Georgian Football Association

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Georgian Football Federation
Sakartvelos Pechburtis Pederazia
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founding 1990
FIFA accession 1992
UEFA accession 1992
president Levan Kobiashvili
Secretary General Revas Arweladze
National teams National team (men)
Homepage www.gff.ge

The Georgian Football Association ( Georgian საქართველოს ფეხბურთის ფედერაცია - სფფ Sakartwelos Pechburtis Pederazia - SPP ) is the association of Georgian football clubs. He organizes the regional and national league (Georgian Umaghlessi League ) as well as the Georgian national football team . Its seat is in Tbilisi .

The association was founded in 1990 after Georgia left the Soviet league. He has been a member of FIFA and UEFA since 1992 .

Scandals

In April 2005 the Georgian Football Association was shaken by an embezzlement scandal. President Merab Schordania was forced to resign after he was arrested on suspicion of embezzling funds from the Dinamo Tbilisi Association amounting to one million US dollars. He was released four months later without a trial and paid the state several hundred thousand lari , which is said to have corresponded to the amount of money he had embezzled. The exact amount was not disclosed.

Schordania had already been in prison for tax evasion from December 2003 to January 2004 , but was initially able to remain in office. Back then, too, he bought himself free, paying the treasury around 340,000 US dollars.

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

  • 45. +2( 47 ) Malta ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 5.125 - CL: 1, EL: 3MaltaMalta 
  • 46. −4( 42 ) Estonia ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 5,000 - CL: 1, EL: 3EstoniaEstonia 
  • 47. −2( 45 ) Georgia ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 4,750 - CL: 1, EL: 3GeorgiaGeorgia 
  • 48. +2( 50 ) Wales ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 4.125 - CL: 1, EL: 3WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 
  • 49. −5( 44 ) Montenegro ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 4,125 - CL: 1, EL: 3MontenegroMontenegro 

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .