Pagramian Sports Club ( ar, نادي باغراميان الرياضي; hyw, Բագրամեան մարզական միութիւն; hy, Բաղրամյան մարզական միություն) was a

Lebanese-Armenian The Armenians in Lebanon ( hy, Լիբանանահայեր, translit=Libananahayer; ar, الأرمن في لبنان; french: Arméniens du Liban) are Lebanese citizens of Armenian descent. There has been an Armenian presence in Lebanon for centur ...

sports and cultural organisation linked to the

Lebanese Communist Party The Lebanese Communist Party (LCP), abbr. PCL is a communist party in Lebanon. It was founded in 1924 by the Lebanese intellectual, writer and reporter Yusuf Yazbek and Fu'ad al-Shamali, a tobacco worker from Bikfaya. History Creation The Syr ...

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/ref>Messerlian, Zaven. ''Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934-2009''. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 28, 138, 153-154 Named after the military commander the Soviet Marshal

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, it was formed in the 1944. The club was shut down by the Lebanese government during the presidency of

Fouad Chehab Fouad Abdullah Chehab ( ar, فُؤادْ عبد الله شِهاب; 19 March 1902 – 25 April 1973) was a Lebanese general and statesman who served as President of Lebanon from 1958 to 1964. He is considered to be the founder of the Lebanese ...

in 1960. In 1969, Ararad SA was formed as a continuation of Pagramian.

History

Pagramian Sports Club (Armenian communist org) football team

Match between Pagramian and Tadamon Sour teams in 1956 at El-Buss

Pagramian was founded at the beginning of October 1944 by

Homenetmen Homenetmen ( hy, Հ.Մ.Ը.Մ., , short for hy, Հայ Մարմնակրթական Ընդհանուր Միութիւն, meaning ''Armenian General Athletic Union'') is a pan-Armenian diaspora organization devoted to sport and scouting. The motto of ...

players who decided form a new club. Other football players from Antranik and

Homenmen Homenmen ( ) is a pan-Armenian sports and Scouting organization established in 1921 in Aleppo, Syria. Its sports include football, basketball, table tennis, cycling, athletics, and many others. It has wide presence in the Armenian diaspora. Hom ...

also joined. They were affiliated to the

Lebanese Football Association The Lebanese Football Association (LFA) ( ar, الاتحاد اللبناني لكرة القدم, Al-Ittiḥād Al-Lubnānī Likurat Al-Qadam; french: Fédération Libanaise de Football) is the governing body of association football in Lebanon. ...

(LFA) from the 1945–46 season. Pagramian won the Municipal Cup, organised by the LFA, in their debut season. In 1946–47 they won the

Lebanese Second Division The Lebanese Second Division ( ar, الدوري اللبناني الدرجة الثانية) is the second division of Lebanese football. Established in 1933, it is controlled by the Lebanese Football Association. The 12 teams that participate ...

. Pagramian were finalists of the 1947

Lebanese FA Cup The Lebanon Cup (), commonly known as the Lebanese FA Cup, is a Lebanese football annual cup competition. The first edition, held in 1937, was won by Nahda. The most successful club in the competition is Ansar with 15 titles, followed by Nejmeh ...

, losing 2–1 to

Nahda The Nahda ( ar, النهضة, translit=an-nahḍa, meaning "the Awakening"), also referred to as the Arab Awakening or Enlightenment, was a cultural movement that flourished in Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire, notably in Egypt, Leb ...

. In 1949 Pagramian took part in the Beirut Committee of football clubs.''Al-Mustaqbal''
وأخبار الزمن الجميل
/ref> Ahead of the 1957 parliamentary election, Pagramian Sports Club and other anti- Tashnag (anti-ARF) Lebanese Armenian sports associations like

(affiliated with the Hunchaks), Antranik (affiliated with the Ramgavars), Veradznunt, and Tekeyan-Baykar organized a "Pan-Armenian Festival" on 22 April 1957, under the patronage of Archbishop Khat Atchabahian. Around 2,000 athletes took part in the event, which had around 25,000 spectators at the

Beirut Municipal Stadium Beirut Municipal Stadium () is an 18,000 capacity multi-purpose stadium in Beirut, Lebanon. It is currently mostly used for football matches. History The stadium was built by the French colonials in 1935. DPHB played at the inaugural game of the ...

. On 10 June 1957, the day of the election, three people (Krikor Vrtanessian, Bedros Kdjoyan and Levon Kdjoyan) were shot dead in front of the Pagramian club offices. The club blamed the Tashnag party for the killings. The Pagramian Sports Club was shut down by the Lebanese government in 1960. In 1969 the Ararad Sports Association was set up to fill the void after the dissolution of Pagramian.

Honours

** ''Runners-up (1):'' 1946–47

References

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