Petros Avetisyan


Petros Avetisyan is an Armenian football player who currently plays midfielder for the Armenian national team and for Kazakhstan Premier League club FC Tobol.

Career

Club

Banants

Born in Yerevan, Avetisyan started his career at Malatia football school that later was renamed as FC Banants. After progressing through the club's youth system, he became top scorer of Banants-2 in Armenian First league in 2014/15 season and moved to the first team of the club.
On 11 November 2014 he made his debut in Armenia Premier League in away match against Pyunik. In two weeks he already was in starting line-up of Banants.
In 2015/16 he was one of the key players of Banants. The club won the Armenian Cup.

Pyunik

On 29 July 2016, Avetisyan signed for Pyunik on a 6-month loan deal, and played almost all the matches in Starting line-up of the club in the first half of 2016/17 season.
On 23 January 2017, he officially was transferred from Banants to Pyunik.
At the beginning of 2018 he was linked to moving to Ukrainian clubs FC Zorya Luhansk and FC Oleksandriya.

Ararat-Armenia

On 27 February 2019, Ararat-Armenia announced the signing of Petros Avetisyan. Avetisyan made his Ararat-Armenia debut on 2 March 2019 in a 4–1 Premier League home win against Ararat Yerevan. He entered the pitch in 55th minute and scored his first Ararat-Armenia goal in 90th minute. In the same season, Avetisyan won to the title of Armenian Premier League with Ararat-Armenia and became champion of Armenia for the first time.

Tobol

On 12 January 2020, Ararat-Armenia announced that Avetisyan had moved to FC Tobol in the Kazakhstan Premier League, with Tobol confirming the signing on 14 January 2020. He made his debut for FC Tobol on 14 March 2020 in Kazakhstan Premier League Matchday 2 fixture against Zhetysu, as a 90th-minute substitute for Serikzhan Muzhikov.

International

Avetisyan made his debut in Armenia U-21 national team on 8 September 2015 in a home match against Romania.
On 3 November 2016 he was called up to Armenian national team for the first time.
On 13 June 2017 he scored his first goal for Armenia U-21 national team as captain. It was against Gibraltar U21 in UEFA U21 Championship Qualifying Round of 2019 in Estádio Algarve, Portugal.
He made his debut for the senior squad on 26 March 2019 in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Finland, as a 74th-minute substitute for Edgar Babayan.

Career statistics

Club

International

Statistics accurate as of match played 18 November 2019

Honours

Club

Banants
Ararat-Armenia