Sevan Football Club ( hy, Սևան Ֆորտբոլային Ակումբ), formerly Junior Sevan Football Club, is a football club based in Sevan, Armenia. It is currently the only football club that represents the

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of Armenia.

History

Sevan Football Club was founded in 2018 as ''Junior Sevan Football Club'', in the town of Sevan. In its first year of foundation, Junior Sevan applied and took part in the

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. Even though it won the 2018–19 league season, the club was not granted a license for promotion to the

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for not having met the required standards. On 25th of June, 2019, the club announced that the name was changed to ''Sevan FC''. After playing three seasons in the lower Armenian league, they were finally able to get promoted to the

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by winning the

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. On 1 December 2021, the

Football Federation of Armenia The Football Federation of Armenia (FFA) ( hy, Հայաստանի Ֆուտբոլի Ֆեդերացիա, ''Hayastani Futboli Federats’ia'') is the governing body of association football in Armenia. Its headquarters are located in Yerevan. The Fe ...

Disciplinary Committee voted in favor to remove Sevan from the Armenian Premier League after they failed to turn up for two games in a row, against Alashkert and

BKMA Yerevan BKMA Yerevan ( hy, ԲԿՄԱ Երևան or hy, Բանակի Կենտրոնական Մարզական Ակումբ Երևան; ''Banaki Kentronakan Marzakan Akumb Yerevan''), meaning ''Central Sport Club of the Army Yerevan'', is an Armenian footb ...

. As a result, all of Sevan's results were excluded from the championship table.

League and cup

Players

Current squad

Managerial history

Syarhey Herasimets Syarhyey Ryhoravich Hyerasimets ( be, Сяргей Рыгоравіч Герасімец; russian: link=no, Серге́й Григорьевич Герасимец; 13 October 1965 – 26 September 2021) was a Belarusian professional football ...

(1 August 2018 – 12 February 2019) * Armen Ghulinyan (12 February 2019 – 26 April 2019) *

Armen Sanamyan Armen Sanamyan ( hy, Արմեն Սանամյան; born 1 February 1966) is an Armenian professional football coach and former player. Managerial career On 2 June 2020, Sanamyan was announced as caretaker manager of Armenian club Lori Lori may r ...

(26 April 2019 – 31 July 2019) *

Vitali Culibaba Vitali Culibaba (born 26 January 1971) is a retired Moldovan football defender In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scor ...

(31 July 2019 – 30 August 2019) *

(31 August 2019 – 6 September 2020) *

Armen Shahgeldyan Armen Andranik Shahgeldyan ( hy, Արմեն Անդրանիկի Շահգելդյան; born 28 August 1973) is an Armenian football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Armenian club Sevan FC. He played as a striker for the ...

(7 September 2020 – present)

References

Sevan FC Sevan 2018 establishments in Armenia Association football clubs established in 2018 {{Armenia-footyclub-stub