Zaur Svanadze (Georgian: ზაურ სვანაძე; born 23 January 1958) is a Georgian football manager and former player. He is the assistant manager of Dinamo Tbilisi.

Zaur Svanadze
Personal information
Date of birth (1958-01-23) 23 January 1958 (age 66)
Place of birth Kutaisi, Georgian SSR
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Dinamo Tbilisi (assistant manager)
Youth career
1972–1976 Torpedo Kutaisi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1976–1980 Torpedo Kutaisi 158 (17)
1981–1989 Dinamo Tbilisi 245 (8)
1990 IFK Holmsund 24 (1)
1991 Umeå FC
1991–1992 Motala AIF
1993–1995 Gällivare Malmbergets FF
Managerial career
1995–2000 Gällivare Malmbergets FF
2001–2002 Locomotive Tbilisi (assistant)
2002–2003 Locomotive Tbilisi
2005–2006 Dinamo Tbilisi (assistant)
2006–2008 Georgia (assistant)
2008–2009 Georgia U19
2009–2011 Georgia U21 (assistant)
2012–2015 Inter Baku (assistant)
2015–2017 Inter Baku
2018–2019 Dinamo Tbilisi
2019– Dinamo Tbilisi (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

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Having spent some years in his hometown club Torpedo Kutaisi, Svanadze moved to Dinamo Tbilisi in 1981. He was one of the members of the famous Dinamo Tbilisi squad, which won UEFA Cup Winners' Cup back in 1980–81, being substituted by Nukri Kakilashvili in the final against Carl Zeiss Jena.

Managing career

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Svanadze worked at some Georgian clubs before moving to Azerbaijan.[1]

He joined the coaching staff of Kakhaber Tskhadadze at Inter Baku in 2012, before taking charge at the club three years later, after Tskhadadze was appointed as the manager of Georgia national football team.

Honours

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Dinamo Tbilisi

References

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