Babken Ludvig Melikyan (; ; born 3 April 1960) is a professional football coach and former player who played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

or forward. Born in Armenia, Melikyan moved to Lebanon in 1991, and obtained

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through

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via a presidential decree in order to play for the Lebanon national team.

Managerial career

Melikyan was Lebanon national team assistant coach to

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, between 2002 and 2003.

Career statistics

International

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

Honours

Player

Ararat Yerevan *

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: 1978 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk *

USSR Federation Cup The Cup of Football Federation of USSR, az, SSRİ Futbol Federasiyasının Kuboku, kk, КСРО футбол федерациялары кубогы, KSRO fwtbol federacïyaları kwbogı, lt, TSRS Futbolo Lygos Taurė, ro, Cupa Federației de ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter ...

Spartak Moscow *

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

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* USSR Federation Cup:

Homenmen Beirut *

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runner-up: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98 Sagesse *

Lebanese Second Division The Lebanese Second Division ( ar, الدوري اللبناني الدرجة الثانية) is the second division of Lebanese football. Established in 1933, it is controlled by the Lebanese Football Association. The 12 teams that participate ...

: 1998–99 Individual *

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All-time Lebanon Men's Dream Team *

Lebanese Premier League Team of the Season The Al-Manar Football Festival () was an event organised by the Al-Manar television station between the 1996–97 and 2018–19 seasons in order to award players, managers, referees and teams who were considered to have performed the best over ...

: 1996–97

Manager

Sagesse *

: 1998–99

References

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* * * 1960 births Living people Armenian footballers Lebanese footballers Soviet footballers Armenian emigrants to Lebanon Naturalized citizens of Lebanon Footballers from Yerevan Association football forwards Association football midfielders FC Ararat Yerevan players SC Odessa players FC Dnipro players FC Spartak Moscow players FC Kotayk Abovyan players Homenmen Beirut players Homenetmen Beirut footballers Sagesse SC footballers Soviet Armenians Soviet Top League players Lebanese Premier League players Lebanon international footballers Armenian football managers Lebanese football managers Sagesse SC football managers Kilikia FC managers Lebanese Premier League managers Armenian Premier League managers Lebanese Second Division players Lebanese Second Division managers {{Lebanon-footy-bio-stub