Mate Vatsadze

Mate Vatsadze
Vatsadze with Volga NN in 2011
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-12-17) 17 December 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Tbilisi, Georgia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Dinamo Tbilisi
Number 12
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 12 (3)
2020 AGMK 21 (5)
2021 Qizilqum 26 (5)
2022 Gagra 19 (6)
2022–2023 Dinamo Batumi 29 (5)
2024 Gagra 18 (5)
2024– Dinamo Tbilisi 7 (1)
International career‡
2008–2010 Georgia U21 5 (1)
2009– Georgia 15 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 December 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 September 2016

Mate Vatsadze (Georgian: მათე ვაწაძე, Maté Vats'adze, born 17 December 1988) is a Georgian football player who plays for Erovnuli Liga club Dinamo Tbilisi as a forward.

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]

After three seasons spent at two Uzbek clubs, Vatsadze returned home in February 2022 first to join Gagra.[3] In the summer of 2022, he signed with reigning Georgian champions Dinamo Batumi,[4] who claimed another top title the next year.

Having played another half season at Gagra, in September 2024 Vatsadze returned to Dinamo Tbilisi after a six-year break on a deal until the end of the year.[5]

Statistics

Club

As of match played 1 June 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dinamo Tbilisi 2008/09 Umaglesi Liga 3[a] 0 3 0
2009/10 27 10 3 2 4[b] 1 – 34 13
2010/11 8 2 – 5[b] 2 – 13 4
2018 12 2 1 0 2[b] 0 – 15 2
Total 47 14 4 2 14 3 0 0 65 19
Volga 2011/12 RPL 20 1 1 0 – – 21 1
Dila 2011/12 Umaglesi Liga 13 11 3 3 5 5 – 21 19
2012/13 2 2 – – – 2 2
Total 15 13 3 3 5 5 0 0 23 21
Aarhus 2012/13 Danish Superliga 13 3 1 0 – – 14 3
2013/14 Danish Superliga 10 1 1 0 – – 11 1
2014/15 Danish First Division 32 20 – – – 32 20
2015/16 Danish Superliga 20 5 – – – 20 5
Total 75 29 2 0 0 0 0 0 77 29
Locomotive 2016 Umaglesi Liga 4 1 – – – 4 1
Viborg 2016/17 Danish Superliga 7 0 – – 1[c] 0 8 0
2017/18 Danish First Division 1 0 – – – 1 0
Total 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 9 0
Silkeborg 2017/18 Danish Superliga 15 3 2 0 – – 17 3
FK Liepāja 2019 Virsliga 2 0 – – – 2 0
Qizilqum 2019 Super League 12 3 1 0 – – 13 3
2021 26 5 3 0 – – 29 5
Total 38 8 4 0 0 0 2 0 42 8
AGMK 2020 Super League 21 5 4 2 – – 25 7
Gagra 2022 Erovnuli Liga 19 6 – – – 19 6
2024 18 5 – – – 18 5
Total 37 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 11
Dinamo Batumi 2022 Erovnuli Liga 15 4 1 0 2[a] +2[d] 1 – 20 5
2023 14 1 3 1 1 0 2[e] 0 20 2
Total 29 5 4 1 5 1 2 0 40 7
Career total 311 90 24 8 24 9 3 0 362 107
  1. ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Champions League qualifiers
  2. ^ a b c Appearances in UEFA Europa League qualifiers
  3. ^ Appearances in Danish league playoffs
  4. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League qualifiers
  5. ^ Appearances in Georgian Super Cup

International goals

Scores and results list Georgia's goal tally first.[6]
No Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 6 February 2013 Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana, Albania  Albania 1–1 2–1 Friendly
2. 9 June 2015 Linzer Stadion, Linz, Austria  Ukraine 1–2 1–2 Friendly
3. 8 October 2015 Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi, Georgia  Gibraltar 1–0 4–0 UEFA Euro 2016 qualification
4. 3–0

Honours

Dinamo Batumi
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. ^ "ვაწაძე კარიერას "გაგრაში" გააგრძელებს". 1tv.ge (in Georgian). 24 February 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
  4. ^ "გეგუჩაძის გია - დინამო ბათუმი მათე ძლიერდება ვაწაძე გუნდში". crystalsport.ge (in Georgian). 25 June 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  5. ^ "დაბრუნება 6 წლის შემდეგ - მათე ვაწაძე დინამო თბილისში ითამაშებს". europop.ge (in Georgian). Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Vatsadze, Mate". National Football Teams. Retrieved 20 March 2017.