EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2014/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Boris Paichadze National Stadium - Tbilisi Sunday 29 March 2015 Georgia 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Germany Group D - Matchday -8 Last updated 12/07/2021 17:29CET 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 Georgia - Germany Sunday 29 March 2015 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi Previous meetings Head to Head EURO '96 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Möller 38, Ziege 56, 06/09/1995 PR (GS) Germany - Georgia 4-1 Nuremberg Kirsten 61, Babbel 72; Ketsbaia 28 29/03/1995 PR (GS) Georgia - Germany 0-2 Tbilisi Klinsmann 24, 45 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 Georgia 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 0 0 2 1 6 Germany 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 - - - - 2 2 0 0 6 1 FIFA* Georgia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Germany - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friendlies Georgia - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 2 Germany - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 2 0 Total Georgia 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 - - - - 3 0 0 3 1 8 Germany 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 - - - - 3 3 0 0 8 1 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 Georgia - Germany Sunday 29 March 2015 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi Match background Georgia will hope their new coach's Bundesliga experience counts for something as they take on world champions Germany in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying Group D. Previous meetings • Georgia have lost all three of their previous games against Germany; one at home and two away. • The sides' only competitive encounters came in EURO '96 qualifying, when Berti Vogts' Germany beat Aleksandre Chivadze's Georgia 2-0 in Tbilisi and 4-1 in Nuremberg. • Former Georgia coach Temuri Ketsbaia put the visitors in front in the second game; his 28th-minute strike remains the only goal Georgia have scored against Germany at senior level. • More recently, the teams met in a 2006 friendly in Rostock, with Joachim Löw's Germany winning 2-0 against a Georgia side led by German coach Klaus Toppmöller. Form guide • Georgia have had a tough start in Group D, recording three defeats and a 3-0 win in Gibraltar. Ketsbaia stepped down after five years as Georgia coach following a 4-0 home loss to Poland last time out. • Georgia are without a win in their last five competitive home games – four defeats and a creditworthy 0-0 FIFA World Cup qualifying draw against France. • Reigning world champions Germany have seven points after four games in the section. Their 2-0 loss to Poland in their second Group D game ended a run of 18 competitive fixtures without defeat (W16 D2). Trivia and links • New Georgia coach Kakhaber Tskhadadze played club football in Germany with Eintracht Frankfurt from 1992 to 1996. • Georgia come into this game having played exactly 100 competitive matches since independence, with their record reading W23 D19 L58. • In six encounters in UEFA age-group competitions, Georgia's record against Germany is W0 D1 L5. • In terms of UEFA club games, the record of Georgian teams against their German counterparts is W3 D2 L6. The most notable meeting, however, was a Georgian win, FC Dinamo Tbilisi beating FC Carl Zeiss Jena 2-1 in the 1981 European Cup Winners' Cup final; the teams were representing the USSR and East Germany respectively. 