Career
Club
= Pyunik Karlen Mkrtchyan is a graduate the Armenian football club school Pyunik Yerevan. Since 2007, he played for the first team On January 10, 2011, it was reported that Karlen went to preseason camp in Turkey with Kuban Krasnodar.
Together with Mkrtchyan on interest of Kuban was national team mate Gevorg Ghazaryan.
In the test match against Astana Locomotive, Mkrtchyan was seriously hurt damaged, resulting in a surgery. = Metalurh Donetsk On April 1, 2011, Mkrtchyan signed a contract with Metalurh Donetsk for three years.
= Anzhi Makhachkala On 30 August 2013, Mkrtchyan signed for Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala. = Tobol On 9 January 2015, Mkrtchyan signed a one-year contract with Kazakhstan Premier League side Football Club Tobol, leaving the club on 22 April of the same year through mutual consent.
Following his release from Tobol, Mkrtchyan trained with Football Club Pyunik.
= Anzhi Makhachkala On 26 June 2015, Mkrtchyan signed a three-year contract to return to Anzhi Makhachkala. International career
Since joining Pyunik he began to be involved in the Armenia U-21 youth national team, for which, in 2008 in a home game, he scored his first goal for the youth national team and the first goal of the match against the Turkey U-21 team Armenia defeated Turkey 2-1.
Since 2008, plays for the senior Armenia national football team
The first match held on February 2, 2008 in Malta"s capital Valletta, against the local national team The match ended 1-0 in favor of the Armenian team
Mkrtchyan scored his first goal for the Armenian national team on November 14, 2012 in a home friendly match against Lithuania at the 50th minute. Armenia defeated Lithuania 4-2.