FC Noah

Noah
Նոա

Full name	Football Club Noah.
Founded	2017; 8 years ago (2017)
Ground	Abovyan City Stadium
Capacity	3,946
Owner	Vardges Vardanyan
Manager	Rui Mota
League	Armenian Premier League
2023–24	Armenian Premier League, 2nd of 10
Home colours Away colours

Football Club Noah (Armenian: Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Նոա, romanized: Futbolayin Akumb Noa), commonly known as Noah, is an Armenian professional football club based in Armavir. Founded in 2017 as FC Artsakh, they currently play in the Armenian Premier League.^[1]

History

The club was founded as FC Artsakh in 2017 and played its first match in a goalless draw against FC Banants on 2 June 2017.^[2] Noah played its first competitive season in the 2017–18 Armenian First League, finishing second and achieving promotion to the Armenian Premier League.^[3]

After a disappointing 8th-place finish in the 2018–19 season, the club was sold to Karen Abrahamyan, who rebranded the club FC Noah in 2019. The name references the biblical Noah, whose Ark came to rest on Mountains of Ararat, traditionally identified with Mount Ararat in Armenia.^[4]

Noah won the 2019–20 Armenian Cup, defeating Ararat-Armenia on penalties.^[5]

In 2024, they qualified for the UEFA Conference League league phase after defeating Ružomberok 4-3 on aggregate in the play-off round, becoming the first club in Conference League history to successfully navigate all four rounds of qualification. They had beaten Shkëndija, Sliema Wanderers and Greek powerhouse AEK Athens in the previous qualifying rounds.

Records

Domestic

Season[6]	League									National cup	Top goalscorer		Manager	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2017–18	Armenian First League	2nd	27	21	2	4	77	16	65	Quarter-finals	Grigor Aghekyan	18	Tigran Yesayan Armen Sanamyan	Nike	Renault
2018–19	Armenian Premier League	8th	32	6	10	16	25	49	28	Quarter-finals	Eduard Avagyan Vigen Avetisyan	4	Rafael Nazaryan Sevada Arzumanyan		Vega
2019–20		2nd	28	14	6	8	37	27	48	Winners	Maksim Mayrovich	11	Vadim Boreț	Umbro	N/A
2020–21		2nd	28	12	5	7	35	20	41	Semifinal	Vladimir Azarov	6	Vadim Boreț Dmitri Gunko	Adidas	N/A
2021–22		6th	32	9	12	11	38	43	39	Quarter-finals	Maksim Mayrovich	9	Viktor Bulatov Aram Hakobyan		VBET[7]
2022–23		8th	36	8	8	20	34	66	32	Quarter-finals	Levon Vardanyan	8	Robert Arzumanyan
2023–24		2nd	36	26	2	8	69	33	80	Quarter-finals	Artur Miranyan	23	Robert Arzumanyan Carlos Inarejos		to.sport fm 96.3

European

Main article: FC Noah in European football

As of match played 19 December 2024

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
UEFA Europa League	1	0	0	1	1	4	–3
UEFA Conference League	16	7	2	7	25	27	-2
Total	17	7	2	8	26	31	–5

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Kairat	—	1–4	—
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	1QR	KuPS	1–0	0–5	1–5
2024–25	UEFA Conference League	1QR	Shkëndija	2–0	2–1	4–1
		2QR	Sliema Wanderers	7–0	0–0	7–0
		3QR	AEK Athens	3–1	0–1	3–2
		PO	Ružomberok	3–0	1–3	4–3
		League phase	Mladá Boleslav	2–0	—	31st
			Rapid Wien	—	0–1
			Chelsea	—	0–8
			Víkingur Reykjavík	0–0	—
			APOEL	1–3	—
			TSC	—	3–4

UEFA Club Ranking

UEFA coefficient

As of 8 November 2024^[8][9]

Rank	Team	Points
282	Kolos Kovalivka	4.680
283	Desna Chernihiv	4.680
284	FC Noah	4.500
285	Ordabasy	4.500
286	Iberia	4.500

Colours and badge

As FC Artsakh the club's main kit colours were red and white, however following the rebranding, the club chose black and a light green to represent the club. Umbro became the kit supplier for the 2019–20, following two years of using Nike.

Badge history

From 2017 to 2019, the club operated as FC Artsakh, bearing a red round badge with an eagle. Following the 2019 rebranding as FC Noah, the club's emblem was changed to a simple black text:
"Yerevan Armenia Football Club Noah".

• 
  Club crest (2019–2024)

Stadium

Main article: Mika Stadium

The stadium's main East stand

The North and West stands

At the beginning phase of the 2018–19 Armenian Premier League season, FC Noah used the Mika Stadium, located in the Shengavit neighborhood of Yerevan, as their home ground until matchday 8. They were then forced to leave the Mika Stadium due to the inappropriate pitch conditions, and between matchday 9 and 14 they played at the Pyunik Stadium before moving to the artificial-turf pitch of the Dzoraghbyur Training Centre at the eastern outskirts of Yerevan. For the 2019–20 Armenian Premier League season, FC Noah played at the Alashkert Stadium located in the same neighbourhood of Yerevan.

