Armenian national soccer team

Armenia
Հայաստան
Hajastan

Association	Armenian Football Association
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Macron
Head coach	Joaquín Caparrós (since 2020)
captain	Henrich Mchitarjan (since 2016)
Record scorer	Henrich Mchitarjan (26)
Record player	Sarkis Howsepyan (132)
Home stadium	Wasken Zarkissyan Republican Stadium , Yerevan
FIFA code	POOR
FIFA rank	102nd (1213 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey Third jersey
Balance sheet
205 games 51 wins 42 draws 112 defeats
statistics
First international match Armenia 0-0 Moldova ( Yerevan , Armenia ; October 12, 1992 )
Biggest win Armenia 7-1 Guatemala ( Los Angeles , USA ; May 28, 2016 )
Biggest defeat Italy 9-1 Armenia ( Palermo , Italy ; November 18, 2019 )
(As of November 18, 2019)

The Armenian National Football Team is the national football team of Armenia and is managed by the Armenian Football Association . She played her first match after the partition of the Soviet Union against Moldova on October 12, 1992 .

The team has not yet been able to qualify for a soccer world championship or a soccer championship . The team is currently ranked 90th in the FIFA world rankings as of December 2017. From April 2006 until his death in September 2007 the team was coached by the Scotsman Ian Porterfield . On March 30, 2009, the Armenian Association separated from coach Jan Børge Poulsen , the new coach was the previous assistant coach Wardan Minasjan . On March 5, 2014, the Swiss Bernard Challandes took over the team. After only nine games, record international Sarkis Howsepjan took over the coaching position for five games, then Varuzhan Sukiasyan became national coach for the second time. Joaquín Caparrós has been the team's coach since March 2020 .

World Championship participation

• 1930 to 1994 - Did not participate, was part of the USSR national football team .
• 1998 to 2018 - Not qualified.

European Championship participation

As part of the USSR and the CIS, Armenia took part in the European Championships from 1960 to 1992. In the Soviet national team, however, Armenian players played no role. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union into several independent states, Armenia first took part in the qualification for the European Championship in 1996, but was never able to qualify. In qualifying for the European Championship 2012, third place was the best ranking so far and there was the possibility to qualify at least for the playoff games of the group runners-up. That chance was missed by a loss to Ireland on the final day of the game. Otherwise only the penultimate or last group places were reached.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1996	England	not qualified			In the qualification of Spain and defending champion Denmark failed.
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	not qualified			In the qualification of world champion France and the Ukraine failed, which also failed to qualify.
2004	Portugal	not qualified			In the qualification against later European champions Greece and again failed against Spain .
2008	Austria and Switzerland	not qualified			In the qualification of Poland and Portugal failed.
2012	Poland and Ukraine	not qualified			In the qualification of Russia and Ireland failed.
2016	France	not qualified			In the qualification , Armenia met Portugal , Denmark , Serbia and Albania . In addition, EM host France was assigned to the group, but only competed in friendly matches against the group opponents. As the bottom of the group, Armenia clearly missed the qualification.
2021	Europe	not qualified			In the qualification of Italy and Finland failed.

Current squad

The following players were in the squad for the UEFA Nations League game against Liechtenstein on November 19, 2018.

