Akaki Gogia (Georgian: აკაკი გოგია; born 18 January 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for SC Freital.
Following a spell as a fringe player with Swiss club FC Zürich, Gogia returned to Germany to rejoin Dynamo Dresden in 2022, for whom he had earlier played on loan.
[11] After being included in the party for a winter training camp in Marbella,[10] Gogia was called into the senior squad for the first time for a Bundesliga match versus Bayern Munich on 15 January 2011.
[12] He made the first professional appearance of his career when he came on as a substitute for Marcel Ndjeng in a 2–1 DFB-Pokal first round win over Rot-Weiß Oberhausen on 30 July 2011.
[2] Gogia finished the club's 2014–15 Saxony-Anhalt Cup campaign as the tournament's joint-top scorer and scored in a 6–0 rout of neighbours VfL Halle 1896 in the final.
[18] On 16 May 2015, it was announced that Gogia had signed a "long term" contract with English Championship club Brentford on a free transfer.
[19] He missed almost all of September 2015 with a thigh injury and after a change of manager and system in early October,[20][21] Gogia dropped out of the starting lineup and out of the squad altogether by December, save for two substitute appearances in January 2016.
[24] He broke into the starting lineup and scored 7 goals in 17 appearances before suffering an ankle ligament injury during a league match versus 1.
[26] On 30 June 2017, Gogia joined the club on a permanent contract for an undisclosed fee (rumoured to be €750,000),[27] but remained for just 24 hours before departing.
[2][29] On his third appearance of the 2019–20 season, in a league match versus Eintracht Frankfurt on 27 September 2019, Gogia suffered a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament injury.
[31] On 28 July 2021, Gogia signed a two-year contract with Swiss Super League club FC Zürich on a free transfer.