Shota Arveladze
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography Shota Arveladze (Template:Lang-ka; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Süper Lig club Kasımpaşa.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref name="Bibileishvili">Bibileishvili, Tiko (9 June 2008) Arveladze Quits Football Template:Webarchive. The Georgian Times. Retrieved on 11 July 2008.</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.
Club career
Tbilisi and Trabzonspor
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.Template:Citation needed
Ajax
In summer 1997, Arveladze signed for Ajax.<ref name="Shoti1">Template:Cite book</ref> Later, he declared that he was so nervous during his first training session, that he even forgot to take football boots with him.<ref name="Shoti1" /> He became a close friend to Ronald de Boer during his spell in Amsterdam.<ref name="Shoti1" /> His first game at the Amsterdam Arena was a special day for the Georgian player. On 15 August 1997, Ajax 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.<ref name="Shoti1" />
Arveladze made a debut for Ajax against Vitesse, where he replaced Gerald Sibon and scored the fourth goal for the club.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> During his first season, he scored three hat-tricks in Eredivisie and total 25 goals in 31 appearances. The manager of the Amsterdam-based club Morten Olsen was very pleased with the performance of the young striker.<ref name="Shoti2">Template:Cite book</ref> Arveladze was a key figure for the club during 1997–98 UEFA Cup as well. He scored seven goals in eight games for the club, including hat-trick against NK Maribor.<ref name="Shoti2" /> Ajax were eliminated in quarter-finals, against Spartak Moscow. Arveladze scored the club's single goal in a tie.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> During his first season, he faced twice NAC Breda, where his twin brother Archil played. This remains as one of the most memorable facts in Shota's career.<ref name="Shoti2" />
In summer 1998, Ajax signed Arveladze's close friend Giorgi Kinkladze from Manchester City for £5 million.<ref name="Complete Record">Template:Cite book</ref> They had been friends since their childhood and that looked like a dream move for both.<ref name="Shoti2" /> However, Kinkladze's spell at Ajax proved unsuccessful.<ref name="Ajax_agony">Template:Cite news</ref>
Rangers
Arveladze joined Rangers from Ajax for £3 million in 2001.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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' strike force from the players like Tore Andre Flo, Claudio Caniggia, Michael Mols, Kenny Miller, Billy Dodds, Ronald de Boer and Russell Latapy.
During the first season with Glasgow-based club, Arveladze scored 17 goals overall, including 11 in Scottish Premier League. He only managed to take part in 30 games, after being injured in February in the quarterfinal of the Scottish Cup against Forfar Athletic,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> an injury which meant he missed the 2002 Scottish League Cup Final.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> However, he scored six goals for his club, which managed to win the title.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Arveladze played in the final, replacing Claudio Caniggia. This was his first title with the Scottish club.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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 Celtic in the League Cup Final.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Later in the Scottish Cup Final, Rangers won another title, after they managed to defeat Dundee with a goal from Lorenzo Amoruso.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Arveladze's two compatriots Georgi Nemsadze and Zurab Khizanishvili also took part in this game. The latter joined Arveladze at Rangers during that summer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In May 2005, Arveladze declared that he would leave the club after the end of the season, 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
During his time at Rangers, Arveladze had a nickname, Mr. Bean, because of his facial likeness to Rowan Atkinson.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Arveladze scored the 300th goal in the SPL 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Under the guidance of Louis van Gaal, Arveladze became the key figure of the club.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He scored 22 goals in Eredivisie, becoming the second best top-scorer of the tournament after Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who scored 33 goals during the season. Alkmaar participated in UEFA Cup this time as well. In 6 game for the club, Arveladze made 2 assists and scored 2 goals, one of them against Real Betis.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
During the second and the final season with the club, Arveladze was appointed as the new captain of the club.<ref name="SHOTA1" >Template:Cite web</ref> He was offered the armband after Denny Landzaat and Joris Mathijsen left for Wigan Athletic and Hamburger SV respectively.<ref name="SHOTA1" /> The Georgian was praised by Louis van Gaal, under whose guidance he played at Ajax as well. Van Gaal compared Arveladze to Danny Blind and Frank Rijkaard in terms of personality, calling him "the top professional in the squad".<ref name="SHOTA1" />
He scored 23 goals, accumulating total 48 goals for AZ in 89 competitive appearances. The Georgian striker scored seven goals in UEFA Cup as well, two of them at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium in a 2–1 away win against Sevilla.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Levante
In July 2007, Arveladze passed a medical and agreed a one-year contract with the Spanish club Levante.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was injured in summer training and missed nearly ten months,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> undergoing surgery in Amsterdam.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He returned and made his debut against Villarreal on 23 March, replacing Juanma.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He managed to take part in other 3 games until the end of the season.
