Armenia national football team

Armenia

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Nickname(s)	Ararat
Association	Football Federation of Armenia
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Vardan Minasyan
Captain	Sargis Hovsepyan
Most caps	Sargis Hovsepyan (103)
Top scorer	Arthur Petrosyan (11)
Home stadium	Hrazdan Stadium Hanrapetakan Stadium
FIFA code	ARM
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	120
Highest	78 (April 2008)
Lowest	159 (June 1994)
First international
Armenia 0 - 0 Moldova (Yerevan, Armenia; October 14 1992)
Biggest win
Armenia 3 - 0 Albania (Yerevan, Armenia; September 6 1997)
Biggest defeat
Chile 7 - 0 Armenia (Viña del Mar, Chile; January 4 1997)

The Armenia national football team (Armenian: Հայաստանի ֆուտբոլի ազգային հավաքական) is the national football team of Armenia and is controlled by the Football Federation of Armenia. After the split of the Soviet Union, the team played its first international match against Moldova on October 12 1992.

World Cup record

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

European Championship record

• 1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
• 1996 to 2008 - Did not qualify

Managers

• As of March 31 2009

Manager	Period	Pld	Won	Tied	Lost	GF	GA	Win %
Eduard Markarov	1992–1994	6	1	2	3	1	5	16.6%
Samvel Darbinyan	1995–1996	9	1	1	7	5	21	11.1%
Khoren Hovhannisyan	1996–1997	16	2	5	9	10	41	12.5%
Souren Barseghyan	1998–1999	14	4	2	8	11	19	28.6%
Varuzhan Sukiasyan	2000–2001	17	3	7	7	17	27	17.6%
Andranik Adamyan (caretaker)	2002	1	1	0	0	2	0	100%
Oscar López	2002	2	0	1	1	2	4	0%
Andranik Adamyan (caretaker)	2003	1	0	0	1	0	2	0%
Mihai Stoichiţă	2003–2004	10	4	1	5	11	17	40%
Bernard Casoni	2004–2005	8	1	1	6	5	18	12.5%
Henk Wisman	2005–2006	8	1	1	6	5	14	12.5%
Ian Porterfield	2006–2007	10	2	4	4	5	9	20%
Vardan Minasyan (caretaker) Tom Jones (caretaker)	2007	6	1	1	4	2	8	16.6%
Jan Poulsen	2008–2009	12	3	4	5	9	19	25%
Vardan Minasyan	2009–present	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%

The team

Most common squad

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Candidates for the squad

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Fixtures and results

Forthcoming fixtures

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Result	Scorers
April 1 2009	WCQ 2010	Tallinn	Estonia
August 12 2009	Friendly	Yerevan	Moldova
September 5 2009	WCQ 2010	Yerevan	BIH
September 9 2009	WCQ 2010	Yerevan	Belgium
October 10 2009	WCQ 2010	Yerevan	Spain
October 14 2009	WCQ 2010	Istanbul	Turkey

Recent results

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Result	Scorers
March 28 2009	WCQ 2010	Yerevan	Estonia	Drew 2:2	Henrik Mkhitaryan, Gevorg Ghazaryan
February 11 2009	Friendly	Limassol	Latvia	Drew 0:0
October 15 2008	WCQ 2010	Zenica	BIH	Lost 1:4	Vahagn Minasyan
October 11 2008	WCQ 2010	Brussels	Belgium	Lost 0:2
September 10 2008	WCQ 2010	Albacete	Spain	Lost 0:4
September 6 2008	WCQ 2010	Yerevan	Turkey	Lost 0:2
June 1 2008	Friendly	Offenbach	Greece	Drew 0:0
May 27 2008	Friendly	Tiraspol	Moldova	Drew 2:2	Marcos Pizzelli, Levon Pachajyan

Player statistics

Lists of the 10 players with the most caps and top 5 goalscorers for Armenia, as of March 28, 2009 (players in bold are still available for selection):

Most capped players # Player Career period Caps Goals 1 Sargis Hovsepyan 1992–present 103 1 2 Arthur Petrosyan 1992–2005 69 11 3 Harutyun Vardanyan 1994–2004 63 1 4 Hamlet Mkhitaryan 1994–2008 56 2 5 Romik Khachatryan 1997–2008 56 1 6 Roman Berezovsky 1996–present 56 0 7 Armen Shahgeldyan 1992–2007 53 6 8 Arthur Voskanyan 1999–present 52 1 9 Karen Dokhoyan 1999–2008 48 2 10 Arman Karamyan 2000–present 43 5

