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

• Dinamo Yerevan and FC Mika are promoted.
• Tsement Ararat changed their name to Araks Ararat.
• FC Yerevan and Erebuni FC both withdrew before start of the season.
• As a result, Kilikia who were originally relegated kept their place.
• FC Lernagorts Kapan were additionally promoted to have an eight team competition.
• The merger between Kasakh and Mika was dissolved, causing Mika to stay in the Premier League and FC Kasakh to be disbanded. FC Kasakh still keeps its name, logo, history and statistics, while FC Mika becomes a new club, established in 1999.

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Araks Ararat	28	19	4	5	65	33	61
2	Ararat Yerevan	28	18	5	5	50	23	59
3	Shirak	28	17	7	4	64	21	58
4	Mika Ashtarak	28	15	4	9	45	31	49
5	Zvartnots-AAL	28	11	8	9	44	41	41
6	Kilikia	28	9	3	16	49	56	30
7	Lernagorts Kapan	28	3	3	22	29	82	12
8	Dinamo Yerevan	28	1	4	23	19	78	7
9	Yerevan	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX
10	Erebuni	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX

	Champions.
	Relegated to Armenian First League 2001.
	Withdrew before start of the season.

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

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, Dinamo-2000 Yerevan, and Tavush Ijevan are introduced to the league.
• Kotayk returned to professional football.

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Armenicum	16	12	3	1	55	12	39
2	Karabakh Yerevan	16	12	2	2	36	14	38
3	Lori	16	9	2	5	34	24	29
4	Kotayk	16	9	1	9	36	27	28
5	Arpa	16	7	5	4	28	16	26
6	Dinamo-2000 Yerevan	16	5	3	8	23	32	18
7	FIMA Yerevan	16	3	3	10	25	35	12
8	Tavush Ijevan	16	2	4	10	22	52	10
9	FK Gyumri	16	1	1	14	11	58	4
10	Dvin Artashat	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX
11	Nairit	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX
12	Moush Kasagh	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX
13	Karabakh-2 Yerevan	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX

	Promoted to the Armenian Premier League 2001.
	Withdrew before start of the season.

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

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