In April, Levante confirmed that Arveladze would retire at the end of the season.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In the last game of his career he played at the Santiago Bernabeu against Real Madrid, losing 5–2.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
International career
Shota Arveladze was a regular in the Georgian national team<ref name="levanteud1">Arveladze bids farewell to the national team of Georgia Template:In lang</ref> and is its all-time leading scorer with 26 goals in his 61 games.<ref name="Bibileishvili"/> 16 of these 26 goals came in European Championship qualifiers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He made his international debut in Georgia's first official game on 2 September 1992, a 1–0 friendly loss away to Lithuania. Fifteen days later, he scored his first goal in the country's first home game, a 6–3 win over neighbours Azerbaijan. His first competitive goal was on 16 November, in a 5–0 win over Wales in Tbilisi for UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying.<ref name=euf>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On 30 March 1997, Arveladze scored a hat-trick in a 7–0 home friendly win against neighbours Armenia.<ref name=euf/> With Georgia he won in 1998 the Malta International Football Tournament.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On 18 August 2006, he scored a hat-trick away to the Faroe Islands in a 6–0 win in the opening game of UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His final game was the following 24 March in another qualifier, equalising in a 2–1 loss away to Scotland.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Coaching career
After retiring as a player, Arveladze was appointed as assistant manager of AZ under head coach and former Ajax coach Louis van Gaal in July 2008. He maintained this position in the 2009–10 season under Ronald Koeman and Dick Advocaat.
For the 2010–11 season, Arveladze served as manager of Turkish side Kayserispor.<ref name="autogeneratedvi">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="kayserispor1">Template:Cite news</ref> From 2012 to 2015, he managed Istanbul-based Kasımpaşa. In his final game, the team scored away to Konyaspor while their players were attending to his injured player, Ryan Babel. 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On 3 July 2015, Arveladze was named as manager of Turkish side Trabzonspor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He resigned in November. Under him and his successor Hami Mandıralı, the side lost a record 17 games that season.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In June 2016, Arveladze was announced as the new head coach of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Around the middle of the season, he was fired; it was the first time that Maccabi had dismissed a coach during a season since 2011.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2017, Arveladze was announced as head coach of Pakhtakor Tashkent in Uzbekistan.<ref>Hoe het gaat met Shota “Showtime” Arveladze als trainer in Oezbekistan vice.com</ref> 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 Hull City on a 2Template:Frac-year deal.<ref name="Shota Arveladze appointed new head coach">Template:Cite news</ref> On his debut two days later, the team won 2–0 at home to Swansea City.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Arveladze was dismissed by Hull City on 30 September 2022, with the team 20th in the EFL Championship after four consecutive defeats.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On 11 December 2023, Arveladze was announced that he was agreed in principle for Head Coach of Fatih Karagümrük.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
Arveladze's brothers Archil (twin) and Revaz (older) also played international football, as did Revaz's son Vato.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Career statistics
Club
| Club | Season | League | CupTemplate:Efn | Europe | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Dinamo Tbilisi | 1990–91 | Umaglesi Liga | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | 7 | 3 | |
| 1991–92 | 30 | 22 | 0 | 0 | — | 30 | 22 | |||
| 1992–93 | 23 | 18 | 0 | 0 | — | 23 | 18 | |||
| 1993–94 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | ||
| 1994–95 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | — | 8 | 11 | |||
| Total | 75 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 77 | 63 | ||
| Trabzonspor | 1993–94 | 1.Lig | 18 | 15 | 4 | 4 | — | 22 | 19 | |
| 1994–95 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 6 | — | 23 | 18 | |||
| 1995–96 | 34 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 41 | 28 | ||
| 1996–97 | 27 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 37 | 16 | ||
| Total | 96 | 61 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 123 | 81 | ||
| Ajax | 1997–98 | Eredivisie | 31 | 25 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 44 | 37 |
| 1998–99 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 8 | ||
| 1999–2000 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 6 | ||
| 2000–01 | 27 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 20 | ||
| 2001–02 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Total | 96 | 55 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 11 | 124 | 72 | ||
| Rangers | 2001–02 | Scottish Premier League | 22 | 11 | 8 | 6 | — | 30 | 17 | |
| 2002–03 | 30 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 16 | ||
| 2003–04 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 29 | 15 | ||
| 2004–05 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 33 | 9 | ||
| Total | 95 | 44 | 22 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 132 | 57 | ||
| AZ | 2005–06 | Eredivisie | 31 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 42 | 25 |
| 2006–07 | 29 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 47 | 23 | ||
| Total | 60 | 36 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 89 | 48 | ||
| Levante | 2007–08 | La Liga | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | |
| Career total | 426 | 258 | 63 | 34 | 60 | 29 | 549 | 321 | ||
International
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 1992 | 2 | 1 |
| 1994 | 6 | 3 | |
