The day before he turned 18, Modebadze scored his first European goal in a UEFA Cup game against Leeds United.
[2] The next year, the forward returned to Georgia and joined Olimpi Rustavi, who had just won their league title.
In his first season for this club, Modebadze was the leading league goalscorer at some point,[3] although eventually with 16 goals he finished in the 2nd place.
[4] After a short unsuccessful spell at Dinamo Tbilisi in 2014,[5] Modebadze re-joined Dila to reach the highest point in his career by winning the champion's title and becoming the top scorer of the 2015 season.
[8] It was his idea to invite Andriy Demchenko, his team-mate at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, to Dila Gori as a head coach.