Ulisses FC
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| Full name | Ulisses Football Club |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Dissolved | 2016 |
| Ground | Vazgen Sargsyan Stadium, Yerevan |
| Capacity | 14,403 |
| Owner | Valeri Hovhannisyan |
| Chairman | Genrikh Ghazandzhyan |
| Manager | Gagik Simonyan |
| League | Armenian Premier League |
| 2015–16 | 8th (last) |
| Website | www |
Ulisses Football Club (Armenian: Ուլիս Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ), commonly known as Ulisses, is a defunct Armenian football from Yerevan. The club played at the Armenian Premier League, the top division in Armenian football. They regularly used the Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium in Yerevan and sometimes the City Stadium in Abovyan as their home ground.
The club headquarters are located on Nalbandyan street 48/1, Yerevan. Like all other Armenian Premier League clubs, Ulisses FC had a reserve team that played in the Armenian First League.
In 2015-16, the club was owned by the Armenian businessman Genrikh Kazanjian and sponsored by the "Holiday" Group of Companies.
The club was founded in 2000 as Dinamo-2000 Yerevan, and made their debut at the 2000 Armenian First League season winning a promotion spot to the Premier League at the end of the same season.
In 2004, the club became known as FC Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan and took 5th place in the Armenian Premier League. In 2004 and 2005, 2 reserves teams of the club were represented in the Armenian First League: FC Dinamo-VZ Yerevan and FC Zenit Charentsavan.
In 2006, the club changed their name with the arrival of new sponsor. they occupied the 8th place at the 2006 Armenian Premier League season grabbing the chance to save their place in the top league in a decisive match with FC Dinamo Yerevan. Winning the game, Ulisses FC secured their place in the top tier for the next season. In seasons 2007 and 2008 team play was much more better, and there was no need of survival games.
At the beginning of 2008, the club's department was enlarged with the Shengavit football school of Yerevan, while the Vardanank-451 Stadium of Voskehat became the training base of the club.
In 2007, they played their home games in the Kasaghi Marzik Stadium in Ashtarak. In 2009, they moved to the Mika Stadium in Yerevan.
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