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Shota Arveladze

Shota Arveladze
შოთა არველაძე
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Arveladze in 2012
Personal information
Full name Shota Arveladze
Date of birth (1973-02-22) 22 February 1973 (age 44)
Place of birth Tbilisi, Georgia
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 12 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
None
Youth career
1990–1991 Martve Tbilisi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1993 Dinamo Tbilisi 67 (51)
1993–1997 Trabzonspor 96 (61)
1994–1995 Dinamo Tbilisi 8 (11)
1997–2001 Ajax 96 (55)
2001–2005 Rangers 95 (44)
2005–2007 AZ 60 (36)
2007–2008 Levante 4 (0)
Total 426 (258)
National team
1992–2007 Georgia 61 (26)
Teams managed
2008–2010 AZ (assistant)
2010–2012 Kayserispor
2012–2015 Kasımpaşa
2015 Trabzonspor
2016–2017 Maccabi Tel Aviv
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Shota Arveladze (Georgian: შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian former professional footballer and current manager.

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.

His 27 goals scored in the UEFA Cup competition ranks him 5th in the tournament's history. 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.

Arveladze played at Dinamo Tbilisi, Trabzonspor, and Ajax, and finished at least one season as the top goal scorer at all three. In 1993 he scored an effective first Euro Tournament goal in the history of independent Georgian Football in the match against Linfield, Northern Ireland. When he led Trabzonspor in goals in 1995–96, he also led the Süper Lig, making him the second non-Turk to date to lead that league in goals after Tarik Hodžić 1983–84. He is recorded as "most loved foreign player" for Trabzonspor supporters.


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