Giorgi (Gia) Tsetsadze (, born on 3 September 1974) is a

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manager, currently in charge of 2nd division club

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Career

In 2011 Tsetsadze led

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to gain promotion to the Georgia top division (

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). In 2013 he managed the

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qualifying with it for the

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. It was the second time the team qualified for such tournament and the first time since organization was shifted from under-18 competition to under-19. In 2016 along with

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Tsetsadze became a winning head coach in the Georgian national league and the first national title for the club. In June 2020 Tsetsadze was placed at the head of the

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coaching staff. He will be helped by Vitaliy Shumskyi and Ihor Rypnovskyi. Earlier in 2020 Tsetsadze resigned from the manager post of Saburtalo Tbilisi before the start of the

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. His next managerial stints were similarly short, although both at

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 ...

and

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he successfully coped with survival tasks. In April 2025, Tsetsadze was appointed at

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side

as head coach.

Honours

;Samtredia *

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Georgia - List of Champions
- RSSSF *

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: Runners-up: 2015–16

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsetsadze, Giorgi 1974 births Living people Football managers from Georgia (country) Expatriate football managers from Georgia (country) Expatriate football managers in Ukraine Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Ukraine Erovnuli Liga managers FC Dila Gori managers FC Locomotive Tbilisi managers FC Samtredia managers FC Iberia 1999 managers Georgia national under-21 football team managers Ukrainian Premier League managers FC Lviv managers FC Torpedo Kutaisi managers