1992 in Armenian football

1992 in Armenian football was the first season of independent football after the split-up from the Soviet Union. The league existed of two groups with 12 teams each. The top six of each group qualified for the Championship stage, while the others participated in the relegation stage. FC Shirak and Homenetmen Yerevan shared the championship as they both finished on 37 points in the Championship stage.

1992 in Armenian football
Premier League champions
Shirak Homenetmen Yerevan
First League champions
FC Ararat
Armenian Cup winners
Banants Kotayk

Premier League

• Koshkagorts Yerevan had its name changed to Shengavit FC.
• Pahatsoyagorts Noyemberyan had its name changed to Aznavour FC.

First stage, Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ararat Yerevan	22	17	3	2	84	18	+66	37	Qualification for the Championship stage
2	Banants Kotayk	22	17	3	2	66	19	+47	37
3	Homenetmen Yerevan	22	14	5	3	58	26	+32	33
4	Syunik Kapan	22	13	5	4	63	43	+20	31
5	Homenmen-FIMA Yerevan	22	9	6	7	33	26	+7	24
6	Nairi	22	8	5	9	27	26	+1	21
7	Malatia	22	7	6	9	34	42	−8	20	Qualification for the Relegation stage
8	Zoravan Yegvard	22	8	1	13	39	43	−4	17
9	Lori Vanadzor	22	6	5	11	28	50	−22	17
10	Nig Aparan	22	5	1	16	21	60	−39	11
11	Alashkert Martuni	22	3	2	17	32	77	−45	8
12	Akhtamar	22	3	2	17	14	69	−55	8

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First stage, Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Shirak	22	18	3	1	76	8	+68	39	Qualification for the Championship stage
2	Kotayk	22	16	3	3	58	23	+35	35
3	Van Yerevan	22	15	3	4	67	26	+41	33
4	Kilikia	22	14	3	5	76	29	+47	31
5	Zvartnots Echmiadzin	22	9	8	5	51	35	+16	26
6	KanAZ Yerevan	22	10	5	7	49	37	+12	25
7	Kasagh	22	8	6	8	32	37	−5	22	Qualification for the Relegation stage
8	Shengavit	22	7	6	9	31	42	−11	20
9	Impuls	22	5	1	16	30	60	−30	11
10	Aznavour	22	3	5	14	25	47	−22	11
11	Araks Armavir	22	2	3	17	14	78	−64	7
12	Debed	22	1	2	19	25	112	−87	4

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Second stage, Championship Group

The qualified teams kept their head-to-head results to participate in the Championship stage, resulting in the following starting table.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Shirak	10	8	2	0	23	3	+20	18
2	Homenetmen Yerevan	10	6	3	1	25	12	+13	15
3	Banants Kotayk	10	6	2	2	18	11	+7	14
4	Van Yerevan	10	6	1	3	16	13	+3	13
5	Ararat Yerevan	10	5	3	2	17	11	+6	13
6	Kotayk	10	5	2	3	15	11	+4	12
7	Syunik Kapan	10	3	3	4	19	20	−1	9
8	Kilikia	10	3	2	5	15	19	−4	8
9	Zvartnots Echmiadzin	10	1	4	5	13	22	−9	6
10	Homenmen-FIMA Yerevan	10	1	3	6	7	18	−11	5
11	Nairi	10	0	4	6	3	17	−14	4
12	KanAZ Yerevan	10	0	3	7	12	26	−14	3

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Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Shirak (C)	22	17	3	2	58	14	+44	37	Champions
1	Homenetmen Yerevan (C)	22	17	3	2	75	31	+44	37
3	Banants Kotayk	22	17	2	3	77	26	+51	36
4	Ararat Yerevan	22	15	4	3	78	15	+63	34
5	Van Yerevan	22	11	1	10	48	53	−5	23
6	Syunik Kapan	22	8	3	11	42	47	−5	19
7	Kotayk Abovyan	22	7	3	12	32	45	−13	17
8	Nairi	22	6	5	11	26	52	−26	17
9	Homenmen-FIMA Yerevan	22	6	4	12	39	42	−3	16
10	Zvartnots Echmiadzin	22	3	5	14	30	61	−31	11
11	KanAZ Yerevan	22	3	3	16	29	62	−33	9
12	Kilikia	22	3	2	17	21	107	−86	8

Source:
(C) Champion.

Second stage, Relegation Group

The qualified teams kept their head-to-head results to participate in the Championship stage, resulting in the following starting table.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
13	Kasagh	10	7	2	1	21	3	+18	16
14	Zoravan Yegvard	10	7	1	2	27	9	+18	15
15	Shengavit	10	6	3	1	20	6	+14	15
16	Malatia	10	5	3	2	20	14	+6	13
17	Lori Vanadzor	10	5	1	4	21	15	+6	11
18	Impuls	10	5	1	4	17	13	+4	11
19	Aznavour	10	3	4	3	17	12	+5	10
20	Nig Aparan	10	4	1	5	12	19	−7	9
21	Akhtamar	10	3	1	6	6	19	−13	7
22	Alashkert Martuni	10	2	1	7	10	20	−10	5
23	Araks Armavir	10	2	1	7	6	25	−19	5
24	Debed	10	1	1	8	9	31	−22	3

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Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
13	Kasagh Ashtarak	22	15	3	4	60	26	+34	33	Join the Armenian Premier League for 1993
14	Shengavit	22	13	5	4	53	31	+22	31
15	Impuls	22	13	4	5	54	33	+21	30
16	Malatia	22	11	5	6	58	37	+21	27	Join the Armenian First League for 1993
17	Aznavour	22	11	5	6	45	29	+16	27
18	Zoravan Yegvard	22	10	4	8	49	39	+10	24
19	Lori Vanadzor	22	9	4	9	45	50	−5	22
20	Nig Aparan	22	6	3	13	35	52	−17	15
21	Araks Armavir	22	5	5	12	27	52	−25	15
22	Akhtamar	22	5	5	12	26	47	−21	15
23	Debed	22	4	5	13	32	65	−33	13
24	Alashkert Martuni	22	5	2	15	41	64	−23	12

