Hat-trick of Georgian legionaries became rare in the recent years. So, 3 goals of Lado Dvalishvili in “Legia”-“Korona” match is worth mentioning. Dvalishvili made hat-trick two months ago too. He scored against “Ried” of Austria (3:3). Today we will write about official matches.

You cannot see many Georgians who score hat-tricks abroad for the recent 2 years.

Zakaria Beglarishvili:

2011: “Ajax Lasnamae” - "Flora" 0:11. 4 goals

2012: "Paide" - "Flora" 0:5. 3 goals

2012: "Flora" – "Kalev" 5:0.  3 goals

Mamuka Gongadze

2011: "Metalurgs" – "Daugavpils" 1:3. 3 goals

2012: "Daugavpils" – "Daugava" 3:1. 3 goals

Giorgi Adamia

2011: "Karabakh" – "Neftchi" 3:0. 3 goals

Davit Chagelishvili

2012: "Astana" – "Okzhetpes" 1:4. 3 goals

Bachana Tskhadadze

2013: "Ravan" – "Inter" 1:5. 3 goals

As for Dvalishvili, he played for “Maccabi” Tel Aviv before “Polonia” and “Legia”. However, he did not score hat-trick in Israel. In Latvia Dvalishvili scored two hat-tricks and one poker in “Skonto”.

Supreme Leagues are listed here. Otar Martsvaladze scored three hat-tricks in lower league.

It is sad but the last Georgian hat-trick in Russian Premier League was scored in 1999: Giorgi Demetradze scored it in “Alania”-“Uralan” match (4:2). “Deme” scored other two hat-tricks against “Krylia” 5:0 and “Chernomorets” Novorossiysk 3:1. Gocha Gogrichiani (“Zhemchuzhina”-“Krylia” 3:1) and Zaza Janashia (“Lokomotive”-“Zhemchuzhina” 4:1) also scored hat-tricks in Russia.

Demetradze also made poker in “Nyva”-“Dynamo” Kyiv match (3:7) in Ukraine. Mikheil Potskhveria scored two hat-tricks against “Nyva” in Ukraine. Potskhveria did it in “Metalurh” Zaporizhya and “Shakhtar” Donetsk. By the way, Potskhveria was the first foreigner who did it…

Shalva Apkhazava scored three goals in “Arsenal”-“Volyn” match (8:1) in 2002. The Georgian hat-trick has not been scored in Ukraine for the last 11 years.

Other interesting stories: Aleksandre Iashvili is the only Georgian football player who scored hat-trick at the foursome championship. It happened on 8 November, 2003, when “Freiburg” defeated “Wolfsburg” 3:2. On the second day German welt wrote: “No D’Alessandro! Iashvili!”. Andres D’Alessandro was considered as one of the rising start of Argentina.

Temur Ketsbaia scored goal against “Juventus” Turin when he played for “Anorthosis”. As for hat-trick, he scored it against AEL Limassol in 9 minutes in 2006. That time Ketsbaia was a player-coach of “Anorthosis”.

Shota Arveladze scored the most hat-tricks from the Georgian legionaries. He scored it in Georgia, Turkey, Holland, Scotland. Arveladze also scored it at European tournaments. He scored 3 goals against Slovenian “Maribor” while playing for “Ajax”.

However, it is easy to remember the most valuable and noisy Georgian hat-trick. It happened at Champions League. Levan Kobiashvili scored two penalties in “Schalke”-PSV match on 24 November, 2005. He scored the third goal after it touched crossbar – 3:0.

When will it happen when Georgian football player will score three goals in one Champions League match? First of all, we must get there.

Ilia Nanobashvili