2021–22 Armenian Premier League Explained

The 2021–22 Armenian Premier League, known as the VBET Armenian Premier League (hy|VBET Հայաստանի Պրեմիեր Լիգա) for sponsorship reasons, was the 30th season of the league since its establishment.

Season events

On 9 July 2021, the Football Federation of Armenia announced that 10 teams would play in the 2021–22 season of the Armenian Premier League. BKMA Yerevan, Noravank and Sevan where all promoted to the Premier League and given licenses, replacing Gandzasar Kapan and Lori who'd previously withdrawn from the league the previous season, and Shirak who were relegated.^[1]

On 1 December, the Football Federation of Armenia Disciplinary Committee voted in favor to remove Sevan from the Armenian Premier League after they failed to turn up for two games in a row, against Alashkert and BKMA Yerevan. As a result, all of Sevan's results were excluded from the championship table.

Teams

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
	Yerevan (Shengavit)	Alashkert Stadium	6,850
	Yerevan (Kentron)		14,403
	Yerevan (Avan)	Yerevan Football Academy Stadium1	1,428
	Armavir	Armavir City Stadium1	3,100
	Vayk	Charentsavan City Stadium2	5,000
	Yerevan (Kentron)		14,403
	Sevan	Gegharkunik Province2	500
	Yerevan (Malatia-Sebastia)	Urartu Stadium	4,860
	Charentsavan	Charentsavan City Stadium	5,000

• ¹Noah played their home games for the first half of the season at the Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan, instead of their home venue Mika Stadium, Yerevan.
  For the second half of the season they played their home games at the Armavir City Stadium in Armavir.^[2]
• ²Noravank play their home games at the Charentsavan City Stadium, Charentsavan until the second half of the season, due to the rebuilding of their regular venue Arevik Stadium, Vayk.
• ³Sevan play their home games at Alashkert Stadium, Yerevan, instead of their home venue Sevan City Stadium, Sevan.

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alashkert	Aram Voskanyan	Artak Grigoryan	Sport-Saller	Marsbet
Ararat Yerevan	Edgar Torosyan	Hrayr Mkoyan	Fourteen	TotoGaming
Ararat-Armenia	Dmitri Gunko	Armen Ambartsumyan	Puma	Tashir Group
BKMA	Rafael Nazaryan	Hayk Ishkhanyan	Macron	Armed forces of Armenia
Noah	Abraham Khashmanyan	Jordy Monroy	Adidas	VBET
Noravank	Vahe Gevorgyan	Andranik Kocharyan	Macron
Pyunik	Yegishe Melikyan	Arman Hovhannisyan	Joma	VBET
Sevan			Adidas	TotoGaming
Urartu		Hakob Hakobyan
Van	Sevada Arzumanyan	Arman Meliksetyan	Puma	VBET

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Alashkert	Aleksandr Grigoryan	Mutual termination	22 July 2021[3]	Pre-season	Aleksandr Grigoryan	31 July 2021[4]
Sevan	Armen Shahgeldyan	Mutual termination	8 August 2021[5]	5th	Pambos Christodoulou	11 August 2021[6]
Alashkert	Aleksandr Grigoryan	Mutual termination	20 September 2021[7]	9th	Milan Milanović	26 September 2021[8]
Urartu	Arsen Petrosyan	Moved to Academy position	17 November 2021[9]	6th		17 November 2021
Ararat Yerevan	Vardan Bichakhchyan	Mutual termination	11 January 2022[10]	3rd	Edgar Torosyan	25 January 2022[11]
Alashkert	Milan Milanović	Contract expired	13 January 2022[12]	5th	Aram Voskanyan	13 January 2022
Noah	Viktor Bulatov	Contract terminated	21 March 2022[13]	6th	Igor Picușceac	25 March 2022[14]

League table

Fixtures and results

Round 17–32

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[15]
1	Serges Déblé	Ararat Yerevan Pyunik	22
2	Mailson Lima	Ararat-Armenia	18
3	Hugo Firmino	Pyunik	16
4	Shuaibu Ibrahim	Noravank	10
	Artur Miranyan	Urartu
6	Maksim Mayrovich	Noah	9
	Yusuf Otubanjo	Ararat-Armenia
8	José Caraballo	Pyunik	8
	Wilfried Eza	Ararat-Armenia
10	José Embaló	Alashkert	7
	Edgar Malakyan	Ararat Yerevan<		--	-	10	6
André Mensalão	Sevan
Sergei Orlov	Noravank
Yacouba Silue	Ararat Yerevan-->

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Yacouba Silue	Ararat Yerevan	Noah	6–1 (H)		[16]
Jonel Désiré	Urartu	BKMA Yerevan	5–0 (H)		[17]
Serges Déblé	Pyunik	Alashkert	4–1 (A)		[18]
Shuaibu Ibrahim	Noravank	Noah	3–1 (H)		[19]

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Valerio Vimercati	Ararat-Armenia	13
2	Ognjen Čančarević	Alashkert	8
3	Stanislav Buchnev	Pyunik	7
	Vsevolod Yermakov	Ararat Yerevan
5	Arsen Beglaryan	Urartu	5
6	David Yurchenko	Alashkert Pyunik	4
7	Grigori Matevosyan	Noah	3
	Arman Meliksetyan	Van
	Arman Nersisyan	BKMA Yerevan
10	Dusan Cubrakovic	Noravank	2

