MURTAZ SHELIA

• Full name: Murtaz (sometimes spelled Murtaz) Shelia
• Nationality: Georgian
• Position: Centre-back / Defender
• Date of birth: 25 February 1969
• Place of birth: Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union

Club career (highlights)

• Dinamo Tbilisi (Georgia) — Shelia began his career and had multiple spells at Dinamo Tbilisi, the leading Georgian club based in Tbilisi.
• Sheffield United (England) — Murtaz Shelia moved to England and played for Sheffield United in the mid-1990s, appearing in the English Football League.
• Other clubs — Across his career he also played for Georgian clubs and had spells abroad; he is best known for his domestic impact with Dinamo Tbilisi and for his time in England.

International career

• Georgia national team — Shelia was capped by the senior Georgia national team during the 1990s and contributed as a central defender in Georgia’s early post-Soviet international fixtures.

Notes

• Records from the 1990s for Georgian players can vary across sources; the core facts above reflect commonly reported biographical and career information for Murtaz Shelia.