Tornike Morchiladze
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 January 2002 | ||
| Place of birth | Georgia | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Rijeka | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2019 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020–2026 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 55 | (13) |
| 2023 | Dinamo Tbilisi-2 | 14 | (4) |
| 2023–2024 | → Telavi (loan) | 47 | (8) |
| 2026– | Rijeka | 1 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2018 | Georgia U17 | 3 | (1) |
| 2023– | Georgia U21 | 8 | (1) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20 January 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 3 May 2025 | |||
Tornike Morchiladze (Georgian: თორნიკე მორჩილაძე; born 10 January 2002) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Croatian Football League club Rijeka.
He has won the Erovnuli Liga and Supercup and represented his country in the national youth teams.
Morchiladze is a product of Dinamo Tbilisi academy. He played for their all youth teams before making his debut for the senior team in a 2–0 loss to Samgurali on 25 April 2021.[1] Morchiladze opened his goal-scoring account four days later with a winner against Torpedo.[2] He made 22 more appearances for the team before joining Dinamo-2 the next year. Morchiladze helped the team earn promotion from Liga 3 and spent half of the 2023 season in the 2nd division. In June 2023, he moved to Telavi on a loan deal.[3]
Morchiladze had a tangible impact on his new team. He finished the 2024 season as Telavi's shared top scorer and, besides, received a special individual award after his goal scored directly from a corner kick against Samtredia in a 2–1 away win was selected by the Georgian Football Federation as Erovnuli Liga Goal of the Year.[4][5]
In January 2025, Morchiladze returned from loan and signed a year-long deal with Dinamo Tbilisi.[6]
International career
Morchiladze was first called up to the U16 team for friendlies against Luxemburg in February 2018.[7] In the same year, he featured for U17s in the 2019 UEFA European Championship first qualifying round, scoring against Denmark.[8]
In November 2021, Morchiladze was included in a U21 team list against England U21,[9] although he did not play until a new qualifying campaign began in September 2023.
Morchiladze took part in five official games held by the youth squad that reached the final stage of the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.[10] He netted against Serbia in a 3–1 friendly win on 25 March 2025.[11]