FC Mika

Mika

Full name	Mika Football Club
Founded	1985
Ground	Mika Stadium Yerevan (Capacity: 8,000)
Owner	Mikhail Bagdasarov
Chairman	Karlos Khazaryan
Manager	Jozef Bubenko
League	Armenian Premier League
2011	Armenian Premier League, 5th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Mika Football Club (Armenian: Միկա Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ – Mika Futbolayin Akumb), is an Armenian professional football club, playing in the capital, Yerevan.

History

It was originally founded as "Olimpia" in 1985. The club Kasakh Ashtarak is renamed in 1999 to Mika by the owner of Armavia Airlines, Mikhail Baghdasarov. Under the merger, the name of the new club became Mika-Kasakh Ashtarak. However, the merger only lasted for 1 year, and starting year 2000, the two clubs separated. Kasakh Ashtarak kept its name, logo, history and statistics, while Mika settled for being a new club. This began the era of Mika F.C. Ashtarak.

In 2007, Mika was relocated from Ashtarak to Yerevan. The club has already built its own stadium in the heart of Yerevan and uses it for domestic and European competitions. It has won 5 Armenian Cups and 1 Armenian Supercup since its foundation and is considered to be one of Armenia's top teams. As a Cup holder, Mika participated several times in UEFA Cup qualification matches, the best result was 2-nd qualifying round in 2007, as the club passed MTK Budapest, however did not advance by losing to Slovak club FC Artmedia.

Achievements

• Armenian Cup: 6

( 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2011 )

• Armenian Supercup: 1

( 2005 )

Mika in European Cups

As of July, 2011.

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
UEFA Cup/Europa League	20	3	4	13	10	32
UEFA Intertoto Cup	2	0	2	0	2	2
Total	22	3	6	13	12	34

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg
2000/01	UEFA Cup	QR	Rapid Bucureşti	0–3	1 – 0
2001/02	UEFA Cup	QR	Braşov	1–5	0 – 2
2004/05	UEFA Cup	1Q	Honvéd Budapest	0 – 1	1–1
2005/06	UEFA Cup	1Q	Mainz 05	0–4	0 – 0
2006/07	UEFA Cup	1Q	Young Boys Berne	1 – 3	0–1
2007/08	UEFA Cup	1Q	MTK Budapest	1–2	1 – 0
		2Q	Artmedia Petržalka	2 – 1	0–2
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Tiraspol	2 – 2	0–0
2009/10	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Helsingborgs IF	1–3	1 – 1
2010/11	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Rabotnički	0–1	0 – 0
2011/12	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Vålerenga	0–1	0 – 1

• Home results are noted in bold

Current squad

As of 14 August, 2011.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Gevorg Kasparov 2 MF Armen Petrosyan 3 MF Andranik Voskanyan 4 DF Hayk Ishkhanyan 5 DF Hrayr Mkoyan 7 MF Constantin Mandricenco 8 FW Andranik Shahgeldyan 9 MF Grigor Mkrtchyan 10 FW Narek Beglaryan 11 FW Dong Fangzhuo 12 GK Artur Harutyunyan

No. Position Player 13 DF Gevorg Poghosyan 16 FW Armen Avakyan 17 DF Aghvan Mkrtchyan 18 DF Aleksandr Tadevosyan 19 DF Vahagn Minasyan 22 DF Alex 98 FW Varsken Pitiakhsh DF Raja MF Diong Mendy FW Semion Muradyan FW Samvel Melkonyan

Notable former players

• Armen Shahgeldyan
• Cleber
• Aleksandr Antipenko
• Sergei Gorlukovich
• Ivan Ristić
• Boti Goa

References

External links

• Official website
• Mika at FFA.Am
• Mika at UEFA.COM
• Mika at EUFO.DE
• Mika at Weltfussball.de
• Mika at Playerhistory.com
• Mika at Transfermarkt.de
• Mika at Football-Lineups.com