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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vardan Martun Ghazaryan[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1969-12-01)1 December 1969 (age 55) | ||
| Place of birth | Kapan,Armenian SSR, Soviet Union[1] | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989 | Spartak Hoktemberyan | 19 | (4) |
| 1990–1992 | Syunik Kapan[a] | 76 | (75) |
| 1992–1999 | Homenetmen Beirut | (83) | |
| 1999–2002 | Sagesse | (29) | |
| 2002–2005 | Homenetmen Beirut | (5+) | |
| 2005–2009 | Sagesse | (13) | |
| Total | (208+[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 afootball coach and former player.
Born in Armenia, Ghazaryan moved to Lebanon and obtainedcitizenship throughnaturalisation in 1994. He played forHomenetmen andSagesse as astriker, and representedLebanon internationally from 1995 until 2001.
Ghazaryan is the all-time scorer in theLebanese Premier League, scoring 130 official league goals.[b] He is also the second-highest scorer for the national team with 21 goals, after having been surpassed byHassan Maatouk in 2023. Ghazaryan was appointed manager ofTripoli in 2017 for one year. He returned to Sagesse as head coach in 2021.
Ghazaryan started his senior career in 1989 in Armenia, atSpartak Hoktemberyan, before moving toKapan in 1990.[2] In 1992 he moved to Lebanon, joiningHomenetmen Beirut.[3] He stayed there for seven years, before moving toSagesse in 1999. He spent three years there, before moving back to Homenetmen in 2002.[4] Ghazaryan then joined Sagesse once again, in 2005, before retiring in 2009 aged 39.[4]
His first goal in theLebanese Premier League came on 23 January 1993, when he scored the second goal for Homenetmen againstTadamon Sour in the 54th minute.[3] Ghazaryan was namedAFC Player of the Month for January 1996.[5]
On 16 November 2008, at 39 years old, Ghazaryan scored his 130th goal in the Lebanese Premier League against Tadamon Sour, becoming the highest all-time scorer in the league.[3] However, some do not recognise the 12 goals he scored in the2000–01 season, which was canceled,[3] making him the second-highest top-goalscorer with 118 goals, behindFadi Alloush's total of 120.[6]
Having moved to Lebanon from Armenia, Ghazaryan obtainedLebanese citizenship throughnaturalisation in 1994.[7] He was the top goalscorer in the history of theLebanon national team,[8] with 21 goals (four inWorld Cup qualifiers, three inAsian Cup qualifiers and 14 infriendlies).[9] In 2023, Ghazaryan was surpassed byHassan Maatouk.[10]
In 2009, Ghazaryan returned to his native Armenia where he trained an Armenian club;[3] he moved back to Lebanon four years later.[11] Ghazaryan became the assistant coach forTripoli,[11] before being appointed head coach in 2017.[12]
In July 2021, ahead of the2021 Lebanese Challenge Cup, Ghazaryan was appointed head coach ofLebanese Premier League side Sagesse, for whom he had already played as a player.[13][14]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 14 | 11 | |
| 1997 | 15 | 3 | |
| 1998 | 15 | 1 | |
| 1999 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2000 | 9 | 1 | |
| 2001 | 6 | 4 | |
| Total | 66 | 21 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 January 1996 | Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium,Beirut, Lebanon |  Cyprus | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 2 | 11 February 1996 | Bourj Hammoud Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon |  Ecuador | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 3 | 26 May 1996 | Köpetdag Stadium,Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |  Turkmenistan | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1996 AFC Asian Cup qualification |
| 4 | 9 June 1996 | Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon |  Kuwait | 2–0 | 3–5 | 1996 AFC Asian Cup qualification |
| 5 | 3–3 | |||||
| 6 | 5 September 1996 | Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon |  Oman | 1–0 | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 7 | 8 September 1996 | Beirut Municipal Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon | Oman | 1–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 8 | 2–1 | |||||
| 9 | 9 October 1996 | Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon |  New Zealand | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 10 | 5 December 1996 | Beirut Municipal Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon |  Georgia | 1–2 | 4–2 | Friendly |
| 11 | 8 December 1996 | Beirut Municipal Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon | Georgia | 3–2 | 3–2 | Friendly |
| 12 | 12 January 1997 | Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon |  Algeria | 1–1 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 13 | 19 March 1997 | Zayed Sports City Stadium,Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |  United Arab Emirates | 1–2 | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 14 | 27 April 1997 | Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon |  Libya | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 15 | 17 October 1998 | Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |  Syria | 1–0 | 3–3 | 1998 Friendship Tournament |
| 16 | 16 August 1999 | Amman International Stadium,Amman, Jordan |  Saudi Arabia | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1999 Pan Arab Games |
| 17 | 23 February 2000 | International Olympic Stadium,Tripoli, Lebanon |  Jordan | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 18 | 26 May 2001 | Rajamangala Stadium,Bangkok, Thailand |  Pakistan | 2–0 | 8–1 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 19 | 6–1 | |||||
| 20 | 28 May 2001 | Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand |  Sri Lanka | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 21 | 30 May 2001 | Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand |  Thailand | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
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