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EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2014/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Narodowy - Warsaw Saturday 13 June 2015 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Poland Group D - Matchday -7 Georgia Last updated 12/07/2021 17:37CET Official Partners of UEFA EURO 2020 Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 4 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 9 Team facts 11 Legend 13 1 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw Previous meetings Head to Head 2016 UEFA European Championship Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Glik 51, Krychowiak 14/11/2014 QR (GS) Georgia - Poland 0-4 Tbilisi 71, Mila 73, Milik 90+2 FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Archil Arveladze 53, 11/10/1997 QR (GS) Georgia - Poland 3-0 Tbilisi Tskhadadze 66, Ketsbaia 72 Ledwoń 33, Trzeciak 35, Bukalski 70, 14/06/1997 QR (GS) Poland - Georgia 4-1 Katowice Nowak 90; S. Arveladze 26 Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA EURO Poland - - - - 1 1 0 0 - - - - 1 1 0 0 4 0 Georgia 1 0 0 1 - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 4 FIFA* Poland 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 1 0 1 4 4 Georgia 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 1 0 1 4 4 Friendlies Poland - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 1 0 Georgia - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 1 Total Poland 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 - - - - 4 3 0 1 9 4 Georgia 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 - - - - 4 1 0 3 4 9 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw Match background Poland will maintain their place at the top of UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying Group D if they secure a second victory against Georgia. Previous meetings • Kamil Glik, Grzegorz Krychowiak, Sebastian Mila and Arkadiusz Milik registered as Poland beat Georgia 4-0 in Tbilisi in November. After the match, Temuri Ketsbaia confirmed his resignation as coach. • Poland's record in four games against Georgia is W3 D0 L1. • Their only competitive encounters prior to this campaign were in 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying; Ketsbaia and current Georgia coach Kakhaber Tskhadadze featured in a 4-1 defeat in Poland, but both scored in the return leg as Georgia won 3-0 in Tbilisi. Form guide • Poland remain unbeaten in Group D (W3 D2), and have not lost in four competitive home fixtures (W2 D2) since a 3-1 loss to Ukraine in 2014 World Cup qualifying. • Georgia have lost all but one of their Group D games to date – the exception being a 3-0 win in Gibraltar back in October. They have not scored in two competitive matches since. Trivia and links • Poland reached the halfway point as the European Qualifiers' top scorers with 16 goals: an average of 3.2 per game. • Georgia forward Bachana Tskhadadze is coach Kakhaber Tskhadadze's son. • The 12 meetings of the nations' clubs in UEFA competition have produced eight Polish wins and four Georgian victories. 3 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw Squad list Poland Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Artur Boruc 20/02/1980 35 Bournemouth - 0 0 0 0 - Łukasz Fabiański 18/04/1985 30 Swansea - 1 0 0 0 - Wojciech Szczęsny 18/04/1990 25 Arsenal - 4 0 0 0 Defenders - Łukasz Szukała 26/05/1984 31 Al-Ittihad * 5 1 0 0 - Łukasz Piszczek 03/06/1985 30 Dortmund - 3 0 0 0 - Marcin Komorowski 17/04/1984 31 Terek - 0 0 0 0 - Tomasz Jodłowiec 08/09/1985 29 Legia - 3 0 0 0 - Michał Pazdan 21/09/1987 27 Jagiellonia - 0 0 0 0 - Tomasz Kędziora 11/06/1994 21 Lech - 0 0 0 0 - Thiago Cionek 21/04/1986 29 Modena - 0 0 0 0 - Łukasz Broź 17/12/1985 29 Legia - 0 0 0 0 Midfielders - Sebastian Mila 10/07/1982 32 Lechia - 4 2 0 0 - Sławomir Peszko 19/02/1985 30 Köln - 1 1 0 0 - Jakub Błaszczykowski 14/12/1985 29 Dortmund - 0 0 0 0 - Grzegorz Krychowiak 29/01/1990 25 Sevilla - 5 1 0 0 - Maciej Rybus 19/08/1989 25 Terek - 4 0 0 0 - Kamil Grosicki 08/06/1988 27 Rennes - 4 2 0 0 Guizhou - Krzysztof Mączyński 23/05/1987 28 - 3 1 0 0 Renhe - Piotr Zieliński 20/05/1994 21 Empoli - 0 0 0 0 - Karol Linetty 02/02/1995 20 Lech - 1 0 0 0 Forwards - Robert Lewandowski 21/08/1988 26 Bayern - 5 4 0 0 - Michał Kucharczyk 