Ararat Tehran F.C.
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| Full name | Football Club Ararat Tehran |
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| Founded | 1944; 73 years ago |
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Ararat Stadium Tehran Iran |
| Capacity | 15,000 |
| Owner | Ararat Cultural Organization |
| Chairman | Darvin avakian |
| Manager | Mehdi dinvarzade |
| League | Tehran Super League |
| 2014 | Tehran Provincial League, 1st (promoted) |
| Website | Club home page |
FC Ararat (Persian: آرارات تهران) is an Armenian diaspora football team based in Tehran, Iran who play in the Tehran Province League. Ararat FC is the football club of the multisport Ararat Club in Iran.
Ararat has a policy of signing only players who have an Armenian heritage.
The club was established in 1944 by a group of Armenian-Iranians. They named the club after the famous mountain of the same name. The club was run by an Armenian athletic organization and was one of few clubs in Iranian football to have its own private stadium and training facilities. The club has never had spectacular results, but has always provided talented players for Iranian football. It was heavily supported by the Armenian minority in Iran, but was also loved by many non-Armenian Iranians.
The last time the club played in the top level of Iranian football was the 1995–96 season of the Azadegan League (current IPL). Due to the poor decisions of the club management, Ararat FC has spent most of the past few years playing in the 1st Division and 2nd Division of Iran's football leagues. Until recently the club had a policy of only employing Armenian staff and players, but with the team's poor form in the past few years, this decision has been overturned and non-Armenians have coached the team. The players though are all Armenian-Iranians. In the 2005–06 season the club came very close to promotion into the Azadegan League, but fell short in the last few weeks of the season.
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