| 1995 | 6 | 2 | |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1997 | 6 | 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1999 | 3 | 3 | |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2001 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2002 | 2 | 1 | |
| 2003 | 4 | 3 | |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2005 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2006 | 5 | 5 | |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 61 | 26 | |
- Scores and results list Georgia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Arveladze goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 September 1992 | David Kipiani Stadium, Gurjaani, Georgia | Template:Fb | 4–1 | 6–3 | Friendly |
| 2 | 19 July 1992 | Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 3 | 16 November 1994 | Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 5–0 | 5–0 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifier |
| 4 | 16 November 1994 | Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana, Albania | Template:Fb | 1–0 | 1–0 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifier |
| 5 | 26 April 1995 | Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 1–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifier |
| 6 | 11 October 1995 | Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 1–0 | 2–1 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifier |
| 7. | 30 March 1997 | Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 1–0 | 7–0 | Friendly |
| 8 | 3–0 | |||||
| 9 | 6–0 | |||||
| 10 | 7 June 1997 | Central Stadium, Batumi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier |
| 11 | 14 June 1997 | Stadion GKS Katowice, Katowice, Poland | Template:Fb | 1–0 | 1–4 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier |
| 12 | 4 September 1999 | Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia | Template:Fb | 1–1 | 1–2 | UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier |
| 13 | 8 September 1999 | Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 1–0 | 2–2 | UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier |
| 14 | 9 October 1999 | Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana, Albania | Template:Fb | 1–2 | 1–2 | UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier |
| 15 | 1 September 2001 | Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier |
| 16 | 8 September 2002 | St. Jakob Park, Basel, Switzerland | Template:Fb | 1–1 | 1–4 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualifier |
| 17 | 6 September 2003 | Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 1–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualifier |
| 18 | 3–0 | |||||
| 19 | 11 September 2003 | Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana, Albania | Template:Fb | 1–1 | 1–2 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualifier |
| 20 | 27 May 2005 | Sportzentrum, Altenkirchen, Germany | Template:Fb | 1–2 | 1–3 | Friendly |
| 21 | 18 August 2006 | Svangaskarð, Toftir, Iceland | Template:Fb | 3–0 | 6–0 | UEFA Euro 2008 qualifier |
| 22 | 5–0 | |||||
| 23 | 6–0 | |||||
| 24 | 6 September 2006 | Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine | Template:Fb | 1–1 | 2–3 | UEFA Euro 2008 qualifier |
| 25 | 16 November 2006 | Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | Template:Fb | 3–2 | 3–2 | Friendly |
| 26 | 24 March 2007 | Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland | Template:Fb | 1–1 | 1–2 | UEFA Euro 2008 qualifier |
Managerial statistics
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| Team | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Kayserispor | 29 June 2010 | 3 October 2012 | ||||||||
| Kasımpaşa | 8 October 2012 | 13 March 2015 | ||||||||
| Trabzonspor | 3 July 2015 | 11 November 2015 | ||||||||
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 16 June 2016 | 4 January 2017 | ||||||||
| Pakhtakor | 23 June 2017 | 21 December 2020 | ||||||||
| Hull City | 27 January 2022 | 30 September 2022 | ||||||||
| Fatih Karagümrük | 11 December 2023 | 9 March 2024 | ||||||||
| Kasımpaşa | 1 July 2025 | Present | ||||||||
| Career totals | ||||||||||
Honours
Player
Dinamo Tbilisi
Trabzonspor
- Turkish Cup: 1994–95
- Turkish Super Cup: 1995<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Prime Minister's Cup: 1994, 1996
Ajax
Rangers
- Scottish Premier League: 2002–03, 2004–05
- Scottish Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03
- Scottish League Cup: 2002–03
Individual
- CIS Cup top goalscorer: 1993
- Turkish Footballer of the Year: 1994
- Georgian Footballer of the Year: 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
See also
References
External links
- Template:TFF coach (as coach)
- Profile at Mackolik.com
- Shota Arveladze at Kayserispor.org
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Tbilisi
- Men's footballers from Georgia (country)
- Football managers from Georgia (country)
- Men's association football forwards
- FC Dinamo Tbilisi players
- Trabzonspor footballers
- AFC Ajax players
- Rangers F.C. players
- AZ Alkmaar players
- Levante UD footballers
- Eredivisie players
- Scottish Premier League players
- La Liga players
- Georgia (country) men's international footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers from Georgia (country)
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Turkey
- Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in the Netherlands
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Scotland
- Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Spain
- Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
- Expatriate football managers in Turkey
- Expatriate football managers in Israel
- Expatriate football managers in Uzbekistan
- Expatriate football managers in England
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Israel
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Uzbekistan
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in England
- Süper Lig players
- Kasımpaşa S.K. managers
- Trabzonspor managers
- Kayserispor managers
- Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. managers
- Pakhtakor Tashkent FK managers
- Hull City A.F.C. managers
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- Israeli Premier League managers
- English Football League managers
- Uzbekistan Super League managers
- Identical twins
- Twins from Georgia (country)
- Twin teammates in sports
- AZ Alkmaar non-playing staff