Aleksandre Kalandadze ( ka, ალექსანდრე კალანდაძე; born 9 May 2001) is a Georgian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers ...

for

Dinamo Tbilisi Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia (country), Georgia. It was founded in 1925. Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its Association football, football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating ...

on loan Hungarian club Fehérvár, and the Georgia national team.

Club career

Kalandadze is a youth product of the Georgian club

. He began his senior career on a loan with the Hungarian club Diósgyőri for the 2020–21 season, where he played with their reserves. He returned to Dinamo Tbilisi the following season, where he became their starting

and helped them win the 2022 Erovnuli Liga and 2023 Georgian Super Cup. On 25 January 2022 he extended his contract with the club until the end of 2024.

International career

Kalandadze is a youth product of Georgia, having played up to the Georgia U21s. On 12 September 2023, he debuted with the senior Georgia national team in a

UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying The UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from March 2023 to March 2024 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams that would join the automatically qualified host team Germany in the UEFA Eur ...

loss to Norway national team on 12 September 2023.

Honours

Club

Dinamo Tbilisi *

Erovnuli Liga The Erovnuli Liga ( ka, ეროვნული ლიგა; ) is the top Division (sport), division of professional top tier Association football, football in Georgia (Country), Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

* Supercup: 2023

References

External links

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Erovnuli Liga profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalandadze, Aleksandre 2001 births Living people Footballers from Tbilisi Men's footballers from Georgia (country) Georgia (country) men's international footballers Georgia (country) men's under-21 international footballers Georgia (country) men's youth international footballers 21st-century sportsmen from Georgia (country) Men's association football midfielders FC Dinamo Tbilisi players Fehérvár FC players Diósgyőri VTK players Erovnuli Liga players Nemzeti Bajnokság III Erovnuli Liga 2 players Expatriate men's footballers from Georgia (country) Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Hungary