Pyunik F.C.
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| Full name | Football Club Pyunik |
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| Founded | 1992 |
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Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan |
| Capacity | 1,428 |
| Owner | Samvel Aleksanyan |
| Chairman | Rafik Hayrapetyan |
| Manager | Artak Oseyan |
| League | Armenian Premier League |
| 2015–16 | 3rd |
| Website | Club home page |
Football Club Pyunik (Armenian: Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Փյունիկ), commonly known as Pyunik, is an Armenian professional football club based in Yerevan. Pyunik is one of the most popular football clubs in Armenia.
The club headquarters are located on Masis street 7, Yerevan. The Pyunik Training Centre is located in the Kentron District of Yerevan.
The owner of the club is the Armenian businessman Samvel Aleksanyan.
Founded in 1992 as Homenetmen Yerevan, the club won the first Armenian Premier League competition held in 1992 (shared with Shirak). In 1995, Homenetmen Yerevan was renamed FC Pyunik (Armenian for "Phoenix").
The new era of Pyunik began in 2001, when they absorbed the newly promoted club FC Armenicum and automatically gained position in the Armenian Premier League without playing a single game in the lower leagues. The new owner of the club Ruben Hayrapetyan, took serious approach to develop the team bringing star players from other Armenian clubs. Pyunik had significantly improved after the arrival of foreign players from Mali, Cameroon, Argentina and later from Romania. Thus, Pyunik won the Armenian Premier League title the same year and the Armenian Cup in 2002. Later, for the first time in independent Armenian club history an Armenian club advanced to the second round in the Champions League. Afterwards, the club won the Armenian Premier League title ten times in a row.
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