Artur Petrosyan ( hy, Արթուր Պետրոսյան; born 17 December 1971) is a former

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...

n football player who played as a

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. He worked as the manager of

Armenia national football team The Armenia national football team ( hy, Հայաստանի ֆուտբոլի ազգային հավաքական, ''Hayastani futboli azgayin havak'akan'') represents Armenia in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation o ...

. He is currently the manager of Grasshopper Club Zürich's under 18 squad.

Career

Petrosyan was the all-time leading scorer for the

, having scored 11 goals, and had participated in 69 international matches since his debut in the national team's first game in a home

friendly match An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, a scrimmage, a demonstration, a preseason game, a warmup match, or a preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or ...

against

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on 14 October 1992.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan Henrikh Mkhitaryan ( hy, Հենրիխ Մխիթարյան, ; born 21 January 1989) is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for club Inter Milan. Mkhitaryan won four Armenian Premier League title ...

overtook Petrosyan as Armenia's all-time scorer in 2013. He worked as youth coach of

FC Zürich Fussballclub Zürich, commonly abbreviated to FC Zürich or simply FCZ, is a Swiss football club based in Zürich. The club was founded in 1896 and has won the Swiss Super League 13 times and the Swiss Cup 10 times. The most recent titles a ...

, the last club he played for as a professional.

Armenia

In October 2016, Petrosyan become the manager of

National team statistics

International goals

Honours

Shirak Gyumri *

Armenian Premier League The Armenian Premier League ( hy, VBET Հայաստանի Պրեմիեր Լիգա, known as the VBET Armenian Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the top football competition in Armenia. From 1936 to 1991, the competition was held as a r ...

(4): 1992,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

Armenian Supercup The Armenian Supercup is a match that is played between the Armenian Premier League Champion and Armenian Cup The VBET Armenian Cup ( hy, Հայաստանի Անկախության Գավաթ) is the main football (soccer), football cup competitio ...

(2): 1996, 1999 Maccabi Petach Tikva *

Toto Cup The Israel Toto Cup ( he, גביע הטוטו, ''Gvia Ha'Toto'') is an association football tournament that features clubs in the two highest divisions in Israel: the Israeli Premier League (Ligat Ha'Al), and the second division Liga Leumit. F ...

(1): 1999

* Swiss Cup (1): 2005 * Swiss Super League (1): 2005–06

Managerial statistics

References

External links

*
armfootball.tripod.com
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Petrosyan, Artur 1971 births Living people Footballers from Gyumri Armenian footballers Armenia international footballers Armenian expatriate footballers FC Shirak players Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. players FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod players BSC Young Boys players FC Zürich players Armenian Premier League players Russian Premier League players Swiss Super League players Expatriate footballers in Israel Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in Switzerland Expatriate football managers in Switzerland Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Armenian football managers Armenia national football team managers Association football midfielders Soviet Armenians Soviet footballers