Robert Bencun

Central Defender - Hayq
31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Robert Bencun

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The Hayq Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Hayq tear Sardarapat apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Sardarapat, and it could have been more.

Squad

A fracture rules Guy Félix Lima out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hayq will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Suren Kirakosyan, 19, steals the show — 7.87

Marked 7.87 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Vintage Aleksandar Glišić — 7.80

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.80, and nobody on the pitch better.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Anton Orlov delivers — 7.79

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Anton Orlov scored, was marked 7.79, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Suren Kirakosyan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Suren Kirakosyan and Hayq agree another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Hayq

Robert Bencun and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Pyunik tell Hayq: Levon Hovhannisyan is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Hayq

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hovhannes Kirakosyan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

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The Hayq Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Hayq bow out of the cup

Araks Ararat go through and Hayq go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

Guy Félix Lima breaks a bone — 40 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hayq

Robert Bencun and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Aboubacar Ouattara

Hayq asked and Ararat said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

No hiding place for Robert Bencun

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Robert Bencun, and the manager let it.

Market

A stepping stone, not a home, for Hovhannes Kirakosyan

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Hayq were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ruben Tilburgs

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

No place for Vache Hakobyan in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Hayq are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad

Ruben Tilburgs has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Hayq know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

In brief

2 Edition

The Hayq Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Aleksandar Glišić scores twice — 8.92

Two goals and a mark of 8.92 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Vache Hakobyan gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Vache Hakobyan has just signed for Hayq, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Samvel Ghukasyan

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Hayq have done the hard part with Shirak, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Alexandr Mishiev rejects the move

Hayq had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Urartu, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Robert Bencun in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hayq this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Debu signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Debu and Hayq agree another 3 years.

Match

Hayq find a way past Mika

Mika made Hayq work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market

One of our own: Armen Hakobyan joins the Hayq first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Armen Hakobyan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Hayq promote Artak Grigoryan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Artak Grigoryan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief