EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2014/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Ibrox Stadium - Glasgow Saturday 11 October 2014 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Scotland Group D - Matchday -11 Georgia Last updated 12/07/2021 16:55CET 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 Scotland - Georgia Saturday 11 October 2014 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA EURO 2008 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Mchedlidze 16, 17/10/2007 QR (GS) Georgia - Scotland 2-0 Tbilisi Siradze 64 Boyd 11, Beattie 89; 24/03/2007 QR (GS) Scotland - Georgia 2-1 Glasgow Arveladze 41 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 Scotland 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 1 0 1 2 3 Georgia 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 1 0 1 3 2 FIFA* Scotland - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Georgia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friendlies Scotland - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Georgia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Total Scotland 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 1 0 1 2 3 Georgia 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 1 0 1 3 2 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 Scotland - Georgia Saturday 11 October 2014 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow Match background The honours are even as Scotland prepare to take on Georgia for a third time, the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying Group D contenders having previously met in UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying. Match background • Scotland beat Georgia 2-1 when the sides first met in Glasgow on 24 March 2007, in what was Alex McLeish's first match in charge of the home side. Shota Arveladze – who had been a popular player in Glasgow with Rangers FC – scored the Georgia goal. • Georgia won the return fixture on 17 October 2-0, with Levan Mchedlidze – then just 17 – scoring his first international goal before David Siradze's strike settled the result. • Georgia's current coach Temur Ketsbaia knows Scottish football well, having spent the 2001/02 season as a midfielder with Dundee FC, the club where Scotland boss Gordon Strachan started his playing career. • In seven UEFA age-group tournament meetings, Georgia have recorded five wins to Scotland's one, the nations meeting most recently in 2014/15 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying, Georgia winning 2-1 in Tbilisi and drawing 1-1 in the return fixture in Paisley. • In the only meetings between the nations' clubs in UEFA competition, Celtic FC beat FC Dinamo Batumi 3-2 away and 4-0 at home in the 1995/96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. • Scotland opened their Group D campaign with a courageous 2-1 away defeat against world champions Germany, but won only one of their five 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying home games. • Georgia, who lost 2-1 at home against the Republic of Ireland in their first Group D game, have not won in 19 competitive away games (D4 L15) since a 6-0 win in the Faroe Islands in an August 2006 European qualifier. • Georgia midfielder Jano Ananidze turns 22 on the eve of the Scotland game. 3 Scotland - Georgia Saturday 11 October 2014 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow Squad list Scotland Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Craig Gordon 31/12/1982 31 Celtic - 0 0 0 0 40 - - David Marshall 05/03/1985 29 Cardiff - 1 0 0 0 12 - - Matthew Gilks 04/06/1982 32 Burnley - 0 0 0 0 3 - Defenders - Steven Whittaker 16/06/1984 30 Norwich - 1 0 0 0 25 - - Alan Hutton 30/11/1984 29 Aston Villa - 1 0 0 0 41 - - Mark Reynolds 07/05/1987 27 Aberdeen - 0 0 0 0 - - - Grant Hanley 20/11/1991 22 Blackburn - 1 0 0 0 14 1 - Gordon Greer 14/12/1980 33 Brighton - 0 0 0 0 4 - - Russell Martin 04/01/1986 28 Norwich - 1 0 0 0 12 - - Andrew Robertson 11/03/1994 20 Hull - 0 0 0 0 2 - Midfielders - Shaun Maloney 24/01/1983 31 Wigan - 1 0 0 0 33 2 Man. - Darren Fletcher 01/02/1984 30 - 1 0 0 0 63 5 United Nottm - Chris Burke 02/12/1983 30 - 0 0 0 0 7 2 Forest - James Morrison 25/05/1986 28 West Brom - 1 0 0 0 32 3 - Scott Brown 25/06/1985 29 Celtic - 0 0 0 0 38 4 - Graham Dorrans 05/05/1987 27 West Brom - 0 0 0 0 10 - Crystal - James McArthur 07/10/1987 