2019–20 Armenian Premier League
# 2019–20 Armenian Premier League

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

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On 21 February, the Football Federation of Armenia announced that FC Yerevan had withdrawn from the league due to financial and technical problems.

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.

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, 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.

## 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 $Stadium^1$ | 1,428 |
| Lori | Vanadzor | Vanadzor Football $Academy^2$ | 880 |
| Noah | Yerevan (Shengavit) | Alashkert $Stadium^3$ | 6,850 |
| Pyunik | Yerevan (Kentron) | Vazgen Sargsyan Stadium | 14,403 |
| Shirak | Gyumri | Gyumri City Stadium | 4,500 |
| $Urartu^5$ | Yerevan (Malatia-Sebastia) | Banants Stadium | 4,860 |
| Yerevan | Vanadzor | Vanadzor Football $Academy^4$ | 880 |

* $^1Gandzasar$ will play their home games at the Yerevan Football Academy Stadium in Yerevan, due to the rebuilding of their regular venue Gandzasar Stadium, Kapan.
* $^2Lori$ will play at the main training pitch of the Vanadzor Football Academy due to the rebuilding of their regular venue Vanadzor City Stadium, Vanadzor.
* $^3Noah$ will play at the Alashkert Stadium, Yerevan, instead of their regular venue Mika Stadium, Yerevan.
* $^4Yerevan$ will play 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.

### 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 | Pre-season | Sergei Boyko (Interim) | 29 July 2019 |
| Alashkert | Abraham Khashmanyan | Sacked | 4 September 2019 | | Armen Adamyan (Caretaker) | 4 September 2019 |
| Yerevan | Nebojša Petrović | Sacked | 5 September 2019 | 10th | Georgi Ghazaryan (Caretaker) | 5 September 2019 |
| Ararat Yerevan | Sergei Boyko (Interim) | Resigned | 16 September 2019 | 1st | Gagik Simonyan (Interim) | 16 September 2019 |
| Yerevan | Georgi Ghazaryan (Caretaker) | End of Caretaker Spell | 16 September 2019 | 10th | Vlad Goian | 16 September 2019 |
| Yerevan | Vlad Goian | Sacked | 4 October 2019 | 10th | António Caldas | 4 October 2019 |
| Pyunik | Aleksandr Tarkhanov | Became Vice President of Development | 30 October 2019 | 7th | Suren Chakhalyan (Caretaker) | 30 October 2019 |
| Yerevan | António Caldas | Resigned | 11 November 2019 | 10th | | |
| Urartu | Ilshat Fayzulin | Resigned | 24 November 2019 | 8th | Aleksandr Grigoryan | 24 November 2019 |
| Lori | David Campaña | Contract Expired | 2 June 2020 | 2nd | Armen Sanamyan (Caretaker) | 2 June 2020 |
| Alashkert | Armen Adamyan (Caretaker) | End of contract | 28 June 2020 | 3rd | Yegishe Melikyan | 28 June 2020 |

## 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 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 3 | Alashkert | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 20 | +13 | 31 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 4 | Ararat | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 18 | +7 | 31 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 5 | Noah | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 19 | +6 | 30 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 6 | Shirak | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 18 | +7 | 28 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 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 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 9 | Gandzasar | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 25 | −5 | 18 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 10 | Yerevan | 18 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 11 | 62 | −51 | 0 | Withdrawn |

### 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 | — |

## 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 |
| 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 | Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round |
| 5 | Lori | 27 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 35 | 33 | +2 | 40 | |
| 6 | Ararat | 27 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 31 | 36 | −5 | 33 | |

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

### 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 | – | 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 | — |

## 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 |

### Relegation round results

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

## Season statistics

### Scoring

**Top scorers**


    As of match played 14 July 2020

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

**Hat-tricks**

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Mory Kone | Shirak | Pyunik | 3-1 | 25 August 2019 |
| Denis $Mahmudov^4$ | Pyunik | Yerevan | 8-2 | 25 November 2019 |
| Jonel $Désiré^5$ | Lori | Yerevan | 8-0 | 1 December 2019 |

* $^4$ 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 |
| 2 | Valerio Vimercati | Noah | 8 |
| 4 | Vardan Shapperi | Lori | 7 |
| 5 | Sergei Revyakin | Ararat Yerevan | 6 |
| 6 | Ognjen Čančarević | Alashkert | 4 |
| 7 | Andrija Dragojević | Pyunik | 3 |
| 7 | Aram Ayrapetyan | Urartu | 3 |
| 9 | Gevorg Kasparov | Gandzasar Kapan | 2 |
| 9 | Grigor Meliksetyan | Gandzasar Kapan | 2 |
| 9 | Anatoliy Ayvazov | Urartu | 2 |
| 9 | Maksim Shvagirev | Noah | 2 |
