Giorgi Megreladze

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Giorgi Megreladze

| fullname = Giorgi Megreladze

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1978|7|21}}

| birth_place = Kutaisi, Soviet Union

| height = {{Height|m=1.80}}

| position = Forward

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| years1 = 1993–1994

| years2 = 1994

| years3 = 1995–2000

| years4 = 2000–2001

| years5 = 2002–2003

| years6 = 2003

| years7 = 2004–2005

| years8 = 2005–2006

| years9 = 2006–2007

| years10 = 2007

| years11 = 2007–2008

| years12 = 2008–2009

| years13 = 2009–2010

| years14 = 2010–2011

| years15 = 2011–2012

| years16 = 2012

| years17 = 2012–2013

| years18 = 2013

| clubs1 = FC Samgurali Tskaltubo

| clubs2 = FC Mertskhali Ozurgeti

| clubs3 = FC Torpedo Kutaisi

| clubs4 = ILTEX Lykoi F.C.

| clubs5 = A.O. Patraikos

| clubs6 = FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk

| clubs7 = FC Torpedo Kutaisi

| clubs8 = FC Dinamo Tbilisi

| clubs9 = FK Baku

| clubs10 = FC Zhetysu

| clubs11 = FC Borjomi

| clubs12 = FC Olimpi Rustavi

| clubs13 = FC Shurtan Guzar

| clubs14 = FC Zugdidi

| clubs15 = FC Torpedo Kutaisi

| clubs16 = FC Mertskhali Ozurgeti

| clubs17 = FC Shurtan Guzar

| clubs18 = FC Merani Martvili

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| goals1 = 5

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| nationalyears1 = 1998

| nationalteam1 = Georgia

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Giorgi Megreladze (born 21 July 1978) is a retired Georgian footballer, the son of former Georgian football player and Torpedo Kutaisi star Merab Megreladze.

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 debut at the age of 15 against Batumi on 6 December 1993.

In 1995, Megreladze moved to Torpedo where he won the Umaglesi Liga 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.{{cite news|url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=436727.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720202521/http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/Kind=2/newsId=436727.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 July 2006|title=All change in Azerbaijan|date=2006-06-14|accessdate=2009-05-31|publisher=UEFA|author=Erkin Ibragimov}}

On 21 March 2008, Megreladze scored for Borjomi against Ameri to become the 15th member of the

100 club.{{cite news |title=პირველი იყო კორღალიძე |trans-title=Korgalidze was 1st |url=https://www.worldsport.ge/ge/page/pirveli-iyo-korgalidze |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=worldsport.ge |date=9 November 2011 |language=KA}} He also played, among other clubs, for Dinamo Tbilisi.{{cite news|url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=321719.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080130005713/http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=321719.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 January 2008|title=Dinamo start as favourites|date=2005-07-29|accessdate=2009-05-31|publisher=UEFA|author=Soso Kotoreishvili}}

With the Georgia national football team Megreladze won only one game, on 12 August 1998 against Azerbaijan. In 2009, he scored the first ever UEFA Europa League goal.{{cite web |title=Big guns make fast Europa League start |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/news/kind=1/newsid=843795.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090704060326/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/news/kind=1/newsid=843795.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 July 2009 |publisher=UEFA |accessdate=17 September 2009}}

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 United States.{{cite news |title=შეუცვლელია ქუთაისის სიყვარული, სადაც დაბრუნება ყოველთვის მიგიხარია |url=https://okmagazine.ge/ok-interviu-giorgi-megreladzestan/ |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=okmagazine.ge |date=29 May 2024 |language=KA}}