Giorgi Loria

Club

As of match played 30 July 2026

Loria made his debut for Georgia in a friendly match against Estonia on 27 May 2008. In his seventh appearance for Georgia, Loria saved a penalty kick from Slovenia's Milivoje Novaković, helping the team to a 2–1 win in Koper. For much of his national team career, Loria battled with Nukri Revishvili for the number one jersey, as well as the veteran Giorgi Lomaia, who played in the majority of the team's UEFA Euro 2008 and 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Loria played the first six matches of the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, before being replaced by Revishvili for the final four matches. He then started the first five 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches but was displaced by Giorgi Makaridze for four of the last five fixtures. Loria played in all six of Georgia's 2018–19 UEFA Nations League fixtures, keeping four clean sheets and conceding only twice as the Crusaders finished top of Group 1 in League D with five wins from six matches to gain promotion to League C. He then played the entire UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying campaign, keeping clean sheets against Gibraltar, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland. On 8 October 2020, Loria kept a clean sheet in the 1–0 defeat of Belarus in the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying play-off semi-final at the Boris Paichadze National Stadium in Tbilisi. He went on to play in the play-off final against North Macedonia on 12 November, which Georgia lost 1–0 to narrowly miss out on their first qualification to a major international…

Loria joined the Avaza football school at age 8. At 17, he moved to Dinamo Tbilisi academy whence he was initially promoted to its junior team. In 2005 Loria played for the senior team for the first time. After nine consecutive seasons at Dinamo, he left the club in July 2014 having won eight titles across all three domestic competitions. During the 2014–15 season, Loria played for OFI but due to the club's financial problems he left the club at the end of the season. According to a source, Loria had reached a verbal agreement with PAOK in early 2015, however he did not sign for the team. The keeper was eventually signed by Olympiacos as a back-up of Roberto, since the second-choice goalkeeper Balázs Megyeri had left the Greek giants. Loria signed with Olympiacos for a two-year contract. OFI were rumored to have accepted a bid in the region of €700,000, as Loria was among the top goalkeepers in the 2014–15 season. Loria quickly left Olympiacos due to personal issues and increased competition with teammates Stefanos Kapino and Andreas Gianniotis for the team's #2, while Roberto is undoubtedly the team's first-choice under their goalposts and one of Thrylos' captains. Olympiacos' latest intention to invest in the two young Greek prospects' development was a contributing factor for Loria's decision to leave the squad. Both the player and the club agreed that it was best to part ways. He signed for the Russian Premier League side Krylia Sovetov Samara shortly after. On 21…

His father Nugzar Loria was a film producer. Giorgi himself studied at the Theatre and Film University and once featured in movie What happened in Kyiv as an actor. Married to Salome Kopaliani, he has one daughter.