Taron Voskanyan

Taron Voskanyan (Տարոն Ոսկանյան, born 22 February 1993) is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Alashkert and the Armenia national team.

Club career
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Voskanyan was a pupil of the Pyunik Yerevan football school. Having begun his career with the youth team, he went to play for Pyunik-2, the reserve team, appearing in eight matches in second-tier Armenian First League during the 2010 season. The following season, he played exclusively for the first team in the Armenian Premier League making his debut on 2 April 2011 in a 0–1 away loss against Ulisses playing the full 90 minutes. Months later, Pyunik won the 2011 Armenian Supercup with Voskanyan in the team.

International career
As a player of the main team of Pyunik, Voskanyan was invited into the ranks of the Armenia U-19 junior team at 19 years of age, and first played for the team on 21 October 2011 against peers from Slovakia U-19. Armenia won 2–1. He subsequently had a few more games with the youth team.

He was a player of the Armenia U-21 team scoring on his debut on 12 June 2013 in a 4–1 win against Andorra U-21.

Voskanyan was first called up to the senior Armenia national football team for a match against the Italy national team on 12 October 2012. His debut came in the next game on 14 November 2012 a 4–2 victory against Lithuania with Voskanyan replacing Robert Arzumanyan after 29 minutes.



Club

 * Pyunik
 * Armenian Premier League (1): 2014–15
 * Armenian Cup (3): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
 * Armenian Supercup (2): 2011, 2015


 * Alashkert
 * Armenian Premier League (2): 2017–18, 2020–21
 * Armenian Cup (1): 2018–19
 * Armenian Supercup (1): 2021