Pagramian SC
{{short description|Former Lebanese association football club}}
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Pagramian Sports Club ({{langx|ar|نادي باغراميان الرياضي}}; {{langx|hyw|Բագրամեան մարզական միութիւն}}; {{langx|hy|Բաղրամյան մարզական միություն}}) was a Lebanese-Armenian sports and cultural organisation linked to the Lebanese Communist Party.yasoursport.org. [http://www.yasoursport.org/details.php?mode=news&id=1744 من الذاكرة:ملعب البص] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234646/http://www.yasoursport.org/details.php?mode=news&id=1744 |date=2016-03-03 }}Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934-2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 28, 138, 153-154Nadi Shabab al-Sahel.[http://www.shababalsahel.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=913&catid=39 فخري علامة ... اللاعب والقدوة]Sada Dahieh. [http://www.sadadahieh.com/?itemID=349 عفيف حمدان... دينامو الحركة الكروية في الضاحية] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035237/http://www.sadadahieh.com/?itemID=349 |date=2016-03-04 }}Al-Akhbar. [http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/72011 الحارس الطائر سميح شاتيلا شاهد على عصر الكرة]
Named after the military commander the Soviet Marshal Ivan Bagramyan, it was formed in the 1944. The club was shut down by the Lebanese government during the presidency of Fouad Chehab in 1960. In 1969, Ararad SA was formed as a continuation of Pagramian.
History
File:Pagramian Sports Club (Armenian communist org) football team.jpg
File:Match between Pagramian and Tadamon Sour teams in 1956 at El-Buss.jpg football teams in 1956, held in El-Buss, Tyre. Tadamon won 3–1.]]
Pagramian was founded at the beginning of October 1944 by Homenetmen players who decided form a new club.{{Cite news|last=Khadra|first=A.|date=2 August 1946|title=Bagramian, déteneur de la Coupe municipale|language=fr|page=2|work=Le Jour}} Other football players from Antranik and Homenmen also joined. They were affiliated to the Lebanese Football Association (LFA) from the 1945–46 season. Pagramian won the Municipal Cup, organised by the LFA, in their debut season. In 1946–47 they won the Lebanese Second Division.{{Cite news|last=Khadra|first=A.|date=14 January 1947|title=Bagramian enleve le titre|language=fr|trans-title=Bagramian lifts the title|work=Le Jour|access-date=}} Pagramian were finalists of the 1947 Lebanese FA Cup, losing 2–1 to Nahda.{{Cite web|last=Stokkermans|first=Karel|title=Lebanon – List of Cup Winners|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesl/lebcuphist.html|access-date=5 March 2021|website=RSSSF}} In 1949 Pagramian took part in the Beirut Committee of football clubs.Al-Mustaqbal. [http://www.almustaqbal.com/v4/Article.aspx?Type=np&Articleid=368955اسرار وأخبار الزمن الجميل ]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Ahead of the 1957 parliamentary election, Pagramian Sports Club and other anti-Tashnag (anti-ARF) Lebanese Armenian sports associations like Homenmen (affiliated with the Hunchaks), Antranik (affiliated with the Ramgavars), Veradznunt, and Tekeyan-Baykar organized a "Pan-Armenian Festival" on 22 April 1957, under the patronage of Archbishop Khat Atchabahian. Around 2,000 athletes took part in the event, which had around 25,000 spectators at the Beirut Municipal Stadium.
On 10 June 1957, the day of the election, three people (Krikor Vrtanessian, Bedros Kdjoyan and Levon Kdjoyan) were shot dead in front of the Pagramian club offices. The club blamed the Tashnag party for the killings.
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The Pagramian Sports Club was shut down by the Lebanese government in 1960. In 1969 the Ararad Sports Association was set up to fill the void after the dissolution of Pagramian.{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604032830/http://www.araradsa.org/about.php |archivedate=June 4, 2012 |publisher=Ararad Sports Association |url=http://www.araradsa.org/about.php |title=About Us}}
Honours
- Lebanese FA Cup
- Runners-up (1): 1946–47
References
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Category:1944 establishments in Lebanon
Category:1960 disestablishments in Lebanon
Category:Sports clubs and teams established in 1924
Category:Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 1960
Category:Association football clubs established in 1944
Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1960
Category:Armenian association football clubs outside Armenia
Category:Armenian football clubs in Lebanon
Category:Diaspora sports clubs
Category:Football clubs in Lebanon
Category:Lebanese Communist Party