Top goalscorers # Player Career period Goals Caps 1 Arthur Petrosyan 1992–2005 11 69 2 Ara Hakobyan 1998–present 7 43 3 Armen Shahgeldyan 1992–2007 6 53 4 Arman Karamyan 2000–present 5 43 5 Tigran Yesayan 1996–1999 4 21

Armenia versus other national teams

As of March 28 2009

National team Pld Won Drawn Lost GD Albania 2 1 1 0 4-1 Andorra 6 5 1 0 13-2 Belarus 3 1 1 1 3-3 Belgium 5 0 0 5 0-10 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 0 0 1 1-4 Chile 1 0 0 1 0-7 Cyprus 5 0 1 4 3-11 Czech Republic 2 0 0 2 1-7 Denmark 2 0 0 2 1-5 Ecuador 1 0 0 1 0-3 Estonia 3 1 1 1 4-5 Finland 4 0 1 3 1-5 France 3 0 0 3 2-7 Macedonia 4 1 1 2 5-8 Georgia 4 1 1 2 3-9 Germany 2 0 0 2 1-9 Greece 3 0 1 2 0-3 Guatemala 1 0 1 0 1-1 Hungary 1 0 0 1 0-2 Iceland 3 0 1 2 0-4 Israel 1 0 0 1 0-2 Jordan 1 0 1 0 0-0 Kazakhstan 4 2 1 1 6-5 Kuwait 1 0 0 1 1-3 Latvia 1 0 1 0 0-0

National team Pld Won Drawn Lost GD Lebanon 1 1 0 0 1-0 Lithuania 1 1 0 0 2-1 Malta 3 3 0 0 3-0 Moldova 3 1 2 0 4-3 Morocco 1 0 0 1 0-6 Netherlands 2 0 0 2 0-3 Northern Ireland 4 2 2 0 3-1 Norway 2 0 1 1 1-4 Panama 1 0 1 0 1-1 Paraguay 2 1 0 1 2-3 Peru 1 0 0 1 0-4 Poland 5 1 1 3 2-7 Portugal 4 0 2 2 2-5 Romania 3 0 1 2 1-6 Russia 2 0 0 2 0-5 Serbia 2 0 1 1 0-3 Spain 5 0 0 5 0-14 Turkey 1 0 0 1 0-2 Turkmenistan 1 1 0 0 1-0 Ukraine 8 0 3 5 8-17 United States 1 0 0 1 0-1 Uzbekistan 1 1 0 0 2-0 Wales 2 0 2 0 2-2 Total 120 24 30 66 85-204

Memorable matches

Date			Tournament			Place			Match	Score
September 6 1995			UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying			Skopje, Macedonia			Macedonia - Armenia	1 - 2
June 25, 1996			Friendly match			Asunción, Paraguay			Paraguay - Armenia	1 - 2
August 31 1996			1998 FIFA World Cup qualification			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Portugal	0 - 0
May 5 1997			1998 FIFA World Cup qualification			Kyiv, Ukraine			Ukraine- Armenia	1 - 1
September 6 1997			1998 FIFA World Cup qualification			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Albania	3 - 0
June 9 1999			UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Ukraine	0 - 0
September 8 1999			UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - France	2 - 3
September 2 2000			2002 FIFA World Cup qualification			Oslo, Norway			Norway - Armenia	0 - 0
June 6 2001			2002 FIFA World Cup qualification			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Poland	1 - 1
September 7 2002			UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Ukraine	2 - 2
November 17 2004			2006 FIFA World Cup qualification			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Romania	1 - 1
October 7 2006			UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Finland	0 - 0
June 6 2007			UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Poland	1 - 0
August 22 2007			UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Portugal	1 - 1
October 13 2007			UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying			Yerevan, Armenia			Armenia - Serbia	0 - 0
June 1 2008			Friendly match			Offenbach, Germany			Greece - Armenia	0 - 0

External links

• Football Federation of Armenia
• RSSSF archive of results 1992-
• RSSSF archive of most capped players and highest goalscorers
• Armenian football portal
• Profile at National Football Teams