Shota Arveladze
Georgian association football manager and former player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shota Arveladze (Georgian: შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian professional football manager and former player who is recently the head coach of Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük.
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1973-02-22) 22 February 1973 (age 51) | ||
Place of birth | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
1987–1990 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1990–1991 | Martve Tbilisi | 30 | (33) |
1991–1994 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 67 | (51) |
1993–1994 | → Trabzonspor (loan) | 18 | (15) |
1995–1997 | Trabzonspor | 76 | (46) |
1997–2001 | Ajax | 96 | (55) |
2001–2005 | Rangers | 95 | (44) |
2005–2007 | AZ | 60 | (36) |
2007–2008 | Levante | 4 | (0) |
Total | 426 | (258) | |
International career | |||
1992–2007 | Georgia | 61 | (26) |
Managerial career | |||
2008–2010 | AZ (assistant) | ||
2010–2012 | Kayserispor | ||
2012–2015 | Kasımpaşa | ||
2015 | Trabzonspor | ||
2016–2017 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||
2017–2020 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | ||
2022 | Hull City | ||
2023–2024 | Fatih Karagümrük | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Arveladze played at Dinamo Tbilisi, Trabzonspor, Ajax, Rangers, AZ and Levante. He is Georgia's all-time top scorer with 291 goals in his 410 league games for his clubs and 26 goals in his 61 games for the national team.[1]
His 27 goals scored in the UEFA Cup competition, including qualifiers ranks him third in the tournament's history before it became the Europa League.[2] He has the best strike record of independent Georgian Football. He was nominated as the best player of Georgia as well as the best player by the Georgian Professional Football league survey.