ARARAT AGBU NICOSIA FC.

Our Story

ARARAT AGBU 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 but very soon it started having a leading role in the league which was the beginning of its bright future.
During the same time the club of AGBU established a women PING PONG team, which also had some bright years in the ping-pong league of Cyprus achieving the 2nd place for four consecutive years, and earning 4 silver medals.
In 1985, ARARAT AGBU 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 so called then, 5-a-side, as this was completely unknown to Cyprus.
In 1987 in the same tournament in Geneva ARARAT AGBU, took the highest rank on the podium, as champions of the tournament.
For the next coming years ARARAT AGBU continued to play 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 competition.
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 but won the cup title.
The following year 2000-2001 was the ignition of the glory to follow for ARARAT AGBU, 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 after /CHARLEROIA /BEGIUM champions, and in front of the champions of the CZECH republic and GEORGIA.
2002-2003 was again the year of ARARAT as the team again won the championship in Cyprus, with an overall result of 26 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. The representation in Europe, now was not so impressive as in the group was the mighty team of SHAKTIOR Donetsk, who won the first place of the tournament, but ARARAT had gained high standard of satisfactory experience.
In this year’s local championship, after 9 games played so far, ARARAT is on top of the ladder and the desire of the whole team is to stay there for many years to come.
By reaching such high standards in Cypriot Futsal, ARARAT is deeply respected and widely accepted as the best Futsal team in CYPRUS.
The aim of the whole team is one day to shine also in Europe, and reach the peak of mount ARARAT.

Players List

SURNAME NAME - SHIRT NUMBER - DATE OF BIRTH DD/MM/YEAR
MEGERDITCHIAN HRATCH - 1 - 08/01/1968
KOUMAS CHRISTAKIS - 13 - 11/05/1967
HADJIPSALTIS DEMITRIS - 2 - 19/08/1978
CHRISTOU POLIVIOS - 3 - 12/01/1977
BEDROSIAN ARA - 14 - 02/06/1967
MICHAEL APOSTOLOS - 15- 05/05/1967
DASSAEV IGOR - 6 - 08/11/1976
TIMOTHEOU NICOS - 7- 12/08/1974
KAMMOUYIAROS YIANNOS - 9 - 02/10/1973
POLIVIOU COSTAS - 10 - 15/02/1978
YASMADJIAN RAFFI - 11 - 16/12/1982
KALOTHEOU YIANNIS - 4 - 06/05/1966
MKRTCHYAN ARTUR - 12 - 24/03/1985
PAPADOPOULOS IACOVOS - 8 - 17/05/1982
COSTANIAN KAREKIN - 5- 05/01/1966