Levan Kobiashvili

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Levan KOBIASHVILI
Levan Kobiashvili
Personal information
Full name Levan Kobiashvili
Date of birth July 10, 1977
Place of birth    Tbilisi, Georgia
Nickname Kobi
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club Schalke 04
Number 3
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*

1994-1995
1995-1998
1997
1998-2003
2003-
Awasa Tbilisi
Metalurg Rustavi
Dinamo Tbilisi
Alania Vladikavkaz (loan)
Freiburg
Schalke 04
- (-)
- (-)
34 (3)
- (-)
164 (31)
108 (7)   
National team2
Georgia 53 (4)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 3 january, 2007.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 31/08/2006.
* Appearances (Goals)

Levan Kobiashvili (Georgian: ლევან კობიაშვილი, born July 10, 1977 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian football midfielder. He weighs 79 kg and is 183 cm tall. He is married and has one child.

His career began in his hometown with Awasa Tbilisi. Moving to play for Metalurg Rustavi, Dinamo Tbilisi und Alania Vladikavkaz he was transferred to SC Freiburg in 1998. One of several Georgians in the Freiburg squad, he stayed there until 2003, when he was bought by Schalke 04.

As of July 2005 he has played 182 Bundesliga matches and scored 23 goals. For the Georgian national team he has 53 caps and 4 goals.

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FC Schalke 04 - Current Squad

3 Kobiashvili | 5 Bordon | 6 Hamit Altıntop | 7 Varela | 8 Ernst | 9 Larsen | 10 Lincoln | 11 Løvenkrands | 14 Asamoah | 16 Rodríguez | 17 Özil | 18 Rafinha | 19 Halil Altıntop | 20 Krstajić | 22 Kurányi | 24 Pander | 25 Bajramović | 26 Bungert | 27 Hoogland | 29 Neuer | 31 Boenisch | 33 Laumann