27 - 1 0 0 0 16 1 Palace Crystal - Barry Bannan 01/12/1989 24 - 1 0 0 0 18 - Palace - Ikechi Anya 03/01/1988 26 Watford - 1 1 0 0 7 2 Forwards - Steven Fletcher 26/03/1987 27 Sunderland - 1 0 0 0 15 1 - Steven Naismith 14/09/1986 28 Everton - 1 0 0 0 30 3 Sheff. - Stevie May 03/11/1992 21 - 0 0 0 0 - - Wednesday - Chris Martin 04/11/1988 25 Derby - 0 0 0 0 1 - Coach - Gordon Strachan 09/02/1957 57 - 1 0 0 0 13 - 4 Scotland - Georgia Saturday 11 October 2014 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow Georgia Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Roin Kvaskhvadze 31/05/1989 25 Othellos - 1 0 0 0 3 - - Giorgi Loria 27/01/1986 28 OFI - 1 0 0 0 26 - Dinamo - Omar Migineishvili 02/06/1984 30 - 0 0 0 0 - - Tbilisi Defenders - David Kvirkvelia 27/06/1980 34 Samtredia - 1 0 0 0 58 - H. - Akaki Khubutia 17/03/1986 28 Petach- - 1 0 0 0 17 - Tikva - Ucha Lobzhanidze 23/02/1987 27 Omonia - 1 0 0 0 36 1 - Gia Grigalava 05/08/1989 25 Anji - 0 0 0 0 17 - - Giorgi Rekhviashvili 02/02/1988 26 Boluspor - 0 0 0 0 - - - Solomon Kverkvelia 06/02/1992 22 Rubin - 1 0 0 0 4 - Midfielders - Jaba Kankava 18/03/1986 28 Dnipro - 1 0 0 0 50 4 - Levan Khmaladze 06/04/1985 29 Othellos - 0 0 0 0 12 - Dinamo - Irakli Dzaria 01/12/1987 26 - 0 0 0 0 8 1 Tbilisi - Murtaz Daushvili 01/05/1989 25 Karpaty - 1 0 0 0 22 - Spartak - Jano Ananidze 10/10/1992 22 - 1 0 0 0 26 3 Moskva - Valeri Kazaishvili 29/01/1993 21 Vitesse - 0 0 0 0 3 - - Tornike Okriashvili 12/02/1992 22 Genk - 1 1 0 0 15 3 Dinamo - Giorgi Papunashvili 02/09/1995 19 - 0 0 0 0 1 - Tbilisi Dinamo - Mate Tsintsadze 07/01/1995 19 - 0 0 0 0 - - Tbilisi Dinamo - Giorgi Papava 16/02/1993 21 - 0 0 0 0 2 - Tbilisi Forwards - Vladimer Dvalishvili 20/04/1986 28 OB - 0 0 0 0 31 5 - Nikoloz Gelashvili 05/08/1985 29 Flamurtari - 1 0 0 0 20 - - Giorgi Chanturia 11/04/1993 21 CFR Cluj - 0 0 0 0 1 1 Gil - Avtandil Ebralidze 03/10/1991 23 - 0 0 0 0 2 - Vicente Coach - Temuri Ketsbaia 18/03/1968 46 - 1 0 0 0 37 - 5 Scotland - Georgia Saturday 11 October 2014 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow Head coach Gordon Strachan Date of birth: 9 February 1957 Nationality: Scottish Playing career: Dundee FC, Aberdeen FC, Manchester United FC, Leeds United AFC, Coventry City FC Coaching career: Coventry City FC, Southampton FC, Celtic FC, Middlesbrough FC, Scotland • An energetic and talented midfielder, Strachan was capped 50 times by Scotland and helped Aberdeen FC lift the European Cup Winners' Cup under Sir Alex Ferguson. Began in management while still a player at Coventry in November 1996 before ending his on-field career aged 40 to concentrate on coaching, keeping the club in the Premier League until 2001. • Although sacked early the following season, he was swiftly appointed by Southampton – whom he guided to eighth place in the English top flight in 2002/03 and the 2003 FA Cup final. Strachan stepped down in March 2004 to concentrate on media work. • Installed as Martin O'Neill's successor at Celtic in summer 2005, Strachan proceeded to win the Scottish Premier League in record time and also lifted the Scottish League Cup in his first campaign. In 2006/07, Celtic triumphed in both league and Scottish Cup, and got past the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time, falling in extra time to eventual winners AC Milan in the last 16. • Steered the Bhoys to the round of 16 again in 2007/08, this time succumbing to FC Barcelona, and a tremendous late surge took Celtic past Rangers FC to retain the Scottish championship. Stepped down at Celtic in 2009 after failing to defend the league crown. • After an unsuccessful year with Middlesbrough, was appointed national coach in January 2013, helping reinvigorate a Scotland team that went on to win home and away against Croatia in their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying pool, despite failing to make the cut for Brazil. Temur Ketsbaia Date of birth: 18 March 1968 Nationality: Georgian Playing career: FC Dinamo Sukhumi, FC Dinamo Tbilisi, Anorthosis Famagusta FC (twice), AEK Athens FC, Newcastle United FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, Dundee FC Coaching career: Anorthosis Famagusta FC, Olympiacos FC, Georgia • A lively, energetic attacking midfielder, Ketsbaia was groomed at Dinamo Tbilisi, where he was a member of the team that won the first three Georgian league titles post independence.