3 Georgia - Germany Sunday 29 March 2015 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi Squad list Georgia Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Nukri Revishvili 02/03/1987 28 Tosno - 0 0 0 0 24 - Dinamo - Mikheil Alavidze 05/11/1987 27 - 0 0 0 0 - - Batumi - Giorgi Loria 27/01/1986 29 OFI - 4 0 0 0 30 - - Bachana Tskhadadze 23/10/1987 27 İnter Bakı - 0 0 0 0 2 - Defenders - Aleksandr Amisulashvili 20/08/1982 32 İnter Bakı - 0 0 0 0 36 3 - George Navalovsky 28/06/1986 28 Tosno - 0 0 0 0 3 - - Ucha Lobzhanidze 23/02/1987 28 Omonia - 4 0 0 0 39 1 - Guram Kashia 04/07/1987 27 Vitesse - 2 0 0 0 34 1 Dinamo - Lasha Totadze 24/08/1988 26 - 0 0 0 0 - - Tbilisi - Levan Kakubava 15/10/1990 24 Samtredia - 0 0 0 0 4 - - Solomon Kverkvelia 06/02/1992 23 Rubin - 4 0 0 0 8 - - Lasha Dvali 14/05/1995 19 Kasımpaşa - 0 0 0 0 - - Midfielders - Jaba Kankava 18/03/1986 29 Dnipro - 4 1 0 0 54 6 - Kakhi Makharadze 20/10/1987 27 Pakhtakor - 0 0 0 0 3 - - Alexander Kobakhidze 11/02/1987 28 Volyn - 1 0 0 0 23 3 - Murtaz Daushvili 01/05/1989 25 Karpaty * 3 0 0 0 24 - Slavia - Levan Kenia 18/10/1990 24 - 0 0 0 0 24 3 Praha - Nika Dzalamidze 06/01/1992 23 Jagiellonia - 1 0 0 0 6 - - Valeri Kazaishvili 29/01/1993 22 Vitesse - 1 0 0 0 5 1 - Tornike Okriashvili 12/02/1992 23 Genk - 4 2 0 0 19 4 Forwards - Levan Mchedlidze 24/03/1990 25 Empoli - 2 0 0 0 24 2 - Mate Vatsadze 17/12/1988 26 AGF - 0 0 0 0 8 1 - Giorgi Chanturia 11/04/1993 21 CFR Cluj - 3 0 0 0 5 1 Coach - Kakhaber Tskhadadze 07/09/1968 46 - 0 0 0 0 - - 4 Georgia - Germany Sunday 29 March 2015 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi Germany Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Roman Weidenfeller 06/08/1980 34 Dortmund - 0 0 0 0 4 - - Manuel Neuer 27/03/1986 29 Bayern - 4 0 0 0 57 - - Ron-Robert Zieler 12/02/1989 26 Hannover - 0 0 0 0 5 - Defenders - Jérôme Boateng 03/09/1988 26 Bayern - 4 0 0 0 50 - - Mats Hummels 16/12/1988 26 Dortmund - 2 0 0 0 38 4 - Benedikt Höwedes 29/02/1988 27 Schalke - 1 0 0 0 32 2 - Shkodran Mustafi 17/04/1992 22 Valencia - 1 0 0 0 7 - - Jonas Hector 27/05/1990 24 Köln - 1 0 0 0 2 - Midfielders - Bastian Schweinsteiger 01/08/1984 30 Bayern - 0 0 0 0 108 23 - Sami Khedira 04/04/1987 27 Real Madrid - 1 0 0 0 54 5 - Toni Kroos 04/01/1990 25 Real Madrid - 4 1 0 0 57 9 - Mesut Özil 15/10/1988 26 Arsenal - 0 0 0 0 63 18 - Max Kruse 19/03/1988 27 Mönchengladbach - 3 0 0 0 11 1 - Sebastian Rudy 28/02/1990 25 Hoffenheim - 2 0 0 0 6 - - İlkay Gündoğan 24/10/1990 24 Dortmund - 0 0 0 0 9 2 - André Schürrle 06/11/1990 24 Wolfsburg - 2 0 0 0 43 17 - Mario Götze 03/06/1992 22 Bayern - 4 1 0 0 42 12 - Marco Reus 31/05/1989 25 Dortmund - 1 0 0 0 24 8 - Christoph Kramer 19/02/1991 24 Mönchengladbach - 2 0 0 0 9 - Forwards - Lukas Podolski 04/06/1985 29 Arsenal - 4 0 0 0 122 48 - Thomas Müller 13/09/1989 25 Bayern - 4 4 0 0 62 26 Coach - Joachim Löw 03/02/1960 55 - 4 0 0 0 117 - 5 Georgia - Germany Sunday 29 March 2015 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi Head coach 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. Joachim Löw Date of birth: 3 February 1960 Nationality: German Playing career: SC Freiburg (three times), VfB Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt, Karlsruher SC, FC Schaffhausen, FC Winterthur, FC Frauenfeld Coaching career: FC Winterthur (youth), FC Frauenfeld, VfB Stuttgart, Fenerbahçe SK, Karlsruher SC, Adanaspor AŞ, FC Tirol Innsbruck, FK Austria Wien, Germany (assistant), Germany • A native of the Black Forest in south-west Germany, Löw spent most of his playing days with local club Freiburg, where he had three spells, before winding down his career in Switzerland.