28 Facts About Shota Arveladze

Shota Arveladze is a Georgian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of EFL Championship club Hull City.

Shota Arveladze is Georgia's all-time top scorer with 291 goals in his 410 league games for his clubs and 26 goals in his 61 games for the national team.

Shota Arveladze has the best strike record of independent Georgian Football.

Shota Arveladze was nominated as the best player of Georgia as well as the best player by the Georgian Professional Football league survey.

Shota Arveladze played at Dinamo Tbilisi, Trabzonspor, and Ajax, and finished at least one season as the top goal scorer at all three.

Shota Arveladze is recorded as "most loved foreign player" for Trabzonspor supporters.

Shota Arveladze became a close friend to Ronald de Boer during his spell in Amsterdam.

Shota Arveladze's first game at Amsterdam Arena was a special day for the Georgian player.

Shota Arveladze scored a goal, while his wife Tamuna gave birth to their first child, Giorgi hours before the game.

Shota Arveladze made a debut for Ajax against Vitesse Arnhem, where he replaced Gerald Sibon and scored the fourth goal for the club.

Shota Arveladze scored 7 goals in 8 games for the club, including hat-trick against NK Maribor.

Shota Arveladze only managed to take part in 30 games, after being injured in February in the quarterfinal of the Scottish Cup against Forfar Athletic, an injury which meant he missed the 2002 Scottish League Cup Final.

In May 2005, Shota Arveladze declared that he would leave the club after the end of the season, in which he managed to score 9 goals.

Shota Arveladze confirmed receiving offers from various clubs in Europe, including teams from England, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey.

Under the guidance of Louis van Gaal, Shota Arveladze became the key figure of the club.

In 6 game for the club, Shota Arveladze made 2 assists and scored 2 goals, one of them against Real Betis.

Shota Arveladze was offered the armband after Denny Landzaat and Joris Mathijsen left for Wigan Athletic and Hamburger SV respectively.

Shota Arveladze scored 23 goals, accumulating total 48 goals for AZ in 89 competitive appearances.

In July 2007, Shota Arveladze passed a medical and agreed a one-year contract with the Spanish club Levante.

Shota Arveladze was injured in summer training and missed nearly ten months, undergoing surgery in Amsterdam.

Shota Arveladze managed to take part in other 3 games until the end of the season.

Shota Arveladze was a regular in the Georgian national team and is its all-time leading scorer with 26 goals in his 61 games.

On 3 July 2015, Shota Arveladze was named manager of Turkish side Trabzonspor.

In June 2016 Shota Arveladze was announced as the new head coach of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv Around the middle of the season, he was fired; it was the first time that Maccabi dismissed a coach during a season since 2011.

In 2017, Shota Arveladze was announced as head coach of Pakhtakor Tashkent FK in Uzbekistan.

Shota Arveladze won the Uzbekistan Super League and Cup in 2019 and 2020.

On 27 January 2022, Shota Arveladze was announced as the new head coach of Hull City on a 2.

Shota Arveladze was dismissed by Hull City on 30 September 2022, with the team 20th in the EFL Championship and after four consecutive defeats.