
He won 119 caps for Uzbekistan between 2002 and 2015 and scored ten times, then stood on the touchline on 5 June 2025 as the head coach the night Uzbekistan finally qualified for a World Cup. As a player he won six consecutive Uzbek titles with Pakhtakor from 2002, three more with Bunyodkor, a Kazakh championship with Aktobe in 2013, and reached four Asian Cups, the best of them the fourth-place run in 2011. Career record: 119 caps and 10 goals for Uzbekistan; club career at Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, Incheon United, FC Aktobe.
| 1998–2001 | FC Neftchi Fergana |
| 2002–2007 | Pakhtakor Tashkent FK |
| 2008–2010 | F.C. Bunyodkor |
| 2011–2011 | Incheon United |
| 2012–2012 | Sharjah |
| 2012–2015 | FC Aktobe |
| 2015–today | Lokomotiv Tashkent |
| Uzbekistan | 119 caps, 10 goals |
Uzbekistan legends whose careers overlapped Kapadze's
One rank above: Alexander Geynrikh at #7.
One rank below: Ignatiy Nesterov at #9.
Uzbekistan's editorial top five: Server Djeparov · Maksim Shatskikh · Odil Ahmedov · Mirjalol Qosimov · Eldor Shomurodov.