Georgia’s Football Federation receives special UEFA award for best progress
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Georgia’s Football Federation has won one of the top three awards of UEFA and received the prize of the Most Progressive Country, Georgia’s Football Federation has announced.
The UEFA is the administrative body for football in Europe; it chose three winners from its 55 members for its Fair Play ranking.
The prize revealed Georgia showed the best progress in the Fair Play rating of UEFA in 2016/2017 than other members of the organization.
Two other nominations were for the best UEFA Fair Play country and the country with the best football fans.
The Island remains the leader of the Fair Play ranking, while Finland was awarded for its most distinguished fans.
A unique charity match between the all-time football stars has ended with a score of six to five as the "World XI” team defeated "GFF XI” at Tbilisi Dinamo Arena today. GEL 403,214 gathered from the sales for the event will now be spent on the restoration of the forest burnt in Borjomi Gorge in August.
Georgian capital of Tbilisi will become the venue of a unique charity match between the all-time football stars who will play at Tbilisi Dinamo Arena on September 29.
The charity match between the world stars united under "World XI” and "GFF XI” teams is scheduled for 9 pm. The money gathered from the sales for the event will be spent on the restoration of the forest burnt in Borjomi Gorge in August.
The charity match is scheduled for 9pm and the money accumulated from the sales for the event will be spent on the restoration of the forest burnt in Borjomi Gorge in August.
Football fans in Georgia’s Black Sea resort city of Batumi will soon be able to watch football matches at a new, modern stadium with the capacity to hold 20,000 spectators. Named Batumi Stadium, the construction is expected to be completed by late 2020.
A football academy has opened in the Georgian town of Rustavi to engage children, adolescents and youth in sports and promote football from early ages.
The top players, managers, referees and honoured figures of the past year in football were acknowledged in Tbilisi within the annual Georgian Football Federation (GFF) Awards on Wednesday.
Construction of the international football stadium that will comply with Category IV of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) standards is steadily developing in Georgia’s Black Sea resort town of Batumi.
Tbilisi's Boris Paitchadze Dinamo Arena is among the candidate venues for hosting the UEFA Europa League club competition finals in 2021.
Matches in Georgian national football leagues have been suspended until next month as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus outbreak.
The Georgian national football league will exit its COVID-19 suspension later this month with a Tbilisi city derby resuming the championship.
Young players from Georgia were joined by their counterparts from Europe and Central America this month to train together as part of the International Camp for Amputee Football Players, which came to a close on Tuesday in Tbilisi, the Georgian Football Federation announced.