The FFA refereeing committee has made officialby a statementRefereeing Samvel Hovsepyan. Which says:
"There have been many types of Armenian refereeing on social platforms and media outlets.
The FFA refereeing committee has never touched upon them, as international football organizations do not welcome public discussions on refereeing issues. This time, however, there was an extraordinary phenomenon, the referee Samvel Hovsepyan made a public statement by making a number of unreasonable, unrelated claims. Therefore, the FFA refereeing committee decided to address that post.
S. Hovsepyan started his refereeing from 2016 and not in 2017, as he claims. During these years, he has mainly serviced games of children's, amateur and the first group of the Republic of Armenia. During these years, he has served only once during this season a meeting of the Armenian Premier League.
At the end of the completed season, he was experiencing trials to disrupt the normal work of the referees and raise a wave of protest against the FFA refereeing committee and the FFA leadership. Hovsepyan has refused several times since the appointed games, and since January 8, when the FFA referees started training, Hovsepyan was boycotted and boycotted and refused to pass the annual medical examination. Naturally, Samvel Hovsepyan was not included in the FFA refereeing committee in a group leaving abroad, after which he wrote to dismissal and fulfill his Facebook post.
It should also be noted that officials serving HPL games will take part in the above-mentioned gathering and the assistant referee, as well as two women referees and female referees, who are also international referees.
Samvel Hovsepyan claims that the FFA does not support the referees. Such an assertion also does not correspond to reality. The FFA has always supported the referees and have always been under FFA protection. Both worldwide and, of course, there have been unpleasant cases in Armenia when different persons, spectators, fins, coaches or parents, injured their referees or tried to apply to referees. However, they are few cases. All the cases of which the FFA was informed did not leave, and the culprits suffered their respective sanctions.
Progress is much more obvious to the quantity and quality of referees. In 2019, Armenia had only 6 international referees, including two main referees and 4 referees, and 2 international women's referees and a referee, and this year Armenia has 12 referees, including 4 main referees. 8 referees and 2 VAR referee, international women's 2 referees and 3 referee, as well as 1 futsal referee.
Taking into account the work done by the FFA in the refereeing and the growth of Armenian referees, UEFA has started trusting Armenian referees. Proof of this is that this season, for the first time in history, the Armenian referees, including VAR referees, met with the group stage of the UEFA Conference League. In addition to the above-mentioned meetings, our referees also served various international games and tournaments this season, including UEFA Nations League Group and Games of UEFA M-17 Championship Games.
Samvel Hovsepyan claims that the salaries of the referees have never risen. This is just a lie. The referee of the Armenian Premier League received 120,000 drams in 2019, and the refereeing spending was 390 thousand drams (referee, 2 members of the referee, 4th official, referee. At present, the chief referee receives 160,000 drams for one game, and the referees for 1 game maintenance will receive 616 thousand drams. The refereeing money to serve the first league and children's games has also increased. The same Samvel Hovsepyan has served 60 matches in the four months of the season, which is mainly in the Children's and First Group Championships) and received 1,717,000 AMD salary.
