Giorgi Tsetsadze
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 3 September 1974 | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Rustavi (head coach) | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2008–2010 | Georgia U17 (assistant) | ||
| 2010–2011 | Dila Gori | ||
| 2012 | Dila Gori (assistant) | ||
| 2013 | Georgia U19 | ||
| 2013 | Lokomotivi Tbilisi | ||
| 2015 | Georgia (assistant) | ||
| 2015–2017 | Samtredia | ||
| 2017–2019 | Georgia U21 | ||
| 2018 | Samtredia | ||
| 2020 | Saburtalo Tbilisi | ||
| 2020–2021 | Lviv | ||
| 2021–2022 | Torpedo Kutaisi | ||
| 2022–2023 | Telavi | ||
| 2025– | Rustavi | ||
Giorgi (Gia) Tsetsadze (Georgian: გია ცეცაძე, born on 3 September 1974) is a Georgian football manager, currently in charge of Erovnuli Liga club Rustavi.
He has won the national league and the Supercup.
Career
[edit]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.
Between 2017 and 2020 Tsetsadze was the head coach of the national U21s.[1]
In June 2020 Tsetsadze was placed at the head of the FC Lviv coaching staff.[2] He was helped by Vitaliy Shumskyi and Ihor Rypnovskyi.[3]
Earlier in 2020 Tsetsadze resigned from the manager post of Saburtalo Tbilisi before the start of the 2020 Erovnuli Liga.[4]
His next managerial stints were similarly short, although both at Torpedo Kutaisi and Telavi he successfully coped with survival tasks.[5][6]
In April 2025, Tsetsadze was appointed at Erovnuli Liga 2 side Rustavi as head coach.[7] He led the team to the top flight after a six-year absence.
Honours
[edit]- Samtredia
- Erovnuli Liga: 2016[8]
- Georgian Super Cup: 2017
- Erovnuli Liga runners-up: 2015–16
- Rustavi
References
[edit]- ^ "ოფიციალურად: გია ცეცაძემ საქართველოს 21-წლამდე ნაკრები დატოვა" [Gia Tsetsadze leaves Georgia under-21 team]. worldsport.ge (in Georgian). 24 December 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ^ Tsetsadze placed at the helm of Lviv (Цецадзе возглавил Львов). Football.ua
- ^ Giorgi Tsetsadze is a new head coach of PFC Lviv (Георгій Цецадзе – новий головний тренер ПФК "Львів". PFC Lviv.
- ^ A month after the appointment - Gia Tsetsadze will no longer coach "Saburtalo"! (დანიშვნიდან 1 თვეში - გია ცეცაძე "საბურთალოს" აღარ გაწვრთნის!). Sportall. 13 February 2020
- ^ "ტორპედოს" მთავარმა მწვრთნელმა კლუბი დატოვა" (in Georgian). kutaisipost.ge. 3 May 2022.
- ^ "კონტრაქტი შეწყდა: გია ცეცაძე თელავის მწვრთნელი აღარ არის" (in Georgian). europop.ge. 22 March 2023.
- ^ ""რუსთავის" მთავარ მწვრთნელად გიორგი ცეცაძე დაინიშნა" [Giorgi Tsetsadze appointed as Rustavi head coach]. Lelo (in Georgian). 23 April 2025. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ^ Georgia - List of Champions - RSSSF
External links
[edit]- Giorgi Tsetsadze coach profile at Soccerway (archived)
- Giorgi Tsetsadze at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Football managers from Georgia (country)
- Expatriate football managers from Georgia (country)
- Expatriate football managers in Ukraine
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Ukraine
- Erovnuli Liga managers
- FC Dila Gori managers
- FC Locomotive Tbilisi managers
- FC Samtredia managers
- FC Iberia 1999 managers
- Georgia national under-21 football team managers
- Ukrainian Premier League managers
- FC Lviv managers
- FC Torpedo Kutaisi managers