Shota Arveladze ( ka, შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian professional

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and former

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who was most recently the manager of

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club

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. Arveladze played at

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 ...

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, 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

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.Bibileishvili, Tiko (9 June 2008
Arveladze Quits Football
. The Georgian Times. Retrieved on 11 July 2008. 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. He has the best strike record of independent Georgian Football. He was nominated as the best player of

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as well as the best player by the Georgian Professional Football league survey.

Club career

Tbilisi and Trabzonspor

Arveladze played at

, and

, 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,

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. When he led

in goals in 1995–96, he also led the

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, making him the second non- Turk to date to lead that

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in goals after

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1983–84. He is recorded as ''"most loved foreign player"'' for Trabzonspor supporters.

Ajax Amsterdam

In summer 1997, Arveladze signed for

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. Later, he declared that he was so nervous during his first training session, that he even forgot to take

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s with him. He became a close friend to

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during his spell in

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. His first game at

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was a special day for the Georgian player. On 15 August 1997,

faced Brazilian side Grêmio in a friendly game. Arveladze scored a goal, while his wife Tamuna gave birth to their first child, Giorgi hours before the game. Arveladze made a debut for Ajax against

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, where he replaced

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and scored the fourth goal for the club. During his first season, he scored three

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s in

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and total 25 goals in 31 appearances. The manager of the Amsterdam-based club

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was very pleased with the performance of the young striker. Arveladze was a key figure for the club during

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as well. He scored 7 goals in 8 games for the club, including

against

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. Ajax were eliminated in quarter-finals, against

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. Arveladze scored the club's single goal in a tie. During his first season, he faced twice

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, where his twin brother Archil played. This remains as one of the most memorable facts in Shota's career. In summer 1998, Ajax signed Arveladze's close friend Giorgi Kinkladze from

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for £5 million. They had been friends since their childhood and that looked like a dream move for both. However, Kinkladze's spell at Ajax proved unsuccessful.

Rangers

Arveladze joined Rangers from

for £3m in 2001. He agreed a four-year deal with the club. It was obvious that the Georgian would face a fierce competitions for the starting place in the Rangers' strikeforce from the players like

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and

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. During the first season with

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-based club, Arveladze scored 17 goals overall, including 11 in

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. He only managed to take part in 30 games, after being injured in February in the quarterfinal of the

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, an injury which meant he missed the 2002 Scottish League Cup Final. However, he scored six goals for his club, which managed to win the

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. Arveladze played in the

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, replacing

. This was his first title with the Scottish club. The following season was the most successful in the career of the Georgian player. Rangers won treble. In March 2003, Rangers defeated their arch-rivals

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in the League Cup Final. Later in the

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, Rangers won another title, after they managed to defeat

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with a goal from

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. Arveladze's two compatriots

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and

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also took part in this game. The latter joined Arveladze at Rangers during that summer. In May 2005, Arveladze declared that he would leave the club after the end of the

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, in which he managed to score 9 goals. He confirmed receiving offers from various clubs in Europe, including teams from England, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey. During his time at Rangers, Arveladze had a nickname, ''

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'', because of his facial likeness to

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. During a legal case in 2015, Arveladze's agent claimed that the true transfer fee had been 12 million Euro, the equivalent of £8.5 million at the time. Arveladze scored the 300th goal in the

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and was part of Rangers squads that won the domestic treble in 2002–03 and a double in 2004–05.

AZ

Arveladze departed Rangers for Dutch side AZ on a free transfer before the start of 2005–06 season, signing a two-year deal with the club. Under the guidance of

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, Arveladze became the key figure of the club. He scored 22 goals in

, becoming the second best top-scorer of the tournament after

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, who scored 33 goals during the season. Alkmaar participated in

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this time as well. In 6 game for the club, Arveladze made 2 assists and scored 2 goals, one of them against

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. At the end of the season, AZ Alkmaar and Arveladze agreed a contract extension to keep the Georgian international striker at the Dutch club until the summer of 2008. During the second and the final season with the club, Arveladze was appointed as the new captain of the club. He was offered the armband after

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and

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left for

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and

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respectively. The Georgian was praised by

, under whose guidance he played at

as well. Van Gaal compared Arveladze to

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and

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in terms of personality, calling him ''the top professional in the squad''. He scored 23 goals, accumulating total 48 goals for AZ in 89 competitive appearances. The Georgian striker scored 7 goals in

as well, two of them in

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in a 2–1 away win against

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Levante

In July 2007, Arveladze passed a medical and agreed a one-year contract with the Spanish club Levante. He was injured in summer training and missed nearly ten months, undergoing surgery in

. He returned and made his debut against

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on 23 March, replacing Juanma. He managed to take part in other 3 games until the end of the

. In April, Levante confirmed that Arveladze would retire at the end of the season. In the last game of his career he played at Santiago Bernabeu against

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, losing 5–2.

International career

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and is its all-time leading scorer with 26 goals in his 61 games. He made his international debut in Georgia's first official game on 2 September 1992, a 1–0 friendly loss away to

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. Fifteen days later, he scored his first goal in the country's first home game, a 6–3 win over neighbours

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. His first competitive goal was on 16 November, in a 5–0 win over

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in Tbilisi for

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qualifying. On 30 March 1997, Arveladze scored a hat-trick in a 7–0 home friendly win against neighbours

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. With Georgia he won in 1998 the

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. On 18 August 2006, he scored a hat-trick away to the

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in a 6–0 win in the opening game of UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying. His final game was the following 24 March in another qualifier, equalising in a 2–1 loss away to

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Coaching career

After retiring as a player, Arveladze was appointed as

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of AZ under head coach and former Ajax coach

in July 2008. He maintained this position in the 2009–10 season under

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and

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For the 2010–11 season, Arveladze served as

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of Turkish side

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. From 2012 to 2015, he managed Istanbul-based

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. In his final game, the team scored away to

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while their players were attending to his injured player,

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. Arveladze then allowed Konyaspor to score an equaliser in the name of fair play, and Konyaspor won the game 2–1. He resigned after the game. On 3 July 2015, Arveladze was named manager of Turkish side

. He resigned in November. Under him and his successor

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, the side lost a record 17 games that season. In June 2016 Arveladze was announced as the new head coach of Israeli club

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Around the middle of the season, he was fired; it was the first time that Maccabi dismissed a coach during a season since 2011. In 2017, Arveladze was announced as head coach of

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in Uzbekistan. He won the Uzbekistan Super League and Cup in 2019 and 2020. On 21 December 2020, he left. On 27 January 2022, Arveladze was announced as the new head coach of

on a 2-year deal. On his debut two days later, the team won 2–0 at home to

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. Arveladze was dismissed by Hull City on 30 September 2022, with the team 20th in the

and after four consecutive defeats.

Personal life

Arveladze's brothers Archil (twin) and Revaz (older) also played international football, as did Revaz's son Vato.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Georgia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Arveladze goal.''

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Dinamo Tbilisi *

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: 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94 *

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: 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94 Trabzonspor *

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: 1994–95 *

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: 1995 Ajax *

: 1997–98 *

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: 1997–98, 1998–99 Rangers *

: 2002–03, 2004–05 *

Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,2001–02, 2002–03 *

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: 2002–03 Individual *

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top goalscorer: 1993 * Turkish Footballer of the Year: 1994 *

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: 1994, 1998, 2007 * Turkish Cup top scorer: 1994–95 * Süper Lig top scorer: 1995–96 * SPL Player of the Month: September 2003

Manager

Pakhtakor Tashkent *

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* Uzbekistan League Cup: 2019

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