Shota Arweladze

Shota Arweladze
Personnel
birthday	February 22, 1973
place of birth	Tbilisi ,  Georgian SSR , USSR
size	181 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Martve Tbilisi
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1990-1992	Iberia Tbilisi	37 (25)
1992-1993	Dinamo Tbilisi	23 (18)
1993-1994	Trabzonspor	18 (15)
1994-1995	Dinamo Tbilisi	15 (19)
1994-1997	Trabzonspor	78 (46)
1997-2001	Ajax Amsterdam	96 (55)
2001-2005	Glasgow Rangers	95 (44)
2005-2007	AZ Alkmaar	60 (36)
2007-2008	Levante UD	4 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1997-2007	Georgia	63 (27)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2008-2010	AZ Alkmaar (Assistant Trainer)
2010–2012	Kayserispor
2012-2015	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2015	Kasımpaşa Istanbul
2015	Trabzonspor
2016-2017	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2017–	Paxtakor Tashkent
1 Only league games are given.

Schota Arweladze ( Georgian შოთა არველაძე, English transcription Shota Arveladze ; born February 22, 1973 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian football coach and former player.

Player career

Arweladze is the record scorer of the Georgian national team with 27 goals , for which he played a total of 63 games.

He started his career as a professional football player in Georgia with various clubs in Tbilisi . His breakthrough came at Dinamo Tbilisi , which made him known abroad. In the following years he moved to Trabzonspor in Turkey . In 1997 he went to Ajax Amsterdam in the Dutch Eredivisie . After four years he moved to the Scottish club Glasgow Rangers . In 2005 Arweladse returned to Holland, to AZ Alkmaar . In 2007 he moved to the Spanish club UD Levante . There he ended his career after four short assignments.

He was at least once top scorer in the respective league for Dinamo Tbilisi, Trabzonspor and Ajax Amsterdam. In Turkey he had for a long time relatively (0.83 goals / game) and absolute (25 goals) the best odds of a non-Turkish goalscorer in a season in the Süper Lig . It was not until the end of the 2010/11 season that Alexsandro de Souza replaced him.

Coaching career

After an assistant coaching at the Dutch club AZ Alkmaar, he became the coach of the Turkish Süper Lig club Kayserispor for the 2010/11 season . He coached this club until the 6th matchday of the 2012/13 season and then resigned. Two weeks later he became the new coach at league rivals Kasımpaşa Istanbul as the successor to Metin Diyadin . From July 2, 2015 to November 11, 2015, Arweladze was the trainer of Trabzonspor . He came to succeed Ersun Yanal .

In June 2016 he was introduced as the new coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv . There he was released in January 2017 due to unsuccessfulness. Since June 2017 he has been the head coach of Paxtakor Tashkent in the highest Uzbek league .

family

Schota Arweladze is the twin brother of the footballer Artschil Arweladze . The older brother of the two is Rewas Arweladze , also a footballer.

Web links

Commons : Shota Arveladze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schota Arweladze in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Shota Arveladze (Player profile) in the database of the Turkish Football Federation (English)
• Schota Arweladze (coach profile) in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Schota Arweladze in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)
• Schota Arweladze in the database of footballdatabase.eu (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ntvspor.net: Şota bıraktı (accessed October 1, 2012)
2. ↑ kasimpasaspor.org.tr: Şota Arveladze ile anlaştık
3. ↑ Message on the Maccabi Tel Aviv website, accessed on September 6, 2016 (English)
4. ↑ Maccabi: Cruijff acts as an interim trainer and dismisses himself. In: transfermarkt.de. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .