Lori FC

Lori FC (Armenian: Լոռի Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ) was an Armenian football club based in Vanadzor, Lori Province. Originally founded in 1936, Lori has participated in the domestic football competition of Soviet Armenia. After retiring from professional football in 2002, the club was revived in 2017 winning the 2017–18 Armenian First League competition.

Lori
Լոռի

Full name	Lori Football Club
Founded	1936; 87 years ago (1936)
Ground	Vanadzor Football Academy (temporary) Vanadzor City Stadium (under construction)
Capacity	1,000 4,000 (upon completion)
Owner	Tovmas Grigoryan
President	Robert Grigoryan
Manager	Albert Solomonov
League	Armenian Premier League
2020–21	Armenian Premier League, 8th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

The club participated in the first ever Armenian football competition after the split-up from the Soviet Union. After the regular competition, they did not qualify for the championship stage, but were forced to play in the relegation stage. Here they finished in the seventh position, which forced them to play in the Armenian First League (second level) for the 1993 season. In that season they finished first in their group (the league was split up into two groups) which gave them promotion to the Armenian Premier League. Lori then became a yo-yo team referring to their up-and-go history of promotion and relegation. In 2002 they played their last season in the Premier League before being disbanded.

The reestablishment of Lori FC was officially announced on 2 March 2017, by Tovmas Grigoryan; a native businessman of the city of Vanadzor. The club made its debut at professional football through the 2017–18 Armenian First League competition.

The club used the Vanadzor Football Academy as their training ground. The academy was temporarily being used as a home ground for their official matches in the Armenian First League competition, as the Vanadzor City Stadium was (currently) being reconstructed and set to be ready during summer 2019.

On 18 June 2019, David Campaña Piquer was appointed as the new manager of Lori on a contract until the summer of 2020.^[1] On 2 June 2020, Lori announced that manager David Campaña and his assistants Francisco Compan, Jorge Gomez, Agustin Perez and Enrique Gil had all left the club as their contracts could not be extended due to travel restrictions in returning to Armenia due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] Later the same day, Armen Sanamyan was announced as Lori's caretaker manager.^[3] On 4 August 2020, Armen Sanamyan left Lori to become manager of Sevan,^[4] with Lori announcing Albert Solomonov as their new manager on 5 August 2020, with Solomonov signing a one-year contract.^[5]

Following a disagreement with the administrative decision to awarded FC Urartu a 3-0 victory over Lori due to Lori being unable to field a team for their match due to COVID-19, Lori walked off at the start of their match against Ararat Yerevan on 16 March 2021.^[6][7] Lori later submitted their resignation from the Premier League on 5 April 2021.^[8]

League and cup

Lori FC league record since 1987:^[9][10][11]

Season	League									National Cup	Top goalscorer		Managers
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts		Name	League
1987	Soviet Second League	12	30	12	4	14	31	34	28
1988		12	38	17	5	16	49	54	39
1989		6	42	23	5	14	66	54	51
1990		18	50	17	10	23	47	59	44
1991		22	42	12	5	25	32	98	29
1992	Armenian Premier League	19	22	9	4	9	45	63	22	1/8 Final
1993	Armenian First League	1	20	13	4	3	46	7	30	1/16 Final
1994	Armenian Premier League	13	28	5	6	17	22	65	16	1/16 Final
1995	Armenian First League	4	12	6	0	6	24	16	18	did not participate
1995/96		3	22	12	6	4	33	16	42	1/16 Final
1996/97		2	22	15	5	2	42	13	50	1/8 Final
1997	Armenian Premier League	10	18	0	1	17	7	76	1	-
1998	Armenian First League	2	24	16	6	2	42	16	54	1/8 Final
1999		3	16	9	4	3	32	10	31	1/8 Final
2000		3	16	9	2	5	34	24	29	1/8 Final
2001	Armenian Premier League	12	22	1	2	19	17	83	5	1/8 Final
2002		12	22	1	2	19	15	100	5	1/8 Final
2003	Armenian First League	10	22	5	0	17	36	74	15	did not participate
2004		14	30	7	6	17	35	68	24	Preliminary round
2005		11	24	6	0	18	39	77	18	did not participate
2006–2017	No Participation
2017–18	Armenian First League	1	27	22	3	2	74	16	69	did not participate	Tinga Kofi Tei	12	Armen Adamyan
2018–19	Armenian Premier League	5	32	11	11	10	42	40	44	Runner-up	Jonel Désiré	17	Armen Adamyan   Artur Petrosyan   Vahe Gevorgyan
2019–20		5	28	10	10	8	35	36	40	Quarter-final	Jonel Désiré	12	David Campaña   Armen Sanamyan (Caretaker)
2020–21		8	24	7	2	15	16	44	23	First Round	Claudir	3	Albert Solomonov

