16 Facts About Vardan Ghazaryan

Vardan Martun Ghazaryan is a football coach and former player.

Vardan Ghazaryan played for Homenetmen and Sagesse as a striker, and represented Lebanon internationally from 1995 until 2001.

Vardan Ghazaryan is the second-highest all-time scorer in the Lebanese Premier League, scoring 117 official league goals.

Vardan Ghazaryan is the second-highest scorer for the national team with 21 goals, after having been surpassed by Hassan Maatouk in 2023.

Vardan Ghazaryan was appointed manager of Tripoli in 2017 for one year.

Vardan Ghazaryan returned to Sagesse as head coach in 2021.

Vardan Ghazaryan started his senior career in 1989 in Armenia, at Spartak Hoktemberyan, before moving to Kapan in 1990.

Vardan Ghazaryan stayed there for seven years, before moving to Sagesse in 1999.

Vardan Ghazaryan spent three years there, before moving back to Homenetmen in 2002.

Vardan Ghazaryan then joined Sagesse , in 2005, before retiring in 2009 aged 39.

Vardan Ghazaryan was named AFC Player of the Month for January 1996.

On 16 November 2008, at 39 years old, Vardan Ghazaryan scored his 129th goal in the Lebanese Premier League against Tadamon Sour, becoming the highest all-time scorer in the league.

Vardan Ghazaryan was the top goalscorer in the history of the Lebanon national team, with 21 goals.

In 2009, Vardan Ghazaryan returned to his native Armenia where he trained an Armenian club; he moved back to Lebanon four years later.

Vardan Ghazaryan became the assistant coach for Tripoli, before being appointed head coach in 2017.

In July 2021, ahead of the 2021 Lebanese Challenge Cup, Vardan Ghazaryan was appointed head coach of Lebanese Premier League side Sagesse, for whom he had already played as a player.