Giorgi Tsetsadze

{{short description|Armenian footballer and manager}}

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| manageryears1 = 2008–2010 | managerclubs1 = Georgia U17 (assistant)

| manageryears2 = 2010–2011 | managerclubs2 = Dila Gori

| manageryears3 = 2012 | managerclubs3 = Dila Gori (assistant)

| manageryears4 = 2013| managerclubs4 = Georgia U19

| manageryears5 = 2013| managerclubs5 = Lokomotivi Tbilisi

| manageryears6 = 2015| managerclubs6 = Georgia (assistant)

| manageryears7 = 2015–2017| managerclubs7 = Samtredia

| manageryears8 = 2017–2019| managerclubs8 = Georgia U21

| manageryears9 = 2018| managerclubs9 = Samtredia

| manageryears10= 2020| managerclubs10= Saburtalo Tbilisi

| manageryears11= 2020–2021| managerclubs11= Lviv

| manageryears12= 2021–2022| managerclubs12= Torpedo Kutaisi

| manageryears13= 2022–2023| managerclubs13= Telavi

| manageryears14= 2025–| managerclubs14= Rustavi

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Giorgi (Gia) Tsetsadze ({{Lang-ka|გია ცეცაძე}}, born on 3 September 1974) is a Georgian football manager, currently in charge of 2nd division club Rustavi.

Career

In 2011 Tsetsadze led FC Dila Gori to gain promotion to the Georgia top division (Umaglesi Liga). In 2013 he managed the Georgia national under-19 football team qualifying with it for the 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. It was the second time the team qualified for such tournament and the first time since organization was shifted from under-18 competition to under-19.

In 2016 along with FC Samtredia Tsetsadze became a winning head coach in the Georgian national league and the first national title for the club.

In June 2020 Tsetsadze was placed at the head of the FC Lviv coaching staff.[https://football.ua/ukraine/424768-cecadze-vozglavil-lvov.html Tsetsadze placed at the helm of Lviv (Цецадзе возглавил Львов)]. Football.ua He will be helped by Vitaliy Shumskyi and Ihor Rypnovskyi.[http://pfclviv.com/heorhij-tsetsadze-novyj-holovnyj-trener-pfk-lviv/ Giorgi Tsetsadze is a new head coach of PFC Lviv (Георгій Цецадзе – новий головний тренер ПФК "Львів"]. PFC Lviv.

Earlier in 2020 Tsetsadze resigned from the manager post of Saburtalo Tbilisi before the start of the 2020 Erovnuli Liga.[https://sportall.ge/fekhburthi/fekhburthii/erovnuli-liga/137858-danishvnidan-1-thveshi-gia-cecadze-qsaburthalosq-aghar-gatsvrthnis.html A month after the appointment - Gia Tsetsadze will no longer coach "Saburtalo"! (დანიშვნიდან 1 თვეში - გია ცეცაძე "საბურთალოს" აღარ გაწვრთნის!)]. Sportall. 13 February 2020

His next managerial stints were similarly short, although both at Torpedo Kutaisi and Telavi he successfully coped with survival tasks.{{cite web |url=https://www.kutaisipost.ge/ka/akhali-ambebi/article/24018--torpedos-mthavarma-mtsvrthnelma-klubi-datova |publisher=kutaisipost.ge |title=ტორპედოს" მთავარმა მწვრთნელმა კლუბი დატოვა |date=3 May 2022 |language=KA}}{{cite web |publisher=europop.ge |url=https://europop.ge/article/51798-kontrakti-shecqda-gia-tsetsadze-telavis-mcvrtneli-aghar-aris |title=კონტრაქტი შეწყდა: გია ცეცაძე თელავის მწვრთნელი აღარ არის |date=22 March 2023 |language=KA}}

In April 2025, Tsetsadze was appointed at Erovnuli Liga 2 side Rustavi as head coach.{{cite news |title="რუსთავის" მთავარ მწვრთნელად გიორგი ცეცაძე დაინიშნა |trans-title=Giorgi Tsetsadze appointed as Rustavi head coach |url=https://lelo.ge/article/ეროვნული-ლიგა-2-რუსთავის-მთავარ-მწვრთნელად-გიორგი-ცეცაძე-დაინიშნა-51520 |access-date=24 April 2025 |work=Lelo |date=23 April 2025 |language=KA}}

Honours

;Samtredia

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