He managed to beat German international goalkeeper Manuel Neuer with an effort from 73 meters, setting a new record for the longest distance a Bundesliga goal was ever scored from.

[3] During the Bundesliga match against Werder Bremen on 8 April 2011, Tzavellas suffered a partial rupture of the cruciate ligament in his left knee.

During summer 2011, Bundesliga new-boys Augsburg were reported to want the Greece defender, who was under contract until 2013, to strengthen their squad ahead of what promised to be a difficult season.

Eintracht Frankfurt general manager Bruno Hübner added: "We would refuse to accept any loan arrangements in this respect as something like this would just postpone a permanent transfer for the player.

[6] Under the guidance of Claudio Ranieri, the Greek international left-back, helped the Monegasque escalate in Ligue 1, scoring twice in 24 appearances during their promotion season, but French Football News understands that Monaco's left back Giorgos Tzavellas is in advanced negotiations with PAOK Salonika after being considered as 'dead wood' by Monaco manager.

It is also the towering hurdle set by the Russian team owner, Dmitry Rybolovlev and very expensive signings made, essentially paved the way for the repatriation and the agreement with PAOK.

[10] After six months in PAOK and his commitment by scoring the winning goal to the victory against the Greek giant Olympiakos, he believes that "this time, there has nothing to envy from Monaco and it made me very positive impression!

I believe in the team all the conditions required to look up ..."[11] He scored twice in his first season with the club, but undoubtedly the most important was the winning goal, on 9 March 2014, against the champions Olympiacos In January 2015, Deportivo La Coruna were in advanced talks to sign Tzavellas from PAOK but the deal will not go through.

The negotiations did not pay off for the loan of the Greek left back to Deportivo and as long as the deal could not be reached consequently the transfer falls through.

[19] On 25 August 2016, in the play off's second leg of UEFA Europa League against Dinamo Tsibili he scored his first international goal after Facundo Pereyra's corner with the head, sealing a 2–0 home win.

The administration of the club has informed him, that he will be "relegated" to U-21, something that had also happened in the recent past, during 2014–15 season and under Angelos Anastasiadis' managerial spell with PAOK.

The 29-year-old international defender after he terminated his contract with PAOK, came close to Cypriot club APOEL, but the transfer is not completed due to economic differences.

[33] After his impressive performances for Panionios, Tzavellas was called up to the national team on 15 November 2009 by Otto Rehhagel to face Ukraine in the second leg of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification playoffs.

On 12 November 2016, at the Karaiskakis Stadium, Tzavellas scored, at the 95th minute against Bosnia and Herzegovina giving a valuable point to Greece, in his effort to qualify to the 2018 World Cup.