Giorgi Arabidze


Giorgi Arabidze is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Turkish club Adanaspor.

Career

Club career

Arabidze is a product of the FC Locomotive Youth Sportive system from age 7.
In June 2015 he signed a contract with Ukrainian football club FC Shakhtar. Arabidze made an official debut for the Ukrainian club three months later against Ternopil in the Ukrainian Cup, spending the full 90 minutes on the pitch.
Arabidze has again featured for Shakhtar on the last day of October, making his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League, playing the last 15 minutes of the game against Zorya Luhansk.
Arabidze has been included in the UEFA Youth League squad for the same season as well. He made a debut in this tournament against Malmö FF, scoring a single goal and contributing one assist in a 5–5 draw.
On 3 July 2018 he signed 4-year contract with Portuguese club C.D. Nacional.

International career

In 2017, after being a regular member of the youth sides of Georgia national football team, Arabidze made his debut for the senior national team against Serbia in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match. Two days later he scored his first goal for the team against Latvia in a friendly game.

Career statistics

International goals

NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.28 March 2017Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi, Georgia5–05–0Friendly
2.7 June 2017Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia1–03–0Friendly
3.7 June 2017Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia2–03–0Friendly