Gevorg Gagik Karapetyan ( hy, Գևորգ Գագիկի Կարապետյան; born 10 June 1990) is an Armenian former footballer who played as a

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Club career

Youth

From 2007 to 2008, Karapetyan competed in the

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as part of the reserve squad of FC Ararat. He scored 10 league goals in 37 matches and appeared in three additional

Armenian Independence Cup The VBET Armenian Cup ( hy, Հայաստանի Անկախության Գավաթ) 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 s ...

over that time.

Senior

For the 2009 season, Karapetyan was promoted to the first team squad at FC Ararat and stayed with the club until 2011. In total, he scored 22 goals in 22 matches as Ararat split time between the

and

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. In 2012, he moved to

FC Banants Football Club Urartu ( hy, Ուրարտու Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ, translated ''Futbolayin Akumb Urartu''), commonly known as Urartu, is an Armenian professional football team based in the capital Yerevan that currently plays in the ...

, also of the Premier League. He stayed with the club until 2015, scoring 28 goals in 70 league matches. He also appeared in several matches for the club in 2014–15 UEFA Champions League qualification. The following season, he played for fellow Premier League club

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, making 12 appearances and scoring 9 and (2 for cup )goals. After his brief spell with Mika, Karapetyan signed with

Alashkert FC Football Club Alashkert ( hy, Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Ալաշկերտ), commonly known as Alashkert, is an Football in Armenia, Armenian football club based in the capital Yerevan, founded in 1990 in Martuni, Armenia, Martuni and aft ...

. Although he never made a Premier League appearance for the club, he made several appearances for the club in

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. In March 2016 it was announced that Karapetyan had signed for

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of the

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, the third tier of the United States soccer league system ahead of the

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. He started for the team against

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in the first match of the season but was substituted during the first half because of an injury. He originally impressed the club at an invitational camp held by the club in January 2016.

International career

Between 2011 and 2012 Karapetyan represented Armenia at the under-21 level as part of the squad that participated in 2013 European Under-21 Championship qualification. He appeared in six of the side's matches. In 2010, Karapetyan took part in the preliminary round of the

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, scoring 2 goals in 3 matches while representing

Malatya Malatya ( hy, Մալաթիա, translit=Malat'ya; Syro-Aramaic ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; ku, Meletî; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a large city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province. The city ha ...

Honours

Ararat Yerevan *

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Banants *

: 2013–2014 *

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: 2014 * Armenia Cup runner-up: 2014–2015

References

External links

FFA profile
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Karapetyan, Gevorg 1990 births Living people People from Vedi Armenian footballers Men's association football forwards FC Ararat Yerevan players FC Urartu players FC Mika players FC Alashkert players Orange County SC players Armenian Premier League players USL Championship players Armenian expatriate footballers Expatriate soccer players in the United States Armenian expatriate sportspeople in the United States