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 Relegated to the Armenian First League
13 Kilikia (E) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Expelled after playing 1 match
Source:
(C) Champion; (E) Expelled.

Top goalscorers
PlayerTeamGoals
1 Arman KaramyanPyunik21
2 Hayk HakobyanSpartak Yerevan16
3 Mher AvanesyanZvartnots-AAL15
4 Aram HakobyanSpartak Yerevan15

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.
Source:

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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