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{{Short description|Georgian footballer (born 1976)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Georgi Demetradze<br>გიორგი დემეტრაძე
| image = Георгій Деметрадзе (cropped).jpg
| full_name = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1976|9|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Tbilisi]], [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Georgian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| height = 1.69 m
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| currentclub = 
| years1 = 1992–1994
| clubs1 = [[FC Kakheti Telavi|Kakheti Telavi]]
| caps1 = 31
| goals1 = 16
| years2 = 1994–1998
| clubs2 = [[FC Dinamo Tbilisi|Dinamo Tbilisi]]
| caps2 = 69
| goals2 = 51
| years3 = 1997–1998
| clubs3 = → [[Feyenoord]] (loan)
| caps3 = 7
| goals3 = 0
| years4 = 1998–1999
| clubs4 = [[FC Spartak Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]]
| caps4 = 44
| goals4 = 35
| years5 = 2000
| clubs5 = [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]
| caps5 = 26
| goals5 = 15
| years6 = 2000
| clubs6 = → [[FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv|Dynamo-2 Kyiv]]
| caps6 = 8
| goals6 = 9
| years7 = 2001–2003
| clubs7 = [[Real Sociedad]]
| caps7 = 13
| goals7 = 1
| years8 = 2002
| clubs8 = → [[FC Lokomotiv Moscow|Lokomotiv Moscow]] (loan)
| caps8 = 6
| goals8 = 0
| years9 = 2002
| clubs9 = → [[FC Spartak Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]] (loan)
| caps9 = 16
| goals9 = 6
| years10 = 2003–2007
| clubs10 = [[FC Metalurh Donetsk|Metalurh Donetsk]]
| caps10 = 86
| goals10 = 34
| years11 = 2005
| clubs11 = → [[FC Spartak Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]] (loan)
| caps11 = 11
| goals11 = 1
| years12 = 2006
| clubs12 = → [[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] (loan)
| caps12 = 13
| goals12 = 3
| years13 = 2007–2008
| clubs13 = [[FC Arsenal Kyiv|Arsenal Kyiv]]
| caps13 = 18
| goals13 = 3
| years14 = 2008–2009
| clubs14 = [[FC Baku]]
| caps14 = 10
| goals14 = 2
| years15 = 2009–2010
| clubs15 = [[FC Tskhinvali|Spartak Tskhinvali]]
| caps15 = 6
| goals15 = 1
| totalcaps = 363
| totalgoals = 178
| nationalyears1 = 1996–1997
| nationalteam1 = [[Georgia national under-21 football team|Georgia U21]]
| nationalcaps1 = 6
| nationalgoals1 = 1
| nationalyears2 = 1996–2007
| nationalteam2 = [[Georgia national football team|Georgia]]
| nationalcaps2 = 56
| nationalgoals2 = 12
}}

'''Georgi Demetradze''' ({{lang-ka|გიორგი დემეტრაძე}}; born 26 September 1976) is a [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] former professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[striker (association football)|striker]]. He made 56 appearances for the [[Georgia national football team|Georgia national team]] scoring 12 goals.

==Career==
Born in [[Tbilisi]], Demetradze played for the [[FC Dinamo Tbilisi|Dinamo Tbilisi]] youth team and signed for the club in 1994 after spending two seasons with [[FC Kakheti Telavi|Kakheti Telavi]]. He has become the Georgian league top scorer with Dinamo.

In 1997 Demetradze moved to Rotterdam to play for [[Feyenoord]], but an injury limited his playing time. After one season in Netherlands, he moved to Russia to play for [[FC Spartak Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]]. With them Demetradze has become [[Russian Premier League|Russian Top Division]] top scorer in 1999. In 2000, he transferred to [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]] to become a [[Ukrainian Premier League|Ukrainian champion]]. While there he famously missed an open goal against [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] in the [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]] that would have seen the English side eliminated from the competition.

After a year at [[Real Sociedad]] Demetradze returned to Russia where he spent half a season with [[FC Lokomotiv Moscow|Lokomotiv Moscow]] and half a season with Alania.

In 2003, he moved to Ukraine again, to play for [[FC Metalurh Donetsk|Metalurh Donetsk]]. He spent 2.5 seasons with them. In mid-2005 he went to play for Alania for the third time. After Alania were relegated, Demetradze transferred to [[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]]. In 2005 Demetradze participated in three different Leagues. In 2007, he returned to Ukraine and played for Arsenal Kyiv. A year later he signed an annual contract with Azerbaijani football club [[FC Baku]].

==Post retirement==
Demetradze was arrested by Georgian police in July 2010, and on 23 March 2011 he was found guilty of [[extortion]] from people who lost at illegal betting on sports, and sentenced to six years of imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Vzglyad Newspaper|url=http://vz.ru/news/2011/3/23/478051.html|script-title=ru:Лучшего бомбардира чемпионата России осудили в Грузии на шесть лет|date=23 March 2011|language=ru}}</ref> He was released from prison as a political prisoner on 13 January 2013.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=InterPressNews|url=http://www.interpressnews.ge/en/justice/43748-former-footballer-giorgi-demetradze-leaves-prison.html|title=Former footballer Giorgi Demetradze leaves prison|date=13 January 2013}}</ref> Demetradze later married and had a daughter.

