Giorgi Megreladze
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Infobox football biography Giorgi Megreladze (born 21 July 1978) is a retired Georgian footballer, the son of former Georgian football player and Torpedo Kutaisi star Merab Megreladze.
Megreladze has played in six countries. He is the Georgian league winner with Torpedo and three-time team topscorer.
Career
Megreladze started his career at Samgurali, making his Umaglesi Liga debut at the age of 15 against Batumi on 6 December 1993.
In 1995, Megreladze moved to Torpedo where he won the Umaglesi Liga five years later. During his three spells with Torpedo, Megreladze finished as the team goalscorer three times and accrued 80 goals in 184 league appearances combined.
At the start of the 2006–07 season Megreladze signed up to play for FK Baku.[1]
On 21 March 2008, Megreladze scored for Borjomi against Ameri to become the 15th member of the 100 club.[2] He also played, among other clubs, for Dinamo Tbilisi.[3]
With the Georgia national football team Megreladze won only one game, on 12 August 1998 against Azerbaijan. In 2009, he scored the first ever UEFA Europa League goal.[4]
Personal life
Giorgi Megreladze is the fourth member of the Megreladze football family. His son Merab also played in the top division before taking up managerial roles.
In 2024, Megreladze revealed in an interview that he had formed a youth football club called Georgia Philly in the United States.[5]
References
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- 1978 births
- Living people
- Men's footballers from Georgia (country)
- Georgia (country) men's international footballers
- FC Dinamo Tbilisi players
- FC Baku players
- FC Torpedo Kutaisi players
- FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players
- Patraikos F.C. players
- FC Shurtan Guzar players
- Expatriate men's footballers from Georgia (country)
- Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
- Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan
- Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan
- Expatriate men's footballers in Uzbekistan
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Greece
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Russia
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Azerbaijan
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Kazakhstan
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan Super League players
- Men's association football forwards
- Footballers from Kutaisi