No.	player	society	Date of birth	Games	Gates	debut	Last use
goal
01	Arsenic Beglaryan	without a club	Feb. 18, 1993	014th	00	25th Mar 2016	Nov 13, 2017
12	Henri Avagyan	FC Alaschkert Martuni	Jan. 16, 1996	001	00	19 Nov 2018	19 Nov 2018
16	Aram Hayrapetyan	FC Banants Yerevan	Nov 22, 1986	008th	00	24 Mar 2018	Nov 16, 2018
Defense
02	Artyom Khachaturov	FC Lori Vanadzor	June 18, 1992	004th	00	0Feb 5, 2013	19 Nov 2018
03	Varazdat Haroyan	Urals Sverdlovsk Oblast	Aug 24, 1992	041	02	Aug 10, 2011	19 Nov 2018
04th	Taron Voskanyan	FC Alaschkert Martuni	Feb 22, 1993	024	00	Nov 14, 2012	04th June 2018
06th	Levon Hayrapetyan	FC Alaschkert Martuni	Apr 17, 1989	039	01	0Feb 9, 2011	04th Sep 2017
15th	Gagik Daghbashyan	FC Alaschkert Martuni	Oct 19, 1990	012	00	Feb 28, 2012	19 Nov 2018
17th	Narek Petrosyan	FC Banants Yerevan	Jan. 25, 1996	000	00	-	-
19th	Hovhannes Hambardzumyan	Enosis Neon Paralimni	0Oct. 4, 1990	027	02	Aug 11, 2010	19 Nov 2018
23	Artur Kartashyan	FC Pyunik Yerevan	0Jan. 8, 1997	001	01	Nov 16, 2018	Nov 16, 2018
midfield
05	Artak Grigoryan	FC Alaschkert Martuni	Oct 19, 1987	017th	01	Aug 11, 2010	19 Nov 2018
07th	Edgar Malakyan	Shetissu Taldyqorghan	22 Sep 1990	019th	00	May 25, 2010	Nov 16, 2018
08th	Alik Arakelyan	FC Pyunik Yerevan	May 21, 1996	001	00	19 Nov 2018	19 Nov 2018
09	Gor Malakyan	FC Ararat-Armenia	June 12, 1994	016	00	25th Mar 2016	Nov 16, 2018
10	Gevorg Ghazaryan	DG Chaves	0Apr 5, 1988	063	09	22 Aug 2007	19 Nov 2018
13	Kamo Hovhannisyan	Shetissu Taldyqorghan	0Oct 5, 1992	041	00	22 Aug 2012	Nov 16, 2018
18th	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Arsenal FC	Jan. 21, 1989	077	26th	0Feb 7, 2007	19 Nov 2018
20th	Tigran Barseghyan	Vardar Skopje	22 Sep 1993	019th	02	25th Mar 2016	Oct 16, 2018
21st	Rumyan Hovsepyan	FC Pyunik Yerevan	Nov 13, 1991	015th	02	May 27, 2014	19 Nov 2018
22nd	Sargis Adamyan	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	May 23, 1993	013	01	Sep 10 2013	19 Nov 2018
attack
11	Aleksandre Karapetian	FC Progrès Niederkorn	Dec 23, 1987	004th	02	Oct 11, 2014	19 Nov 2018
14th	Yura Movsisyan	Chicago Fire	0Aug 2, 1987	037	13	Aug 11, 2010	19 Nov 2018

Record player

Record international player Sarkis Howsepjan and his friend Artur Petrosyan were already in the team in the first game of the Armenian team on November 14, 1992. Sarkis Howsepjan is the last player from this first Armenian national team to retire on November 14, 2012.

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period	Record international player
01.	Sarkis Howsepyan	132	02	Defense	1992-2012	since March 18, 2005 (70 to 132 games)
02.	Roman Berezovsky	094	00	goal	1996-2016
03.	Henrich Mchitarjan	080	26th	midfield	since 2007
04th	Robert Arsumanjan	074	05	Defense	2005-2015
05.	Artur Petrosian	069	11	midfield	1992-2004	October 14, 1992 to September 6, 1995 together with Arsen Avetissjan and Aramayis Tonoyan (1 to 10 games) September 6, 1995 to October 9, 1996 (11 to 20 games) October 9, 1996 to January 9, 2000 together with Sarkis Howsepjan (21 to 40 games) January 9, 2000 to March 18, 2005 (41 to 69 games)
06th	Marcos Pizzelli	066	10	midfield	since 2008
07th	Geworg Ghazaryan	063	09	Midfield / attack	since 2007
	Harut Vardanyan	063	01	midfield	1994-2004
09.	Hamlet Mchitarjan	0057	02	Defense	1994-2008
10.	Romik Chachatrjan	0055	01	midfield	1997-2008
11.	Artur Voskanjan	054	01	Defense	1999-2010
	Edgar Manucharyan	054	09	attack	2004-2017
13.	Poor Shahgeldyan	053	06th	midfield	1992-2007
14th	Karlen Mkrtchjan	051	02	midfield	since 2008
15th	Artawasd Karamjan	0050	02	midfield	2000-2010

As of November 19, 2018

Record goal scorers

On October 15, 2013 Henrich Mchitarjan was the sole record scorer with a goal against Italy.

