Artur Voskanyan
Artur Voskanyan is an Armenian football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of Armenia national under-21 football team.Club career
Artur Voskanyan began his career in Zvartnots Echmiadzin, for which he played 11 games in his first season. At that time, he was still 17 years old. Zvartnots soon had a number of unsuccessful performances and soon became SKA-Arai Echmiadzin and was demoted from the Armenian Premier League to the Armenian First League. After leaving the club, Voskanyan moved to Van Yerevan. He managed to play only two seasons for Van, as the club was disbanded after the 1996–97 season.
In 1998, Voskanyan joined Tsement Ararat. The club won the 1998 Armenian Premier League that season and also the 1998 Armenian Cup and 1998 Armenian Supercup. Voskanyan was given the Armenian Footballer of the Year award in 1998 by the Football Federation of Armenia.International career
Voskanyan debuted in the Armenia national football team on 27 March 1999 in a home UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying match against Russia, in which the Armenian team was defeated 0:3. Over his entire time playing for the Armenian national squad, Artur had 52 matches and scored one goal in a game against the Maltese national team.
In March 2010, has been invited to the national team, for which last played a year ago. Voskanyan left the national team that same year.Managerial career
On 8 December 2015 he has appointed as Head coach of Armenia under-17 football team.
He is now the manager of FC Banants Yerevan.Personal life
Artur is married and has two children, a girl and a boy. His younger brother, Ara Voskanyan, was also a football player.Honours
Club
Tsement Ararat
- Armenian Premier League : 1998
- Armenian Premier League 3rd place : 2001
- Armenian Cup : 1998
- Armenian Supercup : 1998
Banants Yerevan
- Armenian Premier League Runner-up : 2010
- Armenian Premier League 3rd place : 2002
- Armenian Cup Runner-up : 2009, 2010
- Armenian Supercup Runner-up : 2010
Pyunik Yerevan
- Armenian Premier League : 2005, 2006
- Armenian Cup Runner-up : 2006
- Armenian Supercup : 2005
- Armenian Supercup Runner-up : 2006
Ararat Yerevan
- Armenian Cup Runner-up : 2007
Individual
- Armenian Footballer of the Year: 1998