Shota Arveladze
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Shota Arveladze (Georgian: შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük.
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.
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 Georgia as well as the best player by the Georgian Professional Football league survey.
Shota Arveladze was a regular in the Georgian national team 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 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.
On 30 March 1997, Arveladze scored a hat-trick in a 7–0 home friendly win against neighbours Armenia. With Georgia he won in 1998 the Malta International Football Tournament. 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. His final game was the following 24 March in another qualifier, equalising in a 2–1 loss away to Scotland.
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. From 2012 to 2015, he managed Istanbul-based Kasımpaşa SK. 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.
On 3 July 2015, Arveladze was named manager of Turkish side Trabzonspor. He resigned in November. Under him and his successor Hami Mandıralı, the side lost a record 17 games that season.
In June 2016 Arveladze was announced as the new head coach of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv 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 Pakhtakor Tashkent FK 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 Hull City on a 21⁄2-year deal. On his debut two days later, the team won 2–0 at home to Swansea City. Arveladze was dismissed by Hull City on 30 September 2022, with the team 20th in the EFL Championship and after four consecutive defeats.
On 11 December 2023, Arveladze was announced that he was agreed in principle for Head Coach of Fatih Karagümrük S.K.
Arveladze's brothers Archil (twin) and Revaz (older) also played international football, as did Revaz's son Vato.
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1990-1992 |
1992-2007 |
1992-1994 |
1993-1994 (Loan) |
1994-1997 |
1997-2001 |
2001-2005 |
2005-2007 |
2007-2008 |
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2008-2010 Assistant Manager |
2010-2012 Manager |
2012-2015 Manager |
2015-2015 Manager |
2016-2017 Manager |
2017-2020 Manager |
2022-2022 Manager |
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| Ajax | Appearances | Dutch Eredivisie | 2000-2001 | 27 |
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| Ajax | Goals | Dutch Eredivisie | 2000-2001 | 18 |
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