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Roin Kvaskhvadze
Personal information
Full name	Roin Kvaskhvadze
Date of birth	31 May 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth	Kutaisi, Georgia
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Dinamo Batumi
Number	30
Youth career
2003–2005	Tbilisi
Senior career*
Years	Team
2005–2014	Zestaponi
2014	Torpedo Kutaisi
2014–2015	Othellos Athienou
2015	Pafos
2015–2019	Torpedo Kutaisi
2020–2021	Dinamo Tbilisi
2021–2023	Torpedo Kutaisi
2023–	Dinamo Batumi
International career‡
2005	Georgia U-17
2006–2007	Georgia U-19
2008–2010	Georgia U-21
2012–	Georgia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 October 2024; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 August 2017

Roin Kvaskhvadze (Georgian: როინ კვასხვაძე, romanized: roin k'vaskhvadze, pronounced [ɾoin kʼʷasχʷadze]; born 31 May 1989) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dinamo Batumi.

Kvaskhvadze has achieved winning at least one trophy in eight consecutive years starting from 2016. Being the winner of 14 trophies, including five league titles with four different clubs, Kvaskhvadze has become one of the most decorated Georgian goalkeepers. Twice he was recognized as the Erovnuli Liga Goalkeeper of the Year.

He has featured for the Georgia national under-21 football team and also earned call-ups to the Georgia national football team.

Playing career

Club

First decade

Kvaskhvadze grew up in the family of footballers, where both his father and grandfather played for Torpedo Kutaisi as goalkeepers. Roin took first steps at the Memoriali football school formed by his own father.^[1]

His professional career began at the ascending club Zestaponi, which achieved a remarkable domestic success in the late 2000s and early 2010s. As a main shot-stopper, he was regarded as a key contributor to the progress that this team achieved during these several seasons. Kvaskhvadze bade farewell to Zestaponi in early 2014.^[2]

Torpedo Kutaisi

After a half season spent at Torpedo Kutaisi, he left for Cyprus only to come back to his home club a year later.^[3]

Twice in a row, in 2017 and 2018, Kvaskhvadze was named the best goalkeeper of Erovnuli Liga.^[4]^[5] Especially noteworthy was an injury-time penalty kick saved by Kvaskhadze in a crucial clash with Dinamo Tbilisi on 27 November 2017. As a result, Torpedo dramatically snatched the title, becoming the champions for the first time in fifteen years. Kvaskhvadze revealed that this circumstance made him feel the happiest man.^[6] Shortly afterwards, the team secured the Cup and Super cup titles as well.

Being the team captain now, Kvaskhvadze signed another two-year contract with the club in early 2019.^[7] But the entire year turned out turbulent for Torpedo with new financial woes, management crisis and mass exodus of players permanently rocking the club.

Dinamo and back to Torpedo

At the end of 2019 Kvaskhvadze joined Torpedo's bitter rivals Dinamo Tbilisi on a two-year deal.^[8] He played in all eighteen league matches next year, keeping eleven clean sheets. After Dinamo's another disastrous European campaign, on 21 July 2021 Kvaskhvadze left the club with 21 clean sheets in all competitions combined.^[9]

A few days later he returned to Torpedo once again. In 2022, the club clinched the national cup with Kvaskhvadze in goal for the final game.^[10] In April 2023, he was named the best goalkeeper of the initial nine rounds of the new season.^[11] The next month, head coach Kakha Chkhetiani, who likewise was on the 3rd spell with Torpedo, was sacked, followed by the departure of three key players, including Roin Kvaskhavdze.^[12]

Dinamo Batumi

Kvaskhvadze moved to Dinamo Batumi in early July 2023, a week before the latter joined a new European season.^[13] Although he did not take part in any of those two matches, Kvaskhvadze soon became a first-choice goalkeeper. As his new club secured the champion's title in late autumn, Kvaskhvadze claimed the national golden medals with the fourth Georgian team now.^[14]

International

Roin Kvaskhvadze has participated in qualifying rounds of the 2011 European U21 championship for a team which also featured Nika Kvekveskiri, Jano Ananidze and Tornike Okriashvili.^[15]

Kvaskhvadze made his debut at the national team in an opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign against Spain as a substitute in September 2012.^[16] He also took part in a friendly 1–0 winning game against the same opponents four years later.^[17] Overall, as No 2 choice behind Giorgi Loria, he played in eight matches for the team.

Statistics

As of 8 October 2024

Club	Season	League			Cup		Continental		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Zestaponi	2005/06	Umaglesi Liga	3	0	—	—	—	—	—		3	0
	2006/07		1	0	—		—		—		1	0
	2007/08		9	0	—		—		—		9	0
	2008/09		17	0	—		2	0	—		19	0
	2009/10		18	0	1	0	5	0	—		24	0
	2010/11		35	0	4	0	2	0	—		41	0
	2011/12		28	0	4	0	4	0	—		36	0
	2012/13		28	0	2	0	2	0	1^[a]	0	33	0
	2013/14		16	0	2	0	—		—		18	0
	Total		155	0	13	0	15	0	1	0	184	0
Torpedo Kutaisi	2013/14	Umaglesi Liga	14	0	2	0	—		—		16	0
Othellos	2014/15	Cypriot First Division	26	0	4	0	—		—		30	0
Pafos	2015/16	Cypriot First Division	15	0	—		—		—		15	0
Torpedo Kutaisi	2015/16	Erovnuli Liga	11	0	—		—		—		11	0
	2016		13	0	4	0	—		1^[a]	0	18	0
	2017		36	0	4	—	—		—		40	0
	2018		32	0	5	0	8	0	1^[a]	0	46	0
	2019		19	0	14	0	2	0	1^[a]	0	36	0
Dinamo Tbilisi	2020	Erovnuli Liga	18	0	2	0	3	0	1^[a]	0	24	0
	2021	Erovnuli Liga	17	0	4	0	1	0	1^[a]	0	23	0
	Total		35	0	6	0	4	0	2	0	47	0
Torpedo Kutaisi	2021	Erovnuli Liga	5	0	—		—		—		5	0
	2022		27	0	4	0	—		—		31	0
	2023		6	0	—		—		—		6	0
	Total		163	0	31	0	10	0	3	0	207	0
Dinamo Batumi	2023	Erovnuli Liga	16	0	1	0	—		—		17	0
	2024	Erovnuli Liga	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	16	0
	Total		31	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	33	0
Career total			425	0	56	0	29	0	6	0	516	0