Khatia Tchkonia, ( ka, ხატია ჭყონია, born October 16, 1989) is a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

, who lately played in the

Turkish Women's First Football League The Turkish Women's Football Super League ( tr, Kadınlar Süper Ligi), formerly the First Women's Football League (also known as the ''Turkcell Women's Football Super League'' for sponsorship reasons), is the top level women's football league of ...

for

Konak Belediyespor Konak Belediyespor Women's Football ( tr, Konak Belediyespor Bayan Futbol Takımı) is the women's football team of the Turkish multi-sport club of Konak Belediyespor based in Konak district of İzmir, Turkey. The team was established by the d ...

with jersey number 29. She is a member of the

Georgia women's national football team Georgia women's national football team represents Georgia in international football. Georgia took part in the world cup qualification group 7 for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, but withdrew after two matches, against Yugoslavia (0–11) and Tur ...

since 2010.

Playing career

Club

Khatia Tchkonia played in her hometown club

FC Dinamo Tbilisi FC Dinamo Tbilisi ( ka, დინამო თბილისი, ) is a Georgian professional football club based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the top flight of Georgian football. Dinamo Tbilisi was one of the mo ...

. She made her first international appearance at the 2007–08 UEFA Women's Cup Group A7 matches. She netted two goals against the

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n team

ŽFK Napredak Kruševac ŽFK Napredak Kruševac is a Serbian women's football club from Kruševac founded in 1989. It has won one Serbian league and three Serbian cups including a double in 2007. It has played three more cup finals since, but lost them. Most recently, ...

. She joined the Turkish club

Trabzonspor Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Trabzon. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, the men's football team has won seven Süper Lig championships. Trabzonspor also have a women's football team, ...

July 16, 2009 right before the qualification matches of the

2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League The UEFA Women's Champions League 2009–10 was the first edition of the newly branded tournament, and the ninth edition of a UEFA tournament for women's champion football clubs. For the first time the top 8 leagues of the UEFA were awarded two e ...

. She scored a goal in her first match in the tournament against the Slovene team

ŽNK Krka Ženski nogometni klub Krka ( en, Women's Football Club Krka), commonly referred to as ŽNK Krka or simply Krka, was a Slovenian women's football club from Novo Mesto. Krka won the Slovenian Women's League eight times, and played several seasons i ...

. She participated also in the two following matches. After playing one season and scoring nine goals in 17 league matches, she transferred the rival team

Trabzon İdmanocağı İdmanocağı or İdman Ocağı is a Turkish sports club based in Trabzon, Turkey. The club had a strong rivalry with another club, İdmangücü, which matched the The Intercontinental Derby, Istanbul derby between Fenerbahçe S.K., Fenerbahçe a ...

in the same city. She played three seasons capping 51 times and netting 34 goals. For the 2012–13 season, she moved to another

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club, Kdz. Ereğlispor, where she continues to play. She transferred to the

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

-based club Ataşehr Belediyespor in the second half of the 2016–17 season. On January 4, 2018, Tchkonia transferred to

İlkadım Belediyesi Yabancılar Pazarı Spor İlkadım Belediyesi Yabancılar Pazarı Spor is a women's football team based in İlkadım district of Samsun, Turkey. The club is chaired by Sezai Onaran, and its manager is Arif İmamoğlu. History After finishing the 2013–14 seas ...

. After relegation of her club to the Second League, she left her club, and transferred to the

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

-based club

in the 2018–19 First League season. On 2 July 2019, Tchkonia left her club Konak Belediyespor, and returnedto her country.

International

Tchkonia debuted in the Georgia women's national team playing at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3 match against

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on April 15, 2010, and appeared also in the match against the

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n women. She participated at the

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matches against

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and

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. She was called up to play at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA) – Group 2 matches. She played in the group against

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and

, and scored one goal.

Career statistics

International goals

Honours

; Turkish Women's First Football League :; Trabzonspor :: ''Winners'' (1): 2009–10 :; Kdz. ereğlispor :: ''Third places'' (1):

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:; Ataşehir Belediyespor :: ''Third places'' (1): 2016–17 :; Konak Belediyespor :: ''Third places'' (1): 2018–19

References

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