20/03/1991 24 Legia - 1 0 0 0 - Arkadiusz Milik 28/02/1994 21 Ajax - 5 3 0 0 Coach - Adam Nawalka 23/10/1957 57 - 5 0 0 0 4 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw Georgia Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Nukri Revishvili 02/03/1987 28 Tosno - 0 0 0 0 - Roin Kvaskhvadze 31/05/1989 26 Othellos - 1 0 0 0 - Giorgi Loria 27/01/1986 29 OFI - 5 0 0 0 Defenders - Aleksandre Amisulashvili 20/08/1982 32 İnter Bakı - 1 0 0 0 - Lasha Salukvadze 21/12/1981 33 İnter Bakı - 0 0 0 0 SKA- - Kakhaber Aladashvili 11/08/1983 31 - 0 0 0 0 Energiya - George Navalovsky 28/06/1986 28 Tosno - 1 0 0 0 - Ucha Lobzhanidze 23/02/1987 28 Omonia - 5 0 0 0 - Guram Kashia 04/07/1987 27 Vitesse - 3 0 0 0 Dinamo - Lasha Totadze 24/08/1988 26 - 0 0 0 0 Tbilisi - Lasha Dvali 14/05/1995 20 Reading - 1 0 0 0 Midfielders - Kakhi Makharadze 20/10/1987 27 Pakhtakor - 1 0 0 0 - Aleksandre Kobakhidze 11/02/1987 28 Volyn - 2 0 0 0 - Murtaz Daushvili 01/05/1989 26 Karpaty * 3 0 0 0 Slavia - Levan Kenia 18/10/1990 24 - 1 0 0 0 Praha Spartak - Jano Ananidze 10/10/1992 22 - 3 0 0 0 Moskva - Valeri Kazaishvili 29/01/1993 22 Vitesse - 1 0 0 0 - Tornike Okriashvili 12/02/1992 23 Genk - 5 2 0 0 Dinamo - Giorgi Papunashvili 02/09/1995 19 - 1 0 0 0 Tbilisi Dinamo - Mate Tsintsadze 07/01/1995 20 - 0 0 0 0 Tbilisi Forwards - Mate Vatsadze 17/12/1988 26 AGF - 0 0 0 0 - Bachana Tskhadadze 23/10/1987 27 İnter Bakı - 0 0 0 0 - Giorgi Chanturia 11/04/1993 22 CFR Cluj - 4 0 0 0 Coach - Kakhaber Tskhadadze 07/09/1968 46 - 1 0 0 0 5 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw Head coach Adam Nawałka Date of birth: 23 October 1957 Nationality: Polish Playing career: Wisła Kraków, PAAC Eagles Coaching career: GKS Świt Krzeszowice, Wisła Kraków (three times), Zagłębie Lubin, MKS Sandecja Nowy Sącz, Jagiellonia Białystok, GKS Katowice, Górnik Zabrze, Poland • Nawałka, part of Poland's squad at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, spent most of his playing days in the Wisła midfield before ending his career in the late 1980s in Chicago. • Having qualified as a coach, he took charge of Krzeszowice in 1996 before returning to Wisła two years later to head their youth set-up. He twice had spells at the senior helm, winning the 2001 Polish League Cup. • After several adventures in the dugouts of clubs in Poland's top two divisions, culminating in a 2006–07 return to Wisła, Nawałka had a short stint as assistant to national coach Leo Beenhakker, aiding their UEFA EURO 2008 qualification. • Soon back in club coaching with Katowice, at the start of 2010 Nawałka switched to Górnik and within six months had guided them to promotion. • With Górnik top of the Polish First Division in October 2013, Nawałka agreed to take the Poland job, beginning the following month. Kakhaber Tskhadadze Date of birth: 7 September 1968 Nationality: Georgian Playing career: FC Metalurgi Rustavi, FC Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Iberia (now FC Dinamo Tbilisi), GIF Sundsvall, FC Spartak Moskva, FC Dinamo Moskva, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Alania Vladikavkaz, Manchester City FC, FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi, FC Anji Makhachkala Coaching career: FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi, FC Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Sioni Bolnisi, Standard Bakı FK (now Standard Sumqayıt FK), Georgia Under-21, İnter Bakı PİK, Georgia • Towering centre-back for Dinamo Tbilisi, first in the Soviet Top League and then in the newly independent Georgian first division, winning titles in 1990 and 1991. • Had short stint at Spartak Moskva, lifting the last USSR Cup, before another truncated spell across town at Dinamo Moskva, as they finished third in the league. • A USSR youth international, Tskhadadze won six caps for CIS (scoring in a friendly against England) before becoming Georgia's first captain. He won 25 caps for Georgia, scoring his only goal against Poland in 1997. • Tskhadadze found more stability in four years at Eintracht, helping them finish third in 1992/93. Injuries hindered his progress at Alania and Manchester City, prompting his return to Lokomotivi Tbilisi as player-coach before he ended his career at Anji. • He returned to coaching in 2004 and won Georgian league titles in consecutive seasons with Dinamo Tbilisi and Sioni.