2000 in Armenian football

2000 in Armenian football was the ninth season of independent football after the split-up from the Soviet Union. The Armenian Premier League for 2000 existed of 8 teams of which the lowest ranked teams would relegate to the Armenian First League. The seventh ranked team would enter the promotion/relegation play-off with the second ranked team of the First League. However it was decided that none of the Premier League teams would be relegated and four clubs were promoted from the First League, as well as FC Banants that was given a place at the highest level for the 2001 season. In the last few weeks Ararat, Zvartnots-AAL, Dinamo and Mika all refused to play once or more times as they were demanding fair play and claiming that referees penalised them repeatedly in favour of Araks that eventually won the title due to the awarded 3-0 victories in their favour.

2000 in Armenian football
Premier League champions
Araks Ararat
First League champions
Armenicum
Armenian Cup winners
Mika Ashtarak

Premier League
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Araks Ararat (C) 28 19 4 5 65 33 +32 61 Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2 Ararat Yerevan 28 18 5 5 50 23 +27 59 Qualification for the UEFA Cup qualifying round
3 Shirak 28 17 7 4 64 21 +43 58 Qualification for the Intertoto Cup first round
4 Mika 28 15 4 9 45 31 +14 49 Qualification for the UEFA Cup qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
5 Zvartnots-AAL 28 11 8 9 44 41 +3 41
6 Kilikia 28 9 3 16 49 56 −7 30
7 Lernagorts Kapan 28 3 3 22 29 82 −53 12
8 Dinamo Yerevan (R) 28 1 4 23 19 78 −59 7 Relegated to the Armenian First League
9 Yerevan (W) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew before start of the season
10 Erebuni-Homenmen (W) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated; (W) Withdrew.
Notes:
  1. Winners of 2001 Armenian Cup.

Top goalscorers
PlayerTeamGoals
1 Ara HakobyanAraks Ararat21
2 Tigran YesayanArarat Yerevan17
3 Samvel NikolyanMika Ashtarak15
Artur PetrosyanShirak15
Arman KaramyanKilikia15

First League
  • FC Armenicum and Tavush Ijevan are introduced to the league.
  • Kotayk returned to professional football.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion
1 Armenicum 16 12 3 1 55 12 +43 39 Champions, promotion to Armenian Premier League.
2 Karabakh Yerevan 16 12 2 2 36 14 +22 38 Promotion to Armenian Premier League.
3 Lori 16 9 2 5 34 24 +10 29
4 Kotayk 16 9 1 6 36 27 +9 28
5 Arpa 16 7 5 4 28 16 +12 26
6 Dinamo-2 Yerevan 16 5 3 8 23 32 −9 18
7 FIMA 16 3 3 10 25 35 −10 12
8 Tavush 16 2 4 10 22 52 −30 10
9 Gyumri 16 1 1 14 11 58 −47 4
10 Dvin 0 - - - - - — 0 Withdrew before start of the season.
11 Moush Kasakh 0 - - - - - — 0
12 Nairit 0 - - - - - — 0
13 Alashkert 0 - - - - - — 0
14 Karabakh-2 Yerevan 0 - - - - - — 0 Dropped since its parent team will participate instead.
Source:

Armenia Cup
Quarter finals
FC Shirak1 - 1
0 - 1		Kilikia Yerevan
FC Zvartnots3 - 0
1 - 2		Dinamo Yerevan
Mika FC0 - 1
2 - 0		Araks Ararat
Lernagorts Kapan0 - 4
X - X		FC Ararat Yerevan
Semi finals
FC Zvartnots1 - 0
X - X		FC Kilikia Yerevan
Ararat Yerevan1 - 1
3 - 4		Mika FC
Final
Mika FC2 - 1FC Zvartnots
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