Yuriy Sarkisyan

Yuriy Sarkisyan
Personal information
Full name	Yuriy Vazgenovich Sarkisyan
Date of birth	30 May 1947 (age 77)
Place of birth	Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Bunyodkor (assistant)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1968–1969	Metallurg Olmaliq
1970–1973	Avtomobilist Termez
1974	Spartak Termez
1975	Avtomobilist Termez
1976–1977	Neftyanik Fergana
1978	Shakhrikhanez
1979–1982	Neftyanik Fergana
Managerial career
1987–2013	Neftchi Farg'ona
1996	Uzbekistan
2000	Uzbekistan
2014–	Bunyodkor (assistant coach)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yuriy Vazgenovich Sarkisyan (Armenian: Յուրի Վազգենի Սարգսյան, Russian: Юрий Вазгенович Саркисян; born 30 May 1947) is an Uzbekistani football manager and former player of Armenian descent. He is the first Armenian to lead a national team into an international tournament.

Playing career

He started his footballer career in 1968, at Metallurg from Olmaliq. From 1970 to 1973, he played for Avtomobilist Termez. His last player station was Neftyanik Fergana where he later began his managing career.^[1] In his footballer career, he completed 14 seasons and 10 times became top scorer of teams he played. With 241 goals, he is a member of Club 200 of Berador Abduraimov.^[2]

Managing career

In 1987, he became manager of Neftchi Farg'ona. Since 1990, he is Merited Trainer of Uzbekistan. From 1992 to 1995, Sarkisyan won with Neftchi Farg'ona five times Uzbek League. From July 2000 to February 2000, he was coach of Uzbekistan national football team. He was named by UFF five times as Coach of the Year, more than any other uzbek coach ever.^[3]

On 16 May 2013, Sarkisyan was sacked as Neftchi coach after club's poor result in recent league matches.^[4]^[5] He worked at the club for last 26 years. Sarkisyan was named in uzbek mass media Uzbek Ferguson for long years managing work in Neftchi Farg'ona.