Gela Shekiladze
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-09-14) 14 September 1970
Place of birth Batumi, Georgia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
Tajikistan (assistant coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1998 Dinamo Batumi 239 (7)
1998–2002 Lierse 81 (2)
2002–2003 Roeselare 25 (0)
2003–2004 Arsenal Kyiv 13 (0)
2004CSKA Kyiv 1 (0)
International career
1997–2002 Georgia 22 (0)
Managerial career
2007–2008 Georgia U21 (assistant coach)
2007–2008 Georgia U17
2008 Georgia (assistant)
2008–2009 Georgia U19
2009–2010 Georgia U15
2010–2011 Georgia U16
2013–2017 Dinamo Batumi (director of sports)
2015–2016 Afghanistan (assistant)
2019–2020 Maldives (assistant)
2022– Tajikistan (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gela Shekiladze (born 14 September 1970) is a football coach and former football defender from Georgia. He currently works as assistant coach for the Tajikistan national football team.[1]

Career as a Football Player

Between 1997 and 2002, Gela Shekiladze was capped 22 times for the national team. His club career began with eight seasons at Dinamo Batumi, where he was a first team regular. Successful highlights from his time in Dinamo Batumi include winning the Georgian Cup in 1998 as a result of defeating Dinamo Tbilisi in the final. During the same year, the club also won the Georgian Super Cup; they again defeated Dinamo Tbilisi with a final score of 2–1. In the summer of 1998 Gela Shekiladze joined Belgian club K. Lierse S.K., with whom he won the 1999 Belgian Super Cup and the 44th Belgian Cup in 1999. Later, K. Lierse S.K. also awarded him with Player of the Year in 2000. In 2003–04, he joined FC Arsenal Kyiv for one season in the Ukrainian league before retiring.

Coaching career

Georgia National Team

Starting from the year 2007, Gela Shekiladze started coaching various age groups of the Georgian National Football Team. In the years 2007–2008 he was Assistant Coach to Georgian National Football Team U-21. Working alongside Petar Segrt, the Georgia U21 achieved one for the great accomplishments in the football history of the Georgian national team, with a 2:00 victory against Russia U21 in the 2007 European U21 Cup qualification. From 2008–2011, he was respectively the head coach of the Georgian National Football Teams of U-17, U-19, U-15 and U-16. For the following 5 years, he moved on to be the Sport Director and Youth Football Development Manager at Dinamo Batumi. In 2015 Shekiladze acquired his UEFA Pro Licence.

FC Batumi Dinamo

In the years 2013–2017, Gela Shekiladze worked as the Sport Director and Youth Football Development Manager of FC Dinamo Batumi.

Afghanistan National Team

In 2015–2016, Gela Shekiladze assisted Petar Segrt with coaching the Afghanistan National Football Team. Together, they won 6 out of 8 official matches; won four South Asia Cup matches and lost on against India in overtime with a final score of 1–2. In the World Cup qualification for Russia 2018, the team lost only once against Japan, having won the two other matches. This year was considered to be the most successful for Afghanistan.

Maldives National Team

In 2019–2020, Gela Shekiladze was Assistant Coach of the Maldives National Football Team.

References

  1. "Петр Сегрт: "Только объединившись, мы сможем достичь результата" – Федерация Футбола Таджикистана".
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