Mate Vatsadze

Mate Vatsadze (Georgian: მათე ვაწაძე, Maté Vats'adze, born 17 December 1988) is Georgian football player who plays for Dinamo Batumi.

Mate Vatsadze
Vatsadze with Volga NN in 2011
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-12-17) 17 December 1988
Place of birth Tbilisi, Georgia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Dinamo Batumi
Number 11
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2008 Dinamo-2 Tbilisi 53 (21)
2005–2010 Dinamo Tbilisi 96 (42)
2011–2012 Volga Nizhny Novgorod 20 (1)
2012 Dila Gori 15 (13)
2012–2016 AGF 75 (29)
2016 Locomotive Tbilisi 4 (1)
2017 Viborg 8 (0)
2017–2018 Silkeborg 15 (3)
2018 Dinamo Tbilisi 12 (2)
2019 FK Liepāja 2 (0)
2019 Qizilqum 13 (3)
2020 AGMK 21 (5)
2021 Qizilqum 26 (5)
2022 Gagra 19 (6)
2022– Dinamo Batumi 25 (5)
International career‡
2008–2010 Georgia U21 5 (1)
2009– Georgia 15 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 October 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 September 2016

Playing career

Vatsadze started his professional career with FC Dinamo Tbilisi, playing 96 games and scoring 42 goals for the first team between 2005 and 2010, before moving to FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod to play in the Russian Premier League in 2011. While playing in Russia, he was called up for the Georgia national football team, to play in the Euro 2012 qualifying matches against Croatia and Israel, but he was not able to get the required visa.[1] So he soon returned to Georgia to join Dila Gori at the end of the season. On 2 September 2012 he signed a 3+1⁄2-year contract with Danish Superliga side AGF.

Vatsadze was discovered by AGF in the 2012–13 Europa League Second qualifying round where he impressed by scoring three goals for Dila Gori against AGF and went on to score twice in the Third qualifying round away leg in Cyprus against Anorthosis, to help Dila Gori progress to the Play-off round. Vatsadze also scored twice in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round, helping Dinamo Tbilisi to eliminate Swedish Gefle IF, when they managed to beat them both home and away. He also scored a goal for Dinamo Tbilisi in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round, in the away leg against Red Star Belgrade.

Vatsadze joined FK Liepāja in Latvia in January 2019.[2]

International goals
Scores and results list Georgia's goal tally first.[3]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.6 February 2013Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana, Albania Albania1–12–1Friendly
2.9 June 2015Linzer Stadion, Linz, Austria Ukraine1–21–2Friendly
3.8 October 2015Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi, Georgia Gibraltar1–04–0UEFA Euro 2016 qualification
4.3–0

Honours
Dinamo Tbilisi
Dila Gori
AGF

References
  1. "National Team – Modebadze instead of Vatsadze". worldsport.ge. 16 March 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  2. FK "Liepāja": sastāvs nokomplektēts par 99%, liepajniekiem.lv, 7 January 2019
  3. "Vatsadze, Mate". National Football Teams. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
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