Iuri Tabatadze

Iuri Tabatadze
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-11-29) 29 November 1999
Place of birth Kutaisi, Georgia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position Winger
Team information
Current team
 Cádiz
Number 12
Youth career
2010–2018 Saburtalo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–2025 Iberia 1999 154 (43)
2023–2024 → ViOn Zlaté Moravce (loan) 11 (1)
2025– Cádiz 18 (6)
International career‡
2019–2020 Georgia U21 4 (0)
2025– Georgia 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 27 May 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of 15 November 2025

Iuri Tabatadze (Georgian: იური ტაბატაძე; born 29 November 1999) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Segunda División club Cádiz and the Georgia national team.

Tabatadze is the winner of the Erovnuli Liga and Supercup. He has also won the Georgian Cup three times and played for a national youth team.

Club career

Iberia 1999

Tabatadze entered a football school in Tbilisi at the age of 7 before joining Saburtalo four years later.[1] He made his debut for the senior team as a second-half substitute in a 3–0 home win over Dila on 20 August 2019.[2]

Tabatadze opened his goal-scoring account in his very first full-time appearance for the team in which Saburtalo beat Locomotive 4–0 the next month.[3] Following a 3–1 win in a cup final over the same opponents on 9 December 2019, Tabatadze won the first trophy of his career.[4]

In 2021, he netted a winner in another cup final as Saburtalo prevailed over Samgurali.[5] The team secured the 3rd cup title two years later with Tabatadze taking part in all five ties.

Tabatadze scored his first goal in a UEFA club competition in 2022. He equalized against Romanian club FCSB to give Saburtalo an aggregate lead, but his team conceded two late goals and crashed out of the 2nd round of UEFA Conference League.[6]

In January 2024, Tabatadze was among three Saburtalo players loaned to Slovak side ViOn Zlaté Moravce until the end of June.[7] After his return to Saburtalo, now renamed as Iberia 1999, he won the first league title.[8] In a final game of the season, Tabatadze featured in a Liga 2/3 play-off tie and helped the reserve team gain promotion to the 2nd division.[9]

In early 2025, Tabatadze topped the leading goalscorers' chart with five goals after the first part of the four-phase Erovnuli Liga season was completed[10] and received the Player of the Month award from Georgian media outlet LaGazzetta for his performance in April 2025.[11]

Cádiz

On 27 August 2025, Spanish Segunda División side Cádiz announced the signing of Tabatadze on a three-year contract.[12] Four days later, he came off the bench in the 86th minute against Albacete and scored an injury-time goal, helping his team to snatch a 2–1 win.[13] A week later, Tabatadze scored a brace in a 3–3 draw at Real Sociedad, becoming the first debutant of the team in XXI century to amass three goals in two initial games.[14]

In early January 2026, he netted two more goals to help Cadiz pick up four more points, but sustained a knee injury requiring surgery, which saw him out of action for the rest of this season. Tabatadze made 20 appearances for the team, scoring six times.[15]

International

Tabatadze was called up to the U21 team for its 2021 UEFA European Championship qualifying campaign. He made his first appearance for the team in a 3–2 loss to France on 15 November 2019.[16] Later, Tabatadze played three more official games.

In November 2025, Tabatadze was called up to the senior national team for 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Spain and Bulgaria.[17]

Career statistics

As of 18 January 2026
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup European Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Saburtalo / Iberia 1999 2019 Erovnuli Liga 82201[a]0—112
2020 Erovnuli Liga 142101[b]01[c]0172
2021 Erovnuli Liga 35953——4012
2022 Erovnuli Liga 348324[d]11[c]04211
2023 Erovnuli Liga 26852——3110
2024 Erovnuli Liga 173104[d]02[c]0223
2025 Erovnuli Liga 2011114[e]01[c]12613
Total 154431881415119153
ViOn Zlaté Moravce (loan) 2023–24 Slovak Super Liga 111———111
Iberia 1999 B 2024 Liga 3 ———1[f]010
Cádiz 2025–26 Segunda División 18620——206
Career total 183502081416122260
  1. ↑ Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
  2. ↑ Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  3. 1 2 3 4 Appearance(s) in Georgian Super Cup
  4. 1 2 Appearances(s) in UEFA Conference League
  5. ↑ Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Conference League
  6. ↑ Appearance in Liga 2/3 playoffs

Honours

Saburtalo / Iberia 1999

References

  1. ↑ "იური ტაბატაძე: ნაკრები ჩემთვის ჯერ ცოტა ადრეა, მაგრამ ეს არის მიზანი!." [Iuri Tabatadze: "The national team seems a bit early for me but this is my aim"]. Lelo (in Georgian). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Saburtalo vs Dila match report". eliga.ge (in Georgian). 20 August 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "წაგებათა სერია გრძელდება" [Losing streak continues]. fcloco.ge (in Georgian). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  4. ↑ ""საბურთალო" – ორ წელიწადში მოპოვებული ორი ტიტული" [Saburtalo win 2nd title in two years]. atiani.ge (in Georgian). 9 December 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  5. ↑ "საქართველოს თასი "საბურთალომ" მოიგო და კონფერენს ლიგის საგზურიც მოიპოვა" [Saburtalo secure the Georgian Cup and book a Conference League spot]. worldsport.ge (in Georgian). 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  6. ↑ "FCSB vs Saburtalo match report". espn.com. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  7. ↑ ""საბურთალოს" სამი ფეხბურთელი "ზლატე მორავცეში" გადავიდა". worldsport.ge. 29 January 2024. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  8. ↑ "ისტორიაში მეორედ - იბერია ეროვნული ლიგის გამარჯვებული გახდა!" [For the second time in history Iberia win the Erovnuli Liga]. sportline.ge (in Georgian). 1 December 2024. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  9. ↑ "Aragvi vs Iberia 1999 B match report". Soccerway. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  10. ↑ "ეროვნულ ლიგაში პირველი წრის საუკეთესო ბომბარდირი, ასისტენტი და მეკარე გამოავლინეს" [Best players of Erovnuli Liga 1st round named]. 1tv.ge. 23 April 2025. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "აპრილის თვის ტოპ 5 გოლი და საუკეთესო ფეხბურთელი" [Top five goals of April and best players]. lagazzetta.ge (in Georgian). 7 May 2025. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  12. ↑ "Iuri Tabatadze firma tres temporadas" [Iuri Tabatadze signs for three seasons] (in Spanish). Cádiz CF. 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  13. ↑ "Cadiz vs Albacete match report". espn.com. 31 August 2025. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  14. ↑ "იური ტაბატაძე კადისის ისტორიაში საოცარი შედეგით შევიდა" [Iuri Tabatadze sets a record at Cadiz]. etablo.ge (in Georgian). 8 September 2025. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  15. ↑ "იური ტაბატაძეს მადრიდში ოპერაცია ჩაუტარდა" [Iuri Tabatadze undergoes surgery in Madrid]. 1tv.ge (in Georgian). 30 January 2026. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  16. ↑ "France U21 vs Georgia U21 match report". worldfootball.net. 15 November 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  17. ↑ "Iuri Tabatadze, convocado con la Selección Nacional de Georgia" (in Spanish). worldfootball.net. 6 November 2025. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
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