About Noravank SC

Noravank SC is a very short-lived Armenian football club, but it has a pretty interesting story for how quickly it rose and disappeared.

The club was founded in 2020 in Vayk (Vayots Dzor region) and started in the Armenian First League. Despite being a brand-new team, it managed to perform well enough to earn promotion to the Armenian Premier League in 2021, which is already unusual for such a young club.

Even more surprisingly, in the 2021–22 season, Noravank achieved its biggest success: it won the Armenian Cup, beating FC Urartu in the final. That victory gave the club its first major trophy and a potential place in European competitions, which is rare for a team in its first top-flight season. However, the club’s success didn’t last. Noravank struggled with licensing and financial stability issues, and after the 2021–22 season it was dissolved in 2022, just two years after being founded. Today, it is remembered as one of the most extreme “rise and fall” stories in modern Armenian football — a club that won a national trophy almost immediately, then disappeared just as fast.