2019–20 Armenian Premier League

The 2019–20 Armenian Premier League season was the 28th since its establishment.

Armenian Premier League

Season	2019–20
Dates	2 August 2019-14 July 2020
Champions	Ararat-Armenia
Champions League	Ararat-Armenia
Europa League	Noah Alashkert Shirak
Matches played	125
Goals scored	329 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mory Kone (23 goals)
Biggest home win	Lori 8–0 Yerevan (1 December 2019)
Biggest away win	Yerevan 2–8 Pyunik (25 November 2019)
Highest scoring	Yerevan 2–8 Pyunik (25 November 2019)
Longest winning run	4 matches Alashkert
Longest unbeaten run	10 matches Shirak
Longest winless run	18 matches Yerevan
Longest losing run	18 matches Yerevan
← 2018–19 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of 14 July 2020.

Season events

On 21 February, the Football Federation of Armenia announced that FC Yerevan had withdrawn from the league due to financial and technical problems.^[1]

On 12 March 2020, the Football Federation of Armenia announced that all Armenian Premier League games had been postponed until 23 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

On 10 July, Lori announced that 17 of the players and staff had tested positive for COVID-19, and as a result the whole club was now isolating,^[3] and as a result their last game of the season, scheduled for 14 July against Ararat Yerevan was cancelled with the points not being awarded to either team.^[4]

Teams

Yerevan

Gandzasar

Lori

Shirak

Yerevan teams:
Alashkert
Ararat
Ararat-Armenia
Noah
Urartu
Pyunik
Yerevan

Locations of the 2019–20 Armenian Premier League teams

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Alashkert	Yerevan (Shengavit)	Alashkert Stadium	6,850
Ararat	Yerevan (Kentron)	Vazgen Sargsyan Stadium	14,403
Ararat-Armenia	Yerevan (Avan)	Yerevan Football Academy Stadium	1,428
Gandzasar	Yerevan (Avan)	Yerevan Football Academy Stadium1	1,428
Lori	Vanadzor	Vanadzor Football Academy2	880
Noah	Yerevan (Shengavit)	Alashkert Stadium3	6,850
Pyunik	Yerevan (Kentron)	Vazgen Sargsyan Stadium	14,403
Shirak	Gyumri	Gyumri City Stadium	4,500
Urartu5	Yerevan (Malatia-Sebastia)	Banants Stadium	4,860
Yerevan	Vanadzor	Vanadzor Football Academy4	880

• ¹Gandzasar played their home games at the Yerevan Football Academy Stadium in Yerevan, due to the rebuilding of their regular venue Gandzasar Stadium, Kapan.
• ²Lori played at the main training pitch of the Vanadzor Football Academy due to the rebuilding of their regular venue Vanadzor City Stadium, Vanadzor.
• ³Noah played at the Alashkert Stadium, Yerevan, instead of their regular venue Mika Stadium, Yerevan.
• ⁴Yerevan played at the main training pitch of the Vanadzor Football Academy, instead of their original venue Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan.
• ⁵Banants renamed Urartu FC on 2 August 2019.^[5]

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alashkert	Yegishe Melikyan	Artak Grigoryan	Joma	Bagratour, Huawei
Ararat	Gagik Simonyan (Interim)	Artak Aleksanyan	Nike	AWI International
Ararat-Armenia	Vardan Minasyan	Dmitry Guz	Joma	Tashir Group
Gandzasar	Armen Petrosyan	Gevorg Nranyan	Adidas	ZCMC
Lori	Armen Sanamyan (Caretaker)	Artyom Khachaturov	Puma	TotoGaming
Noah	Vadim Boreț	David Manoyan	Umbro
Pyunik	Suren Chakhalyan (Caretaker)	Karlen Mkrtchyan	Puma	TotoGaming
Shirak	Vardan Bichakhchyan	Aghvan Davoyan	Fourteen
Urartu	Aleksandr Grigoryan	Vahagn Ayvazyan	Jako
Yerevan			Kipsta

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointmentr
Ararat Yerevan	Sergei Bulatov	Resigned	29 July 2019[6]	Pre-season	Sergei Boyko (Interim)	29 July 2019[6]
Alashkert	Abraham Khashmanyan	Sacked	4 September 2019[7]		Armen Adamyan (Caretaker)	4 September 2019[7]
Yerevan	Nebojša Petrović	Sacked	5 September 2019[8]	10th	Georgi Ghazaryan (Caretaker)	5 September 2019[9]
Ararat Yerevan	Sergei Boyko (Interim)	Resigned	16 September 2019[10]	1st	Gagik Simonyan (Interim)	16 September 2019[10]
Yerevan	Georgi Ghazaryan (Caretaker)	End of Caretaker Spell	16 September 2019[9]	10th	Vlad Goian	16 September 2019[11]
Yerevan	Vlad Goian	Sacked	4 October 2019[12]	10th	António Caldas	4 October 2019[12]
Pyunik	Aleksandr Tarkhanov	Became Vice President of Development	30 October 2019[13]	7th	Suren Chakhalyan (Caretaker)	30 October 2019[13]
Yerevan	António Caldas	Resigned	11 November 2019[14]	10th
Urartu	Ilshat Fayzulin	Resigned	24 November 2019[15]	8th	Aleksandr Grigoryan	24 November 2019[16]
Lori	David Campaña	Contract Expired	2 June 2020[17]	2nd	Armen Sanamyan (Caretaker)	2 June 2020[18]
Alashkert	Armen Adamyan (Caretaker)	End of contract	28 June 2020[19]	3rd	Yegishe Melikyan	28 June 2020[19]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ararat-Armenia	18	11	3	4	33	15	+18	36	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Lori	18	9	5	4	27	19	+8	32
3	Alashkert	18	9	4	5	33	20	+13	31
4	Ararat	18	9	4	5	25	18	+7	31
5	Noah	18	9	3	6	25	19	+6	30
6	Shirak	18	8	4	6	25	18	+7	28
7	Pyunik	18	7	2	9	35	36	−1	23	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	Urartu	18	6	5	7	22	24	−2	23
9	Gandzasar	18	4	6	8	20	25	−5	18
10	Yerevan	18	0	0	18	11	62	−51	0	Withdrawn[1]

