Ulisses Football Club (), commonly known as Ulisses, is a defunct

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club from

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. The club played at the

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, the top division in Armenian football. They regularly used the

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in Yerevan and occasionally the City Stadium in

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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

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. 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

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

: ''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 The 2006 Armenian Premier League season was the fifteenth since its establishment, and started on 14 April 2006. The last matches were played on 9 November 2006. FC Pyunik were the defending champions. Participating teams *FC Ararat Yerevan, Ara ...

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 Kasakhi Marzik Stadium () is a football stadium in Ashtarak, Armenia. It was opened in 1971 and is the former home ground of Mika, Ulisses, Aragats and Kasakh FC. The capacity of the stadium is 3,600. The administrator of the stadium is Armen ...

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. In 2009, they moved to the

Mika Stadium Mika Stadium (), is a association football, football stadium in Yerevan, Armenia, built in 2006–2007 and opened in 2008. The capacity of the stadium is 7,000 It has served as the home ground of Ulisses FC, FC Lokomotiv Yerevan, FC Noah and FC W ...

in Yerevan. In 2011, Ulisses FC won the Armenian championship 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

European history

*Home results are noted in bold

Honours

: ** 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

. They played their home games at the Kasakhi Marzik Stadium in the town of

. ''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 Souren Barseghyan (; born 12 October 1959) is an Armenian association football manager, born in Yerevan, who managed the Armenia national team during UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying in 1998-99. He was the head coach of Mika Yerevan. Barseghyan also ma ...

(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)