Mate Vatsadze

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.

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	14	(2)
International career‡
2008–2010	Georgia U21	5	(1)
2009–	Georgia	15	(4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 April 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 September 2016

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. Appearances in UEFA Champions League qualifiers
2. 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

• Erovnuli Liga: 2023

Dinamo Tbilisi

• Umaglesi Liga: 2007–08
• Georgian Cup: 2008–09
• Georgian Super Cup: 2008

Dila Gori

• Georgian Cup: 2011–12

AGF

• Danish First Division: Promoted 2014–15
• Danish Cup: Runner-up 2015–16