Home stadium
Since the mid-1990s, football teams from Karabakh started taking part in some domestic competitions in
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ...
.
Lernayin Artsakh is the football club that represents the city of Stepanakert. The Artsakh football league was launched in 2009.
The
Artsakh national football team
The Artsakh national football team ( hy, Արցախի ֆուտբոլի հավաքական), until 2017 known as Nagorno-Karabakh national football team, is the national representative of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), which is intern ...
was formed in 2012 and played their first competitive match against the
Abkhazia national football team
The Abkhazia national football team is the team representing the partially recognised state of Abkhazia. They are not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA, and therefore cannot compete for the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Championship.
They com ...
in
Sokhumi
Sukhumi (russian: Суху́м(и), ) or Sokhumi ( ka, სოხუმი, ), also known by its Abkhaz name Aqwa ( ab, Аҟәа, ''Aqwa''), is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the capital and largest city of ...
, a match that ended with a result of 1–1 draw.
Armenia’s newly formed second national football team to face Abkhazia
/ref> The return match between the unrecognized teams took place at the Stepan Shahumyan Republican Stadium, on 21 October 2012, when the team of Nagorno-Karabakh defeated the Abkhazian team with a result of 3–0.
Gallery
File:2017-07-26 - Stepanakert (Artsakh) 18.jpg, The entrance to the stadium
File:Stepanakert Stadium in 2017 (Artsakh).jpg, General view
File:2017-07-26 - Stepanakert (Artsakh) 24.jpg, The stadium in 2017
References
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Nagorno-Karabakh
Football venues in Armenia
Buildings and structures in Stepanakert
Sports venues completed in 1956
1956 establishments in the Soviet Union
Artsakh FC
Sport in the Republic of Artsakh