Otar Kakabadze ( ka, ოთარ კაკაბაძე, tr, ; born 27 June 1995) is a Georgian professional

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who plays as a

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for Polish club

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and the Georgia national team.

Club career

Dinamo Tbilisi

Born in

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, Kakabadze was a

Dinamo Tbilisi Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia. It was founded in 1925. Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating FC Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 2–1 i ...

youth graduate. He made his debut with the reserves on 27 November 2012, starting in a 2–0 away win against Racha Ambrolauri, and scored his first senior goal in a 6–0 home routing of Kakheti Telavi on 19 October 2013. Kakabadze was promoted to the main squad in 2014. He made his professional debut on 16 September of that year, coming on as a second-half substitute for Irakli Dzaria in a 6–0 home thrashing of

Shukura Kobuleti FC Shukura Kobuleti, commonly known as Shukura Kobuleti or simply Shukura, is a Georgian football club from Kobuleti, the second largest city of Adjara. After the 2022 season, they were promoted to Erovnuli Liga, the top tier of Georgian champio ...

. Kakabadze quickly established himself as a starter at Dinamo, and scored his first professional goal on 23 October 2015, netting the winner in a 2–1 home success over

FC Tskhinvali FC Tskhinvali is a Georgian football club, which in mid-2010s spent four seasons in the top tier of the national league. Despite the name, due to the enduring Georgian–Ossetian conflict they were unable to host their opponents in the city of T ...

Gimnàstic

On 7 July 2016, Kakabadze signed a three-year deal with Spanish

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side

Gimnàstic de Tarragona Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona, commonly known as Gimnàstic Tarragona or sometimes just Nàstic, is a Spanish sports club based in Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Its football team plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2. ...

. On 4 January 2017, it was confirmed, that Kakabadze had signed a loan-deal with

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club

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for the rest of the season. Upon returning, he became a regular starter for ''Nàstic''.

FC Luzern

On 30 August 2018, Kakabadze was transferred to Swiss side

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Tenerife

On 25 September 2020, Kakabadze returned to Spain and its second division after agreeing to a contract with

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International career

After representing

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at under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels, Kakabadze made his debut for the full squad on 8 October 2015, starting in a 4–0 home win against

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for the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers.

Honours

Dinamo Tbilisi *

Umaglesi Liga The Erovnuli Liga ( ka, ეროვნული ლიგა - lit. National League) is the top division of professional football in Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional Football League of Georgia and Georgian Football F ...

: 2013–14, 2015–16 *

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: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 *

Georgian Super Cup The Georgian Super Cup is a competition consisting of a single football match played between the champions of the Erovnuli Liga and the winners of the Georgian Cup. It was first held in 1996. When a club has won both competitions, the Georgian Cu ...

: 2014, 2015

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