EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2014/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS - Saturday 13 June 2015 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Poland Group D - Matchday -7 Georgia Last updated 12/07/2021 17:37CET

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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 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 - 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 - 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

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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 - 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 - 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 - 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. Was named Georgian coach of 2005/06 before leaving for Standard Bakı and later İnter Bakı, who he led to the title at the first attempt. Amassed over 100 wins and 200 matches in the Azeri top flight – both new marks for foreign coaches.

6 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw Match officials

Referee Aleksei Kulbakov (BLR) Assistant referees Vitali Malyutin (BLR) , Oleg Maslyanko (BLR) Additional assistant referees Sergei Tsinkevich (BLR) , Viktar Shymusik (BLR) Fourth official Dmitri Zhuk (BLR) UEFA Delegate Nebojša Ivkovic (SRB) UEFA Referee observer Michel Piraux (BEL)

Referee UEFA EURO Name Date of birth UEFA matches matches Aleksei Kulbakov 27/12/1979 4 66

Aleksei Kulbakov Referee since: 1995 First division: 2003 FIFA badge: 2005

Tournaments: 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, 2006 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

Finals 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

UEFA European Championship matches featuring the two countries involved in this match No such matches refereed Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Stage Date Competition Home Away Result Venue reached 01/04/2009 WC QR Poland San Marino 10-0 Kielce

7 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw Competition facts

8 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw Match-by-match lineups Poland

European Qualifiers Matchday 1 (07/09/2014) Gibraltar 0-7 Poland Goals: 0-1 Grosicki 11, 0-2 Grosicki 48, 0-3 Lewandowski 50, 0-4 Lewandowski 53, 0-5 Szukała 58, 0-6 Lewandowski 86, 0-7 Lewandowski 90+2 Poland: Szczęsny, Szukała, Milik (71 Sobota), Krychowiak, Lewandowski, Klich (71 Mączyński), Grosicki (78 Starzyński), Rybus, Wawrzyniak, Glik, Olkowski Matchday 2 (11/10/2014) Poland 2-0 Germany Goals: 1-0 Milik 51, 2-0 Mila 88 Poland: Szczęsny, Szukała, Jodłowiec, Milik (77 Mila), Krychowiak, Lewandowski, Grosicki (71 Sobota), Rybus, Wawrzyniak (84 Jędrzejczyk), Glik, Piszczek Matchday 3 (14/10/2014) Poland 2-2 Scotland Goals: 1-0 Mączyński 11, 1-1 Maloney 18, 1-2 Naismith 57, 2-2 Milik 76 Poland: Szczęsny, Jędrzejczyk, Szukała, Sobota (63 Mila), Milik, Krychowiak, Lewandowski, Grosicki (89 Żyro), Glik, Mączyński, Piszczek Matchday 4 (14/11/2014) Georgia 0-4 Poland Goals: 0-1 Glik 51, 0-2 Krychowiak 71, 0-3 Mila 73, 0-4 Milik 90+2 Poland: Szczęsny, Jędrzejczyk, Szukała, Milik, Krychowiak, Lewandowski, Grosicki (69 Rybus), Glik, Mączyński (66 Jodłowiec), Mila (86 Linetty), Piszczek Matchday 5 (29/03/2015) Republic of Ireland 1-1 Poland Goals: 0-1 Peszko 26, 1-1 Long 90+1 Poland: Fabiański, Szukała, Jodłowiec, Milik (84 Mila), Krychowiak, Lewandowski, Rybus, Wawrzyniak, Glik, Olkowski, Peszko (88 Kucharczyk) Matchday 6 (13/06/2015) Poland-Georgia Matchday 7 (04/09/2015) Germany-Poland Matchday 8 (07/09/2015) Poland-Gibraltar Matchday 9 (08/10/2015) Scotland-Poland Matchday 10 (11/10/2015) Poland-Republic of Ireland Georgia

European Qualifiers Matchday 1 (07/09/2014) Georgia 1-2 Republic of Ireland Goals: 0-1 McGeady 24, 1-1 Okriashvili 38, 1-2 McGeady 90 Georgia: Loria (46 Kvaskhvadze), Lobzhanidze, Kverkvelia, Kashia, Khubutia, Kankava, Daushvili, Gelashvili, Ananidze (63 Targamadze), Okriashvili (88 Mchedlidze), Kvirkvelia Matchday 2 (11/10/2014) Scotland 1-0 Georgia Goals: 1-0 Khubutia 28 (og)

