ARARAT Futsal

AGBU ARARAT was founded in the year 1984, by a group of members/supporters of the AGBU Nicosia chapter passionate with sports and football.

The 11 a-side team soon joined the amateur league in order to stay alive and very soon it started having a leading role in the league which was the beginning of its bright future.

In 1985, ARARAT participated for the first time, in the Pan-Armenian (Navasartian) games which was held in Geneva and took the third place of the FUTSAL tournament, and this was the first time that a Cypriot team participated in such a tournament. the then so called , 5-a-side, as this was completely unknown to Cyprus.

In 1987 in the same tournament in Geneva ARARAT , took the highest rank on the podium, as champions of the tournament.

ARARAT has visited many countries and participated in many tournaments both in football and mainly in futsal. Australia, Argentina, Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Lebanon, Switzerland, England , USA, France and later Belgium, Finland, Hungary and Holland are some of the places visited by our team over the years.

For the next coming years ARARAT continued to play football, in the amateur 11a-side league, but in the minds and hearts of the people of ARARAT, Futsal, has made its roots and in 1998-1999, when the first official league of University based Futsal was created ARARAT was the first team to register and join a league of 9 teams and from the first year took the 2nd place in the championship and runner-up in the cup competititon.
In this same year ARARAT again won the championship title of the Pan-Armenian Futsal games In Sydney, Australia.

The time had arrived for the Cyprus Football Association to get organized and create the Futsal Association and the Futsal championship of Cyprus in 1999-2000.
In the same year ARARAT took the 3rd place in the final standing and won the cup title.

The following year 2000-2001 was the ignition of the glory to follow for ARARAT , as the team won the championship and represented Cyprus in European (UEFA) champions league for futsal, as the first ever representative of Cyprus in such a prestigious tournament. The event was held in Belgium as the host country, and ARARAT took the second place after ACTION 21/CHARLEROIA / champions of BELGIUM, and in front of the champions of the CZECH republic HAVLICUK and TEAM IBERIA of GEORGIA.

Overall, AGBU ARARAT has won 6 championship titles and 3 cups and twice won the double.
On numerous occasions ARARAT has represented Cyprus to the UEFA Futsal cup.

Winning championship titles - unbeaten, has become a tradition for ARARAT which is the proof of the complete DOMINATION in Cyprus.

By reaching such high standards in Cypriot Futsal, ARARAT is deeply respected and widely accepted as the best Futsal team in CYPRUS.

The aim of the whole team is one day to shine also in Europe,and reach the peak of mount ARARAT