2001 in Armenian football

2001 in Armenian football
Premier League champions
Pyunik
First League champions
Malatia
Armenian Cup winners
Pyunik

Premier League

• FC Armenicum, Karabakh Yerevan, Lori Vanadzor, and FC KotaykFC Armenicum were dissolved and yielded their place to the revived FC Pyunik.
• Newly established Dinamo-2000 Yerevan are allowed to participate in the premier league without competing in the Armenian First League first.
• On August 20, Araks Ararat FC was dissolved. The rights to participate in the Premier League were granted to the newly founded club Spartak Yerevan.
• Banants were relocated from the village of Kotayk to Yerevan. Despite not participating as a separate team in the 2000 Armenian First League, the club was also allowed to participate in the 2001 Armenian Premier League season.
• Kilikia did not pay entrance fee and refused to play twice, leading to their expulsion. At the end of the season they were also relegated along with Lori
• Karabakh were relocated from Stepanakert to Yerevan.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Pyunik (C)	22	17	2	3	77	23	+54	53	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Zvartnots-AAL	22	16	0	6	52	21	+31	48	Qualification for the UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Spartak Yerevan	22	15	3	4	57	13	+44	48
4	Shirak	22	14	5	3	52	19	+33	47	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup first round
5	Ararat Yerevan	22	13	3	6	42	22	+20	42
6	Mika Ashtarak	22	12	5	5	44	20	+24	41
7	Banants	22	10	4	8	46	28	+18	34
8	Lernagorts Kapan	22	5	3	14	25	63	−38	18
9	Dinamo-2000	22	4	4	14	18	48	−30	16
10	Kotayk	22	3	3	16	19	65	−46	12
11	Karabakh Yerevan	22	2	6	14	19	63	−44	12
12	Lori Vanadzor	22	1	2	19	17	83	−66	5	Relegation to First League
13	Kilikia (E)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Expelled

Source:
(C) Champions; (E) Expelled
Notes:

Top goalscorers

		Player	Team	Goals
1		Arman Karamyan	Pyunik	21
2		Hayk Hakobyan	Spartak Yerevan	16
3		Mher Avanesyan	Zvartnots-AAL	15
4		Aram Hakobyan	Spartak Yerevan	15

First League

• Malatia and Kasakh returned to professional football.
• Armavir returned to professional football under the name Karmrakhayt Armavir.
• FC Gyumri changed their name back to Aragats FC.
• Pyunik-2 were added to the Armenian First League to make an 8-team competition.

First stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Malatia	14	10	3	1	39	14	+25	33	Qualification to Championship group
2	FIMA Yerevan	14	10	2	2	38	17	+21	32
3	Pyunik-2	14	9	2	3	40	12	+28	29
4	Aragats	14	9	1	4	25	18	+7	28
5	Kasakh	14	6	2	6	30	25	+5	20	Qualification to Bottom group
6	Dinamo Yerevan	14	5	0	9	30	32	−2	15
7	Karmrakhayt	14	1	1	12	10	58	−48	4
8	Tavush	14	0	1	13	6	42	−36	1
9	Arpa	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0	Withdrew before start of the season
10	Dinamo-2 Yerevan	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0	Dropped since its parent team will participate instead.

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Second stage

• Teams kept head-to-head results of preliminary stage in both groups.
• Tavush Ijevan withdrew before the start of the second stage

Promotion Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Malatia	12	8	3	1	26	12	+14	27	Champions, promotion to Armenian Premier League.
2	FIMA Yerevan	12	5	2	5	15	15	0	17
3	Pyunik-2	12	3	5	4	14	15	−1	14
4	Aragats	12	2	2	8	8	21	−13	8

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Bottom Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
5	Dinamo Yerevan	10	8	0	2	35	12	+23	24
6	Kasakh	10	8	0	2	30	17	+13	24
7	Karmrakhayt	10	1	1	8	12	35	−23	4
8	Tavush	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0	Withdrew before start of the second stage.

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External links

• RSSSF: Armenia 2001