−6	15
7	Shirak	16	3	2	11	18	34	−16	11	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	Lernagorts-Ararat	16	3	1	12	9	38	−29	10
9	Lernayin Artsakh	16	3	0	13	14	37	−23	9	Withdrew

Source:
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	BAN	DIN	KOT	KIL	LRG	LRY	MIK	PYU	SHI
Banants		3–1	1–0	2–0	4–1	3–0	0–2	2–5	1–0
Dinamo-Zenit	0–0		1–3	4–2	0–1	3–2	0–2	0–1	2–1
Esteghlal-Kotayk	1–1	1–0		2–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	0–0	3–0
Kilikia	0–1	0–0	4–3		5–0	1–0	0–2	0–3	4–2
Lernagorts-Ararat	1–2	0–4	1–3	0–5		0–2	0–1	0–3	1–0
Lernayin Artsakh	2–3	1–0	1–4	0–3	0–3		1–3	0–2	0–3
Mika Ashtarak	4–4	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–0		0–0	3–0
Pyunik	0–0	4–1	1–1	1–0	5–0	3–1	1–0		3–1
Shirak	0–5	3–3	1–2	3–1	2–0	1–4	1–2	0–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

Championship round

Championship round league table

The qualified teams only keep their head-to-head results to participate in the Championship stage, resulting in the following table.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Pyunik	10	6	4	0	16	4	+12	22
2	Mika Ashtarak	10	4	5	1	15	9	+6	17
3	Banants	10	4	4	2	14	13	+1	16
4	Esteghlal-Kotayk	10	2	6	2	12	11	+1	12
5	Kilikia	10	1	3	6	10	20	−10	6
6	Dinamo-Zenit	10	1	2	7	8	18	−10	5

Source:

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pyunik (C)	20	11	6	3	35	15	+20	39	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Mika Ashtarak	20	9	8	3	30	16	+14	35	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Banants	20	9	6	5	31	27	+4	33
4	Esteghlal-Kotayk	20	8	7	5	22	19	+3	31
5	Kilikia	20	4	5	11	20	32	−12	17	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup first round
6	Dinamo-Zenit	20	2	2	16	12	41	−29	8

Source:
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BAN	DIN	KOT	KIL	MIK	PYU
Banants		1–0	4–1	1–3	1–2	2–1
Dinamo-Zenit	1–4		0–2	0–2	0–3	0–1
Esteghlal-Kotayk	0–0	1–0		2–0	0–2	2–1
Kilikia	0–1	3–1	0–1		0–0	1–4
Mika Ashtarak	4–1	1–2	1–0	0–0		1–2
Pyunik	2–2	5–0	0–1	2–1	1–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation round

Relegation round league table

The qualified teams kept their complete results before entering the stage. The team finishing in 7th position remained in the Premier League, the 8th ranked team played the promotion/relegation play-off, while the 9th team was relegated.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
7	Lernagorts-Ararat	18	4	2	12	11	39	−28	14
8	Shirak (O)	18	3	3	12	19	36	−17	12	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
9	Lernayin Artsakh (W)	16	3	0	13	14	37	−23	9	Withdrew and relegated to First League

Source:
(O) Play-off winners; (W) Withdrew

Results

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Shirak	1–1	Lernagorts-Ararat
Lernagorts-Ararat	1–0	Shirak

Relegation/Promotion play-off

Date	Venue	PL Club	Result	FL Club	Information
22 October	n/a	Shirak	5 - 1	Gandzasar	Shirak remains in the Premier League

See also

• 2005 Armenian First League
• 2005 Armenian Cup

External links

• RSSSF: Armenia 2005 - Premier League