Tigran Benikovich Avanesyan (russian: Тигран Беникович Аванесян; hy, Տիգրան Ավանեսյան; born 13 April 2002) is a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player who plays as a

defensive 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 ...

for

FC Baltika Kaliningrad FC Baltika is an association football club based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Currently the club plays in the Russian First League, the second tier of the Russian football pyramid. History The club was founded on 22 December 1954 as ''Pishchevik Kalin ...

. Born in Russia, he is a youth international for Armenia.

Club career

He joined the junior teams of

PFC CSKA Moscow Professional Football Club CSKA (russian: link=yes, Профессиональный футбольный клуб – ЦСКА, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English l ...

in 2015, and was first included in their

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 ...

squad in February 2017, but did not make any appearances for the senior squad in the next 4 years. On 20 February 2021, he was loaned to

club

FC Tambov FC Tambov (russian: ФК Тамбов) was a Russian football team from Tambov. It last played in the Russian Premier League, having won promotion to the top division of Russian football in 2019, before dissolving in 2021. History FC Tambov start ...

until the end of the 2020–21 season. He made his debut for Tambov on 21 February 2021 in a Russian Cup game against

FC Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (''FC Lokomotiv Moskva'', russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Локомотив" Москва, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three oc ...

. He made his

debut on 26 February 2021 in a game against

FC Rotor Volgograd SC Rotor Volgograd (russian: СK Ротор) is a Russian professional football club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club will play in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2 in the 2022–2 ...

. On 1 June 2021, CSKA signed a new contract with Avanesyan that will run throughout the 2025–26 season. On 7 September 2021, he joined

FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo (russian: ФК «Текстильщик» Иваново) is a Russian association football club based in the city of Ivanovo, playing in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2. It enjoyed Soviet and Russia ...

on loan. On 9 June 2022, Avanesyan was loaned to

, where he already played on junior levels, for the 2022–23 season. On 20 June 2023, Baltika made the transfer permanent.

International career

He represented Russia at the

2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship The 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2019) was the 18th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (37th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football cham ...

and appeared in all 3 games as Russia was eliminated at group stage.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Avanesyan, Tigran 2002 births Sportspeople from Kaliningrad Living people Armenian men's footballers Armenia men's under-21 international footballers Russian men's footballers Russia men's youth international footballers Russian sportspeople of Armenian descent Men's association football midfielders PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Tambov players FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo players FC Baltika Kaliningrad players Russian Premier League players Russian First League players Russian Second League players