Artak Yedigaryan (; born on 18 March 1990) is an Armenian former professional

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who played as a full-back.

Club career

Artak was born in

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in a family of football players, which naturally affected his future. Also an important factor is that the Yedigaryan lived in a house that is located next to the Republican Stadium.

Pyunik

Yedigaryan is a graduate from the football school Pyunik Yerevan. Early in his career, he played for the reserves. After spending two seasons there, he was transferred to the first team. At the beginning of the 2009 Armenian Premier League season, he went on replacements, and then began to appear in the first team, but not for the entire first match. In the second round, he almost staked a place at the base. Direct participation of Yedigaryan allowed Pyunik to score a hat-trick in the 2010 season, when the team won the

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, 2010 Armenian Cup and 2010 Armenian Supercup.

Metalurh Donetsk

In the summer of 2012, along with Pyunik teammate David Manoyan, he held interest in the Metalurh Donetsk. Manoyan later went on to play for Kuban Krasnodar, but the game of Yedigaryan attracted the attention of the coaching staff of Metalurh. In the near future, he was to be signed a contract between the parties on both sides. On 9 July, in the conference room of a training base of FC Metalurh, the club's sporting director Vardan Israelyan and head coach Vladimir Pyatenko presented five newcomers, one of whom was Artak Yedigaryan. The agreement contract was for 3 years. He played on the team as number 21.

Return to Pyunik

In 2013, Yedigaryan was transferred from Metalurh Donetsk back to Pyunik Yerevan for an undisclosed fee.

Žalgiris Vilnius

In January 2014, Yedigaryan joined reigning Lithuanian champions VMFD Žalgiris Vilnius.

Alashkert

On 18 August 2015, Yedigaryan signed a one-year contract with the

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side

Alashkert FC Football Club Alashkert (), commonly known as Alashkert, is an Football in Armenia, Armenian football club based in the capital Yerevan, founded in 1990 in Martuni, Armenia, Martuni and after folding in 2000 re-founded in 2011. They currently pla ...

. On 5 June 2019, Yedigaryan was released by Alashkert along with six other players.

Return to Pyunik

Ahead of the 2019/20 season, Yedigaryan returned to

FC Pyunik Football Club Pyunik (), commonly known as Pyunik (), is an Armenian professional sports club based in the Kentron neighbourhood of Yerevan. Pyunik is mostly known for its professional football team which, since its creation in 1992, has always ...

. At the end of May 2025, he announced the end of his career.

International career

On 25 May 2010, Yedigaryan made his debut in the

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. In a friendly game against the national team of

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, Artak came from the first minute and played the entire match. Afterwards, the Armenian team celebrated the victory with a score of 3–1.

Personal life

Artak's brother Arthur Yedigaryan also plays for the

. Their father, Gegham Yedigaryan, was a Soviet football player and their grandfather Felix Veranyan was also a football player and is currently a football manager. Artak is married to a woman named Shushan.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Armenia's goal tally first.''

Honours

Pyunik Yerevan *

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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, 2012–13 * Armenian Supercup: 2007, 2008, 2010 Žalgiris Vilnius *

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: 2013–14, 2014–15 Alashkert FC * Armenian Premier League: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, * Armenian Cup: 2018–19 * Armenian Supercup: 2016

References

External links

Artak Yedigaryan
at FFA * *

at ArmFootball.Tripod.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Yedigaryan, Artak 1990 births Living people Footballers from Yerevan Armenian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Armenia men's international footballers Armenia men's under-21 international footballers 21st-century Armenian sportsmen Armenia men's youth international footballers Armenian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Lithuania FC Pyunik players FC Metalurh Donetsk players FK Žalgiris players Armenian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players A Lyga players FC Alashkert players FC Gandzasar Kapan players