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Upbeat
Match30 Nov 2026
Syunik refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 22 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Syunik can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Syunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Syunik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Evgeny Chernov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
198% of the income goes out in wages at Syunik
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Varazdat Haroyan and Syunik agree another 2 years.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Rogério Sena gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rogério Sena is on it.
Market30 Nov 2026
Experience through the door at Syunik
Varazdat Haroyan arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market30 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ivan Sanko’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Syunik
Caique Valdivia was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Índio Oliveira falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad23 Nov 2026
6 new faces, and Syunik are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Gabriel Oliveira has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Syunik will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market23 Nov 2026
Experience through the door at Syunik
Martin Hinteregger arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market23 Nov 2026
The name of Armen Manucharyan keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Syunik say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Syunik had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Syunik may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Syunik
Caique Valdivia and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Índio Oliveira falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ararat Chilingaryan, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Syunik can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Syunik know it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Syunik
Matheus Guimarães and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Match2 Nov 2026
Syunik are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 22 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Zé Carlos and Syunik agree another 1 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Syunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Evgeny Chernov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
198% of the income goes out in wages at Syunik
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market2 Nov 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Ricardo Dias
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Syunik were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Kevin Pereira is the month’s best young player
At 20 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Syunik will try not to make too much of it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Syunik, another week without a signature from Zé Carlos.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Syunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martin Grigoryan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Gabriel Oliveira has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Syunik will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Syunik, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Oct 2026
At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Market26 Oct 2026
The name of Armen Manucharyan keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Syunik say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Syunik. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Syunik have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
Squad26 Oct 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Syunik know which stage they are at.
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Syunik may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Kevin Pereira at 20 — 7.86
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kevin Pereira did not need any: 7.86, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Aris Karapetyan is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Syunik
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Syunik is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Syunik
Philipp Hoffmann was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Kevin Pereira has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match17 Oct 2026
The run is over for Syunik
5 matches without defeat, and then Bentonit Ijevan. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Syunik can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Syunik
Hrayr Mkoyan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Syunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Índio Oliveira is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Aris Karapetyan
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kevin Pereira is the weekend's best young player
At 20 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Índio Oliveira keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Syunik say nothing, which says plenty.
Market12 Oct 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Nura Dan Megi is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
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Triumph
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Oct 2026
Syunik refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 21 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match3 Oct 2026
Syunik make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Syunik have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Kevin Pereira at 20 — 7.84
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kevin Pereira did not need any: 7.84, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Syunik are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Syunik
Hrayr Mkoyan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Syunik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Índio Oliveira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 227% of the Syunik income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Kevin Pereira’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Syunik.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.23 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match26 Sep 2026
Syunik cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Alexey Pomerko, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Syunik
Hrayr Mkoyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.37 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Revaz Tevdoradze dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Rogério Sena has become a man the manager trusts
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Squad
The first one for Índio Oliveira
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Kevin Pereira, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92
A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match19 Sep 2026
Syunik make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Syunik have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Syunik
Matheus Guimarães and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Syunik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Índio Oliveira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Kevin Pereira has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kevin Pereira. 1‑0 against Mika, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad21 Sep 2026
22 new faces, and Syunik are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Revaz Tevdoradze
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Ivan Sanko
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Syunik will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Syunik
Caique Valdivia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Syunik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Índio Oliveira is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Caique Valdivia. 2‑0 against Ararat-2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aris Karapetyan, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 31 signed and 19 gone
That is the business done at Syunik until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Syunik had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Stripfing, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Rogério Sena named player of the month
The award goes to Rogério Sena, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Hrayr Mkoyan calls time on his country
“52 caps was 52 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 40 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from Syunik.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Gabriel Ferreira is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Rogério Sena named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Rogério Sena is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match29 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 11‑1 against Noah-2, and it could have been more.
Match26 Aug 2026
Syunik bow out of the cup
Ararat-Armenia go through and Syunik go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Serob Galstyan, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.93, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad31 Aug 2026
62 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Goianésia is saying, and nobody at Syunik is enjoying the guessing.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Rogério Sena was on a different afternoon to everybody else
10.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Syunik
A 3‑0 win over Urartu, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad24 Aug 2026
Rogério Sena takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Guarani keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Syunik
Gabriel Ferreira was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Rogério Sena at his very best
Marked 9.62. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Syunik.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Índio Oliveira falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 7.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Levon Bashoyan at 20 — 7.63
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Levon Bashoyan did not need any: 7.63, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.86, and nobody on the pitch better.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Urartu is saying, and nobody at Syunik is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Syunik
Hrayr Mkoyan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Syunik asked and Stripfing said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Serob Galstyan has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Gabriel Oliveira would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Gabriel Oliveira is living that version at Syunik, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Boavista keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Syunik
Hrayr Mkoyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aris Karapetyan and Syunik agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Syunik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Índio Oliveira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aram Spertsyan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aram Bayramyan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Narek Mkhitaryan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arman Movsisyan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriel Ferreira commits to Syunik for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Syunik
Gabriel Ferreira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Noah have kept their man, and Syunik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Boavista: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Kevin Pereira is in the works
Syunik have made the call to Van. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Caio Machado is in the works
Syunik have made the call to Central. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Aram Ghazaryan chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match1 Aug 2026
Syunik and Hayq cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Hayq came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Syunik has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.