After starting the 2021–22 Armenian Premier League season playing their home games at the Yerevan Football Academy Stadium in Yerevan, Noah moved their home games to the Armavir City Stadium in Armavir in February 2022.^[10]

Players

For a list of all former and current FC Noah players with a Wikipedia article, see Category: FC Noah players.

Current squad

As of 26 August 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  ARM Sergey Muradyan 4 DF  ISL Guðmundur Þórarinsson 6 DF  BRA Marcos Pedro 7 FW  POR Hélder Ferreira 8 FW  POR Gonçalo Gregório 9 FW  BRA Matheus Aiás 10 MF  ARM Artak Dashyan 11 FW  ALB Eraldo Çinari 12 GK  ARM Artyom Davidov 13 MF  ARM Robert Baghramyan 14 DF  ARG Bryan Mendoza 17 MF  BFA Gustavo Sangaré 18 FW  ARM Artyom Avanesyan 19 DF  ARM Hovhannes Hambardzumyan (captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  SVK Martin Gamboš 22 GK  ARM Ognjen Čančarević 24 FW  ARM Zaven Khudaverdyan 26 DF  SRB Aleksandar Miljković 27 MF  ARM Gor Manvelyan 28 DF  BRA Pablo Santos 29 GK  BRA Arthur Coneglian 30 FW  ARM Grenik Petrosyan 37 DF  POR Gonçalo Silva 81 MF  NED Imran Oulad Omar 88 MF  CMR Yan Eteki 92 GK  RUS Aleksey Ploshchadny 93 FW  FRA Virgile Pinson

For recent transfers, see List of Armenian football transfers summer 2024.

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Manager	Rui Mota
Assistant manager	Vítor Magalhães, Alexander Tadevosyan
Goalkeeper coach	Gevorg Kasparov

Honours

FC Noah won their first trophy on 10 July 2020, defeating Ararat-Armenia on penalties to win the 2019–20 Armenian Cup.

Domestic

• Armenian Cup
  • Winners (1): 2019–20
• Armenian Supercup
  • Winners (1): 2020

Player records

Most appearances

As of match played 19 December 2024

	Name	Years	League	Armenian Cup	Supercup	Europe	Total
1	Benik Hovhannisyan	2019–2022	61 (2)	6 (1)	1 (0)	3 (0)	71 (3)
2	Maksim Mayrovich	2019–2021, 2021–2022	63 (22)	6 (4)	- (-)	0 (0)	69 (26)
3	Sergey Muradyan	2023–Present	53 (1)	1 (0)	- (-)	12 (0)	66 (1)
4	Yuri Gareginyan	2018–2021	57 (3)	7 (0)	1 (0)	0 (0)	65 (3)
5	Valerio Vimercati	2019–2021, 2023–2024	55 (0)	7 (0)	1 (0)	1 (0)	64 (0)
6	Jordy Monroy	2020–2022	54 (1)	5 (0)	1 (0)	2 (0)	62 (0)
7	Artur Grigoryan	2017–2019	53 (2)	4 (0)	- (-)	- (-)	57 (2)
8	Karen Harutyunyan	2017–2019	49 (3)	5 (0)	- (-)	- (-)	54 (3)
8	Alex Oliveira	2020–2021	47 (6)	5 (0)	- (-)	2 (0)	54 (2)
8	Dmitri Lavrishchev	2019–2020, 2022	48 (4)	4 (1)	1 (1)	1 (0)	54 (6)

Top goalscorers

As of match played 19 December 2024

	Name	Years	League	Armenian Cup	Supercup	Europe	Total	Ratio
1	Maksim Mayrovich	2019–2021, 2021–2022	22 (63)	4 (6)	- (-)	0 (0)	26 (69)	0.38
2	Artur Miranyan	2023–2024	23 (36)	1 (2)	- (-)	- (-)	24 (38)	0.63
3	Grigor Aghekyan	2017–2019	19 (40)	2 (5)	- (-)	- (-)	21 (45)	0.47
4	Gonçalo Gregório	2024–Present	12 (15)	0 (0)	- (-)	6 (14)	18 (29)	0.62
5	Vladimir Azarov	2019–2021	14 (41)	3 (9)	0 (0)	0 (1)	17 (51)	0.33
6	Petros Avetisyan	2021–2022	9 (19)	2 (4)	- (-)	0 (2)	11 (25)	0.44
6	Matheus Aiás	2024–Present	5 (12)	0 (0)	- (-)	6 (14)	11 (27)	0.41
8	Edgar Movsesyan	2018–2019, 2023–2024	9 (46)	0 (2)	- (-)	- (-)	9 (48)	0.19
8	Paul Gladon	2023–2024	9 (22)	0 (2)	- (-)	- (-)	9 (24)	0.38
8	Eraldo Çinari	2024–Present	8 (13)	0 (0)	- (-)	1 (12)	9 (25)	0.36

See also

• Football in Armenia
• Football Federation of Armenia

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