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Top goalscorers

		Player	Team	Goals
1		Vahe Yaghmuryan	FC Ararat Yerevan	38
2		Ashot Barseghyan	Banants Kotayk	34
3		Karen Markosyan	FC Ararat Yerevan	29
4		Sergey Hayrbabamyan	Impulse FC	28
		Gegham Hovhannisyan	FC Van Yerevan	28
6		Rafael Hakobyan	Impulse FC	27
7		Poghos Galstyan	Homenetmen Yerevan	26

First League

First stage, Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Geghard	18	15	0	3	54	19	+35	30	Qualify for Championship stage
2	FC Ararat	18	11	3	4	39	15	+24	25
3	Aragats	18	11	3	4	37	14	+23	25
4	Almast	18	10	3	5	41	27	+14	23	Qualify for Relegation stage
5	Hachen	18	8	6	4	32	25	+7	22
6	Tufagorts	18	6	2	10	30	32	−2	14
7	Vanadzor	18	5	3	10	17	31	−14	13
8	Dinamo Yerevan	18	2	8	8	20	27	−7	12
9	RUOR Yerevan	18	2	7	9	19	39	−20	11
10	Akhtala	18	1	3	14	18	68	−50	5

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First stage, Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Karin	18	11	5	2	52	25	+27	27	Qualify for Championship stage
2	Kumayri	18	11	2	5	33	18	+15	24
3	Artashat	18	10	3	5	39	23	+16	23
4	Luys Ararat	18	8	5	5	27	23	+4	21	Qualify for Relegation stage
5	Urmia Masis	18	7	6	5	25	16	+9	20
6	Kaen Ijevan	18	7	3	8	25	24	+1	17
7	Lernagorts Vardenis	18	6	4	8	31	36	−5	16
8	Moush Charentsavan	18	5	2	11	24	44	−20	12
9	Momik	18	3	5	10	17	43	−26	11
10	Shinarar	18	3	3	12	17	40	−23	9

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Second stage, Championship Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	FC Ararat	10	9	0	1	37	12	+25	18	Promoted to Armenian Premier League
2	Aragats	10	8	0	2	15	5	+10	16
3	Karin	10	5	1	4	19	15	+4	11
4	Artashat	10	4	0	6	16	26	−10	8
5	Kumayri	10	3	1	6	14	20	−6	7
6	Geghard	10	0	0	10	6	29	−23	0

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Second stage, Relegation Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
7	Luys-Ararat	26	17	4	5	61	25	+36	38
8	Almast	26	17	3	6	71	42	+29	37
9	Kaen Ijevan	26	17	2	7	52	29	+23	36
10	Moush Charentsavan	26	14	3	9	60	40	+20	31
11	Lernagorts Vardenis	26	12	4	10	51	45	+6	28
12	Hachen	26	9	9	8	39	44	−5	27
13	Urmia Masis	26	10	6	10	41	33	+8	26
14	Vanadzor	26	11	3	12	35	38	−3	25
15	RUOR Yerevan	26	9	7	10	45	49	−4	25
16	Dinamo Yerevan	26	8	9	9	37	42	−5	25
17	Tufagorts	26	8	5	13	41	59	−18	21
18	Momik	26	5	7	14	28	52	−24	17
19	Akhtala	26	6	3	17	41	72	−31	15	Relegated to Armenian Second League
20	Shinarar	26	4	5	17	27	59	−32	13

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Armenian Cup

Quarterfinals

FC Kotayk	1 – 2 1 – 0	Homenetmen Yerevan

Banants Kotayk	2 – 1 0 – 0	Kilikia

Van Yerevan	2 – 0 5 – 1	Zvartnots Echmiadzin

Shirak	4 – 0 7 – 2	Alashkert Martuni

Semifinals

Homenetmen Yerevan	3 – 0 0 – 2	Shirak

Van Yerevan	1 – 4 1 – 2	Banants Kotayk

Final

Banants Kotayk	2 – 0	Homenetmen Yerevan

National Team

• Armenia played one international game in 1992. [1]

Armenia vs Moldova

1992-10-14

Armenia	0 – 0	Moldova

Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Balaian (ARM)

ARMENIA: GK Harutyun Abrahamyan DF Ashot Khachatryan DF Yervand Krbachyan DF Sargis Karapetyan DF Sargis Hovsepyan MF Artashes Adamyan  62' MF Aramayis Tonoyan  67' MF Arsen Avetisyan  69' MF Samuel Kostandyan  81' FW Mkrtich Hovhannisyan FW Armen Shahgeldyan Substitutions: MF Ara Nigoyan  62' MF Arthur Petrosyan  67' MF Araik Avazyan  69' FW Hovhannes Tahmazyan  81' Manager: Eduard Markarov

MOLDOVA: GK Vasile Coşelev DF Alexandru Guzun DF Serghei Stroenco DF Ruslan Roic DF Emil Caras MF Alexandru Spiridon  83' MF Iurie Skala  85' MF Alexei Skala  65' MF Igor Oprea  58' FW Valeriu Căpătână  78' FW Vladimir Kosse  82' Substitutions: MF Serghei Secu  83' MF Igor Ovcearenko  85' MF Radu Rebeja  65' MF Igor Cuciuc  58' FW Serghei Clescenco  78' FW Iurie Miterev  82' Manager: Ion Caras

Notes

1. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/arme-intres.html

External links

• RSSSF: Armenia 1992