Kamo Hovhannisyan (, born on 5 October 1992) is an Armenian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Ararat-Armenia and the Armenia national team.

Club career

Kamo Hovhannisyan was born in Yerevan to parents Artashes and Gayane Hovhannisyan. He began to get involved in football at the age of 6, and two years later, he was admitted to the football school Shengavit. The choice of Shengavit justified the proximity of schools to home. The family belonged to the football and loyal son to thwart the desires did not. Moreover, his younger brother, Hovhannes, also followed in the footsteps of him. In Shengavit, he spent two years, after which, at the urging of his father, he went to football school Pyunik. In the 2008 season, Hovhannisyan played for the club Patani, which assembled youth team players up to age 17. The following season, he moved back to Pyunik. Hovhannisyan played mostly in the duplicate team, which played in the First League. In 2009, he had been awarded a contract with Pyunik. His debut for the main club was in the 2009 season. It happened on 7 April, in the return game in the

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 ...

quarterfinals against Cilicia. Hovhannisyan's

debut was four days later, again against Cilicia. In both matches, Pyunik was the winner. On 12 July 2011, he made his debut in the Champions League match against Czech club

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, which ended in a 4–0 defeat for Pyunik. On 16 January 2018,

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

announced that Hovhannisyan joined the club on a contract expiring on 1 August 2020. However, on 23 January 2018, Hovhannisyan joined FC Zhetysu of the

Kazakhstan Premier League The Kazakhstan Professional Football League (, ''Qazaqstan Premier Ligasy''), commonly referred to as the Kazakh Premier League or simply the Premier League, is a professional association football league in Kazakhstan and the highest level of the ...

. On 11 January 2020, Hovhannisyan joined

FC Kairat Football Club Kairat () is a professional football club based in Almaty, which plays in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Kazakh football. Founded in 1954 as Lokomotiv Alma-Ata, they became Urozhay in 1955 and Kairat in 1956. ...

of the Kazakhstan Premier League on a two-year contract. On 19 January 2022, Hovhannisyan signed for

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. On 29 December 2022, Hovhannisyan extended his contract with Astana for the 2023 season. On 18 January 2024, Astana announced that Hovhannisyan had left the club. On 20 January 2024, Hovhannisyan returned to the

, signing for

FC Ararat-Armenia FC Ararat-Armenia () is an Armenian professional football club based in Yerevan, founded in 2017. History It was founded in 2017 as FC Avan Academy by Ruben Hayrapetyan, on the basis of the young players of the Yerevan Football Academy gradua ...

International career

Hovhannisyan made his debut for the Armenia national team on 28 February 2012 in a friendly match against

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Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Armenia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hovhannisyan goal.''

Honours

Pyunik *

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 ...

* Armenian Supercup: 2010; runner-up 2009 Ararat-Armenia *

: 2023–24 Kairat *

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

Kazakhstan Cup The Kazakhstan Cup is the main Single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in Kazakhstan Football (soccer), football, run by the Football Federation of Kazakhstan. The tournament was initially founded in 1936 as a competition for club ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Astana * Kazakhstan Super Cup:

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

References

External links

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Profile at ffa
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hovhannisyan, Kamo 1992 births Living people Footballers from Yerevan Armenian men's footballers 21st-century Armenian sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Armenia men's international footballers Armenian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Armenian Premier League players FC Pyunik players FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino players FC Zhetysu players FC Kairat players FC Astana players Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus FC Ararat-Armenia players