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Nikolai Kipiani

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Nikolai Kipiani
Kipiani with Rubin Kazan in 2019
Personal information
Full name Nikolai Zurabovich Kipiani
Date of birth (1997-01-25) 25 January 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Tbilisi, Georgia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Telavi
Number 10
Youth career
Lokomotiv Moscow
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2018 Ethnikos Achna 49 (10)
2018–2019 Omonia 13 (1)
2018–2019Ermis Aradippou (loan) 12 (0)
2019 Rustavi 13 (3)
2019–2020 Rubin Kazan 3 (0)
2020Rotor Volgograd (loan) 0 (0)
2020–2022 Rotor Volgograd 38 (3)
2023 Telavi 15 (1)
2023 Dinamo Batumi 0 (0)
2023–2024 Ararat-Armenia 20 (1)
2024– Telavi 10 (1)
International career
2012 Russia U-15 4 (0)
2012–2013 Russia U-16 7 (1)
2013–2014 Russia U-17 9 (1)
2014–2015 Russia U-18 8 (4)
2015–2016 Russia U-19 10 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 December 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 March 2016

Nikolai Zurabovich Kipiani (Russian: Николай Зурабович Кипиани; born 25 January 1997) is a Russian football player of Georgian descent who plays as forward for Georgian club Telavi.

Club career

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A distant relative of Soviet footballer David Kipiani, he started playing football at Rinat Dasayev's academy in Moscow.

On 25 July 2019, he signed a one-year contract with Russian Premier League club Rubin Kazan.[1] On 11 February 2020, he joined Rotor Volgograd on loan until the end of the 2019–20 season.[2] On 21 June 2020, he re-signed with Rotor on a permanent basis.[3]

On 6 September 2023, Armenian Premier League club Ararat-Armenia announced the signing of Kipiani from Dinamo Batumi.[4]

Club statistics

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As of match played 22 December 2018
Club Season League Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Ethnikos
2016–17[5] 32 6 2 0 34 6
2017–18[6] 17 4 1 0 18 4
Total 49 10 3 0 52 10
Omonia
2017–18[7] 13 1 1 0 14 1
Ermis Aradippou
2018–19[8] 12 0 0 0 12 0
Career total 74 11 4 0 78 11

Achievements

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Teams

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FC Rotor

  • Winner of the Russian First Football League: 2019/2020

FC Ararat-Armenia

  • Armenian Cup winner: 2023/24

References

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  1. ^ "НИКА КИПИАНИ – ИГРОК "РУБИНА"" [Nika Kipiani is a Rubin player] (in Russian). FC Rubin Kazan. 25 July 2019.
  2. ^ "МИКЕЛТАДЗЕ И КИПИАНИ ПРОДОЛЖАТ КАРЬЕРУ В "РОТОРЕ"" (Press release) (in Russian). FC Rubin Kazan. 11 February 2020.
  3. ^ ""Ротор" приступил к тренировкам" (in Russian). FC Rotor Volgograd. 22 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Նոր տրանսֆեր: #WelcomeNIKOLAY". facebook.com/araratarmeniafc/ (in Armenian). FC Ararat-Armenia. 6 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  5. ^ ""Games played by Nikolai Kipiani in 2016/2017"". cfa.com.cy. Retrieved 21 January 2018.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ ""Games played by Nikolai Kipiani in 2017/2018 for Ethnikos"". cfa.com.cy. Retrieved 21 January 2018.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ ""Games played by Nikolai Kipiani in 2017/2018 for Omonia"". cfa.com.cy. Retrieved 21 January 2018.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "Games played by Nikolai Kipiani in 2018/19". www.cfa.com.cy. Cyprus Football Association. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
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