Ulisses Football Club (), commonly known as Ulisses, is a defunct Armenian football club from Yerevan. The club played at the Armenian Premier League, the top division in Armenian football. They regularly used the Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium in Yerevan and occasionally the City Stadium in Abovyan as their home ground.
The club headquarters are located on Nalbandyan street 48/1, Yerevan. Like most other Armenian Premier League clubs, Ulisses FC had a reserve team that played in the Armenian First League.
In 2015–16, the club was owned by Armenian businessman Henrikh Ghazandzhyan and sponsored by the "Holiday" Group of Companies.
History 2000 – Founded as Dinamo-2000 Yerevan 2004 – Changed name to Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan (name change occurred as a result of a new sponsor) 2006 – Changed name to Ulisses FC (name change again occurred as a result of a new sponsor) 2016 – Dissolved due to both financial and non-financial shortcomings
Dinamo-2000 Yerevan The club was founded in 2000 as Dinamo-2000 Yerevan, and made their debut at the 2001 Armenian Premier League season without initially playing in the Armenian First League.
Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan In 2004, the club became known as FC Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan and took 5th place in the Armenian Premier League. In 2004 and 2005, 2 reserves teams of the club were represented in the Armenian First League: FC Dinamo-VZ Yerevan and FC Zenit Charentsavan.
Ulisses FC
In 2006, the club changed their name with the arrival of new sponsor. they occupied the 8th place at the 2006 Armenian Premier League season grabbing the chance to save their place in the top league in a decisive match with FC Dinamo Yerevan. Winning the game, Ulisses FC secured their place in the top tier for the next season. In seasons 2007 and 2008 team play was much better, and there was no need of survival games.
At the beginning of 2008, the club's department was enlarged with the Shengavit football school of Yerevan, while the Vardanank-451 Stadium of Voskehat became the training base of the club.
In 2007, they played their home games in the Kasaghi Marzik Stadium in Ashtarak. In 2009, they moved to the Mika Stadium in Yerevan.
In 2011, Ulisses FC won the Armenian championshipArmenian Premier League Standings 2011 ScoresPro.com for the first time in club history, and ended Pyunik dominance of 10 consecutive championships.
On 3 February 2016, the club declared that it will not participate in the second half of the 2015-16 Armenian Premier League season.
League and cup history Season League Armenian Cup Top goalscorer Managers Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Name League20011st9th224414184816First round20021st10th223316196312Quarterfinal20031st6th285419186919Quarterfinal20041st5th20221612418Quarterfinal20051st6th287615235127First round20061st8th285221316617-20071st7th288614214630Quarterfinal20081st6th287813192929Quarterfinal20091st3rd281657472553Semifinal Artur Kocharyan1520101st3rd281747442355Semifinal20111st1st281585382253Semifinal Giorgi Krasovski82012–131st6th42111219415045Semifinal Quarterfinal Arsen Balabekyan 102013–141st7th287417214625Quarterfinal2014–151st2nd281558433250Quarterfinal Hovhannes Goharyan92015–161st8th2802268762Quarterfinal Milutin Ivanović2
European history
Competition Pld W D L GF GA UEFA Champions League 2 0 0 2 0 2 UEFA Europa League 6 0 2 4 1 9 Total 8 0 2 6 1 11
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate 2010–11 UEFA Europa League 1Q Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv 0–0 0–1 0–1 2011–12 UEFA Europa League 1Q Ferencvárosi 0–2 0–3 0–5 2012–13 UEFA Champions League 2Q Sheriff Tiraspol 0–1 0–1 0–2 2015–16 UEFA Europa League 1Q Birkirkara 1–3 0–0 1–3 Home results are noted in bold
Honours Armenian Premier League: Champions (1): 2011 Runners-up (1): 2014–15
Last squad
Ulisses FC-2 (reserves) The Ulisses FC reserve squad played as Ulisses FC-2 in the Armenian First League. They played their home games at the Kasakhi Marzik Stadium in the town of Ashtarak.
Manager: Ara Azaryan
Managers Vagharshak Aslanyan (2000–01) Albert Sarkisyan (2002) Vachagan Khachataryan (2002) Alesha Antonyan (2002–03) Ashot Kirakosyan (2004–05) Sevada Arzumanyan (July 1, 2005 – June 30, 2006) Arsen Chilingaryan (2006–07) Souren Barseghyan (2007–08) Sevada Arzumanyan (2008–Sept 7, 2012) Karen Barseghyan (Sept 8, 2012–July 24, 2014) Suren Chakhalyan (July 25, 2014–Oct 6, 2014) Gagik Simonyan (interim) (Oct 6, 2014–Feb 28, 2015) Fyodor Shcherbachenko (Feb 28, 2015–Apr 17, 2015) Suren Chakhalyan (April 18, 2015–Sep 1, 2015) Gagik Simonyan (interim) (Sep 1, 2015–Feb 3, 2016)
References
External links
Ulisses FC at FFA.am Ulisses FC at UEFA.com (archived) Ulisses FC at EUFO.de Ulisses FC at Weltfussball.de (archived) European Football Club Ranking (archived)