Artak Yedigaryan


Artak Yedigaryan is an Armenian football player who currently plays defender for FC Pyunik and the Armenian national team.

Club career

Artak was born in Yerevan 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 2010 Armenian Premier League, 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.

VMFD 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 Armenian Premier League side Alashkert FC.
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.

International career

On 25 May 2010, Yedigaryan made his debut in the Armenia national football team. In a friendly game against the national team of Uzbekistan, Artak came from the first minute and played the entire match. Afterwards, the Armenian team celebrated the victory with a score of 3–1.

International goals

NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.4 June 2017Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia5–05–0Friendly

Personal life

Artak's brother Arthur Yedigaryan also plays for the Armenia national football team. 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.

Honours

Club

Pyunik Yerevan
FC Žalgiris
Alashkert FC