Armenia national football team

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Armenia

Nickname

Ararat

Association

Football Federation
of Armenia

Confederation

UEFA (Europe)

Head coach

Ian Porterfield

Most caps

Sargis Hovsepian (85)

Top scorer

Artur Petrosyan (11)

Home stadium

Republican Stadium

FIFA code

ARM

FIFA ranking

119

Highest FIFA ranking

79 (September 2000)

Lowest FIFA ranking

159 (June 1994)

Elo ranking

112





First kit





Second kit

First international

Armenia 0 - 0 Moldova

(Yerevan, Armenia; 12 October 1992)

Biggest win

Armenia 3 - 0 Albania

(Yerevan, Armenia; 6 September 1997)

Biggest defeat

Chile 7 - 0 Armenia

(Viña del Mar, Chile; 4 January 1997)

The Armenia national football team is the national football team of Armenia and is controlled by the Football Federation of Armenia. After the split of the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Moldova on 12 October 1992.

1 World Cup record
2 European Championship record
3 Managers
4 Current Squad
5 Notable players
6 External links
7 See also
8 Notes

[edit] World Cup record

1930 to 1994 - Did not enter, was part of USSR until 1991
1998 to 2006 - Did not qualify

[edit] European Championship record

1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
1996 to 2004 - Did not qualify

[edit] Managers

As of February 7, 2007

Manager	Period	Matches	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF^[1]	GA^[2]
Eduard Markarov	1992-1994	6	1	2	3	1	5
Samvel Darbinyan	1995-1996	9	1	1	7	5	21
Khoren Hovhannisyan	1996-1997	16	2	5	9	10	41
Souren Barseghyan	1998-1999	14	4	2	8	11	19
Varuzhan Sukiasyan	2000-2001	17	3	7	7	17	27
Andranik Adamyan (caretaker)	2002	1	1	0	0	2	0
Oskar Lopez	2002	2	0	1	1	2	4
Andranik Adamyan (caretaker)	2003	1	0	0	1	0	2
Mihai Stoichiţă	2003-2004	10	4	1	5	11	17
Bernard Casoni	2004-2005	8	1	1	6	5	18
Henk Wisman	2005-2006	8	1	1	6	5	14
Ian Porterfield	2006-	7	0	3	4	1	7

[edit] Current Squad

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Roman Berezovsky	August 5, 1974	48	0	FC Khimki
2	DF	Yeghishe Melikian	August 13, 1979	25	0	Banants Yerevan
3	DF	Karen Dokhoyan	October 6, 1976	40	2	Krylya Sovetov Samara
4	DF	Sargis Hovsepian (C)	November 2, 1972	85	0	Pyunik Yerevan
5	DF	Robert Arzumanyan	July 24, 1985	15	0	Pyunik Yerevan
6	MF	Romik Khachatryan	August 23, 1978	46	1	Unirea Urziceni
7	FW	Ara Hakobyan	April 11, 1980	31	5	Illychivets Mariupol
8	FW	Aram Hakobyan	August 15, 1979	14	2	Illychivets Mariupol
9	MF	Hamlet Mkhitaryan	November 24, 1973	46	1	Pas Tehran
10	FW	Armen Shahgeldyan	August 28, 1973	51	6	Mika Ashtarak
11	FW	Arman Karamyan	November 14, 1979	34	5	Poli Timişoara
12	GK	Gevorg Kasparov	July 25, 1980	5	0	Pas Tehran
13	MF	Artavazd Karamyan	November 14, 1979	33	3	Poli Timişoara
14	MF	Samvel Melkonyan	March 15, 1984	9	0	Banants Yerevan
15	MF	Levon Pachajyan	September 20, 1983	11	0	Pyunik Yerevan
16	DF	Armen Tigranyan	August 16, 1985	3	0	Pyunik Yerevan
17	MF	Karen Aleksanyan	June 17, 1980	20	0	Zimbru Chişinău
18	DF	Aleksandr Tadevosyan	August 9, 1980	19	0	Bargh Shiraz
19	DF	Valeri Aleksanyan	September 4, 1984	12	0	Pyunik Yerevan
20	FW	Robert Zebelyan	March 31, 1984	2	0	Kuban Krasnodar
21	MF	Aghvan Mkrtchyan	February 27, 1981	21	0	Bargh Shiraz
22	GK	Armen Ambartsumyan	February 18, 1978	8	0	Slavia Sofia
23	FW	Galust Petrosyan	September 5, 1981	7	1	Zimbru Chişinău
24	MF	Artur Minasyan	June 4, 1977	1	0	Ararat Yerevan
25	FW	Nshan Erzrumyan	December 17, 1979	2	0	Ararat Yerevan
26	FW	Edgar Manucharyan	January 19, 1987	13	1	Ajax Amsterdam
27	MF	Rafael Nazaryan	March 26, 1975	23	1	Pyunik Yerevan