Squad2 Nov 2026
Alexandre Llovet 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and BKMA-2 spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Match17 Oct 2026
Three points for Urartu-2, 1‑0 the final word against BKMA-2 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Arman Hovhannisyan kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Match3 Oct 2026
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match3 Oct 2026
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Urartu-2 can tell you which week it ends in.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Artur Israelyan 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
7.15, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Urartu-2 had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Arman Hovhannisyan chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match26 Sep 2026
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Van-2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Arman Hovhannisyan to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match19 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Bentonit Ijevan came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Artur Israelyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Sardarapat, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Urartu-2 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Urartu-2 than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A new face in his position, and Artur Israelyan suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Urartu-2 have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Artur Simonyan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Urartu-2.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Arman Hovhannisyan chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Mika will be the happier side with the point.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Artur Israelyan keeps the shirt for now, at Urartu-2's convenience rather than his own.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑3 against Syunik, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Syunik had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals in one match, Artur Simonyan on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Urartu-2 and Noah-2.
Match8 Aug 2026
Noah-2 made Urartu-2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Arman Hovhannisyan, on a 4‑2 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Artur Israelyan and Urartu-2 agree another 3 years.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Arman Hovhannisyan after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Israelyan 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.