Aghvan Papikyan (, born 8 February 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for II liga club Olimpia Grudziądz. Born in Poland, he was a member of the Armenia national team.
Club career
Aghvan was a pupil of the football academy ŁKS Łódź. He completed the stages of the club academy along with his older brother Volodya. In 2011, he was included in the first team. Papikyan played 8 matches in total for Łódź.
In February 2013, he transferred to Spartak Moscow.
On 4 September 2020, less than a month after joining FC Alashkert, he moved to Ararat Yerevan.
International career
Aghvan Papikyan has played for the junior and youth teams of Armenia. He has stated, "I play for the Armenia because that's where my roots are from and I feel Armenian." Papikyan had no desire to join the Poland national football team and couldn't anyway due to citizenship issues, but said he still "feels something towards Poland".
After a match between the Armenia U21 and Armenia national teams on 21 March 2013, Papikyan was among three youth players chosen by the Football Federation of Armenia to join the senior team.
Personal life
Aghvan is the son of Armenian former football player and current football manager Arsen Papikyan and also has a one-year older brother Volodya who played midfielder for ŁKS Łódź with Aghvan. His parents and brother were born in Armenia and decided to work and live to Poland, where Aghvan was born one year later.
Although born in Poland, he only obtained Polish citizenship on 2 October 2017.