==Career statistics==
All data on his participation in the top league of Ukraine can be found at the [http://www.ffu.org.ua/ FFU official website]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606074351/http://www.ffu.org.ua/ |date=6 June 2012 }} and supplemented by the National Football Teams website.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
|-
!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
!colspan="3"|League
!rowspan="2"|{{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
!Division||Apps||Goals
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[FC Kakheti Telavi|Kakheti Telavi]]||[[1992–93 Umaglesi Liga|1992–93]]||rowspan="2"|[[Umaglesi Liga]]||9||2
|<ref name="nft">{{cite web |title=Giorgi Demetradze |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/2520/Giorgi_Demetradze.html |website=National Football Teams |access-date=11 July 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[1993–94 Umaglesi Liga|1993–94]]||22||14
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
!colspan="2"|Total||31||16
!–
|-
|rowspan="4"|[[FC Dinamo Tbilisi|Dinamo Tbilisi]]||[[1994–95 Umaglesi Liga|1994–95]]||rowspan="3"|Umaglesi Liga||17||8
|<ref name="nft">{{cite web |title=Giorgi Demetradze |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/2520/Giorgi_Demetradze.html |website=National Football Teams |access-date=11 July 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[1995–96 Umaglesi Liga|1995–96]]||26||17
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
|[[1996–97 Umaglesi Liga|1996–97]]||26||26
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
!colspan="2"|Total||69||51
!–
|-
|[[Feyenoord]] (loan)||[[1997–98 Eredivisie|1997–98]]||[[Eredivisie]]||7||0
|<ref name="wf">{{cite web |title=Georgi Demetradze » Club matches |url=http://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/georgi-demetradze/2/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=11 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="nft"/>
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[FC Spartak Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]]||[[1998 Russian Top Division|1998]]||rowspan="2"|[[Russian Premier League]]||15||14
|<ref name="nft">{{cite web |title=Giorgi Demetradze |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/2520/Giorgi_Demetradze.html |website=National Football Teams |access-date=11 July 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[1999 Russian Top Division|1999]]||29||21
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
!colspan="2"|Total||44||35
!–
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]||[[Ukrainian Premier League 1999–2000|1999–00]]||rowspan="2"|[[Ukrainian Premier League]]||14||7
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2000–01|2000–01]]||12||8
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
!colspan="2"|Total||26||15
!–
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[Real Sociedad]]||[[2000–01 La Liga|2000–01]]||rowspan="2"|[[La Liga]]||4||0
|<ref name="wf"/><ref name="nft"/>
|-
|[[2001–02 La Liga|2001–02]]||9||1
|<ref name="wf"/><ref name="nft"/>
|-
!colspan="2"|Total||13||1
!–
|-
|Alania Vladikavkaz (loan)||[[2002 Russian Premier League|2002]]||Russian Premier League||6||0
|<ref name="wf"/><ref name="nft"/>
|-
|[[FC Lokomotiv Moscow|Lokomotiv Moscow]] (loan)||[[2002 Russian Premier League|2002]]||Russian Premier League||16||6
|<ref name="wf"/><ref name="nft"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"|[[FC Metalurh Donetsk|Metalurh Donetsk]]||[[Ukrainian Premier League 2002–03|2002–03]]||rowspan="3"|Ukrainian Premier League||15||8
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2003–04|2003–04]]||28||18
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2004–05|2004–05]]||23||5
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
!colspan="2"|Total||66||31
!–
|-
|Alania Vladikavkaz (loan)||[[2005 Russian Premier League|2005]]||Russian Premier League||11||1
|<ref name="wf"/>
|-
|[[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] (loan)||[[2005–06 Israeli Premier League|2005–06]]||[[Israeli Premier League]]||13||3
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[FC Metalurh Donetsk|Metalurh Donetsk]]||[[Ukrainian Premier League 2005–06|2005–06]]||rowspan="2"|Ukrainian Premier League||3||2
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2006–07|2006–07]]||16||2
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
!colspan="2"|Total||19||4
!–
|-
|[[FC Arsenal Kyiv|Arsenal Kyiv]]||[[Ukrainian Premier League 2007–08|2007–08]]||Ukrainian Premier League||18||3
|<ref name="wf"/>|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
|[[FC Baku]]||[[2008–09 Azerbaijan Premier League|2008–09]]||[[Azerbaijan Premier League]]||10||2
|<ref name="nft"/>
|-
|[[FC Tskhinvali]]||[[2009–10 Umaglesi Liga|2009–10]]||Umaglesi Liga||6||1
|<ref name="sw">{{cite web |title=G. Demetradze |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/georgi-demetradze/59440/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=11 July 2018}}</ref>
|-
!colspan="3"|Career total||355||169
!–
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.sport.ru/ru/news/20060204/football/article23471/ Demetradze moves to Israel], sport.ru, 4 February 2006
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120722054312/http://www.dynamomania.com/?com=95&p=player&id=143 Profile] at Dynamo Kyiv's fansite
* [http://www.georgiansoccer.com/index.php?page=nationalteam/playerprofiles/demetradze Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928071938/http://www.georgiansoccer.com/index.php?page=nationalteam%2Fplayerprofiles%2Fdemetradze |date=28 September 2011 }} at GeorgianSoccer.com
* [http://www.legioner.kulichki.com/index.php?id=11&lang=en&player=57 Demetradze in Spain]
*{{FIFA|179615}}
*{{NFT|2520}}
* {{FFU|27231}}
* {{Soccerway}}

{{Russian Premier League top scorers}}
{{Umaglesi Liga top scorers}}
{{Ukrainian Premier League top scorers}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Demetradze, Georgi}}
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