Awards

Annual awards

Award	Winner	Club
Manager of the Season	Yegishe Melikyan[20]	Pyunik
Player of the Season	Hugo Firmino[21]	Pyunik

Notes and References

1. Web site: Կայացավ ՀՖՖ Գործադիր կոմիտեի հերթական նիստը. VBET Հայաստանի Պրեմիեր Լիգայի նոր մրցաշրջանին կմասնակցի 10 թիմ . ffa.am/ . Football Federation of Armenia . 15 July 2021 . Armenian . 9 July 2021.
2. Web site: https://www.facebook.com/noah.footballclub/posts/1397320824057378?__cft__[0=AZXSLureldFwtAWixfg3_rIbREihn0SgICiBcm0qeYrtOF1JM3cZQUaS7QHNWOESdX8H8VpphC4NiJRC0E8CFfdteRQGeG1UgT9_gjo3qhBRpNLlqt8Hk3dATQYZQID_6m6705FvP83zmkfoYgOhSW294E2aEiPHKjobPXZMLoRUvJ2mvwdoO3ktzj-bG-ME9vc&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R We are happy to inform that from now on Noah will hold its home matches in Armavir city stadium, which seats 3,100 spectators ]. facebook.com/noah.footballclub . FC Noah . 8 February 2022 . 7 February 2022.
3. Web site: ՊԱՇՏՈՆԱԿԱՆ ՀԱՅՏԱՐԱՐՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ . facebook.com/FCAlashkert/ . FC Alashkert Facebook . 24 July 2021 . Armenian . 22 July 2021.
4. Web site: Մեծ ուրախությամբ ցանկանում ենք հայտնել, որ նախորդ օրերի ընթացքում բարելավվել է Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորյանի կնոջ առողջական վիճակը . facebook.com/FCAlashkert/ . FC Alashkert Facebook . 3 August 2021 . Armenian . 31 July 2021.
5. Web site: Արմեն Շահգելդյանը հեռացավ "Սևանից" . facebook.com/SevanFCArmenia/ . Sevan FC Facebook . 10 August 2021 . Armenian . 8 August 2021.
6. Web site: Պամբոս Քրիստոդուլուն գլխավորեց "Սևանը" . facebook.com/SevanFCArmenia/ . Sevan FC Facebook . 19 August 2021 . Armenian . 11 August 2021.
7. Web site: Շնորհակալություն և հաջողություն հետագա կարիերայում, Վիտալիչ . facebook.com/FCAlashkert/ . FC Alashkert Facebook . 1 November 2021 . Armenian . 6 September 2021.
8. Web site: ՊԱՇՏՈՆԱԿԱՆ ՀԱՅՏԱՐԱՐՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ . facebook.com/FCAlashkert/ . FC Alashkert Facebook . 1 November 2021 . Armenian . 26 September 2021.
9. Web site: АРСЕН ПЕТРОСЯН ПРОДОЛЖИТ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ В АКАДЕМИИ УРАРТУ . fcurartu.am . FC Urartu . 1 December 2021 . 17 November 2021.
10. Web site: Official statement. Vardan Bichakhchyan . fcararat.am/ . FC Ararat Yerevan . 12 January 2022 . 11 January 2022.
11. Web site: Official statement: Edgar Torosyan . fcararat.am/ . FC Ararat Yerevan . 25 January 2022 . 25 January 2022.
12. Web site: ԱՇՏՈՆԱԿԱՆ ՀԱՅՏԱՐԱՐՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ . facebook.com/FCAlashkert/ . FC Alashkert Facebook . 14 January 2022 . Armenian . 13 January 2022.
13. Web site: Noah terminated contract with the head coach Viktor Bulatov by mutual agreement . facebook.com/noah.footballclub/ . FC Noah Facebook . 23 March 2022 . 21 March 2022.
14. Web site: We are pleased to announce that Igor Picusciac is returning to Noah . facebook.com/noah.footballclub/ . FC Noah Facebook . 3 May 2022 . 25 March 2022.
15. Web site: VBET Premier League - Top Scorers . soccer24.com . Soccer24 . 28 May 2022 . 2 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221002185119/https://www.soccer24.com/armenia/vbet-premier-league/ . dead .
16. Web site: Ararat Yerevan 6-1 Noah . soccer24.com. 2 August 2021 . 2 August 2021.
17. Web site: Urartu 5-0 BKMA Yerevan . soccer24.com. 17 November 2021 . 17 November 2021.
18. Web site: Alashkert 1-4 Pyunik . soccer24.com. 21 February 2022 . 21 February 2022.
19. Web site: Noravank 3-1 Noah . soccer24.com. 23 March 2022 . 19 March 2022.
20. Web site: Yeghishe Melikyan is the best coach of VBET Armenian Premier League season 2021/2022 . ffa.am . Football Federation Armenia . 8 July 2022 . 29 June 2022.
21. Web site: Hugo Firmino is the best player of VBET Armenian Premier League season 2021/2022 . ffa.am . Football Federation Armenia . 8 July 2022 . 29 June 2022.