2008 Armenian Cup

2008 Armenian Cup

Country	Armenia
Teams	14
Champions	Ararat
Runners-up	Banants
Matches played	25
Goals scored	80 (3.2 per match)
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The Armenian Cup 2008 was the 17th edition of the Armenian Independence Cup, a football competition. In 2008, the tournament had 14 participants, out of which 6 were reserve teams.

Summary

Banants and Ararat got a pass on the 1st round because these two clubs reached the final the previous year. The first round passed without any surprises, as the reserve teams were expected to be knocked out. The quarter finals, however, turned out to be very interesting. Two of the matches had to be decided on penalties. Gandzasar put up quite a fight against defending Armenian Premier League champions Pyunik, and even managed to outplay the champions in various aspects of the game. Shirak also demonstrated a fighting spirit and managed to defeat defending cup holders Banants away, after losing the first leg at home. Luck turned Banants' way as the match was won only on penalties. The semifinals also turned out to be interesting as Banants and Ararat defeated Mika and Pyunik respectively with an aggregate score of 5-1. The final was a repeat of last year's final and this time it was Ararat that edged out on top as Marcos Pizzeli managed to sneak a late extra-time winner for the five-time Armenian Independence Cup winners. The victory gave Ararat an opportunity to participate in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup, First qualifying round.

Results

First round

The first legs were played on 21 March 2008. The second legs were played on 28 March 2008.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Banants-2	2–6	Ulisses	1–4	1–2
Pyunik	15–2	Patani	11–2	4–0
Gandzasar	8–0	Pyunik-2	3–0	5–0
Kilikia	5–2	Mika-2	2–0	3–2
Mika	11–0	Ararat-2	7–0	4–0
Shengavit	2–3	Shirak	1–3	1–0

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 3 April 2008. The second legs were played on 10 April 2008.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ararat Yerevan	2–1	Ulisses	0–1	2–0
Pyunik	0–0 (4–1 p)	Gandzasar	0–0	0–0
Kilikia	1–3	Mika	0–1	1–2
Shirak	1–1 (5–6 p)	Banants	0–1	1–0

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 14 April 2008. The second legs were played on 23 April 2008.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ararat Yerevan	5–1	Pyunik	2–1	3–0
Mika	1–5	Banants	1–3	0–2

Final

Ararat Yerevan v Banants

9 May 2008 17:00 (WAST)

Ararat Yerevan	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Banants
V. Minasyan  75' Pizzelli  115'		Ganchev  36'

Arnar Stadium, Ijevan Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Ararat Chagharian (Yerevan)

FC ARARAT YEREVAN: GK 1 Nikolay Sargsyan DF 20 Vahe Mehrabyan  4'  60' DF 19 Vahagn Minasyan DF 5 Hrayr Mkoyan MF 18 Artur Petrosyan  116' MF 7 Artur Minasyan (c)  101' MF 3 Renato de Morais  45+1' MF 6 Karen Navoyan MF 15 Marcos Pizzeli FW 9 Sergey Erzrumyan  78'  95' FW 2 Sargis Movsisyan Substitutes: GK 16 Sergio Ramírez DF 14 Vachagan Karapetyan DF 8 Andranik Tadeosyan  95' DF 12 Emilio Palucci  116' DF 17 Artak Grigoryan FW 21 Edgar Safaryan  60' FW 11 Gevorg Nranyan Manager: Varuzhan Sukiasyan

FC BANANTS: GK 1 Yevgeni Matyugin  89' DF 10 Yegishe Melikyan (c) DF 15 Andriy Cherevko  119' DF 6 Andriy Burdian DF 3 Gagik Daghbashyan  77' MF 5 Romik Khachatryan  46' MF 13 Noah Kasule  73' MF 25 Karen Aleksanyan  4', 119' MF 8 Marko Ganchev  3' FW 19 Plamen Krumov FW 17 Semion Zlatev  72' Substitutes: GK 22 Stepan Ghazaryan DF 20 Hovhannes Grigoryan  46' MF 4 Aghvan Hayrapetyan  118'  77' MF 7 Romeo Jenebyan MF 9 Aram Bareghamyan MF 23 Eduard Kakosyan FW 11 Arsen Balabekyan  72' Manager: Nedelcho Matushev

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shootout if scores still level. Seven named substitutes Maximum of 3 substitutions.

See also

• 2008 Armenian Premier League
• 2008 Armenian First League

External links

• Official site
• Armenia Cup 2008 at Soccerway.com
• Armenia Cup 2008 at rsssf.com