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Georgia National Football Team

Head coach: Klaus Toppmöller
Captain: Kakhaber Kaladze
Top scorer: Shota Arveladze
FIFA ranking: 97

The Georgia national football team is the national football team of Georgia and is controlled by the Georgian Football Federation. The Georgian team's first match took place in 1990, while Georgia was still part of the Soviet Union. The team have attempted to qualify for each major tournament from Euro 96 onwards, but have not yet achieved qualification.

Georgia's home games are played at the Boris Paichadze Stadium in Tblisi.

Prior to 1990, Georgian players played for the USSR national football team. The first match played by the Georgian national team occurred while Georgia was still part of the Soviet Union, when they played Lithuania on May 27, 1990, a match which ended in a 2-2 draw. (Curious fact:The match was between the two clubs FC Dinamo Tbilisi and Zalgiris Vilnius, but some time later, around 1992/93, officials football federations of these countries decided to change the status of the game to international.Motivation: in these clubs of those countries then played best players). This was the Georgian team's only match prior to independence, which was declared on April 9, 1991.

The Georgian Football Federation became a member of both UEFA and FIFA in 1992, enabling Georgia to play competitive matches. The first of these came in September 1994, a 1-0 defeat to Moldova as part of the qualifiers for Euro 96. Georgia finished third in their group, ahead of Moldova, Wales and Albania, but seven points behind second-placed qualifiers Bulgaria. Georgia have subsequently finished bottom of their group in qualification for the 2000 and 2004 European Championships, and have finished third, fourth and sixth in World Cup qualifying groups. Consequently, Georgia have never qualified for the finals of a major tournament. However, recently they have shown relative success on the international scene by beating twice World Cup winners Uruguay and well established Turkey both in friendly matches.

Georgia Team
No.	NAME	POS	Height	Weight	Age
-	Nukri Revishvili	G	6-2	163	20
1	Giorgi Lomaia	G	6-4	183	27
34	Grigol Chanturia	G	-	-	-
-	Malkhaz Asatiani	D	6-0	174	25
3	Otar Khizaneishvili	D	-	-	-
4	Kakha Kaladze	D	6-1	168	29
13	Zurab Khizanishvili	D	6-1	176	25
17	Mate Ghvinianidze	D	-	-	-
23	Lasha Salukvadze	D	6-0	176	25
25	Zaal Eliava	D	-	-	-
37	Giorgi Shashiashvili	D	-	-	-
46	Giorgi Oniani	D	-	-	-
5	David Kvirkvelia	M	-	-	-
7	Levan Tskitishvili	M	6-1	170	30
10	Levan Kobiashvili	M	6-0	172	29
18	Zurab Menteshashvili	M	5-9	165	27
20	David Mujiri	M	6-0	187	29
22	Jaba Kankava	M	-	-	-
41	Vladimir Burduli	M	-	-	-
-	David Siradze	S	-	-	-
-	Shota Arveladze	S	5-11	168	34
9	Alexander Iashvili	S	5-9	163	29
21	Otar Martsvaladze	S	-	-	-
30	Georgi Demetradze	S	5-7	159	30

Group B
	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P
France	7	6	0	1	15	2	13	18
Italy	7	5	1	1	13	6	7	16
Scotland	7	5	0	2	13	6	7	15
Ukraine	6	4	0	2	8	6	2	12
Lithuania	7	2	1	4	4	7	-3	7
Georgia	8	2	0	6	13	14	-1	6
Faroe Islands	8	0	0	8	2	27	-25	0