9 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw

Georgia: Loria, Lobzhanidze, Kverkvelia, Grigalava, Khubutia, Kankava, Daushvili, Gelashvili, Kvirkvelia (46 Okriashvili), Papava (70 Dzaria), Kazaishvili (80 Chanturia) Matchday 3 (14/10/2014) Gibraltar 0-3 Georgia Goals: 0-1 Gelashvili 9, 0-2 Okriashvili 19, 0-3 Kankava 69 Georgia: Loria, Lobzhanidze, Kverkvelia, Grigalava, Khubutia, Kankava, Gelashvili (67 Papunashvili), Ananidze (80 Ebralidze), Chanturia (76 Dvalishvili), Okriashvili, Dzaria Matchday 4 (14/11/2014) Georgia 0-4 Poland Goals: 0-1 Glik 51, 0-2 Krychowiak 71, 0-3 Mila 73, 0-4 Milik 90+2 Georgia: Loria, Lobzhanidze, Kverkvelia, Kashia, Grigalava, Khubutia, Kankava, Daushvili, Ananidze (59 Okriashvili), Kobakhidze (88 Dzalamidze), Mchedlidze (68 Chanturia) Matchday 5 (29/03/2015) Georgia 0-2 Germany Goals: 0-1 Reus 39, 0-2 T. Müller 44 Georgia: Loria, Lobzhanidze, Kverkvelia, Kashia, Amisulashvili (4 Dvali), Makharadze (63 Kenia), Kankava, Okriashvili (46 Chanturia), Kobakhidze, Navalovsky, Mchedlidze Matchday 6 (13/06/2015) Poland-Georgia Matchday 7 (04/09/2015) Georgia-Scotland Matchday 8 (07/09/2015) Republic of Ireland-Georgia Matchday 9 (08/10/2015) Georgia-Gibraltar Matchday 10 (11/10/2015) Germany-Georgia

10 Poland - Georgia Saturday 13 June 2015 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw Team facts

UEFA European Championship records: Poland History 2012 – group stage 2008 – group stage 2004 – did not qualify 2000 – did not qualify 1996 – did not qualify 1992 – did not qualify 1988 – did not qualify 1984 – did not qualify 1980 – did not qualify 1976 – did not qualify 1972 – did not qualify 1968 – did not qualify 1964 – did not qualify 1960 – last 16 Final tournament win N/A Final tournament defeat 2-0: Germany v Poland, 08/06/08 Qualifying win 7-0: Gibraltar v Poland, 07/09/14 Qualifying defeat 1-4: twice, most recently Slovakia v Poland, 11/10/95 0-3: three times, most recently Sweden v Poland, 11/06/03 Final tournament appearances 6: Marcin Wasilewski 5: 5: Rafał Murawski 4: Łukasz Piszczek 3: 15 players Final tournament goals 1: Jakub Błaszczykowski 1: Roger Guerreiro 1: Robert Lewandowski Overall appearances 28: Jacek Bąk 20: 19: Maciej Żurawski 19: Jacek Krzynówek 18: Michał Żewłakow 18: Marcin Wasilewski Overall goals 9: Euzebiusz Smolarek 8: Andrzej Juskowiak 6: Włodzimierz Lubański

UEFA European Championship records: Georgia History 2012 – did not qualify 2008 – did not qualify 2004 – did not qualify 2000 – did not qualify 1996 – did not qualify

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Qualifying win 0-6: Faroe Islands v Georgia, 16/08/06 Qualifying defeat 0-4: Georgia v Poland, 14/11/2014 Overall appearances 30: 27: 24: 24: Zurab Khizanishvili 23: Aleksandre Iashvili Overall goals 16: Shota Arveladze 5: Aleksandre Iashvili 5: Temur Ketsbaia 5: Davit Siradze 3: Giorgi Kinkladze 3: Levan Kobiashvili 3:

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:: Previous meetings

Goals for/against: Goal totals include the outcome of disciplinary decisions (e.g. match forfeits when a 3-0 result is determined). Goals totals do not include goals scored during a penalty shoot-out after a tie ended in a draw

:: Squad list

Qual.: Total European Qualifiers appearances/goals for UEFA EURO 2020 only. FT: Total UEFA EURO 2020 appearances/goals in final tournament only. Overall: Total international appearances/goals. DoB: Date of birth Age: Based on the date press kit was last updated D: Disciplinary (*: misses next match if booked, S: suspended)

:: Team facts

EURO finals: The UEFA European Championship was a four-team event in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 (when the preliminary round and quarter-finals were considered part of qualifying).

From 1980 it was expanded to an eight-team finals and remained in that format in 1984, 1988 and 1992 until 1996, when the 16-team format was adopted. UEFA EURO 2016 was the first tournament to be played as a 24-team finals.

Records of inactive countries A number of UEFA associations have been affected by dissolution or splits of member associations. For statistical purposes, the records of these inactive countries have been allocated elsewhere: therefore, all Soviet Union matches are awarded to Russia; all West Germany – but not East Germany – matches are awarded to Germany; all Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro matches are awarded to Serbia; all Czechoslovakia matches are allocated to both the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Abandoned/forfeited matches For statisical purposes, when a match has been started and then abandoned but later forfeited, the result on the pitch at the time of abandonment is counted. Matches that never started and were either cancelled or forfeited are not included in the overall statistics. Competitions Other abbreviations (aet): After extra time pens: Penalties No.: Number og: Own goal ag: Match decided on away goals P: Penalty agg: Aggregate Pld: Matches played AP: Appearances Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition Pts: Points D: Drawn R: Sent off (straight red card) DoB: Date of birth Res.: Result ET: Extra Time sg: Match decided by silver goal GA: Goals against t: Match decided by toss of a coin GF: Goals for W: Won gg: Match decided by golden goal Y: Booked L: Lost Y/R: Sent off (two yellow cards) Nat.: Nationality N/A: Not applicable Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com.

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