Georgian national soccer team

This article is about the Georgian men's national soccer team . For the women's team, see the Georgian women's national soccer team ; for the men's up to 17 years of age, see the Georgian national soccer team (U-17 juniors) .

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Nickname (s)	Javoznebi
Association	Georgian Football Association
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	adidas
Head coach	Vladimír Weiss (since 2016)
captain	Djaba Kankava
Record scorer	Shota Arweladze (26)
Record player	Levan Kobiashvili (100)
Home stadium	Boris Paitschadze National Stadium
FIFA code	GEO
FIFA rank	91st (1267 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
229 games 69 wins 46 draws 114 losses
statistics
First international match Georgia 2-2 Lithuania ( Tbilisi , Georgia ; May 27, 1990 )
Biggest win Georgia 7-0 Armenia ( Tbilisi , Georgia ; March 30, 1997 )
Biggest defeat Denmark 6-1 Georgia ( Copenhagen , Denmark ; Sep 7, 2005 )
(As of November 20, 2018)

The Georgian national soccer team is the selection of Georgia . As a UEFA member, the team takes part in qualifying for the European and World Cup in the UEFA zone. Georgia has not yet qualified for a final tournament.

history

The Georgian national team won the Trans-Caucasian Cup in 1928, 1934 and 1935 , making them record winners.

For history up to 1990, see USSR National Football Team .

The Georgian Football Association was founded in 1990 and joined UEFA and FIFA in 1992 .

The first international match since independence was on May 27, 1990 in a 2-2 draw against Lithuania . On July 2, 1991 there was a 4-2 win in Moldova . Matches before joining FIFA are not recognized by FIFA as international matches.

In 1994, the Georgian national team played their first competitive game as part of qualifying for the 1996 European Football Championship . There was a 1-0 home defeat against Moldova. The first competitive win was the highest for a long time, a 5-0 win against Wales in November 1994. Only the 6-0 win in August 2006 in the Faroe Islands exceeded this result. In this first qualifying round as an independent nation, Georgia finished third in a group of six with 15 points. The biggest surprise was a 2-1 win against World Cup fourth Bulgaria .

This was the strongest qualifying round so far for the Georgians, who have also scored points against other strong teams such as Italy , Russia , Denmark , Turkey and the Ukraine . In qualifying for the 2008 European Football Championship , Georgia faced the two finalists of the 2006 World Cup, France and Italy.

Georgia already had several foreign national coaches. The first was the Dutchman Johan Boskamp . He was followed in 2003 by the Croatian Ivo Šušak , and in 2004 by the French Alain Giresse . In February 2006, Klaus Toppmöller became the Georgian national coach, who was dismissed at the beginning of April 2008. His successor, the Argentine Héctor Cúper , resigned himself as coach of the Georgian national football team after missing the 2010 World Cup qualification. He was succeeded in November 2009 by Temur Kezbaia , who held the office until November 2014, but was then on leave from the association. At the end of December, a new coach was found in the former national player Kakhaber Tskhadadze .

Participation in soccer world championships

• Until 1990 : See the USSR national football team
• 1994 : did not participate
• 1998 - 2018 : not qualified

Participation in European football championships

Georgia participated as part of the USSR and the CIS in the European Championships from 1960 to 1992. Georgian players did not play a major role in the Soviet national team. Only a few Georgian players, mostly from Dynamo Tbilisi , came to the European Championship: 1960 Giwi Tschocheli , Micheil Meschi and Slawa Metreweli , 1972 Rewas Dzodsuashvili and Murtas Churzilawa , 1988 Tengis Sulakwelidze and 1992 Kachaber Tskhadadze . After the dissolution of the Soviet Union into several independent states, Georgia first took part in the qualification for the European Championship in 1996, but has never been able to qualify. The best placement was the third place in the first qualification participation. After last places in the qualifications in 1998/99 and 2002/03, it was possible in the last preliminary rounds to reach the penultimate place in the respective group. In qualifying for the 2016 European Football Championship , Group D will face Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Poland and Gibraltar.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1996	England	not qualified			Failed in the qualification at the later European champions Germany and the World Cup fourth Bulgaria .
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	not qualified			In the qualification of Norway and Slovenia failed.
2004	Portugal	not qualified			In qualifying at the Switzerland and Russia failed.
2008	Austria and Switzerland	not qualified			In the qualification to the World Cup finalists France and Italy failed.
2012	Poland and Ukraine	not qualified			In the qualification to Greece and Croatia failed.
2016	France	not qualified			In the qualification to Germany , Poland and Ireland failed.
2021	Europe-wide

Squad of the Georgian national football team 2017

The following players were nominated for the friendly matches against Uzbekistan on January 23, 2017 and against Jordan on January 27, 2017 .

