The 2020–21 season was Lori FC's third and final season in the Armenian Premier League, and they also participated in the Armenian Cup. Lori submitted their resignation from the league in April, with the remaining games being awarded as 3-0 technical defeats, leaving Lori in 8th in the League at the end of the season, whilst they were also knocked out of the Armenian Cup by BKMA Yerevan in the First Round.
Season events
On 4 August, Armen Sanamyan left his role as caretaker manager of Lori to become manager of Sevan.[1] The following day, 5 August, Lori announced Albert Solomonov as their new head coach.[2]
On 17 August, the Football Federation of Armenia announced that that day's match between Urartu and Lori would not take place as Lori still had players and staff in isolation following an outbreak of COVID-19.[3]
On 29 September, the season was suspended indefinitely due to the escalating 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[29] On 13 October, the FFA announced that the season would resume on 17 October.[30]
On 17 October, Lori's match against Noah was postponed due to 7 positive COVID-19 cases within the Noah team.[32] On the same day, Lori announced the singing of Ivan Božović to a one-year contract,[33] with Pavel Kudryashov joining the next day on a similar contract.[34]
On 16 March, Lori walked off at the start of their match against Ararat Yerevan in protest of their Matchday 1 fixture being awarded to Urartu after Lori where unable to field a team due to COVID-19.[45][46] With the match later being awarded to Ararat Yerevan 3–0.[47]
Note: Match abandoned after Lori walked off the pitch at the start of the game,[45] and later awarded as a 3-0 technical victory to Ararat Yerevan.[47]
^Round 19–27 matches involving Lori were all declared 3–0 forfeits in favor of the remaining 8 teams.
^Gandzasar were excluded from the league On 3 November, Gandzasar Kapan announced that they were withdrawing from the League and Armenian Cup due to the ongoing financial constraints relating to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia and the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.