The Georgia national rugby union team, nicknamed The Lelos, is administered by the Georgian Rugby Union. The team takes part in the annual Rugby Europe Championship, and the Rugby World Cup which takes place every four years and in which it has appeared continuously since 2003.
Graham Christopher Rowntree is an English rugby union former player and former head coach of Irish club Munster. He played loosehead prop for Leicester Tigers and England. He was capped 54 times for England, despite having to compete for his position with one of the world's most capped forwards, Jason Leonard. Rowntree was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He was educated at John Cleveland College, Hinckley, Leicestershire, which has also produced other rugby union players.
FC Dinamo Tbilisi is a Georgian professional football club based in Tbilisi that competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the top flight of Georgian football.
Cardiff Rugby are one of the four professional Welsh rugby union teams. Based in Cardiff, the team play at Cardiff Arms Park. Originally formed in 1876, from 2003 to 2021 the first team was known as the Cardiff Blues before rebranding back to Cardiff Rugby prior to the start of the 2021–22 season.
Edward Jones is an Australian rugby union coach and former player. He most recently coached the Australia national team from January until October 2023. He previously coached Australia, Japan and England. He returned to the role of Japan head coach in January 2024.
Andrew David Farrell is an English professional rugby union coach and former player for both rugby league and rugby union. Farrell has been head coach of the Ireland national team since 2019.
FC Torpedo Kutaisi is a Georgian professional football club based in Kutaisi, Georgia's third largest city. The team competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the first tier of the national football league system.
FC Dinamo Batumi is a Georgian professional football club based in Batumi, Adjara that competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the top division of the national football system.
Paul Tito is a retired New Zealand rugby union player. He played in the lock position.
Levan Korgalidze is a former Georgian midfielder and current manager of Georgian Erovnuli Liga club Iberia 1999.
Michael Byrne, nicknamed Mick the Kick, is a former Australian rules footballer and now rugby union coach, who specialises in kicking and team skills. Byrne played with Melbourne, Hawthorn and Sydney in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1977 to 1989. He also coached his junior side in 1994–95. After a career in AFL spanning almost thirty years, Byrne now coaches fully in rugby union, is currently the head coach of the Fijian national side.
Josef Schmidt HonFRCSI is a New Zealand rugby union coach, who is the current head coach of the Australian Wallabies.
Sandro Todua is a Georgian rugby union player. He plays as a winger for the Rugby Europe Super Cup side Black Lion and for Didi 10 side RC Batumi.
Tbilisi Caucasians were a Georgian rugby union team formed to compete in the European Rugby Challenge Cup. The team competed in the qualifying stage of the 2014–15 European Rugby Challenge Cup against the Italian side, Rovigo Delta. The players were picked from the Georgian domestic rugby championship and the head coach was Levan Maisashvili.
Nodar Tcheishvili is a Georgian professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for Super Cup club Black Lion and the Georgia national team.
This is a list of the complete squads for the 2020 Rugby Europe Championship, an annual rugby union tournament contested by the national rugby teams of Belgium, Spain, Georgia, Portugal, Romania and Russia. Georgia are the defending champions.
Davit Niniashvili is a Georgian rugby union player. He plays as a winger for Lyon OU; in the Top 14, in France. Niniashvili also plays full-back for the Georgian National Team He participated in the 2019 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship organised in Kaliningrad. He started in the final, which was won by Georgia. Although only evolving in the regional league, being 18 years old and having no high-level experience, he was selected by Levan Maisashvili to participate in the Autumn Nations Cup. His coach presents him as "a promising player with good skills". He wants to "increase the depth [at the rear post]".
The Black Lion is a professional Georgian rugby union team based in Tbilisi that competes annually in the Rugby Europe Super Cup.
Nika Abuladze is a Georgian professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Top 14 club Montpellier and the Georgia national team.
Henco van Wyk is a South African professional rugby union player for the Golden Lions in the Currie Cup and Lions in the United Rugby Championship. His regular position is outside centre. He was selected for the SA Schools Team in 2019.
