Sergio Nazaretian has returned to his roots as ARARAT player for the coming season. A great transfer for the team and with another player who will be added shortly to the team, surely ARARAT will be stronger to recapture the championship
30/05/2009 Cyprus Futsal Cup 2008/2009: report and photogallery! ARARAT wins 5th cup title in style by Yiannis Vakis - Futsalplanet.com collaborator from Cyprus and editor of the great cypriot portal Cyprus Futsal AGBU ARARAT has conquered another title on Friday May 8th after an impressive win over G.C School, recording the final score 8-0. The game was featured as a tight battle between the league runners up G.C. School
It is announced today that Dr. V. Atamyan who has been the president of ARARAT Futsal club for almost 10 years has resigned from his position for personal
ARARAT 8 GC School 0 Cup Final Result needs no comments as the score says everything. A big BRAVO to our super players and to our coach. Vasos Kyprianou G/K, Jackovos Papadopoulos capt. Armen Danielyan, Haro Bahadourian, Oleg Matvejevs, Georgi Totladze, Manolis Manoli, Andreas Alexandrou, Lefteris Perikleous, Mustik Otmani and Davi Costa are 2008-2009 cup winners , The following message was send from
The Cup-Final will take place at Eleftheria stadium, on Friday the 8th of May 2009, at
After a draw 3-3 with Parnasos , ARARAT is through to the Final of the Cyprus football ( futsal) Association. The Final will be played on Friday the 8th of May, Between ARARAT and the GC
I will not comment on referees or the game etc etc. as its useless, but will underline that if we were more concentrated on the game, the score could have been 3-10.... but instead the tight 3-4 promises an exciting replay on Thursday 30th of April at 20.00 hrs @ home. I will not even ask supporters to attend this crucial but ''ticket free'' match.......as I am sure that all of us will be there to support our team. Mind
ARARAT and PARNASOS will meet in the semi-finals of the cup. Arch rivals and old friends will meet in the semi-finals of the cup. Both teams did not achieved the needed in the championship and now the cup will be a chance to win something this year. Dates will be announced later. Some new additions to our squad are on their way as we will try to lift our standard for the coming season. New class players will join
AGBU ARARAT was founded in the year 1984, by a group of people-members of the AGBU Nicosia chapter passionate with sports and football.
The 11 a-side team soon joined the amateur league in order to stay alive and very soon it started having a leading role in the league which was the beginning of its bright future.
In 1985, ARARAT participated for the first time, in the Pan-Armenian (Navasartian) games which was held in Geneva and took the third place of the FUTSAL tournament, and this was the first time that a Cypriot team participated in such a tournament. the then so called , 5-a-side, as this was completely unknown to Cyprus.
In 1987 in the same tournament in Geneva ARARAT , took the highest rank on the podium, as champions of the tournament.
ARARAT has visited many countries and participated in many tournaments both in football and mainly in futsal. Australia, Argentina, Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Lebanon, Switzerland, England , USA, France and later Belgium, Finland, Hungary and Holland are some of the places visited by our team over the years.
For the next coming years ARARAT continued to play football, in the amateur 11a-side league, but in the minds and hearts of the people of ARARAT, Futsal, has made its roots and in 1998-1999, when the first official league of University based Futsal was created ARARAT was the first team to register and join a league of 9 teams and from the first year took the 2nd place in the championship and runner-up in the cup competititon.
In this same year ARARAT again won the championship title of the Pan-Armenian Futsal games In Sydney, Australia.
The time had arrived for the Cyprus Football Association to get organized and create the Futsal Association and the Futsal championship of Cyprus in 1999-2000.
In the same year ARARAT took the 3rd place in the final standing and won the cup title.
The following year 2000-2001 was the ignition of the glory to follow for ARARAT , as the team won the championship and represented Cyprus in European (UEFA) champions league for futsal, as the first ever representative of Cyprus in such a prestigious tournament. The event was held in Belgium as the host country, and ARARAT took the second place.
Winning championship titles - unbeaten, has become a tradition for ARARAT which is the proof of the complete DOMINATION in Cyprus.
Overall, AGBU ARARAT has won 6 championship titles and 4 cups and twice won the double.
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