Giorgi Gocholeishvili
Personal information
Full name Giorgi Gocholeishvili
Date of birth (2001-02-14) 14 February 2001
Place of birth Kutaisi, Georgia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Right-back
Team information
Current team
 Shakhtar Donetsk
Number 13
Youth career
Saburtalo Tbilisi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2022 Saburtalo Tbilisi 69 (8)
2023– Shakhtar Donetsk 25 (1)
International career‡
2021–2023 Georgia U21 11 (1)
2022– Georgia 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 January 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 November 2023

Giorgi Gocholeishvili (Georgian: გიორგი გოჩოლეიშვილი; born 14 February 2001) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk and Georgia national team.[1]

Club career

Saburtalo

Giorgi Gocholeishvili was born in Kutaisi and is a product of Saburtalo Tbilisi academy. He made his debut for the club in the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round losing match against Cypriot club Apollon Limassol on 27 August 2020.[2] He made his league debut for the club on 13 September 2020 in the 2020 Erovnuli Liga drawing match against Merani Tbilisi. In the 2021 season he became a starting squad player for the team and won the 2021 Georgian Cup after a 1–0 win against Samgurali Tsqaltubo in the final match.[3]

At the end of 2022, Gocholeishvili was named among best XI players of the Erovnuli Liga season.[4]

In total he played 85 matches, scored 8 goals and assisted 12 more for Saburtalo Tbilisi.[5]

Shakhtar Donetsk

In November 2022 he signed a five-year contract with the Ukrainian Premier League giant Shakhtar Donetsk effective from 1 January 2023.[6] He made his debut for Shakhtar Donetsk as a substitute player against Mynai on 28 February 2023.[7]

Gocholeishvili netted his first goal for the club in a 2–2 draw against Chernomorets Odesa on 2 April 2023.[8] In his first full-time UEFA Champions League game against Barcelona on 8 November, Gocholeishvili displayed an impressive performance, provided an assist for the only goal of the match and subsequently got a reward by being named in Champions League Team of the Week.[9]

International career

Youth

Gocholeishvili played for the Georgia national under-21 football team for the first time in a 4–1 friendly win over Belarus in March 2021. He shone in a 3–2 friendly win against England on 16 November 2021, when he netted and provided an assist. Besides, Gocholeishvili won an annual Goal of the Year award, given by GFF in honour of the most spectacular goal scored during the entire season.[10]

Senior

He was called up to the Georgia national football team for the first time in November 2022 by Willy Sagnol.[11] Gocholeishvili made his debut for his country in the friendly match against Morocco on 17 November.[12]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 8 December 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Saburtalo 2020 Erovnuli Liga 50301[lower-alpha 1]0—90
2021 34450——394
2022 304304[lower-alpha 2]01[lower-alpha 3]0384
Total 6981105010868
Shakhtar 2022–23 Ukrainian Premier League 131———131
2023–24 1201040—170
Total 251104000301
Career total 94914070101169
  1. ↑ Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  2. ↑ Appearance(s) in UEFA Conference League
  3. ↑ Appearance(s) in Georgian Super Cup

Honours

Team

Saburtalo Tbilisi

Shakhtar Donetsk

Individual

  • Goal of the Year: 2021

References

  1. ↑ "Gocholeishvili Giorgi". upl.ua. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Apollon-Saburtalo". uefa.com. 2020-08-27.
  3. ↑ "SAMGURALI VS. SABURTALO 0 - 1". int.soccerway.com. 2021-12-08.
  4. ↑ "GFF AWARDS 2022". europop.ge (in Georgian). 26 December 2022.
  5. ↑ "Шахтар підшукав підсилення правого флангу захисту в Грузії". football.ua. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  6. ↑ Георгій Гочолейшвілі — гравець Шахтаря (in Ukrainian). football.ua. 29 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "VBET League. 9th round Match #65". UPL official website. 2023-02-28.
  8. ↑ "In the 19th round of the UPL, Shakhtar played against Chornomorets in Odesa". shakhtar.com. 2 April 2023.
  9. ↑ "UEFA names Haaland, Kane, Saka, others in Champions League team". msn.com. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "GFF AWARDS 2021". europop.ge (in Georgian). 29 December 2021.
  11. ↑ საქართველოს ნაკრების შემადგენლობა ამხანაგური მატჩისთვის (in Georgian). sportall.ge. 10 November 2022.
  12. ↑ მაროკოსთან მატჩში საქართველოს ნაკრების სასტარტო შემადგენლობა ცნობილია (in Georgian). sportall.ge. 17 November 2022.
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