Mate Vatsadze

Mate Vatsadze
	Vatsadze with Volga NN in 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	17 December 1988 (age 33)
Place of birth	Tbilisi, Georgia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Club information
Current team	Gagra
Number	21
Senior career*
Years	Team
2004–2008	Dinamo-2 Tbilisi
2005–2010	Dinamo Tbilisi
2011–2012	Volga Nizhny Novgorod
2012	Dila Gori
2012–2016	AGF
2016	Locomotive Tbilisi
2017	Viborg
2017–2018	Silkeborg
2018	Dinamo Tbilisi
2019	FK Liepāja
2019	Qizilqum
2020	AGMK
2021	Qizilqum
2022–	Gagra
National team‡
2008–2010	Georgia U21
2009–	Georgia
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:35, 9 January 2022 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 September 2016

Mate Vatsadze (born 17 December 1988) is Georgian football player who plays for Gagra.

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]

Scores and results list Georgia's goal tally first.^[3]

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.	8 October 2015	Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi, Georgia	Gibraltar	3–0	4–0	UEFA Euro 2016 qualification

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

Personal information
Vatsadze with Volga NN in 2011
Date of birth	(1988-12-17) 17 December 1988 (age 33)
Place of birth	Tbilisi, Georgia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Club information
Current team	Gagra
Number	21
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
National team^‡
2008–2010	Georgia U21	5	(1)
2009–	Georgia	15	(4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:35, 9 January 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 September 2016