Vardan Ghazaryan

Vardan Ghazaryan
Personal information
Full name Vardan Martun Ghazaryan[1]
Date of birth (1969-12-01) 1 December 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth Kapan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union[1]
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989 Spartak Hoktemberyan 19 (4)
1990–1992 Syunik Kapan[a] 76 (75)
1992–1999 Homenetmen Beirut (60+)
1999–2002 Sagesse (29)
2002–2005 Homenetmen Beirut (4+)
2005–2009 Sagesse (17)
Total (200+[b])
International career
1995–2001 Lebanon 66 (21)
Managerial career
2017 Tripoli
2021–2022 Sagesse
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vardan Martun Ghazaryan (Armenian: Վարդան Մարտուն Ղազարյան; Arabic: وارطان مارتون غازاريان; born 1 December 1969) is a football coach and former player.

Born in Armenia, Ghazaryan moved to Lebanon and obtained citizenship through naturalisation in 1994. He played for Homenetmen and Sagesse as a striker, and represented Lebanon internationally from 1995 until 2001.

Ghazaryan is the second-highest all-time scorer in the Lebanese Premier League, scoring 117 official league goals.[b] He is also the second-highest scorer for the national team with 21 goals, after having been surpassed by Hassan Maatouk in 2023. Ghazaryan was appointed manager of Tripoli in 2017 for one year. He returned to Sagesse as head coach in 2021.

  1. ^ a b "Vardan Ghazaryan". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 22 March 2021.


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