Giorgi Popkhadze

{{short description|Georgian footballer}}

{{Use American English|date=August 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}

{{Infobox football biography

|name = Giorgi Popkhadze

|image =

|caption =

|fullname =

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1986|9|25}}

|birth_place = Tbilisi, Soviet Union

|height = {{height|m=1.82|precision=0}}

|position = Left-back

|currentclub =

|youthyears1 =

|youthyears2 =

|youthclubs1 = Dinamo Tbilisi

|youthclubs2 = Häcken

|years1 = 2003–2006

|years2 = 2006

|years3 = 2006–2010

|years4 = 2011

|years5 = 2011–2012

|years6 = 2012–2013

|years7 = 2013–2014

|years8 = 2013

|years9 = 2014

|years10 = 2015

|years11 = 2015

|years12 = 2015

|years13 = 2016–2017

|years14 = 2017

|years15 = 2018

|clubs1 = Tbilisi

|clubs2 = → Olympiacos (loan)

|clubs3 = Viborg FF

|clubs4 = Zestaponi

|clubs5 = Sturm Graz

|clubs6 = FC Baku

|clubs7 = Jagiellonia Białystok

|clubs8 = Jagiellonia Białystok II

|clubs9 = Sioni Bolnisi

|clubs10 = Jagiellonia Białystok

|clubs11 = Jagiellonia Białystok II

|clubs12 = Flamurtari Vlore

|clubs13 = Locomotive Tbilisi

|clubs14 = Dila Gori

|clubs15 = Kyzylzhar

|caps1 = 26

|caps2 = 0

|caps3 = 74

|caps4 = 6

|caps5 = 20

|caps6 = 19

|caps7 = 26

|caps8 = 4

|caps9 = 6

|caps10 = 6

|caps11 = 2

|caps12 = 10

|caps13 = 21

|caps14 = 16

|caps15 = 28

|goals1 = 2

|goals2 = 0

|goals3 = 0

|goals4 = 0

|goals5 = 0

|goals6 = 0

|goals7 = 0

|goals8 = 0

|goals9 = 1

|goals10 = 0

|goals11 = 0

|goals12 = 0

|goals13 = 1

|goals14 = 1

|goals15 = 0

|nationalyears1 = 2006–2008

|nationalyears2 = 2006–2015

|nationalteam1 = Georgia U21

|nationalteam2 = Georgia

|nationalcaps1 = 15

|nationalcaps2 = 11

|nationalgoals1 = 0

|nationalgoals2 = 0

}}

Giorgi Popkhadze ({{lang-ka|გიორგი ფოფხაძე}}; born 25 September 1986) is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a left-back.{{Soccerway|george-popkhadze/11869}}

Club career

In the summer of 2012, Popkhadze signed for Azerbaijan Premier League side FK Baku.http://fcbaku.com/content.php?lang=en&page=2&sid=&nid=1714&n=6{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}http://fcbaku.com/content.php?lang=en&page=2&sid=&nid=1719&n=6{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} After making 24 appearances in all competitions, Popkhadze was released at the end of the 2012–13 season.

International career

Popkhadze made his debut for Georgia on 1 March 2006, in a 2–0 friendly win against Malta.{{cite web |url=http://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=16891 |title=Giorgi Popkhadze profile |publisher=European Football |accessdate=1 January 2012}}

Career statistics

{{updated|17 June 2014}}{{NFT player|14826}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|+Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

rowspan=2|Club

!rowspan=2|Season

!colspan=3|League

!colspan=2|National cup

!colspan=2|Continental

!colspan=2|Total

DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
rowspan="3"|Tbilisi

|2004–05

|Umaglesi Liga

|14

0colspan="2"|—140
2005–06

|Umaglesi Liga

|12

2colspan="2"|—122
colspan=2 | Total

!26||2||||||colspan="2"|—||26||2

Olympiacos (loan)

|2005–06

|Alpha Ethniki

|0

000colspan="2"|—00
rowspan="6"|Viborg FF

|2006–07

|Danish Superliga

|11

0colspan="2"|—110
2007–08

|Danish Superliga

|14

0colspan="2"|—140
2008–09

|Danish 1st Division

|16

010colspan="2"|—170
2009–10

|Danish 1st Division

|21

031colspan="2"|—241
2010–11

|Danish 1st Division

|12

010colspan="2"|—130
colspan=2 | Total

!74||0||5||1||colspan="2"|—||79||1

Zestaponi

|2010–11

|Umaglesi Liga

|6

010colspan="2"|—70
Sturm Graz

|2011–12

|Austrian Bundesliga

|20

03090320
FK Baku

|2012–13{{cite web|title=Premier League Stats 2012/13 |url=http://www.pfl.az/upload/arxiv/201213/oyuncu21.pdf |publisher=Peşəkar Futbol Liqası |accessdate=13 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017180215/http://www.pfl.az/upload/arxiv/201213/oyuncu21.pdf |archivedate=17 October 2013}}

|Azerbaijan Premier League

|19

03010230
Jagiellonia Białystok

|2013–14

|Ekstraklasa

|26

05000310
colspan=3 | Career total

!171||2||16||1||10||0||197||3

=International=

{{updated|1 January 2012.}}

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! colspan=3 | Georgia national team

YearAppsGoals
200620
200700
200800
200950
201000
201100
Total70

Honors

References

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