Giorgi Megreladze (born 21 July 1978) is a retired Georgian

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, the son of former Georgian football player and

Torpedo Kutaisi FC Torpedo Kutaisi ( Georgian: საფეხბურთო კლუბი ტორპედო ქუთაისი) is a Georgian professional football club based in Kutaisi, Georgia's third largest city. The team competes in the Erovnuli ...

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Merab Megreladze Merab Megreladze (26 January 1956 – 24 January 2012) was a Georgian football player. Megreladze belongs to a football dynasty which stretches from his grandfather up to his grandson. He is the two-time most prolific striker of the Georgian ...

. 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 The Erovnuli Liga ( ka, ეროვნული ლიგა; ) is the top division of professional top tier football in Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional Football League of Georgia and Georgian Football Federati ...

debut at the age of 15 against

Batumi Batumi (; ka, ბათუმი ), historically Batum or Batoum, is the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), second-largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast ...

on 6 December 1993. In 1995, Megreladze moved to

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where he won the

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 FC Baku (), founded as Dinamo Baku in 1997, was an Azerbaijani football club based in Baku that had been an amateur club since 2016. Prior to that, Baku played 18 seasons in the Azerbaijan Premier League, winning the championship twice and the N ...

. On 21 March 2008, Megreladze scored for

Borjomi Borjomi ( ka, ბორჯომი ) is a resort town in south-central Georgia with a population of 11,173 (as of 2024). Located 165 km from Tbilisi, it is one of the six municipalities of the Samtskhe–Javakheti region and is situated in the ...

against Ameri to become the 15th member of the

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. He also played, among other clubs, 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 ...

. With the

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Megreladze won only one game, on 12 August 1998 against

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. In 2009, he scored the first ever UEFA Europa League goal.

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

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References

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Profile at KLISF
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 {{Georgia-footy-bio-stub