Shota Averladze
Arveladze in 2012
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Shota Arveladze | ||
| Date of birth | 22 February 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Tbilisi, Georgia | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | 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) | |
| 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 | ||
| 2017– | Pakhtakor Tashkent | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Shota Arveladze (Georgian: შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian former professional footballer and current manager of Pakhtakor Tashkent.
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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