Eduard Artyomovich Markarov (Armenian: Էդուարդ Մարկարով, Russian: Эдуард Артёмович Маркаров, Azerbaijani: Eduard Artyomoviç Markarov, born on 20 June 1942) is a retired Soviet football player who played striker for clubs Torpedo Armavir, Neftchi Baku and Ararat Yerevan and for the Soviet Union national football team.
Markarov scored 5 goals for Ararat Yerevan at the 1974–75 European Cup, sharing top goalscorer with Gerd Müller of Bayern Munich.
He played three matches for the Soviet national squad and participated with the team at the 1966 FIFA World Cup, where they came in fourth place.
Following in the footsteps of his father, Eduard took an interest in football and often played the sport with his brothers in their family yard.
Markarov was personally invited by head coach Boris Arkadyev to play for his club Neftchi Baku in 1961.
His forward partners in the club were Yuri Kuznetsov, Alakbar Mammadov, Adamas Golodets and Anatoliy Banishevskiy, whom all made up the main strikers of Neftchi.
Ararat Yerevan advanced to the quarterfinals, where the team played two games against Bayern Munich, losing the first 0-2 and winning the second 1–0.
After the successful debut season, Markarov left the team to begin training children at the National Football School of the Armenian SSR.
[5] As of 2010, Markarov is the vice-president of coaching issues and director of the football school of club Mika Yerevan.
Following the leave of head coach of Mika Armen Shahgeldyan from his position, it had been proposed that Markarov would fill the vacancy.
[7] Markarov was highly technical, inventive, skillfully carried out passing, had distinguished artistry and always represented a danger to the goalkeeper and accurate kicker.