Edgar Malakyan (; born 22 September 1990) is an Armenian professional

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who plays as a

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for Pyunik, which he

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, and the Armenia national team.

Club career

Edgar Malakyan is a graduate of the football school

Pyunik Yerevan 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 ...

. Since 2008, he fully performed as part of the main team, being in the player base. Framework for action aimed at creating Malakyan attacking waves at the opponent. Possesses good dribbling, and knows how to play with a partner and take it to a rendezvous with the keeper. The first match in Pyunik happened in 2007. It was the only appearance Malakyan had in the team that season, which he spent in the double play in the First League. In the away match of the five round championship in 2010, against Banants Yerevan, he spent his 50th match in Pyunik in the

Armenian Premier League The Armenian Premier League (, known as the Armenian Fastex Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the top association football, football competition in Armenia. From 1936 to 1991, the competition was held as a regional tournament within th ...

. In that year, with the team they won the triple awards, winning the

2010 Armenian Premier League The 2010 Armenian Premier League season was the nineteenth since its establishment. The season began in March 2010 and ended in November 2010. FC Pyunik were the defending champions, having won their twelfth championship last season. Participating ...

, the

2010 Armenian Cup The 2010 Armenian Cup was the 19th season of Armenian knockout football competition. It featured only the 8 Premier League teams. The tournament started on 23 March 2010. Pyunik won their second consecutive cup with a 4–0 victory over Banants ...

and the 2010 Armenian Supercup. In June 2012, Malakyan had signed a three-year contract with

Viktoria Plzeň Viktoria usually refers to Viktoria, a name which is the same as Victoria (name), but may also refer to: Places * FK Viktoria Stadion, stadium of Viktoria Žižkov * Viktoria-Luise-Platz, building in Berlin * Viktoriastadt, now known as Victor ...

. Agents from Viktoria noticed Edgar's match of 2nd preliminary round of the

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season, in which Viktoria won over Pyunik 4:0 and 5:1, Edgar showed himself to play well. In the first league game against

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on 29 July 2012, in which Victoria won 3–0 at home, Malakyan got injured. In the 3rd round of the

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on 26 September 2012 in a match against

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, Malakyan came in when the score was a losing 1:2 and sharpened the game, gave the assists, and Victoria won 3–2. On 8 November, for his debut in the

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against

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, Malakyan came out on the field for 46 minutes. The match ended in favour of the players from Victoria 4–0. In winter of 2013, he was loaned to another

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club

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. In 2013–14, he was loaned to

FC Banants Football Club Urartu (, translated ''Futbolayin Akumb Urartu''), commonly known as Urartu, is an Armenian professional football team based in the capital Yerevan that currently plays in the Armenian Premier League. The club won the Armenian Cup f ...

.Малакян перешел в "Бананц"
fcbanants.am, Retrieved 2013-08-23 (Russian) His performance there was so good that he decided to continue his career in Armenia permanently as he signed for Alashkert in 2015. After half a season, he was then traded to

Shirak Gyumri Football Club Shirak (), commonly known as Shirak, is an Armenian professional sports club based in Gyumri. Shirak is known for its professional football team which is one of the oldest football clubs in Armenia, having been created in 1958. The ...

, where he would finish relaunching his career in Armenia. Becoming team captain and having good performances in

qualifying playoffs, he was then bought by Ukrainian Stal Kamianske alongside his younger brother,

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. Since signing for the

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side in 2016, Edgar became a regular starter, key squad member and team captain as well. This eventually lead to him being called up for the

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again after 5 years without playing for Armenia. On 10 December 2022, Ararat Yerevan announced that Malakyan had left by mutual consent. On 12 January 2023, Pyunik announced the return of Malakyan.

International career

Malakyan debuted internationally on 12 August 2009 as part of the

in a friendly match against

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. He played in the first half, then was substituted by

David Manoyan David Manoyan (, born 5 July 1990) is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Cilicia. Early life David Manoyan was born on 5 July 1990 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR. Manoyan spent some time swimming before he started playi ...

. On 7 June 2011, Malakyan was the scorer of a double in the Armenia U21 youth team in a match against the Montenegro U21 youth team.

Honours

Pyunik *

(3):

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 ...

, 2023–24 *

Armenian Cup The Armenian Cup () is the main football cup competition of Armenia. In its original form as the Armenian Cup, it started in 1939, when Armenia was a republic of the Soviet Union. It served as a qualification tournament for the Soviet Cup, and it ...

(2):

Armenian Supercup The Armenian Supercup is a match that is played between the Armenian Premier League The Armenian Premier League (, known as the Armenian Fastex Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the top association football, football competition in Ar ...

(3): 2008, 2010, 2011 Ararat Yerevan *

(1):

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References

External links

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Profile at Football Federation of Armenia
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malakyan, Edgar 1990 births Living people Footballers from Yerevan Armenian men's footballers Armenia men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Armenian Premier League players FC Pyunik players FC Urartu players FC Alashkert players Shirak SC players Czech First League players FC Viktoria Plzeň players SK Dynamo České Budějovice players Ukrainian Premier League players FC Stal Kamianske players Kazakhstan Premier League players FC Zhetysu players Liga II players FC Petrolul Ploiești players Armenian expatriate men's footballers Armenian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine FC Ararat Yerevan players Armenia men's youth international footballers Armenia men's under-21 international footballers 21st-century Armenian sportsmen