2019–20 FC Ararat-Armenia Season
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The 2019–20 season was a
FC Ararat-Armenia FC Ararat-Armenia () is an Armenian professional football club based in Yerevan, founded in 2017. History It was founded in 2017 as FC Avan Academy by Ruben Hayrapetyan, on the basis of the young players of the Yerevan Football Academy gradua ...
's 2nd season in
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, of which they were defending champions. Ararat-Armenia finished the season as Armenian Premier League Champions for the second year in a row and were Runners-up to
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in the
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. In Europe, AIK knocked them out of the
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in the first qualifying round, resulting in Ararat-Armenia dropping into the
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, where they reached the playoff round before defeat to
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Season events

On 18 June, Ararat-Armenia were drawn against
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Champions AIK in the first qualifying round of the
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. The following day, 19 June, Ararat-Armenia announced the signing of
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. On 20 June, Sergi left Ararat-Armenia after his contract expired, whilst Aleksey Pustozyorov and Giovanny Martínez left the club after their contracts where ended by mutual consent. On 24 June, Ararat-Armenia announced their second signing of the summer, with Ilja Antonov joining from Hermannstadt, with Rochdi Achenteh signing the following day, and Furdjel Narsingh signed on 26 June. Zakaria Sanogo signed for Ararat-Armenia on 5 July, with Ararat-Armenia winning their first ever European match on 9 July, a 2–1 victory over AIK at home with Petros Avetisyan scoring both goals. On 13 July,
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left Ararat-Armenia by mutual consent, whilst Ararat-Armenia traveled to
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to face AIK at the
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on 17 July, losing 3–1 on the night and 4–3 on aggregate, dropping them into the
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qualifying stages. After dropping into the UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round, Ararat-Armenia were drawn against Lincoln Red Imps of the
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. The first leg took place at the Republican Stadium in
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on 23 July, finishing 2–0 to Ararat-Armenia after goals from
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and Kódjo. The return leg took place on 30 July at the Victoria Stadium in
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, with Ararat-Armenia running out 2-1 winners, 4–1 on aggregate, with both goals coming from Ogana Louis. On 31 December, Ararat-Armenia announced the signing of Marcos Pizzelli, however on 11 January, Ararat-Armenia and Pizzelli announced that he was retiring for football due to injury. On 12 January, Petros Avetisyan moved to
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. On 1 February, Ararat-Armenia announced the signing of
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. On 12 March 2020, the
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announced that all
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games had been postponed until 23 March, and that the
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Semifinal second legs had also been postponed due to the
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Squad


Out on loan


Transfers


In


Out


Loans out


Released


Friendlies


Competitions


Overall record


Armenian Supercup


Premier League


Regular season


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Championship round


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Armenian Cup


Final


UEFA Champions League


Qualifying rounds


UEFA Europa League


Qualifying rounds


Statistics


Appearances and goals

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Goal scorers


Clean sheets


Disciplinary record


References

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