Rumyan Hovsepyan

Rumyan Hovsepyan (Armenian: Ռումյան Հովսեփյան, born 13 November 1991) is an Armenian football player who plays for Alashkert.^[1] Hovsepyan is also a member of the Armenia national football team. He usually plays as a defensive midfielder.

Rumyan Hovsepyan

Personal information
Date of birth	(1991-11-13) 13 November 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth	Yerevan, Armenia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	Alashkert
Number	5
Youth career
2007	Patani FC
2008–2010	FC Pyunik-2
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010–2013	Impuls	54	(6)
2013–2014	Banants	28	(6)
2014–2015	Metalurh Donetsk	11	(0)
2015	Pyunik	0	(0)
2015	Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	3	(0)
2016–2017	Shirak	38	(6)
2017–2018	Banants	28	(8)
2018–2019	Pyunik	27	(4)
2019–2020	Arda Kardzhali	24	(1)
2020–2022	Alashkert	31	(1)
2022	Floriana	13	(1)
2022–2023	Alashkert	11	(0)
2023	Van	12	(3)
2023	Noah	2	(0)
2024–	Alashkert	15	(0)
International career‡
2014–	Armenia	22	(2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 December 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 November 2019

Career

Club

Hovsepyan left Shirak on 9 June 2017 by mutual consent.^[2]

On 26 June 2019 he signed a contract with the newly promoted to the Bulgarian First League team Arda Kardzhali.^[3] On 27 July, he scored the historic first ever goal for the team from Kardzhali in the top division of Bulgarian football, netting the equalizer in the 3:1 home win over Beroe.^[4]

International

Hovsepyan played his first international game with the national team on 27 May 2014, in a friendly against the United Arab Emirates. He scored his first international goal on his debut match.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 26 August 2018^[5][6]

Club	Season	League			National Cup		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Banants	2013–14	Armenian Premier League	26	5	4	0	–		30	5
	2014–15		2	1	0	0	2	2	4	3
	Total		28	6	4	0	2	2	34	8
Metalurh Donetsk	2014–15	Ukrainian Premier League	11	0	0	0	–		11	0
Pyunik	2015–16	Armenian Premier League	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	0
Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk	2015–16	Ukrainian Premier League	3	0	1	0	–		4	0
Shirak	2015–16	Armenian Premier League	10	3	0	0	0	0	10	3
	2016–17		28	3	3	0	3	0	34	3
	Total		38	6	3	0	3	0	44	6
Banants	2017–18	Armenian Premier League	28	8	3	1	–		31	9
Pyunik	2018–19	Armenian Premier League	2	1	0	0	4	0	6	1
Career total			110	21	11	1	12	2	133	24

International

Armenia national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2014	7	1
2015	1	0
2016	0	0
2017	2	1
2018	5	0
2019	2	0
Total	17	2

Statistics accurate as of match played 9 November 2017^[5]

International goals

Scores and results list Armenia's goal tally first.^[5]

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	27 May 2014	Stade de la Fontenette, Carouge, Switzerland	United Arab Emirates	4–2	4–3	Friendly
2.	9 November 2017	Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia	Belarus	3–0	4–1	Friendly

Family

His father Andranik Hovsepyan, in Soviet times played for FC Ararat Yerevan, the top scorer of the 1993 Armenian Premier League. He was also a player of the Armenia national football team.^[7]

References

1. Rumyan Hovsepyan at Soccerway
2. "Երկկողմանի համաձայնությամո խզվեցին պայմանագրերը երեք ֆուտբոլիստների հետ". fcshirak.am (in Armenian). Shirak. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
3. Трима футболисти минаха прегледи в АРДА
4. "Arda Kardzhali vs. Beroe Stara Zagora 3:1". flashscore.com. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
5. "Rumyan Hovsepyan". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
6. "R.Hovsepyan". soccerway.com/. Soccerway. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
7. "Овсепян Андраник Румянич". footballfacts.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 3 August 2022.