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period
01.	Henrich Mchitarjan	26th	80	0.33	2007–
02.	Jura Mowsisjan	14th	38	0.37	2010–
03.	Geworg Ghazaryan	11	63	0.18	2007–
	Artur Petrosian	11	69	0.16	1992-2004
	Marcos Pizzelli	11	66	0.17	2008–
06th	Edgar Manucharyan	09	54	0.17	2004-2017
07th	Ara Hakobjan	07th	44	0.16	1998-2009
08th.	Macaws Ozbiliz	06th	37	0.16	2012–
	Artur Sarkisov	06th	40	0.15	2011–
	Poor Shahgeldyan	06th	53	0.11	1992-2007
11.	Robert Arsumanjan	05	74	0.07	2005-2015
	Arman Karamjan	05	48	0.10	2000-2010

As of November 19, 2018

Trainer

• Eduard Artjomowitsch Markarow (1992–1994)
• Samvel Darbinyan (1995-1996)
• Khoren Oganesian (1996-1997)
• Souren Barseghyan (1998–1999)
• Varuzhan Sukiasyan (2000-2001)
• Andranik Adamyan (2002) interim
• Óscar López (2002)
• Andranik Adamyan (2003) interim
• Mihai Stoichiță (2003-2004)
• Bernard Casoni (2004-2005)
• Henk Wisman (2005-2006)
• Ian Porterfield (2006-2007)
• Vardan Minasyan (2007) interim
• Tom Jones (2007) interim
• Jan B. Poulsen (2008-2009)
• Vardan Minasyan (2009-2014)
• Bernard Challandes (2014-2015)
• Sarkis Howsepjan (2015)
• Varuzhan Sukiasyan (2015-2016)
• Artur Petrosyan (2016-2018)
• Vardan Minasyan (2018)
• Poor Gyulbudaghyants (2018-2019)
• Abraham Khashmanyan (2019-2020)
• Joaquín Caparrós (since 2020)

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

→ Main article : List of the international matches of the Armenian national football team

International matches against the German national soccer team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
01.	October 9, 1996	Yerevan	Armenia	1: 5	Germany
02.	September 10, 1997	Dortmund	Germany	4-0	Armenia
03.	June 6, 2014	Mainz	Germany	6: 1	Armenia

International matches against the Liechtenstein national soccer team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
01.	September 6, 2018	Yerevan	Armenia	2: 1	Liechtenstein
02.	19th November 2018	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	2: 2	Armenia
03.	June 8, 2019	Yerevan	Armenia	3-0	Liechtenstein

International matches against the Luxembourg national football team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
01.	5th February 2013	Valence	Armenia	1: 1	Luxembourg

So far there have been no meetings against Austria and Switzerland.

See also

• List of Armenian national soccer players
• List of international matches of the Armenian national football team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA statistics do not include the game against Turkey on October 14, 2009, although it is listed in the list of preliminary round games ( memento of July 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Poulsen has to take his hat off
4. ↑ http://www.srf.ch/sport/fussball/fussball-allgemein/bernard-challandes-wird-nationalcoach-in-armenien
5. ↑ https://www.transfermarkt.de/liechtenstein_armenien/aufstellung/spielbericht/2994210
6. ↑ 57 games are mentioned in the Armenian rsssf statistics, in the eu football list only 56
7. ↑ In the Armenian rsssf statistics 55 games are mentioned, in the eu football list only 54
8. ↑ In the Armenian rsssf statistics only 49 games are mentioned, in the eu football list 50
9. ↑ Source for the record players
10. ↑ Italy - Armenia 2: 2
11. ↑ The higher number of goals scored in the evaluated statistics is listed
12. ^ Armenia - Record International Players
13. ^ PLAYERS for Armenia

Web links

Commons : Armenian national soccer team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• All international matches of Armenia (English)
• National team website of the Armenian Football Association (English)