Aghvan_Papikyan
Aghvan Papikyan
Armenian football winger (born 1994)
Aghvan Papikyan (Armenian: Աղվան Պապիկյանը, born 8 February 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for III liga club Unia Skierniewice. Born in Poland, he was a member of the Armenia national team.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Aghvan Papikyan | ||
| Date of birth | (1994-02-08) 8 February 1994 (age 30) | ||
| Place of birth | Łódź, Poland | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Winger[1] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Unia Skierniewice | ||
| Number | 23 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2005–2011 | ŁKS Łódź | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011–2013 | ŁKS Łódź | 15 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Spartak Moscow | 0 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | → FC Pyunik (loan) | 18 | (4) |
| 2014–2015 | Ulisses FC | 19 | (2) |
| 2015–2017 | GKS Bełchatów | 37 | (6) |
| 2017 | Raków Częstochowa | 15 | (1) |
| 2018–2019 | Olimpia Grudziądz | 28 | (8) |
| 2019–2020 | Chojniczanka Chojnice | 25 | (3) |
| 2020 | Alashkert | 1 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | Ararat Yerevan | 18 | (1) |
| 2021–2022 | Alashkert | 11 | (0) |
| 2022 | Wisła Puławy | 14 | (0) |
| 2023 | Olimpia Grudziądz | 14 | (1) |
| 2024– | Unia Skierniewice | 0 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2010–2011 | Armenia U17 | 3 | (1) |
| 2011 | Armenia U19 | 9 | (2) |
| 2012 | Armenia U21 | 17 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | Armenia | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 December 2023 | |||
Aghvan was a pupil of the football academy ŁKS Łódź. He completed the stages of the club academy along with his older brother Volodya.[2] In 2011, he was included in the first team. Papikyan played 8 matches in total for Łódź.
In February 2013, he transferred to Spartak Moscow.[3]
On 4 September 2020, less than a month after joining FC Alashkert, he moved to Ararat Yerevan.[4]
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 Poland national football team and couldn't anyway due to citizenship issues, but said he still "feels something towards Poland".[2]
After a match between the Armenia U21 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.[5]
Aghvan is the son of Armenian former football player and current football manager Arsen Papikyan and also has a one-year older brother Volodya who played midfielder for ŁKS Łódź with Aghvan. His parents and brother were born in Armenia and decided to work and live to Poland, where Aghvan was born one year later.
Although born in Poland, he only obtained Polish citizenship on 2 October 2017.[2][6][7]
- Aghvan Papikyan at WorldFootball.net
- "Interview with Aghvan Papikyan, Polish-born Armenian". Poland Soccer Blog. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- "Aghwan Papikjan wypożyczony do Spartaka" (in Polish). 90minut.pl. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- "Աղվան Պապիկյանի առաջին հարցազրույցը որպես "Արարատի" ֆուտբոլիստ" [Aghvan Papikyan's first interview as a footballer of Ararat] (in Armenian). FC Ararat Yerevan. 4 September 2020.
- Աղվան Պապիկյանը, Տարոն Ոսկանյանը եւ Դավիթ Հակոբյանն` ազգային հավաքականում (in Armenian). sport.news.am. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- Walczyk, Jerzy; Łagiewski, Jakub (2011-09-16). "Ekstraklasa. Piłkarz ŁKS nie chce grać w reprezentacji Polski" [Ekstraklasa: LKS player does not wish to play for the Polish national team] (in Polish). sport.pl. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- "Aghwan Papikjan z polskim obywatelstwem". 90minut.pl (in Polish). 2 October 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- Aghvan Papikyan at 90minut.pl (in Polish)
- Aghvan Papikyan – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Aghvan Papikyan at Soccerway
- Aghvan Papikyan at FootballDatabase.eu