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Play-off (only if deciding champion); 3) Matches won; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head matches won; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Head-to-head away goals scored; 9) Goal difference; 10) Goals scored.^[20]

Results

Home \ Away	ALA	ARA	AAR	GAN	LOR	NOA	PYU	SHI	URA	YER
Alashkert	—	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	5–1
Ararat	1–1	—	0–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	4–2	2–1	1–0	1–0
Ararat-Armenia	2–0	1–0	—	3–1	0–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	7–2
Gandzasar	2–2	0–1	2–1	—	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–4	2–0
Lori	2–1	1–4	2–0	2–1	—	1–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	8–0
Noah	1–2	2–0	1–2	2–1	3–1	—	4–2	0–0	2–0	3–1
Pyunik	0–3	1–4	0–3	2–0	3–1	1–2	—	1–0	1–2	4–1
Shirak	1–3	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	3–0	3–1	—	3–1	2–1
Urartu	2–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–3	2–2	—	3–0
Yerevan	0–3	1–3	1–2	0–3	0–1	0–2	2–8	1–4	0–1	—

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

Championship round

Championship round league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ararat-Armenia (C)	28	15	7	6	45	23	+22	52	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Noah	28	14	6	8	37	27	+10	48	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round[a]
3	Alashkert	28	14	5	9	51	31	+20	47	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
4	Shirak	28	13	7	8	40	30	+10	46
5	Lori	27	10	10	7	35	33	+2	40	[b]
6	Ararat	27	9	6	12	31	36	−5	33

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Play-off (only if deciding champion); 3) Matches won; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head matches won; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Head-to-head away goals scored; 9) Goal difference; 10) Goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. team qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round by winning the 2019–20 Armenian Cup.
2. Match between Lori and Ararat Yerevan was cancelled on 10 July, with no points being awarded.^[4]

Championship round results

Home \ Away	ALA	ARA	AAR	LOR	NOA	SHI
Alashkert	—	2–1	1–2	5–1	0–1	1–2
Ararat	1–3	—	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–4
Ararat-Armenia	0–0	4–2	—	0–0	2–0	1–1
Lori	0–2	–[4]	2–1	—	2–2	1–1
Noah	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	—	4–0
Shirak	2–4	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	—

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

Relegation round

Relegation round league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Urartu	22	8	6	8	26	27	−1	30
2	Pyunik	22	8	2	12	39	42	−3	26
3	Gandzasar	22	6	7	9	25	29	−4	25

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Play-off (only if deciding champion); 3) Matches won; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head matches won; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Head-to-head away goals scored; 9) Goal difference; 10) Goals scored.

Relegation round results

Home \ Away	GAN	PYU	URA
Gandzasar	—	1–0	1–1
Pyunik	2–3	—	1–2
Urartu	1–0	0–1	—

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

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

As of match played 14 July 2020^[21]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mory Kone	Shirak	23
2	Jonel Désiré	Lori	12
3	Aleksandar Glišić	Alashkert	11
	Maksim Mayrovich	Noah
5	Denis Mahmudov	Pyunik	9
	Mailson Lima	Ararat-Armenia
	Gustavo Marmentini	Alashkert
8	Vladimir Azarov	Noah	8
	Thiago Galvão	Alashkert
10	Yevgeni Kobzar	Urartu	7
	Ramazan Isayev	Yerevan/Ararat
	Yusuf Otubanjo	Ararat-Armenia

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Mory Kone	Shirak	Pyunik	3-1	25 August 2019	[22]
Denis Mahmudov4	Pyunik	Yerevan	8-2	25 November 2019	[23]
Jonel Désiré5	Lori	Yerevan	8-0	1 December 2019	[24]

• ⁴ Player scored 4 goals
• ⁵ Player scored 5 goals

Clean sheets

As of match played 14 July 2020

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Dmitry Abakumov	Ararat-Armenia	10
2	Vsevolod Yermakov	Shirak	8
	Valerio Vimercati	Noah
4	Vardan Shapperi	Lori	7
5	Sergei Revyakin	Ararat Yerevan	6
6	Ognjen Čančarević	Alashkert	4
7	Andrija Dragojević	Pyunik	3
	Aram Ayrapetyan	Urartu
9	Gevorg Kasparov	Gandzasar Kapan	2
	Grigor Meliksetyan	Gandzasar Kapan
	Anatoliy Ayvazov	Urartu
	Maksim Shvagirev	Noah

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External links

• Official website
• UEFA