Nikolai Kipiani

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Zurabovich and the family name is Kipiani.
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)
2018–2019 → Ermis Aradippou (loan) 12 (0)
2019 Rustavi 13 (3)
2019–2020 Rubin Kazan 3 (0)
2020 → Rotor 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

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

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

Teams

FC Rotor

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

FC Ararat-Armenia

  • Armenian Cup winner: 2023/24

References

  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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