1998 Armenian Premier League

Statistics of Armenian Premier League in the 1998 season.

• Aragats FC of Gyumri is promoted.

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Shirak	16	13	3	0	41	8	+33	42	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Tsement Ararat	16	12	3	1	43	10	+33	39
3	Yerevan	16	8	3	5	25	16	+9	27
4	Erebuni-Homenmen	16	7	4	5	19	13	+6	25
5	Ararat Yerevan	16	5	5	6	14	18	−4	20
6	Pyunik	16	5	3	8	17	28	−11	18
7	Dvin Artashat	16	4	5	7	19	24	−5	17	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	Karabakh Yerevan	16	2	5	9	14	28	−14	11
9	Aragats	16	0	1	15	6	53	−47	1
10	Kotayk (W)	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0	Expelled[a]

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(W) Withdrew
Notes:

1. Kotayk were expelled from the competition because did not pay the start tax.

Results

Home \ Away	ARG	ARA	DVI	ERE	KAR	PYU	SHI	TSE	YER
Aragats		0–1	0–2	1–3	0–0	1–2	2–3	1–6	0–3
Ararat Yerevan	3–0		2–2	3–1	2–1	2–3	0–0	0–4	0–2
Dvin Artashat	3–0	2–2		0–2	4–2	3–1	1–1	1–3	0–1
Erebuni-Homenmen	4–0	2–1	0–0		2–0	0–0	0–3	1–1	2–1
Karabakh Yerevan	5–1	1–1	3–0	0–0		1–1	0–3	1–2	1–4
Pyunik	3–0	0–1	3–2	1–2	2–1		0–1	1–1	0–1
Shirak	5–0	3–0	4–0	2–1	3–1	6–1		3–1	1–0
Tsement Ararat	6–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	3–0	3–0[a]	2–2		3–0
Yerevan	4–0	0–0	4–4	2–1	1–1	4–0	0–2	0–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Pyunik did not enter the match.

Championship round

Championship round league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tsement Ararat (C)	26	20	4	2	70	22	+48	64	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Shirak	26	19	4	3	72	25	+47	61	Qualification for the UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Yerevan	26	15	3	8	47	30	+17	48
4	Ararat Yerevan	26	10	5	11	40	40	0	35	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup first round
5	Erebuni-Homenmen	26	9	4	13	39	44	−5	31
6	Pyunik	26	6	3	17	27	68	−41	21

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	ERE	PYU	SHI	TSE	YER
Ararat Yerevan		2–1	2–1	3–1	2–3	1–3
Erebuni-Homenmen	4–1		1–2	4–5	1–3	0–1
Pyunik	0–4	0–2		1–6	1–3	0–5
Shirak	3–1	6–2	5–0		1–1	3–0[a]
Tsement Ararat	1–0	5–1	6–3	1–0		2–0
Yerevan	0–4	2–1	5–1	3–0	2–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Yerevan did not enter the match.

Relegation round

Relegation round league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
7	Dvin Artashat	20	8	5	7	41	36	+5	29
8	Karabakh Yerevan	20	4	5	11	24	37	−13	17
9	Aragats (O)	20	0	1	19	10	68	−58	1	Qualification for the Relegation play-off

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(O) Play-off winners

Results

Home \ Away	ARG	DVI	KAR
Aragats		1–3	0–2
Dvin Artashat	6–3		4–1
Karabakh Yerevan	2–0	1–4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion/relegation play-off

Date	Venue	PL Team	Result	FL Team
unknown	unknown	Aragats	3 - 2	Lori

Top goalscorers

#	Player		Team	Goals
1		Ara Hakobyan	Dvin Artashat	20[1]
2		Arayik Adamyan	Shirak	13
3		Arthur Petrosyan	Shirak	12
		Shirak Sarikyan	Tsement Ararat	12
5		Mher Avanesyan	Shirak	11
		Hayk Hakopyan	Dvin Artashat	11