Karen Vardanyan (footballer)

Karen Vardanyan
Personal information
Full name Karen Tonievich Vardanyan
Date of birth (2003-09-09) 9 September 2003
Place of birth Belarus
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position Forward
Team information
Current team
Dinamo Minsk
Number 10
Youth career
Vitebsk
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2022–2024 Vitebsk 74 (27)
2025– Dinamo Minsk 27 (10)
International career
2021 Belarus U19 2 (1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 1 December 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 6 September 2021

Karen Tonievich Vardanyan (Russian: Карен Варданян; born 9 September 2003) is a Belarusian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Dinamo Minsk.

Early life

Vardanyan was born on 9 September 2003. Born in Belarus, he is of Armenian descent through his father.[1] Growing up, he played table tennis.[2]

Club career

As a youth player, Vardanyan joined the youth academy of Vitebsk and was promoted to the club's senior team in 2022, where he made seventy-four league appearances and scored twenty-seven goals. Following his stint there, he signed for Dinamo Minsk ahead of the 2025 season.[3]

International career

Vardanyan is a Belarus youth international. On 3 September 2021, he debuted for the Belarus national under-19 football team during a 0–1 home friendly loss to the Russia national under-18 football team.

References

  1. ^ "Карэн Варданян: "Хочу стать игроком сборной Беларуси"" [Karen Vardanyan: "I want to become a player for the Belarusian national team"] (in Russian). Football.by. 19 May 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2025.
  2. ^ "Этот парень стопорнул "Динамо": занимался у мамы игрока БАТЭ и в Бресте, звали играть за другую страну" [This guy stopped Dynamo: he trained with the mother of a BATE player and in Brest, they called him to play for another country] (in Russian). Tribuna.com. 22 September 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2025.
  3. ^ Karen Vardanyan at WorldFootball.net