Full name | Football Club Ararat Moscow |
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Founded | 2017 |
Ground | Spartakovets Stadium |
Capacity | 5,100 |
Chairman | Valeri Oganesyan |
Manager | Sergei Bulatov |
League | PFL, Zone Central |
2016–17 | Russian Amateur Football League |
FC Ararat Moscow (Armenian: «Արարատ Մոսկվա» ՖԱ, Russian: ФК «Арарат» Москва) is a Russian football team based in Moscow that represents the Armenian diaspora in Russia. It was founded in 2017 and joined the Russian Amateur Football League. The club was named after the Armenian club FC Ararat Yerevan.
The club was founded in 2017 with the support of the Armenian Youth Association of Moscow. On 30 May 2017, the club received the Russian Football Union license for participation in the 2017–18 Russian Professional Football League season and signed a former Russia international forward Roman Pavlyuchenko. Pavlyuchenko was soon joined at Ararat by two more former national team players, Marat Izmailov and Aleksei Rebko.
As of 19 July 2017, according to the official PFL site.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.