Last Squad

As of 2 July 2021

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF   GHA Nana Antwi 4 DF   ARM Derenik Sargsyan 7 FW   ARM Ghukas Poghosyan 8 DF   ARM Aram Kocharyan 9 FW   SRB Nikola Tripkovic 10 FW   ARM Vardan Bakalyan 11 MF   POR Fernandinho 13 GK   ARM David Davtyan 14 MF   BRA Victor Cesar 17 DF   RUS Yevgeni Kirisov 18 DF   ARM Arsen Yeghiazaryan 19 DF   SRB Ivan Božović

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF   ARM Artur Avagyan 22 GK   ARM Gor Manukyan 23 MF   ARM Davit Paremuzyan 28 FW   BRA Claudir 32 GK   MNE Nemanja Šćekić 40 DF   BRA Luiz Matheus 73 MF   RUS Pavel Osipov 88 MF   BRA André Mensalão 90 MF   RUS Yevgeni Skoblikov 94 MF   SRB Nikola Popović 99 FW   MNE Filip Kukuličić

Personnel

• Owner:   Tovmas Grigoryan
• President:   Robert Grigoryan
• Vice President:   Vahan Danielyan
• CEO:   Artur Hovhannisyan
• General Manager:   Spartak Petrosyan
• Head coach:   Albert Solomonov
• Assistant Coach:   Vitaliy Starovik
• Assistant Coach:   Sergei Chikishev
• Goalkeepers Coach:   Slavik Sukiasyan
• Fitness Coach:   Roman Chupryna
• Doctor:   Hovsep Petrosyan
• Physiotherapist:  Arshak Tumanyan

Former players

•   Danny El-Hage^[12]

Managerial history

Managers of Lori FC since the club revived in 2017:

As of match played 8 March 2021

Name	Nat.	From	To	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	%W	Honours	Notes
Armen Adamyan	Armenia	1 July 2017	13 December 2018	44	29	7	8	99	37	065.91	Armenian First League (1)
Artur Petrosyan	Armenia	25 December 2018	8 May 2019	14	4	6	4	14	11	028.57
Vahe Gevorgyan	Armenia	8 May 2019	19 June 2019	4	1	2	1	6	6	025.00
David Campaña Piquer	Spain	30 June 2019^[1]	2 June 2020^[2]	20	9	6	5	30	23	045.00
Armen Sanamyan (Caretaker)	Armenia	2 June 2020^[3]	4 August 2020^[4]	8	1	4	3	6	12	012.50
Albert Solomonov	Israel	5 August 2020^[5]		17	7	4	6	17	19	041.18

References

1. "Դավիդ Կամպանյան գլխավորեց Լոռին". fclori.am (in Armenian). Lori FC. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
2. "OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT David Campaña". fclori.am/. Lori FC. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
3. "Official Announcement Armen Sanamyan". fclori.am/. FC Lori. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
4. "Սիրով տեղեկացնում ենք, որ կարճատև դադարից հետո "Սևան" ՖԱ-ի մարզչական ղեկը կրկին գլխավորել է Արմեն Սանամյանը". facebook.com/SevanFCArmenia/ (in Armenian). Sevan FC Facebook. 4 August 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
5. "lbert Solomonov Has Been Appointed Lori FC Head Coach". fclori.am/. Lori FC. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
6. "Լոռի ՖԱ -ի ֆուտբոլիստները լքել են խաղադաշտը "Արարատի" հետ հանդիպման մեկնարկում". ffa.am/ (in Armenian). Football Federation Armenia. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
7. "Արարատ-Լոռի խաղը կարող է չկայանալ․ վանաձորյան թիմը հրաժարվում է դուրս գալ դաշտ". armsport.am/ (in Armenian). Arm Sport. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
8. "Lori FC leave Premier League, to pay more attention to academy's development". sport.news.am/eng/. News.AM. 5 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
9. RSSSF Armenia (and subpages per year)
10. Armenian First League news
11. 2017–18 Armenian First League table
12. "Danny El-Hage dla 2x45: W II lidze dziwnie spoglądali na to, że przychodzę z innej części świata. To złe podejście". 2x45.info.