No.	Item	player	Calls	Gates	society
	TW	Roin Kwashvadze	5	0	Torpedo Kutaisi
	TW	Omar Migineishvili	2	0	FC Samtredia
	TW	Oto Goschadze	0	0	FC Saburtalo Tbilisi
	FROM	Tedore Grigalashvili	0	0	FC Saburtalo Tbilisi
	FROM	Tornike Grigalashvili	1	0	Tschichura Satschere
	FROM	Davit Khocholawa	2	0	Chornomorets Odessa
	FROM	Giorgi Kimadze	1	0	Torpedo Kutaisi
	FROM	Usha Lobshanidze	52	1	FK Atyrau
	FROM	Giorgi Rekhwiashvili	1	0	Locomotive Tbilisi
	FROM	Lascha Schergelashvili	2	0	FK Rīgas Futbola skola
	FROM	Ever Tabidze	2	0	Urals Sverdlovsk Oblast
	MF	Giorgi Ganugrawa	10	0	Tschichura Satschere
	MF	Giorgi Kharaishvili	2	0	FC Saburtalo Tbilisi
	MF	Otar Kiteishvili	2	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	MF	Oleg Mamasakhlisi	2	0	Torpedo Kutaisi
	MF	Giorgi Papunashvili	4th	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	MF	Lasha Parunashvili	2	0	Esbjerg fB
	MF	Temuri Schonia	2	1	Dinamo Batumi
	ST	Bachana Arabuli	2	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	ST	Vladimir Dwalishvili	39	5	FK Atyrau
	ST	Saba Lobyanidze	2	1	Dinamo Tbilisi
	ST	Beka Tuguschi	2	0	Torpedo Kutaisi
	ST	Budu Zivzivadze	2	0	Esbjerg fB

player

• Micheil Kawelashvili (1992-2002)
• Artschil Arweladze (1994-2002)
• Kacha Kaladze (1996-2012)
• Shota Arweladze (1997-2007)
• Levan Kobiashvili (1998-2011)
• Aleksandre Iaschwili (1998-2016)
• Zurab Chisanishvili (1999-)
• Mate Ghwinianidze (2006-)

Trainer

• Giga Norakidze (1991-1992)
• Aleksandre Chivadze (1993-1996)
• Vladimir Gutsaev (1996)
• David Kipiani (1997)
• Vladimir Gutsaev (1998–1999)
• Johan Boskamp (1999)
• David Kipiani (2000-2001)
• Aleksandre Chivadze (2001-2003)
• Ivo Susak (2003)
• Merab Jordania (2003)
• Gocha Tkebuchava (2004)
• Alain Giresse (2004-2005)
• Gaioz Darsadze (2005)
• Klaus Toppmöller (2006-2008)
•  Héctor Cúper (2008-2009)
• Temur Kezbaia (2009-2014)
• Kakhaber Tskhadadze (2015-2016)
• Vladimír Weiss (2016–)

Games against German-speaking national soccer teams

→ Main article : List of the international matches of the Georgian national football team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
01.	March 29, 1995	Tbilisi	Georgia	0: 2	Germany
02.	September 6, 1995	Nuremberg	Germany	4: 1	Georgia
03.	August 15, 2001	Monnerich	Luxembourg	0: 3	Georgia
04th	September 8, 2002	Basel	Switzerland	4: 1	Georgia
05.	April 2, 2003	Tbilisi	Georgia	0-0	Switzerland
06th	October 7, 2006	Rostock	Germany	2-0	Georgia
07th	August 22, 2007	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0-0	Georgia
08th.	August 15, 2012	Differdange	Luxembourg	1: 2	Georgia
09.	5th March 2014	Tbilisi	Georgia	2-0	Liechtenstein
10.	March 29, 2015	Tbilisi	Georgia	0: 2	Germany
11.	October 11, 2015	Leipzig	Germany	2: 1	Georgia
12.	5th September 2016	Tbilisi	Georgia	1: 2	Austria
13.	5th September 2017	Vienna	Austria	1: 1	Georgia
14th	5th June 2018	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1-0	Georgia

See also

• Georgian national football team (U-17 juniors)

Web links

Commons : Georgian National Soccer Team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the association (Georgian, English)
• Schedule and results on the UEFA website
• Georgian Football, an online magazine ( German , English , Spanish , Russian )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Tskhadadze new coach of Georgia
3. ↑ Germany will face Georgia in qualifying