Aghvan Papikyan

Aghvan Papikyan (Armenian: Աղվան Պապիկյանը, born 8 February 1994) is an Armenian football winger who plays for Alashkert. He was also a member of the Armenian national team.

Club Career

Aghvan was a pupil of the football academy LKS Lodz. He completed the stages of the club academy along with his older brother Volodya. In 2011, he was included in the first team. Papikyan played 8 matches in total for Lodz.

In February 2013, he transferred to Spartak Moscow.

On 4 September 2020, less than a month after joining FC Alashkert, he moved to Ararat Yerevan.

International Career

Aghvan Papikyan has played for the junior and youth teams of Armenia. He has stated, "I play for the Armenia because that's where my roots are from and I feel Armenian." Papikyan had no desire to join the Polish national football team and couldn't anyway due to citizenship issues, but said he still "feels something towards Poland."

After a match between the Armenia U-21 and Armenia national teams on 21 March 2013, Papikyan was among three youth players chosen by the Football Federation of Armenia to join the senior team.

This page also has a version in other languages :  Агван Папикян (russian)